Doing everything possible to win the two projects of "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk" and build a Marvel universe that belongs to Chaos Pictures and Lance is definitely the ultimate goal. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although there is no clear statement from Universal Pictures at present, Ron Meyer has called Lance four times before and after, and asked Lance for his opinion on the two projects of "Wanted" and "The Incredible Hulk", and it can be seen that Universal Pictures is sincere. It's just that they need to make a choice, and compared to the "Incredible Hulk" that stays in the conception stage, the "Wanted" project, which has been confirmed and has been prototyped, is undoubtedly more advantageous, and Universal Pictures does not want to give up easily.

The synopsis of the script of "Wanted" Lance has been completed, objectively speaking, the story is like being sieveed, full of loopholes, it is not easy to make up for the completeness one by one, and the promotion of the beginning and end also seems bizarre and cannot withstand scrutiny. Of course, the whole plot shows a trend of fighting monsters and upgrading, as long as it is paired with precise rhythm control and brilliant martial arts design, it does have the potential to become a summer action genre masterpiece.

However, relatively speaking, Lance is still more inclined to focus on building the Marvel Universe.

Writing the screenplays for "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk" are two very different things, not because the style and content of the two films are very different, but because there is a significant difference in the quality of the synopsis of the two works, which also means that Lance will have to put in different energy.

"Iron Man" was a success in the last life, and was hailed as the leader of all the works in the first phase of Marvel, and its media reputation even surpassed that of the "Avengers" - the reason why the latter is so popular is mainly because of the large number of hero characters and the huge number of fans, purely from the perspective of works, "Iron Man" is undoubtedly a well-made genre film.

In other words, the script of "Iron Man" is a successful example of commercial production, following the three-stage structure of cause, process, and result, and cramming small highs/tides and small ups and downs into each part, and the plot twists and humor are implanted accurately enough, and the director can spend more energy on rhythm control, camera movements, special effects coordination, and high/low tide scenes during the filming process. The latest and fastest updates

The real problem with the "Iron Man" series is actually in the last two parts, the cumbersome and dragging of the plot seriously affects the rhythm, and the bloated and weak characters lead to a sharp decrease in humor, and the quality has declined significantly, the first and second parts are directed by a single director, but there are such obvious differences, which also means that the sequel script needs to be changed significantly.

In contrast, the first script of "Iron Man" is even more rare. If Lance had written it, he didn't think he needed a big synopsis, and he wouldn't necessarily be better than Mark Fergus and Hawk-Ostby.

The script of "Iron Man" only needs to be revised, and that is that the villain character is slightly weak, which leads to the suspicion of premature ejaculation in the final battle. In fact, this is also a common problem of all superhero works - the proportion of content is seriously skewed towards the hero, and the villain lacks pen and ink description, so that it lacks a sense of confrontation, not to mention the depth of the content, the reason why "Batman Prequel: The Dark Knight" can become a classic is that it spends enough space to build the Joker, a mad villain.

The "pen and ink" mentioned here does not refer to the description from psychological shadows to emotional life like the male protagonist, but to give the villain a source of power, and then increase the proportion of the plot around this core motivation, so that the villain's motives and behaviors are full, and then enhance the contradiction between justice and evil, making the plot more full.

Of course, if this source of power can trigger Batman's thinking about justice, evil, and responsibility like a Joker, then the depth of the movie will be guaranteed. If you can't do it, it doesn't hurt, after all, there is still a difference between summer popcorn and awards season art.

In addition to this, Lance also considered making the character of Tony Stark more three-dimensional, not only for the sake of the sequel work, but also for the sake of the Marvel Universe.

The idea was inspired by Tom Cruise. Tony Stark, as a weapons manufacturer, whether it is his intention or not, he can be said to be one of the driving forces behind the war, he is windy/current/suave/suave/fu, talented, and game-oriented, and the collateral damage caused by the arms business cannot affect his life at all, so to speak, he is a transcendent existence, and he feels a little out of the way; But then he became Iron Man, began his own path of justice, and even fought for his life to save the world, and finally even the company's arms business gradually began to develop in the direction of sustainable energy. This shift is undoubtedly interesting and complex.

In the Marvel Universe of the previous life, this point was not explained in detail, let alone discussed in depth.

