Although he heard the news of the failure of sales around Hasbro Star Wars and had the idea of buying Hasbro, Eric had no intention of poking it out in private, and Katzenberg obviously only mentioned it casually. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Because it's completely unnecessary.

As a listed company, Hasbro needs to disclose business data to investors on a regular basis, coupled with the recent high attention from all walks of life to the Star Wars brand, I believe it will not be long before this matter will be unearthed by the pervasive media.

When the time comes, the fireflies only need to watch the excitement from the sidelines, and then choose the right time to shoot.

However, thinking about the huge losses that Hasbro may face this year, Eric said to Katzenberg: "Firefly will definitely make more films with peripheral development potential in the future, and this is also a good negative case for us, you ask the Consumer Products Department to follow up in real time and come up with a detailed analysis of why Hasbro failed in this peripheral operation." ”

Katzenberg had only received the news yesterday and hadn't had time to think about it so much.

Hearing Eric's words, he also reacted immediately, nodded, and very carefully took out the memo he carried with him and wrote down the matter.

As the popularity of Star Wars gradually cools down, the release date of the long-awaited MGM Agent Cinematic Universe spin-off series "Fast and Furious" is also approaching.

On December 29th, the time is Tuesday.

From 5 p.m., the area around Hollywood's Chinese Theatre was already surrounded by avid movie fans.

The release date of "Fast and Furious" is January 1, and MGM officially premieres in Los Angeles three days in advance.

Because of his work, Eric did not attend the red carpet ceremony, and it was not until near seven o'clock that he quietly entered the screening room. The girl in full costume didn't ask much when she saw Eric appear, but waited for the man to sit down and leaned over and kissed him, and the two looked at the main creator of the film who was interacting with the media and the audience on stage.

In addition to the replacement of the two heroines, Eric basically used the film's former team, the two male protagonists are Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, and the director is also the original Rob Cohen.

Rob Cohen, who is about 50 years old this year, is also a veteran director in Hollywood, debuted in the 70s, is good at directing action movies, has collaborated with veteran action superstars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, and also filmed "The Legend of Bruce Lee".

However, outside of the main creative team, the whole film is unrecognizable compared to the original.

Eric's original plan was to follow the previous Fast and Furious development sequence, but since it was to be a spin-off of the MGM Agent Cinematic Universe, the script definitely needed to be revised, and finally, after repeated adjustments, the original script was completely overturned to form a new story. In the process, the story structure of the entire series has also been improved, and MGM has even come up with a story outline for the second and third parts.

At the same time as the script was changed, the budget of the film was no longer the $30 million originally envisioned by Eric, but doubled to 60 million, which is almost an A-level production.

However, stimulated by the successful cooperation between the "Breaking Bad" series and Buick cars, although it is only the first part, although the production company is hesitant to use rookie actors, the major car companies have donated generously, and the advertising placement cost plus prop sports car sponsorship directly offset the budget cost of 20 million US dollars.

In the promotion process in recent months, the joint publicity budget invested by these car companies has also reached 30 million US dollars, coupled with MGM's own investment, making the publicity scale of "Fast and Furious" no less than a blockbuster movie with an investment of more than 100 million.

On the stage, after some interaction, the main creator stepped down, the lights dimmed, and the movie officially began to play on the big screen.

After MGM's opening credits, the sound of roaring sports car engines can be heard directly from the stereos around the screening room, and the picture lights up, and four cool sports cars are speeding down the road in the dark night.

In a few flashes, four sports cars easily enveloped a heavy truck in the center.

In the puzzled eyes of the audience, a person wearing a motorcycle helmet leaned out of a sports car in front of the heavy truck, holding a modified speargun aimed at the co-pilot of the truck, and with a bang, the windshield of the heavy truck was penetrated by the barb issued by the speargun, and then, the sports car moved forward, and the windshield of the heavy truck was torn off.

