"Hulk" made Universal Pictures lose miserably, with an investment of 140 million, and the final global box office was just over 200 million. It's the same for An Lee, it's not that he did a bad job, in fact, he did too well in terms of making movies. But superhero movies shouldn't be so good.

Of course, it's not appropriate to say this, there is a way to shoot a theme, and An Li obviously didn't master the shooting method of a superhero movie.

Visual stimulation, sensory stimulation!

Don't be profound!

Don't render feelings!

As a master of art films, An Li expressed too many inner issues, perhaps a simple description of the Hulk's encounters and mood will help to accept this "monster" image more three-dimensionally, but young people who buy tickets to enter the cinema will definitely not want to see a literary film dressed as a superhero.

This is the ultimate reason for failure, and the reason why An Li has not suffered too many negative effects except for taking a desperate path. His own directing skills were still recognized, but Universal and his joint decision was out of place.

Evaluation of him to Roger. Albert is the representative, in fact, quite good.

Roger called Hulk the "most thoughtful" of all comic book films, visually "very elegant", and Ann Lee portrayed a character who "competes with himself and the world, not just a superhero, but also a green monster that depicts people's good wishes and nightmarish situations." ”

For the director, this cannot be said to be a failure.

Daniel and Ann Lee talked about more or less that, Daniel said that he was very interested in comic book movies, and wanted to hear Ahn Lee's thoughts, which inevitably made his question ironic, and he had to express his fair evaluation of "Hulk" very sincerely.

"I don't think there's a problem with you and Hulk, the problem is that you met."

Ahn Lee laughed, he didn't seem particularly concerned about the box office fiasco.

"I see what you mean, yes, if I had to do it again, I might still not be able to make the Hulk more popular. One does have its limitations. Not all themes can be mastered, and maybe I'm not very suitable for this kind of special effects blockbuster. ”

"No, Ann Lee, that's a misunderstanding." Daniel thought of Life of Pi. "Not all special effects serve visual stimulation, whether it is the stimulation of beauty like "The Lord of the Rings" or the violent stimulation of superheroes, they cannot fully represent the meaning of special effects, and special effects can also serve philosophical thinking. Absolutely, its significance to the film industry is definitely not limited to the picture. ”

An Li was silent for a moment, "Maybe." ”

……

Daniel left early the next morning to rush to the nearest airport and fly back to Los Angeles.

There have been reporters waiting at LAX for a long time, and Triver has always done his duty.

"Daniel, are you going to visit Brokeback Mountain? Why? Do you want to express something in this way? ”

"An Lee is a director I admire very much, and we had a great chat this time. I think "Brokeback Mountain" is a very meaningful story, let's not limit ourselves to seeing it as a gay story, it can be expressed as a love story in a broad sense, I saw some clips, and it was very beautifully shot. It's very moving, and to be honest, I kind of regret not being able to get involved, but Heath and Jack did a great job and I'm sure everyone would love the movie, if you could take off your tinted glasses. ”

"Can you tell us what you talked to An Lee?"

"A lot, learn a lot from him about the understanding of cinema, he is a real master." Daniel paused, as if suddenly remembered, "That's right." We also talked about his previous work, such as Hulk, and I asked him for some understanding of the image, and he generously told me. Thank you very much to him. ”

A reporter quickly got this point, "Is DD Pictures going to make a new Hulk movie?" Are you going to make a superhero movie? Are you authorized by Marvel? ”

"DD Pictures' plans will be announced in due course. I don't have anything to say right now. Thank you, thank you! ”

Miller and the security personnel firmly pushed away the "used up" reporters and put Daniel in the car.

……

"I'm sure his words are not untargeted, how about it. Kusa, you know right? ”

Andy is now basically a stay-at-home mom, and Shanying is becoming more and more independent - this is a stage that an analysis company must go through, especially when DD Pictures is becoming more and more important, and it is difficult to gain a wider influence if you can't objectively evaluate works related to DD. Perhaps other major studios had anticipated this, so even though Mountain Eagle and DD Pictures seemed to have some unclear relationship, they still achieved closer and closer cooperation.

Kusa is extremely busy, and his work goes far beyond being an agent, and of course, in terms of salary.