In "Iron Man", the script sets an important plot: Tony is kidnapped by terrorists and his life is in danger, but he also sees the damage caused by terrorists to the point that he has to transplant a nuclear-powered artificial heart to keep him alive. It was through the life-and-death situation that Tony resolutely stood on the opposite side of the terrorists, which is undoubtedly convincing and an important reason for the success of the first work.

However, this is not enough to be the motivation for Tony to save the world, the change in the nature of his heart, the entire Marvel Universe has not given an answer, and even in the later story, Tony has become an important figure in S.H.I.E.L.D. - just because Robert Downey Jr. has won super popularity in real life, and the film company has increased the weight of Tony's role, with no ups and downs, no psychological changes, as if everything happened naturally. As a result, the role of Iron Man lost its charm, and later he was just eating the old book - humor, complaining, selling cuteness, **, basically reduced to a comic, no novelty and no depth, which directly affected the script creation of subsequent works, which is also a major problem faced by the later works of the Marvel Universe.

Disney has never figured it out: why does the audience suddenly start to get bored with the same set of things? It's not just Iron Man who is a character, but other heroes as well. The puzzling result is that they decided to dig into the residual value of the characters before the audience completely doesn't buy it, even if it's overdeveloped.

In fact, in Lance's view, the core of the problem is not complicated. Taking Iron Man as an example, if you can describe Tony's change of mentality in the script, you don't need to dig deep like "The Dark Knight", you just need to give a reason like "Iron Man", and then string a branch line around the reason, and you can even add the character weight of Pepper to help Tony complete the change of mentality. In this way, not only can the plot be enriched and the story become convincing; It can also enrich the characters and make Iron Man three-dimensional and complex, and in turn, the changes in the characters can drive the plot and derive more plot branches with deep meaning.

For example, in "American Civil War", Iron Man will be more convincing when he stands on the opposite side of Captain America, and the excitement index of the plot is bound to rise sharply.

The Marvel Universe intends to take the route of lighthearted humor, which Lance agrees with, not all works are suitable for Christopher Nolan; But increasing the psychological changes of the characters does not mean saying goodbye to light-hearted humor, in popcorn movies, you only need to give the characters a convincing source of emotional depth - love, friendship, and family affection are applicable, you can tap the depth of the characters at a shallow level, and complete the establishment and deepening of the core idea of the story.

In fact, "Spider-Man 3" has made a similar attempt, but the script written by Sam Raimi is a little too strong, and the character of Venom is derived, which makes the story a bit absurd; At the same time, it was not able to give enough support to the psychological level of Venom, and even the character description of Venom was very superficial, which directly led to the audience being full of question marks and even shouting ridiculous.

Even so, Lance feels that this attempt is correct and necessary, but it cannot become the main story line like the Venom of "Spider-Man 3", and can only exist in the form of a branch line like "The Dark Knight", but it plays the role of sublimating the work - the main line is naturally the good against evil of the popcorn movie.

Lance thinks that playing such a change on Tony Stark is the right thing to do, but not in the script of "Iron Man", but in the script of "Iron Man 2" and "Iron Man 3", which really completely changes the script of the sequel. Lance clearly knows that the script of "Iron Man" is full enough, and adding content is to add more content, which is easy to be self-defeating, but it can add a few details and foreshadowing, and other real changes are still placed on the villain.

The story of "Iron Man" has a reference to the previous life in Lance's mind, and it is naturally twice the result with half the effort to create, of course, Lance only remembers the story framework, and the content of the lines and the creation of the characters must be overturned by him, which is easy to say, but the workload should not be underestimated. However, compared to "The Incredible Hulk", the story framework of "Iron Man" can be called simple and relaxed.

"The Incredible Hulk", this is definitely a big trouble, in the last life, the Hulk has appeared on the big screen three times, without exception suffered a vigorous fiasco, even Lee/An has not been able to turn the tide. Now, Lance created the script framework of "The Incredible Hulk", and he first had to completely overthrow the "Incredible Hulk" of the previous life and start from scratch; Secondly, the characters of the Hulk and the development of the story must be reorganized; It also had to take into account the Hulk's place in the Marvel Universe, which meant that Lance had to flip through a lot of comics to find inspiration.

The Creative Committee was a ready-made reference advisor, but Lance wasn't going to hand over the initiative so early, so he went back to where he started, and he had to do it all on his own. This reminded Lance of when he first conceived "Superman Returns". (。 )