Chapter 548: The Batman Trilogy
There has been a lot of competition between Olympic and Ray Comics.
The originator of superheroes is Aoman's "Superheroes", and then several superheroes have developed, but they cannot escape the fate of prosperity and decline, and the first superhero Shadow Man of Radiance Comics appeared in the 50s, and after it appeared, it was completely different from the heroes of Aoman, using another system and routine, to beat the already weak Aoman.
It was only in the 70s that Olympic began to reverse the decline, and it was the turn of Radiant Comics to flourish and decline...... Until the nineties, the two sides completely began to confront each other, and began to adapt movies successively, with successes and failures, losses and wins.
Their movies rely on fans of comics to convert them into movie tickets, and then use the series of movies to accumulate popularity to pile up the box office.
In this way, both major studios have gradually built up their own audiences.
After the 90s of the last century, the two major comic companies found that the cooperation with the film companies in the past to sell the rights could only bring them high profits, but they could not share too much of the soup. So they changed the way they worked together and made movies with big Hollywood studios, but they were self-financed, just borrowing the ability of these big studios to produce and distribute films, but basically they were able to pull most of the profits under their own hands.
In any case, Olympic Man and Ray are now the two largest comic book companies in the United States, and have created countless superhero classics.
Superheroes, Shadowman, Pyro, Lightspeed...... A whole bunch of superheroes have been brought to the movie screen, and they're still expanding. The superheroes of Ao Man and Ray of Light have expanded to the entire world.
The two comic book companies have basically completely monopolized the superhero market, and it is almost impossible to squeeze into it any further.
Recent. The superhero film Pyro-4 from Ray Comics became the fourth film in the series, and Pyro is one of the classic superheroes of Ray Comics, with a large fan base from its inception in 1969 to the present.
In 92, "Pyro" was officially transformed into a movie image, but the box office of the movie was not too high at the beginning...... But by the time "Pyro 4" accumulated, the box office of a movie in the world had dropped a terrible $1.2 billion. This also includes $200 million at the Chinese box office......
That's the power of superheroes, and with the development of special effects in movies, it has become more and more possible to shoot these movies.
"Superhero movies?" At this moment. Zhong Bufan and Wei Ansheng couldn't help but say in a very surprised tone......
"Yes, superhero movies." Li Chencan nodded calmly: "And this time I plan to do a new thing, which is to start superheroes from the movie...... Instead of starting with comics. ”
"......" The two people looked at each other, both full of shock.
What does Li Chencan think?
He's saying these things now. It was incredible...... This kind of film is filmed. If nothing else, I'm sure I'm going to rush to my grandmother's house - and there are no comic fans as a base, and it's not the work of the two major comic companies...... How to play this?
Zhong Bufan felt that this should not dampen Li Chencan's creative enthusiasm - he should also listen to his ideas, after all, no matter what, at least Li Chencan has proven his strength in all fields now, so if you doubt him at the beginning. This is not necessarily a good thing.
Therefore, Zhong Bufan said: "Now it's just you who say that." We don't have any references, so you can tell us about this idea, such as film planning and so on. ”
Li Chencan nodded and said: "The first part of this film is just accumulating popularity, and the movie will officially launch the second and third parts, and I have designed a trilogy!" I'll go to my room and I'll show you the idea. ”
"Okay!"
After returning to Li Chencan's room, Li Chencan showed the concept of the movie and the characters in front of everyone's eyes.
"Real name: Bruce. Wayne.
Title: BATMAN, The Dark Knight ......"
They started looking at this Batman profile.
"I'll you!"
Seeing the back, Wei Ansheng couldn't help but speak, and then he asked Li Chencan directly: "Chencan, Batman...... He doesn't have superpowers? ”
"Well, he doesn't have superpowers." Li Chencan nodded and said, "So Batman will also have the title of Dark Knight...... His presence is even a bit anti-superhero. ”
"Anti-superheroes?" The two were a little puzzled, and Li Chencan explained to them: "Batman is not a superpower, he only has a trustworthy suit on him, and the Gotham City he exists in is actually fictional, although it is alluding to New York, but after all, he has not really said it, he also has the title of Dark Knight, because Batman walks in the dark, he is not tolerated by legal principles, and his existence will also lead to a question, does superheroes really have the ability to replace government law enforcement?" Of course, it also brings out some of the dark side of capitalism. ”
Even though the Chinese Empire and the United States are both capitalist countries, both of which are superpowers, Li Chencan's deep heart still believes that capitalism will only destroy itself in the end.