The sports car that completed the task skillfully changed positions, and another sports car came to the front of the heavy truck, and a man wearing a motorcycle helmet appeared again in the cabin.

When a heavy truck is attacked, the truck driver naturally does not sit still and begins to change speeds in an attempt to shake off the attacking sports car.

As the heavy trucks scurried down the road, the scene immediately became tense and exciting.

Whether the heavy truck accelerates in a turn or crashes into an obstacle, the four sports cars follow closely, and after a thrilling action of drifting in a super difficult corner, precise parallelism and even turning under the car after encountering obstacles, the four sports cars are still firmly entangled around the heavy truck, like four bloodthirsty sharks around the clumsy giant whale.

With a generous budget and the support of the Breaking Bad's action design team, this set of carefully crafted carjacking sequences is far more thrilling than the original.

In the screening room, less than two minutes into the film, most of the audience has involuntarily substituted themselves into the role of the driver of four sports cars, and many have even begun to itch, hoping to drive around downtown Los Angeles after the film is over.

When the four sports cars finally tacitly agreed to drop the heavy truck driver out of the car, and took their 'trophies' to the increasingly passionate opening soundtrack, some viewers already had a feeling of worthwhile fare.

As for the film critics who participated in this premiere, most of them had already put down the pen and paper in their hands to record at this time, and just looking at such a stunning opening, they had already determined that this would be a pure popcorn movie again, and a very successful popcorn movie.

At the end of the film, after a muffled sound, the camera zooms out, and it turns out that it is Brian O'Donnell, played by Paul Walker, who closes the car door and turns around and walks towards a fast-food restaurant on the side of the road.

After the excitement of the beginning, the audience wants to know the identity of the car robbers the most, so this suggestive shot immediately brings the audience's curiosity about Brian O'Donnell's identity.

After finishing the 'work', drive to the roadside fast food restaurant for a bite to eat, and by the way, soak in the beautiful proprietress in the restaurant.

What a familiar routine.

Right?

And then he was beaten.

After some altercation, Brian drove away in a somewhat embarrassed way, and was stopped by a police car on the way, and the person was also taken into the police station.

When many viewers were amazed at what this was unfolding, the film did not continue to sell off, and Brian's identity was soon revealed.

After a series of container truck hijackings in the Los Angeles area, the FBI targeted a group of drag racers led by Dominic Toretto, and sent Brian, the best driver in the police department, to go undercover.

It's just that after a week in a row, Brian didn't make any progress, but fell in love with Dominic's sister Mia at first sight.

Under pressure from his boss, Brian had to speed up the progress of breaking into the Dominica team, and rushed to participate in the underground drag racing event organized by Dominica that night.

Over the next few days, Brian grew to get to know the rest of the bikers.

Dominic's sister Mia Toretto, his girlfriend Riley Ortiz, the impulsive Vince Bernal, Jesse Feynman, who has a brilliant talent for car tuning but suffers from attention deficit disorder, and another Asian gang with a relationship with the Dominica team, Jonny Chen.

Not only did Brian really fall in love with Mia, but he was also unknowingly influenced by Dominic's personality charm and began to truly integrate into this small gang deep down.

However, truck robberies continue to happen, and Brian's other identity forces him to continue investigating the matter.

In the process of getting along, Brian inadvertently also got an important clue from Jesse's mouth.

Jesse's father is about to be released from prison, and he has a wish that when his father is released from prison, he will have a sum of money and then move out of California with his mother and start a new life. Jesse talks about it with a sense of excitement as if he's about to save up enough.

Brian is well aware that the main source of income for the small group of Dominique is to organize underground racing competitions and earn prize money from them. While this is enough to keep the group alive and have enough money to continue their racing hobby, it's impossible to scrape together a lot of money for Jesse's parents to leave California and start a new life.

Thinking that he confirmed the motive of Dominic's gang to rob the truck, Brian began to follow the trail, only to find that things were not as simple as he had imagined.

