For most people, the past is too far away and not in their own plans, and it is inevitable that they will be temporarily forgotten, and when people or things touch it, this part of the memory can jump out, just like Duke today.

X-Men and Magneto, he was supposed to listen to Ian before? McLean mentioned it, but he didn't take it to heart at the time, until he needed to find the right investment partner, and was touched by 'Gandalf' and 'Magneto', which finally caught his attention.

However, this also shows that he is just one of the countless ordinary people in the world, and his brain may not be much better than others.

What does the X-Men stand for?

Then Duke Jean Tina? Fii checked, this is still the X-Men of Twentieth Century Fox, the copyright of a certain spider is also firmly in the hands of Sony Columbia Pictures, and after the "Godzilla" series is interrupted, Sony Entertainment is ready to push the little spider to the big screen.

Knowing the recent situation of these superheroes, Duke naturally turned his attention to their parent company, which is the sworn enemy of Warner Bros. DC Comics, now called Marvel Comics, and later changed to Marvel (changed to Chinese name).

The company, which had filed for bankruptcy protection a few years ago, is now struggling to sell the rights to its superheroes.

Since "Batman and Robin" suffered a double failure at the box office and audience word-of-mouth, superhero movies that have never occupied the mainstream of the market have once disappeared from Hollywood, and after Marvel's related memories were awakened, Duke knew that "X-Men" would change this qiē, when "Spider-Man" was released, Marvel heroes, who were born with various flaws and ordinary people's troubles, will completely bloom with the progress of special effects technology and become the mainstream of the commercial film market.

Marvel Studios. Even after a dozen years, it has become the most dynamic and profitable production company in Hollywood.

"Iron Man", "Hulk", "Thor", "Captain America" ......

Thinking of this, Duke suddenly realized, maybe it was Scarlett? Johnson was often around his mother, and he had long been accustomed to it, and he had forgotten Natasha? Normanoff agent.

That's the surprise now. Marvel in the future.

After determining the purpose, Duke once again put Tina? Faye sends back to North America to get her in contact with David to investigate Surprise.

Of course, Duke wasn't going to buy Marvel, because he couldn't put all the cash flow into it, and Marvel's management wasn't stupid enough to sell himself to a director or a small film studio.

What's more, behind this film studio, is still the parent company of their rival.

Yes, amazed management and shareholders. I don't have the idea of selling myself, but selling is also a target.

Duke is just a way to get people in touch with Amazement to see if there is any idea of raising money or accepting foreign investment to get out of trouble.

According to Tina? According to the information initially found by Fei, Surprise has been on the verge of bankruptcy, and if it were not for the sale of the character's copyright, it would probably not be able to sustain itself.

Like countless investment institutions in North America, large and small, Duke wants to invest in Surprise and then take a stake in it. and other possible huge returns in the future.

How much did Walt Disney end up paying for Marvel Comics? Duke can't remember exactly, but there should be billions of dollars.

Subsequently. Duke has turned back to the post-production zuò of "One Hundred Thousand Urgent", and it is luck to have the opportunity to invest in surprise, and if you don't have the opportunity, you can't force it.

After all, he is not the center of the world.

Around mid-February, David and Marvel had a formal approach, and since the beginning of the cold winter of the comic book industry in '95, Marvel has experienced the withdrawal of several large investment institutions. Although after filing for bankruptcy protection, they did not really fall into the abyss, but they lost confidence in the investment market, and in addition to selling the copyrights of their heroes, they could only use the copyrights of their famous characters as collateral. Exchange a loan from a bank.

However, the Marvel Hero Movie has never been successful on the big screen, and it is only a paper copyright, which is really not much from the bank.

The surprising predicament can be said to give the two parties a basis for investment cooperation, but the amount of investment and the resulting change of shares require a negotiation process.

Naturally, there will be professionals in charge of these things, and Duke has never relaxed the various supervision measures that should be in place, and he will not trust anyone when it comes to business transactions involving large interests, not even Tina? Phenanthrene.

As the time approached mid-February, Duke and Mike? With Dawson's full cooperation, the post-editing of "One Hundred Thousand Urgent" was much smoother than expected, and the abilities of both of them were fully honed in the past production, and after the initial adjustment stage, the actual progress has been much faster than planned.

On February 20th, after adding the opening and ending credits, all the production work of "One Hundred Thousand Urgent" was completely completed.

