In fact, this is not Lance's own idea, but borrowed from the case of Lionsgate in the previous life. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lionsgate reached its peak around 2014 and was on the verge of becoming the seventh player in Hollywood, messing up the whole situation. That's how they did it: building an entire empire with a film adaptation of a young adult novel at its core. After acquiring Summit Entertainment, they owned the adaptation rights of many series of novels such as "The Hunger Games", "Divergent", "Twilight", "Ender's Game", etc., and achieved unimaginable huge victories, and for three consecutive years, ranked among the top five in year-end market share, breaking the blockade of the six major film companies.

However, before Reims was reborn, Lionsgate fell silent again. The reason is simple, after the end of the "Hunger Games" series, they couldn't find new fist products, the box office results were up and down, and even other peripheral industries were in a downturn. If you want to turn Hollywood's "Big Six" into "Big Seven", there is still a long way to go.

Lionsgate didn't have a breakthrough until 2010, missing the revival of comic book adaptations, but catching up with the wave of young adult fiction adaptations.

Now, it's only 2005, but Lance can hold the key to victory in advance, so why not give it a go? The current Chaos Pictures has more advantages than Lionsgate or Summit Entertainment before the rise, not to mention Lance at the helm!

"Theme parks? Cruel! Gawain chuckled, then raised his hands and pulled out a banner in the air, "Chaos Land, this is much cooler than Disney or Universal Studios." I'm definitely going to go to Chaos Paradise and bring the whole team! ”

Gawain's enthusiastic speech made Lance uncontrollable, and then Theo's cold voice came, "Do you think the Warner Brothers will let go?" Without much explanation, Lance immediately understood what Theo meant: there was absolutely no way Warner Bros. would be willing to let go of the rights to DC Comics.

In fact, Warner Bros. is really unwilling, to be precise, no major studio is willing to let go.

The fundamental reason why "Batman Prequel: Mystery of the Shadows" began to reboot was that Warner Bros. did not want the copyright to rot in his own hands, so he tried to restart, and after being inspired by Christopher Nolan, the "Superman Returns" project was subsequently restarted.

Similarly, Twentieth Century Fox, which holds the copyright of the adaptation of "Fantastic Four", is also unwilling to let go, although "Fantastic Four" has achieved a big success at the box office and word of mouth, but then "Fantastic Four 2" has been kicked to the iron plate, and then "Fantastic Four 2015" has lost even the underwear, even so, Twentieth Century Fox still announced the development plan of the next "Fantastic Four", which is the dying struggle to let the adaptation copyright slip out of his hands.

The entire DC Comics was acquired by Time Warner in 1969, and the adaptation rights were firmly in the hands of Warner Bros., and it was almost impossible for Warner Bros. to hand over DC Comics. What's more, although the box office of "Batman Prequel: Mystery of the Heroes" did not become a big hit, it did show a recovery momentum, and Warner Bros. was even more unlikely to let go.

"We don't need Warner Bros. to let go, we're targeting Marvel." Lance's smile was palpable.

Unlike DC Comics, Marvel has been severely suppressed in the film adaptation market in the past half century, and only a handful of film works have been put on the screen.

Twentieth Century Fox holds the adaptation rights of "X-Men", "Fantastic Four" and "Daredevil Man", Sony owns the adaptation rights of "Spider-Man" and "Ghost Rider", and Universal Pictures owns the adaptation rights of "Hulk".

It's a pity that Marvel was disappointed, and only three works were put on the big screen in half a century, and the results were dismal.

In 1996, Marvel decided to set up its own door, starting from small cost and low investment, and launched the cult hero movie "Blade" in 1998, which achieved good results and gave Marvel confidence, and then the success of "X-Men" and "Spider-Man" also flocked one after another.

But in fact, Marvel has not won much from Twentieth Century Fox, and it can even be said that the damage outweighs the benefits.

In Hollywood, there has always been an unwritten rule for the treatment of subcultures, de-originalization, simply put, commercialization. Producers are often shrewd Jews, and geeks' willingness to watch movies is worthless to them, so in the process of adapting the comics, they will remove the "otaku, geek, niche" characteristics of the original book, and adapt it to be more in line with the taste of the public. This is true for the first three episodes of the "X-Men" series, as well as the Tobey-Maguire version of "Spider-Man."

This is tantamount to bad news for the shrinking comic book market - more and more comic book lovers have begun to boycott film adaptations, which has put Marvel under tremendous pressure.