It turns out that Jesse did participate in the truck robbery, but Dominic had no idea what his brother had done. Instead, Jesse and Vince privately worked with Jonny Chen.

As the FBI's investigation into the truck robbery intensified, Jonny Chen, feeling the pressure, decided to make one last move and push out the Dominica gang as scapegoats.

Brian, who understands the ins and outs of all of this and has the ultimate goal of Jonny Chan's actions, finally confesses to Dominic after some struggle.

Although Dominic is very angry, he realizes that his brother has fallen into the trap of Johnny Chen, and rushes to the rescue with his girlfriend Riley without hesitation.

In the end, though, it was a step too late.

In the fierce road chase, Jonny Chen's gang, Dominic's team and the resisting truck driver fought a three-way scuffle, Jesse died unexpectedly, Vince was seriously injured, Jonny Chen escaped, and at the same time, the Dominic team was also successfully blamed by Jonny Chen, and was locked as a suspect in the truck robbery by the FBI.

After settling his brother in a hurry, Dominic immediately launched a revenge against Jonny Chen, and Brian followed Dominic at Mia's behest.

In the final drag racing battle, Jonny Chen was shattered in a violent explosion, and his revenge was destroyed by Dominic's car, and at the same time, he heard the sirens that surrounded him, so he didn't plan to escape, but only hoped that he could help the two brothers fight the crime.

This time, Brian didn't hesitate anymore, handed over his car keys, and took the initiative to let Dominic go.

The original version of "Fast and Furious" is basically a low-budget B-movie positioning drag racing movie, so there is no need to care about the values of the film, Dominic and his gang are a group of pure drag racing parties and robbers.

However, although Westerners worship freedom, this does not mean that they will invert the concept of right and wrong without principle.

Hollywood, which follows the political correctness of Hollywood, also understands this, so in the original series, as the series gradually progressed to an A-list production, the Dominica team gradually began to be whitewashed, and the characters became more and more positive, and eventually even began to save the world.

At this time, although it is only a beginning, because of the aura of the Agent Cinematic Universe spin-off series, the attention of "Fast and Furious" from the beginning is far from being comparable to the original version. In this case, if Eric still insists on the various settings of the original, he will definitely be criticized by all sides.

As a result, Eric simply whitewashed the Dominica team from the start, while adding to the description of the brotherhood between this small team, as well as Dominica's super drag racing attributes. In this version, in order to pave the way for the future of the Speedster family to fly away and save the world, Eric greatly increased Dominic's force value, shaping him into one of the top drivers hidden in the market.

In the screening room, when the feature film ended and the subtitles rose, Eric casually glanced around, and the audience in the field of vision basically showed a satisfied look at the film.

And, all of them continued to wait very patiently.

As is customary, the films of the Agent Cinematic Universe must have ending easter eggs.

Although MGM has stated that the "Fast and Furious" series will not join the main story of the Secret Agent Cinematic Universe, but there will be some plot crossovers with the world setting, fans are still looking forward to it.

In the screening room, although it was already felt that "Fast and Furious" was another film with a completely different style from the three major series of the Agent Movie Universe, after just 120 minutes of hearty viewing process, everyone was looking forward to such a blood-boiling drag racing movie that could intersect with the three series.

The film did not disappoint the audience.

When the end credits are frozen, the screen lights up again.

The black Porsche made a nice flick in a corner and stopped precisely next to another orange Lamborghini.

Brian O'Donnell, played by Paul Walker, got out of the car with a smug expression and looked at the other side.

A petite girl, unfazed by the Porsche Tail Kick Stop, sat nonchalantly on the hood of a Lamborghini and shook her head in disappointment: "No, I need a better driver." ”

Brian retorted dissatisfiedly, "I'm the best driver in Los Angeles. ”

The girl held up a finger and shook it: "No, you are not." ”

Brian and the girl looked at each other for a moment, his eyes narrowed, the corners of his mouth hooked into a meaningful smile, and nodded, "Indeed, I'm not." ”