Without him, because human desires are endless, in the face of capital, the shackles of reason will be torn to pieces.
Li Chencan wants to shoot Nolan's version of "Batman Trilogy", Nolan is a director that Li Chencan particularly likes, and his "Memory Fragments", "Deadly Magic", and "Inception" are all exciting films.
Batman in another time and space, is the work of DC Comics in 1939, is the first superhero in history without superpowers, and has been filmed since the 70s, and in 05, Nolan used "Batman: Time to War" to reconstruct the great work of Batman, and gave it a greater meaning, scarecrow, Joker, Bane...... The appearance of villains one by one also brought great glory to this series.
Nolan's version of "The Batman Trilogy" can be said to be one of the most connotative superhero movies, and the discussion of many things in it and the criticism of society are very sharp.
Li Chencan does have itchy hands and wants to make movies, but his current shooting plans to make a name for himself in the United States as soon as possible, and at the same time, he also has to take care of his film company here, so he needs to shoot commercial blockbusters.
There are not many movies that can achieve commercial success at the same time and make a lot of money...... However, in this year, American blockbusters are gradually entering a stage of change, and the psychology of American people is also entering a stage of change, and pure special effects blockbusters are becoming less and less popular in this era.
After careful thought, he thought of this version of Batman.
Li Chencan has decided now, anyway, the money is his, he can spend it as much as he likes, and the other two can't actually control it, but Li Chencan hopes to solve some problems through communication.
"Such a superhero...... Feel...... The audience won't necessarily buy it! After watching it for a while, Zhong Bufan said thoughtfully.
This superhero is really weird, and he doesn't have strong superpowers, and he doesn't have comics...... The movie looks more like a crime movie, this, who knows if it will work?
Li Chencan said: "I have already decided on the plan for this work, and the selling point of the movie is the extremely real superhero...... I'm sure this will find the market. ”
The two of them thought about it again when they heard this, and indeed, there was some truth to this.
After all, the current superhero comics are developing more and more in the direction of going against the sky, and the most powerful superhero comics, the superheroes in them even have the power of a hundred suns...... In this era of more and more superheroes, if a very real superhero appears and does the opposite, it may also be a way out.
Therefore, the two also agreed to this plan, and the next step is to recruit troops and prepare for this film.
Li Chencan also recalls writing the script and ideas of this trilogy, and when these are out, he will find someone to start filming directly, and the casting of the movie can also begin, but for the more important roles in it, Li Chencan will still put the requirements of these important roles in his own ideas, and then see what kind of actors in the United States will be more suitable.
…… After preparing these things now, Li Chencan also became more and more aware of his next path.
When "Batman Trilogy" began to prepare, it didn't reveal too much to the outside world, but these actions couldn't hide from people in the circle, and soon many people in the circle knew that Li Chencan's fireworks film company planned to invest heavily in making a superhero work.
At this moment, they are becoming more and more strange, I don't know what Li Chencan said, they actually want to directly create a superhero, a superhero with no comic foundation...... What the hell is going on?
But after all, people have money, and everyone can't control it!
So they also relaxed their attention to Li Chencan.
During this time, "Smart: Ghost Shadow" was released in the third week, and it still got $24.1 million at the box office in a single week, and the cumulative box office has received $79.6 million.
That's close to 80 million!
According to the sharing agreement, a large amount of this will also enter the account of the fireworks film company, "Smart: Ghost Shadow" has long recovered its costs, and it has sold a lot of money to buy various copyrights, and now, the fireworks film company has received enough returns, and this return is very huge.
PS: I'm really sorry, I forgot to update it today, I thought it had been updated.
Also, the duplicate errors in chapters 544 and 545 have been corrected, so I'm sorry. (To be continued......)