If a crew wants to start filming, it is not necessary to have a script, a director, and an investment, which also requires preliminary preparation, not only to contact the actors but also to contact the crew's staff, such as photographers, lighting engineers, props masters, etc., especially large-scale costume martial arts TV series like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", which also needs to customize costumes and rent armor.

In order to make preliminary preparations, Li Lin's newly registered gold medal film and television company immediately began to recruit troops, but in a few days, a group of staff members were recruited and the stage of the film and television production company was built.

At the same time, the gold medal record company also gained a lot, and at Li Lin's request, the record company recruited five handsome guys and signed a ten-year long-term contract with them, and then sent these five handsome guys to South Korea for training, and the top Korean idol group Shinhwa Group personally trained them.

After a series of things were busy, Li Lin was just about to take a break from Asian Blizzard's Wang Jian called over.

"Sorry to disturb Mr. Li, does Mr. Li have time now? Blizzard headquarters has given you the answer to what you think. ”

Li Lin was shocked when he heard the call, "How about it, did your head office agree or not?" ”

"Can you come out and talk? The person sent by the head office is waiting for you at the Four Seasons Hotel Royal Capital. Wang Jian said on the other end of the phone.

Four Seasons Hotel!

Li Lin nodded when he heard this, "I'll come right away." ”

Four Seasons Hotel is one of the most famous hotel chains in the world, and although it is a five-star hotel, it is more than a step ahead of other five-star hotels.

The fact that Blizzard's head office sent people to stay at the Four Seasons Hotel proves that the people they sent over are of a very high administrative level. Otherwise, I wouldn't have stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel directly.

Li Lin hung up the phone and tidied up his appearance, and the clothes on his body were changed into a special suit of 'Water Color', there was no way. As the spokesperson of "Aqua Years", he must endorse "Aqua Years" on various occasions, and for this reason, "Aqua Years" has sent dozens of sets of fashion styles that can be worn on various occasions, and there are new styles for Li Lin to choose every season.

Dozens of minutes later, Li Lin appeared at the Four Seasons Hotel and was picked up by Wang Jian.

"This time Blizzard's founder and president, McMohan." Wang Jian led Li Lin in, "Mr. McMohan is very interested in your proposal. But there are still some questions about your Tiyì. ”

"It's a risk!" Li Lin said with a smile.

It's not uncommon for games to be cinematic, and there have been precedents for both live-action and 2D films. Li Lin doesn't believe that Blizzard, which controls the Diablo series and the Warcraft series, has not considered the cinematization of games, but in the past, Blizzard did not make games cinematic, and the only explanation is risk.

Whether you shoot it yourself or give it to someone else, there are risks.

It's easy to lose money by shooting yourself. And once it loses money, it is also a nerve-wracking thing for Blizzard. As for handing it over to someone else to shoot, I am afraid that the quality of the movie will not be good, which will drag down the reputation of the game.

Wang Yue smiled undeniably, and only kept smiling at Li Lin's words.

Leading Li Lin into the room of the Four Seasons Hotel, Wang Yue retreated, completely ceding the space inside to Li Lin and McMohan.

Li Lin carefully looked at Blizzard's founder and president, McMohan, in the room.

This is a rather young-looking man, he looks very smart and capable in a black close-fitting shirt, and he also maintains a smile on his face, giving people the feeling of being in the spring breeze.

"Hello. Mr. Lee, I'm McMohan, the president of Blizzard. McMohan introduced himself and got straight to the point, "Our company is very interested in your proposal, but we still have a lot of questions about the CG animation you mentioned. ”

"How much investment do you think we need to invest if we want to make Warcraft?"

"One hundred million."

"Renminbi?"

"Dollars."

"Mr. Li, are you kidding?" McMohan smiled, "Does Mr. Lee know how much a hundred million dollars is?" ”

"With an investment of 100 million, we need at least 250 million at the box office to be able to return to our cost, but how much box office is "Resident Evil" you told us?"

"Can Resident Evil compare to Warcraft?" Li Lin said disdainfully: "Don't forget jì, the movie version of "Resident Evil" has always been complained about by fans of Resident Evil games. ”

"If you invest 100 million, "Warcraft" may be comparable to "The Lord of the Rings"."

McMohan drank red wine and took Li Lin's words as a joke, "Li, you think it's good for you to change your career to become a film producer and then go to Hollywood to attract investment." ”

"Thank you for the compliment, but I think I'll starve to death if I switch to film production and go to Hollywood to attract investment." Li Lin laughed, "Okay, how do I feel that the relationship between us is very wrong." ”

"You've been against it as a game developer, and I, as someone who doesn't have much to do with Warcraft, have been advocating it, and it's weird to look at it."

