In the conference hall, everyone opened their mouths slightly, looking at Gu Xiaofan and Nolan with suspicious eyes. 【Reading.com】

What's going on? How could there be such an unbelievable situation at the shareholders' meeting, Gu Xiaofan, the leader of the old Jet faction, threw an olive branch to the chief director of the Abel faction, and decided to hand over the responsibility of the director of the life-and-death masterpiece related to his own cadres to the other party.

And Nolan, who was supposed to be firmly on Abel's side, actually agreed?

At the meeting, everyone had the illusion that Gu Xiaofan and Nolan had already discussed it before this?

But whether it was Abel father and son, or Chen Keer and Neil on the other side, they all understood that the two had no relationship at all before this.

Now there seems to be no better explanation for this situation than that these two men went crazy at the same time.

At this time, among the only people present, only two people showed a solemn and complicated look, as if they felt something different.

Abel and Han Sanpin looked at Gu Xiaofan tightly, trying to capture something beyond the logic of thinking.

Alan looked at this inexplicable conversation between the two of them, and felt that these two people were simply crazy, so he couldn't help laughing, and said loudly:

"Since Director Gu is really so confident, then of course we at Warner Bros. fully support it, after all, this is for the benefit of the entire group, so this project can now be voted on by shareholders."

Since Gu Xiaofan jumped nervously from the trap they set and was going to face James Cameron's death in the Christmas schedule, what else would they be polite?

But as soon as he finished saying this, Abel said in a deep voice: "I am against this proposal!" ”

At this moment, everyone felt very surprised, this game was obviously designed by Abel, even if Gu Xiaofan pulled Nolan to jump into the pit, but there was no loss to Abel's side, why would this old fox object? Isn't this a duet with his son?

Alan also looked at his father in surprise, not understanding why he had this reaction.

I saw that the smile on Abel Warner's face had completely disappeared, and was replaced by a ruthless and resolute one:

"Please don't get me wrong, "The Dark Knight" taught Black Feather Studio to produce, and they fully invested in the production and publicity, I don't object to this, what I object to is that Gu Xiaofan, as a producer, used his power to get the important role of 'Joker'......"

Saying this, Abel slowly stood up and looked at Gu Xiaofan proudly like a lion:

""Batman" is our Warner's most famous series of movies, if a Chinese plays a clown, it will inevitably attract audience protests, this is not a deformed dwarf and other characters that no one wants to play, when the opposition of public opinion will definitely affect the image of a whole series of "Batman", this is not just the success or failure of a movie."

You look at me, I look at you, and then fall into silence.

Everyone understands what Abel is talking about, the "Batman" series was originally Warner's number one series of movies, and it was originally the same as Sony's 007 series, which was filmed every three or four years, and it could easily become popular all over the world.

But in '97, the franchise encountered an unprecedented crisis, and that was Warner's huge investment in "Batman and Robin......

At that time, this new Batman movie was pinned on by Warners and upgraded the actor level.

At that time, Warner decided to use George Clooney, who was popular in the field of TV dramas, to take over as the third Batman, and the lineup of villains was more luxurious, inviting Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is over 50 years old, to play "Freezer", the beauty who showed her reputation in "Pulp Fiction", Uma Thurman joined in to play "Poison Ivy", and Batman's comrades also added another "Batgirl" from Robin in the previous episode.

But this unprecedented investment, which looks like it should be a big hit anyway, turned out to be a complete rout in the history of Batman movies.

Not only did the box office and word-of-mouth fall to the bottom, but it also won the Golden Sour Plum Award that year, but it also caused Warner to reluctantly freeze this once glorious series of movies for 8 years......

Take a look at the actors involved in this movie, and they all get all the curses that a super bad movie deserves:

George Clooney never returned to the status of a first-line superstar, so he had to make another career in the field of ** production;

Uma Thurman didn't sweep away the box office poison in "Kill Bill" until many years later, when Quentin came to the rescue;

Schwarzenegger, who was in full swing, had heart surgery directly and had a shadow for many years; And the golden boy and girl who played Robin and Batgirl - who can still remember their names today?

Until now, when Warner Company mentions this matter, they feel an inexplicable sense of frustration welling up in their hearts.

"Gentlemen." Abel's voice was deep and powerful, and his sharp gaze swept over everyone present:

"Why did you all fail in Batman and Robin? Yes, it's because we chose the wrong actors, and it's just because of this that we lost more than $1 billion on the Batman brand in 8 years, and the sales of DC Comics' Batman series of comics have dropped by 27.9......"

Abel stretched out his hand and slowly looked at Gu Xiaofan: "Mr. Gu, do you remember what you said to me when we first met?" You are willing to give me the copyright of the script of "The Dark Knight", you are willing to contribute, and you only have one request, and that is to let you play the Joker...... But didn't I promise you? ”

Gu Xiaofan didn't answer, because he knew that he would say anything now, but he remembered the events of that day in his heart, and the sense of humiliation came to his heart again, and his hand couldn't help but clench into a fist.

"You think I'm discriminating against you?" Abel continued to sneer: "I did discriminate against you, just like when I looked down on Schwarzenegger, who was born in Australia...... You're not American, and you'll never fit into the mainstream of our American culture.

Do you know that before this, every villain in the Batman series was the top actor in Hollywood, and their appearance in the Batman series of movies became a breakthrough in their actor career-

Jack Nicholson's Joker, Danny DeVito's Penguin Man, Michelle Pfeifer's Catwoman, Jim Kelly's Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones' Two-Face are all sensational......

And you're a good actor, but who can you compare to them? Jack Nicholson? Jim Kelly? Or Tommy Lee Jones? ”