According to the development of historical trajectory, Marvel will decide to change in 2007 and give it a go. Because Marvel's film company is a small independent company, even smaller than the current Chaos Pictures, they don't have enough money or strength to change the status quo, so they used the adaptation rights of their four comic book characters as collateral, gambled on their net worth, gambled on everything, and teamed up with Paramount to shoot "Iron Man", the difference is that this work is led by the Marvel team.

The rest of the story is clear at a glance, Marvel succeeded, and other major companies followed Marvel's lead, overturning the previous superhero setting, and rebuilding and expanding their own universes; Then, Marvel was acquired by Disney.

Although Lance did not explain further, Ian and Theo were involved in the project of building the comic universe, and even Gawain gave a lot of opinions - he is the one who likes comics the most among the four brothers, and now he just replaced the DC universe with the Marvel universe, and everyone understood it at once, but they fell into deep thought.

Ian immediately understood Lance's initial plan, and his brows couldn't help frowning slightly, "You should know how formidable Disney and Warner Bros. are, right?" And Twentieth Century Fox and Sony Pictures, they definitely won't let us get stronger, not to mention, you're not only in their sight now, but you're also going to snatch food from them? Are you sure we won't just be crushed? ”

Ian's teasing made Lance chuckle.

Whether it was running Diora Pictures in his previous life or his experience after being reborn in this life, Lance clearly knew one truth: no one is indispensable, this is true in social life, and even more so in Hollywood.

From a simple point of view, Johnny Depp seems to be the core of the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean", Disney even offered a 20% dividend price to keep Johnny, and in "Pirates of the Caribbean 4", Johnny was invited to star with an amazing salary of 55 million, on the surface, Johnny is indispensable. But if Johnny doesn't care about the lion's mouth and makes demands without a bottom line, such as the unreasonable demand of 55 million in salary plus box office dividends, it is only a matter of time before Disney abandons Johnny.

For reference, 55 million is the buyout salary, which is strictly speaking, far less than the 20% box office bonus that Johnny received when he took over the second and third films.

Toby, the actor of "Spider-Man", once asked for a salary of 20 million before filming the third part, and was so tough that he was unwilling to give in, which led to Sony's refusal to negotiate in anger and decided to replace the actor, and in the end, Toby relented and completed the filming of the trilogy. Even so, after Sony restarted the "Spider-Man" project, Toby was immediately replaced.

From a complicated point of view, even Jerry Bruckheimer, even Steven Spielberg, even Barry Meyer, who are at the top of Hollywood's power list, are only a pawn in the film industry after all, and it is possible that Wall Street, which is standing behind them, wants to replace them, or even ban them.

In recent times, Lance first rejected Warner Bros. strongly, and then caged Disney fiercely, although it will not lead to himself being banned, but if there are still opportunities for cooperation in the future, the difficulties will be unimaginable.

However, the reason why Lance is so bold and arrogant is precisely because he knows that this is a circle where interests are paramount, because he knows that no one is irreplaceable. So is he and so is the other party. As long as he can create enough benefits, as long as he can continue to succeed, then he can hold the initiative in his hands. There is a saying on the football field that victory can cover everything, and it also applies in Hollywood.

In addition, what Ian means is that Marvel's adaptation rights are now scattered among a number of major studios, which is actually the same as the DC adaptation rights are in the hands of Warner Bros.

"It's a step-by-step approach. Marvel is different from DC, Marvel only has a few heroes whose adaptation rights have been leaked, but most of the superheroes are still in the hands of Marvel, which is much simpler than DC. Let's start with the survey. "Of course, it would be great if the rights to the hero adaptation that had been leaked out could be taken back all the time. Even if you can't, believe me, there are many objects worth adapting among Marvel's own heroes. ”

Lance's explanation didn't make Ian and Theo's brows furnish, both of them thought deeper and farther than Lance, and it was obviously not that simple.

Gawain looked at everyone hesitantly and said, "Lance, I don't know how much activity money the company has at the moment, but I know that buying Marvel is not that simple, is it?" We have no stocks, no collateral, and no liquidity...... Even if we find a bank loan, I'm afraid it won't meet the requirements, in short, we have nothing but a plan, how can we complete the acquisition? What's more, the company will continue to make movies in the future, right? We can't all be tied to a single Marvel project. ”

In a word. (To be continued.) )