"It was your $100 million investment that scared the hell out of me." McMohan sighed, "The investment from Blizzard Asia is $20 million, if I knew you were thinking about $100 million, I would have thrown that report in the trash, I promise!" ”

"You can do it for $20 million, you can do it for $100 million, the difference is what you want to do." Li Lin said with a smile: "Like "Resident Evil", selling a game name to make a live-action movie, and getting a beautiful woman to come over to show off the popularity, in fact, it has nothing to do with the game, such a movie can make money, but are you willing?" ”

"Can word of mouth be guaranteed?"

"I can't."

"My answer is NO." McMohan shook his head and said: "The most important thing for the Warcraft series is word-of-mouth, and we also shoot movies to expand the influence of the Warcraft series, for us, in order to make money in the unfamiliar film field, we can't mess up the reputation of the company's most important Warcraft series, we can't be so stupid." ”

"That's 100 million dollars." Li Lin said without hesitation.

McMohan blocked his throat, you are stupid * forced three words almost blurted out, he suddenly regretted coming here to see Li Lin, he felt that Li Lin was an idealist.

100 million dollars!

That's 100 million dollars, not a turnip cabbage, Blizzard can spend $20 million to make a movie for the promotion of the Warcraft series, but it is absolutely impossible to spend 100 million to shoot a movie for the promotion of the Warcraft series.

The overlap between the game and the movie is impossible.

"Mr. Lee." McMohan took a deep breath and suppressed the thought of scolding, "I really think you are very suitable to be a filmmaker, I believe that with you, Hollywood investors will be fooled by you to make movies." ”

"Warcraft, which can be compared to "The Lord of the Rings", hehe, Mr. Li, you can try to sell this point of view in Hollywood, and maybe there will be hot-headed investors who choose to invest in your movie."

What is The Lord of the Rings? It was a fantasy novel that sold more than 100 million, and it was a miracle in the entire Western world, and "Warcraft" sold like crazy and couldn't compare to "The Lord of the Rings".

Even if they invest $100 million to shoot "Warcraft", it is impossible to compare with "The Lord of the Rings" in popularity and fame, and want to surpass the box office of "The Lord of the Rings", unless its director is Cameron.

"Since you're not filming, can you sell me the rights to Warcraft? And the movie rights to "Diablo", how about selling them to me as well? ”

McMohan was stunned, "You want to shoot?" ”

"Hmm!" Li Lin nodded, "I want to shoot, but I need to wait until a certain technology matures." ”

He was waiting for IMAX-3D technology.

This technology, marketed by Cameron's "Avatar", has become the new favorite of Hollywood film production companies in Li Lin's previous life, such as "Superman - Man of Steel" and "Iron Man" using IMAX-3D technology, and they are also very popular.

But in fact, research and development began in 73, but this technology is not mature, not only the technology is immature, but also the number of IMAX movie theaters showing movies is not many.

It wasn't until '02 that the first IMAX-3D movie appeared, and it was "Apollo 13".

By May 03, there were only 230 IMAX theaters in the world, and there was none in China.

However, by 05 years, IMAX-3D technology has matured, and in terms of theaters, IMAX theaters have also begun to accelerate the pace of construction.

With the introduction of IMAX-3D technology to the world in "Avatar", IMAX theaters began to explode completely, and were considered by Hollywood studios to be the future technical standard, and the world began to invest in the construction of IMAX theaters.

"A $100 million investment?"

"100 million, maybe more."

"Did the investment pull itself in? Mr. Li, with all due respect, your entire net worth is less than $100 million, and you're still a loser, what do you use to make me believe that you will invest $100 million in making a movie? McMohan was very skeptical of Li Lin's skills.

Li Lin smiled, "Mr. McMohan seems to have made a mistake, first, my assets are now negative, but with the expansion of entertainment paradise, my loan will be repaid soon." ”

McMohan nodded, he had investigated Li Lin before coming, and was very interested in the video entertainment website in Li Lin's hands, according to the current profitability of Entertainment Paradise, he only needed a year, no, it didn't even take a year for him to repay the loan, and if he was willing to let other people join the shares, this time would be greatly accelerated.

This is a video entertainment site monopolized by copyright barriers, and the monopoly of entertainment paradise will continue until there is no national executive order or a huge change in the Internet.

"Second, did I say I want to invest on my own? I think Mr. McMohan is right, I should go to Hollywood as a producer, so that I can lobby investors to invest in my films, well, epic fantasy masterpieces, World of Warcraft, which is comparable to "The Lord of the Rings", I think it's a good concept, and I'm sure there will be investors who will be very interested in the concept I'm selling. (To be continued......)