"Variety" previously conducted an investigation and interview with the behind-the-scenes workers, and although Kusa himself politely declined the interview, the report still estimated that he should be the most profitable agent in Hollywood at present, with an annual income of more than 20 million, mainly from Daniel's salary and additional transaction remuneration.

"Yes, I know, but I'm not going to tell you."

Andy, who became a mother, was much more active than before, and although her cousin's face was serious and non-negotiable, it didn't stop her from continuing to get to the bottom of it.

"I know Ferguson has been in contact with Marvel Studios, so he got the rights to adapt Hulk? Why Hulk? The Hulk who failed. Marvel still has a lot of heroes worth shooting, isn't it? Moreover, isn't the Hulk's adaptation rights with Universal? Could it be that Marvel and Universal have an agreement? ”

"Andy, are you too laid-back? Fried should arrange something for you, wouldn't it be nice that you would hand over the child to your mother? ”

"There's nothing bad about it, she loves Bunche, if it weren't for that kid's unwillingness, she would have wanted to sleep in the same bed with him at night."

"You're so relaxed, just like my mom."

"If my son grows up like you, I have nothing to worry about."

“…… Thank you. ”

In the end, Kusa did not explain to Andy what Daniel's purpose was.

This visit to "Brokeback Mountain" is indeed as mentioned before, to make up for the hindrance to the film due to its own reasons, but it also has another purpose.

Marvel Studios was established a few days ago. Figo serves as the studio's CEO and is responsible for advancing Marvel's film plans.

So far, Kevin's definite course of action is to start making his own superhero movies, but find a large studio as a co-distribution company, and no longer use the cooperative method of transferring heroes in the 80s and 90s.

Paramount Pictures, owned by Viacom, has taken the lead in the competition.

However, none of this has yet been finalized, Paramount and Marvel have serious differences in investment and returns, and Marvel certainly wants to be able to take the lion's share, otherwise why would they make their own movies. But Paramount understands very well that Marvel lacks the ability to promote a work with a budget of more than 100 million, and at the same time, a large amount of distribution expenditure is also a problem, Paramount's profitability in the past two years is not satisfactory, and there is a lack of convincing works.

Both sides have significant motivations, with Marvel hoping to get more out of the Marvel heroes' spin-offs, and Paramount hoping that Marvel's superhero movies will boost the company's performance like Spider-Man and Batman. But again, both sides of the cooperation also have their own weaknesses, Marvel lacks filmmaking experience and risk resistance. Paramount's Brad. Gray urgently needed to prove to the parent company that he was able to make a profit for Paramount.

Perhaps, it is this situation that allows Paramount to finally gain the most recognition and trust from Marvel.

Compared with more powerful companies, it is not surprising that Marvel is now more optimistic about Paramount.

After the dust settled on the MGM and DD Pictures deals, Marvel's intentions became even more wavering. Kevin. Figo himself has experienced the power of "Daniel-style prophecy", and the failure of "The Punisher" made him unable to hold his head up in the company for a while, if it were not for the fact that self-made movies were an inevitable way out for Marvel, it is unknown whether Kevin would be able to successfully become the CEO of Marvel Studios.

Compared to Paramount, MGM is obviously a little weaker.

Of course, they were talking to DD Pictures, but to Kevin's surprise, DD Pictures' conditions were no better than those from Paramount - which meant that Kevin's wishful thinking would not work.

He tried to threaten DD Pictures through Paramount, and if DD's interest was indeed as strong as they themselves said, they would certainly not allow Marvel to hand over a film distribution contract that could involve billions of dollars at the box office.

But DD Pictures' performance is confusing, on the one hand, they are still trying to get Marvel to transfer the hero adaptation rights to them, because of Marvel's firm attitude, DD is not particularly persistent in this point. Instead, he spent all his energy negotiating a co-production and distribution with Marvel, and it was not a package contract involving multiple films, but only for a single hero.

Importantly, this hero is constantly changing.

At first, Ferguson said that he wanted Captain America the most, then he began to adjust to Iron Man, and now they have their eyes on Hulk.

A top-level hero, a secondary hero, a hero who has failed to adapt - DD's confidence seems to be vividly reflected in such a change. When they ask for the Hulk, Kevin almost wants to go straight to Daniel and ask him what he thinks.

And he did! (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter one, the last day