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"By the way, in the year, someone contacted me about the book "Resident Evil" you wrote on Weibo before and asked if you would sell movie rights. ”

While eating and drinking, Li Wanru suddenly remembered a phone call she received in the afternoon and asked.

"The company?"

Wang Zainian is naturally very fond of the novel Resident Evil, and many of the plots in it are his original content. Unlike the apocalyptic novels of those dot girls' websites, the content and planning of this novel are very rigorous. There is no zombie crystal nucleus, nothing too powerful, only the protagonist's virus-strengthened body and very harmful telekinesis.

And the protagonist of this novel is a woman, which in the current novel environment, except for female literature, there are few novels with such formal women as the protagonists. And the heroine Zhang Lili in it is a decisive and agile woman.

Li Wanru spit out two words, "Huayi." ”

"Huayi Brothers?" Wang Zainian said in surprise.

"Yes, it's Huayi Brothers, all major consortia have spent a lot of money to enter the film and television industry over the years, and the former Huayi Brothers, the former big brother, is no longer worthy of its name. The company's market value has also been hovering in the middle and upper reaches of film and television companies, so it is eager to shoot some more popular IPs. ”

In recent years, as major corporate consortia have extended their claws to the entertainment industry, not only the salaries of actors have been speculated to sky-high prices, but even the investment costs of movies have become larger and larger.

When a popular student makes a TV series, he dares to shout for a salary of tens of millions, let alone making movies, it is tens of millions casually.

So that's why more and more newcomers are making their mark in film and television because it's cheap.

Coupled with Penguin Pictures and Qiandu, Ali is spending a lot of money on film and television investment, and Huayi Brothers is becoming more and more lonely.

These very popular IPs are also becoming more and more valuable with the changes of the times.

Today's most popular ones are "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Notes on Tomb Robbery" and Wang Zainian's "Resident Evil".

Recently, the copyright of a volume of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" has been won by LeTV, and director Lu Chuan was ordered to shoot, and the latest "Ghost Blowing Lantern: Nine-Story Demon Tower" was also launched this year.

Wang Zainian thought about it and felt that it was okay to cooperate with Huayi Brothers, after all, even if the other party was not as good as ten years ago, his reputation and connections in the entertainment industry were not something he could match at this moment.

Moreover, a good film must have a good box office, in addition to publicity, it has a very significant impact on the schedule and the number of films.

No matter how good the film is, it will not help if it is not broadcast in theaters.

"Yes, yes, but the heroine must use our company's artists! I don't want this film to be successful and let other company's artists benefit. ”

Wang Zainian attaches great importance to the series "Resident Evil", think about Milla Jovovich in her previous life, an unknown model, who took over the filming, not only in her acting career, but also has a huge fan base around the world.

"It's a little difficult, but I'll discuss it with Huayi. Li Wanru looked embarrassed, if she wants to start filming the movie "Resident Evil", then the investment must be hundreds of millions, not a simple one or two billion, I am afraid it will reach hundreds of millions of yuan. Huayi is probably not willing to give up this most important role.

"If you don't agree, forget it, wait for a while, it's a big deal for our company to start filming by itself. Wang said indifferently when he was old.

"Okay, I'll negotiate with Huayi somewhere then. Li Wanru nodded.

Think about this movie is a series, 6 films were made in the last life, and the global box office was 1.2 billion US dollars. It is equivalent to 8.2 billion yuan. Although it doesn't seem to be as good as the Marvel series of movies, in the series, the Resident Evil series is a very successful film.

And you must know that the first Resident Evil was filmed around 2000. At that time, the mainland had not yet been released, and even if a few films were released in the mainland later, the movie-going group at that time was many times worse than now.

If this film is invested by Chinese and shot by Chinese, it must be heavy news for some domestic zombie lovers and horror film lovers.

And if it works well, "Resident Evil" is not only filmed as a series, but can create a cinematic universe of its own just like the Hollywood cinematic universe.

In the next few years, several major Hollywood movie giants have begun to emulate the Marvel Cinematic Universe and open the era of their own companies 2.0, commonly known as the era of the Cinematic Universe.

The DC Cinematic Universe is already in the works, with the first opener "Superman: Man of Steel" released last year, and the global box office has reached $668 million.

The second "Superman v Batman" is also expected to be released in 2016, and there will be a movie called "Task Force X" in the same year, and in 17 years, the long-legged goddess "Wonder Woman" with good looks and figure will appear.

Hollywood film company Legendary Pictures has also launched its own monster movie universe this year, and "Godzilla" is about to debut. That's right, this island people's favorite monster will destroy the world at every turn, sinking the island country or something. It is reported that Legendary Pictures has obtained the film rights of several monsters, such as the classic "King Kong", "Jaws", "Alien", etc., which are expected to join the monster universe.

The most awesome is Universal Pictures, one of the old Hollywood giants, who has been preparing its own monster cinematic universe. That's right, it's a monster, not a monster.

Monsters are beasts or something, and what about monsters?

Universal has given this monster cinematic universe a name called the Dark Universe.

As for why it has not been launched yet, the main reason is that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in full swing, which has made a large number of shareholders of Universal look forward to it.

They are waiting, waiting for the box office of "Guardians of the Galaxy", which will be released this year.

Several important roles in the previous Avengers, except for the failure of the Hulk movie, Black Widow Hawkeye is not qualified to make independent films.

Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America have all made independent films, and Marvel is going to start the second phase of the film. "Guardians of the Galaxy" is also about to debut.

In the last life, Universal has launched its own monster movie universe, and this world Universal is still on the sidelines, and I think it will officially launch its own movie universe next year.

Since you want to live a new life and not seek to be the richest man in the world, at least you have to turn the world upside down in your circle.

Wang Zainian is also preparing his own movie universe in his heart, and the 2022 movie "Romance of the Dragon and Snake" that he drew before gave him a good inspiration.

Why can't Resident Evil make a cinematic universe?

Zombies, abilities.

It's a small chance, but it's not a bad idea. At least the series is proper, as long as the heroine's acting skills are good and she can play, the most global box office should not be bad.

Since you want to start filming Resident Evil, the least thing you need is to publish this novel abroad. It is necessary to let foreigners know about the novel first, so that they will be interested in watching the film.

Just do it, that night, Wang Zainian went over the wall to a well-known foreign publishing house, submitted part of the novel, and also posted part of the content on Facebook in the circle of friends by the way.

Wang Zainian's body had a Facebook account before, which also saved him the effort of registration. Not to mention, there are thousands of people who follow him, presumably some alumni or something.