Warner Bros. sent a team to escort the film back to Los Angeles to prepare for the next test screening and copying, Duke will not return to North America for the time being, and a lot of preparatory work for the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy has also come to the end, which needs to be checked by him personally.

After more than a year of long preparation, and a lot of time and energy from the staff of various positions in the crew, the preliminary preparations for the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy are about to be completed.

It's a huge and complex project, and after the Lord of the Rings Studios officially announced its opening in Wellington, Duke and Robin? Grande began a final review of the completed work.

Even just reviewing is a lot of work, and there are so many aspects of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

If nothing else, in terms of clothing alone, it is not an easy task to design very different styles of clothing and styling for each population of Middle-earth.

There will be hundreds, if not thousands, of real actors in the crew, who belong to nine different types and cultures, and each culture has an average of 500 costumes, which is a staggering number, and the costume designer has led more than 80 tailors, embroiderers, shoemakers and jewelers to sew costumes for each character in the past year or so.

According to the shooting plan, many characters had to have two batches of the same costumes, one for the actors and the other for stand-ins with different figures.

With just a few lead actors, costumes can fill a wagon - 64 outfits for Frodo, 50 for Aragon, 30 for the Ringwraith, and 150 travel bags for 9 members of the Fellowship of the Ring...... And their stand-ins also have an average of 20 costumes each!

If the director does not participate in the preliminary preparations, but throws it all to others, it is just a problem with the costumes, which will delay the shooting for a long time.

When shooting a movie, wasting time is actually consuming a lot of money needlessly.

For those directors who are rumored to have never participated in the preliminary preparations, waited for the deputy to complete the preparations, and could shoot by themselves, and successfully completed the super blockbuster, Duke believes that there are only two possibilities, one is God himself, and the other is Satan appearing.

Even when Duke walked into the clothing warehouse, his costume designer kept introducing the design concept and the materials of the clothes, so that Duke, the director, could have a good idea during the shooting.

Walking up to the twenty-odd plastic mannequins who are about half the height of the average person, fashion designer Nigela? Dixon pointed to the hobbit costume on it and explained to Duke.

"The hobbits revered nature, and these garments used a lot of natural materials such as linen, and the design was borrowed from ancient Europe, and the clothes were mainly green, yellow, brown and other colors that symbolize nature."

She walked over, touched the ornaments, and said, "Duke, you said that the clothes should highlight the funny and playful side of the hobbit's personality, and I added some strange and obtrusive things, like their pants and sleeves are short, the buttons are large, and the collar is not symmetrical, and I deliberately sewed their pockets a little higher so that when they put their hands in their pockets, it looks funny. ”

Say, Nigira? Dixon also made a similar gesture to attract Duke and Charles? Rowan laughed.

The next look at the elves' costumes, is a completely different style and needs to show their elegant temperament, Nikira? Dixon uses colors such as mossy green, brown of bark and light crimson, while bringing out a neutral temperament and antique texture.

After most of the circle in the warehouse, because there was enough communication in the previous work, Duke was basically satisfied with the design and production of most of the clothing, and the clothing team did a really good job.

However, when he approached the plastic mannequin representing Gandalf, Duke frowned and walked over to take off the wizarding hat, which was a tradition of European wizarding hats, but a little oversized.

"It's just a prototype of a trial production...... "Nigila?" Dixon came over and said.

Duke put the hat back down and said, "Nigila, I hope Gandalf's wizarding hat is a very spiritual accessory, it looks old and magical, but it is not too exaggerated, this design of yours is like a big ship on the wizard's head. ”

After a moment's thought, Duke added, "The design was overturned, and what I needed was a wizard's hat that was both functional and mysterious. ”

Nigila? Dixon immediately wrote it down in his work log.

In the end, Duke sees the costumes of two of the film's most important female characters, Galadriel and Arwen Twilight.

According to Duke's requirements, their costumes should not only show a metallic brightness, but also be ethereal enough to make the heroine appear as if she were an angel in Middle-earth.

One of the queen's costumes, Duke has seen Kate? Blanchett's makeup photos are generally quite good, and Arwen's twilight ......

The actress who will play Arwen's twilight star has not yet been determined, and Duke does not plan to use the female model she used to be, and the bloated and thick figure of the other party does not fit the slender and elegant setting of the elf at all. (To be continued......)