Of course, although Roland did release his kindness in front of Kevin Feige, it didn't mean that he would pass the other party's plan in a happy way.

Twenty Chinese New Year's Eve films, at first glance, it sounds no different from twenty-three films in eleven years, after all, in his previous life, from "Iron Man" to "Far From Home", Marvel launched movies at a rate of two to three per year, and now there are nine more years, and Kevin Feige has only made up seven movies, which is simply a streamlined housekeeping.

But want to complete "X-Men" with seven movies?

And soften the two camps of "X-Men" and "The Avengers" together?

This is a bit of a fool's dream.

That's right, after hearing the plan of twenty Chinese New Year's Eve, Roland's instinctive reaction was not to give too much at all, but to ask for too little!

In order to defeat a purple sweet potato, this Mediterranean bald man can use the nine superheroes to open a solo movie as a foreshadowing, so on the X-Men side, in the case of cutting out the two collections, there are only three solo movies?

Are you kidding me?

As a guy who has witnessed the glory of the MCU and witnessed the failure of the DCEU, one of the things that Roland knows best is that when creating a cinematic universe, he must be full of fantasy, but he must not look ahead and be in a hurry.

To put it in layman's terms, that is, you have to draw a big pie for yourself, but you can't take too big a step and it's easy to pull the egg.

Why did the X-Men series fail?

That's because there are no illusions!

In Roland's previous life, Fox summed up this problem.

Because the main line of "X-Men" is always circling around Magneto and Professor X, the first time I watched it, it was fresh, the second time I watched it, it was okay, and when it came to the third and fourth times, the audience was tired......

Twelve movies have been made, half of which are the love-hate relationship between Magneto and Professor X, what does this mean?

If you stir the foundation, isn't it good to have a few honest ancient road hot intestines!

It's all that kind of person when they call around, and the pattern is too small, just like a child's house.

From the perspective of Shuangwen, that is, the enemy does not change the map after fighting.

There is no sense of upgrading, giving people the feeling of staying in the novice village all the time.

Wolverine and Deadpool can make a solo movie, but that's because of their popularity.

Remove them, and in the whole team, there is no third super popular hero at all, so GG is normal.

And why did the DCEU fail?

Isn't it because Warner is looking ahead and backwards and is in a hurry!

In Warner's film plan announced in 03, Christopher Nolan's "The Mystery of the Heroes" is the beginning of the DCEU, and "Superman Returns" is the second part to follow, Warner wants to drive the formation of the DCEU through the two aces of DC Comics, but unfortunately, "The Mystery of the Heroes" succeeded, and "Superman Returns" failed.

According to common sense, a 50% chance of success or failure is actually not much of a problem, and the failure of "Superman Returns" did not dampen Warner's enthusiasm to continue to do the DCEU, but the problem is that "The Dark Knight" gave Warner a head-on blow.

As the first superhero movie to exceed a billion at the box office and rave reviews around the world, this success made Warner treat Christopher Nolan as a baby, and those players who were willing to buy crazy merchandise after watching the movie as a cash cow, so that the DCEU plan that was still talked about a year ago was completely forgotten by them.

At that time, Warners just wanted to keep "The Dark Knight Rises", and they decided to move the series out of the DCEU, and then plagiarized "Iron Man", which was released in the same year, and learned from Marvel to launch a popular but uncapped "Green Lantern".

However, it was this decision that put DCEU on the road to the streets.

What DC is deeper than Marvel, what DC movie has a boring plot, and what audience is too poor to like connotation movies......

This is all bullshit!

The root of DCEU's failure is to eat what is in the bowl, look at the pot, and think about what is in the basin!

On the one hand, they want to build DCEU, but they are unwilling to accept any failure, and after seeing that popular movies can bring more benefits to themselves, they can take the initiative to give up their plans in advance, and work hard to protect the movies that can bring them current benefits, so as to keep those street goods away from the audience's sight, and even not allow those movies that are not too failures to have anything to do with the cash cow in their hands, in this case......

You can directly connect Bian Que three times!

It can't be cured! Wait for death! Leave!

You must know that in the first phase of the MCU, except for the "Iron Man" series, all other movies are street goods.

But even so, Kevin Feige still filmed it.

Is it because he knows that if he follows the layout, he will eventually reap success?

Nope-

That's because this bald man has the same philosophy as Steve Jobs.

Many times, the public simply doesn't know what they want.

Only if you put something in front of the public, the public will give feedback.

Then, cut out the ones that the masses don't like, and that's it.

It doesn't matter if you pounce on one movie, it's acceptable if two movies don't make money, and the income of three movies is just the same as the production cost, this is the best news! We spend one year, two or three years cultivating the audience's concept of watching movies, and slowly tell them a story! Build a hero! Paint a world!

To put it mildly, if you want to create a movie universe, you have to learn like Han Laonong!

When our vegetable field is empty, we have to sprinkle a handful of seeds, apply some fertilizer, water a little, and wait for the leeks to grow before we can harvest them.

It's a pity that capital is profit-seeking.

The guys who have the right to make capital decisions on the DCEU are all professional managers.

They also have to eat, they have to survive, and if they can't make money for their shareholders, then they have to get out.

Under this kind of high pressure, it's understandable to do all the tricks, but-

"I don't need this kind of short-term benefit!"

After seeing off Kevin Feige and his party, Roland returned to his study and finished the script.

Looking at the story that was slightly different from his previous life, he said to himself with emotion: "Compared with the quick money of gambling on luck, cultivating the audience's viewing habits is the most important thing for Marvel to do, for an infinite war, this bald head spent twenty-three movies in ten years to pave the way, compared with this kind of well-polished plot, Chinese New Year's Eve twenty is really too little......"

"How can there be only three protagonists in X-Men?"

"The story of Magneto and Professor X can be written in a big way, and Wolverine can have a single-player movie because of the explosion of popularity, but this is not a reason why Phoenix Girl died early!"

"The guy with the power of the phoenix is so simply . It's really too sloppy. ”

"I'd rather you give me a crush on combat power and give me a detailed description of a single-player series, and I don't want to be hastily brought over."

"The kind of rush of "X-Men" can be successful, which proves that there is a market for this thing, but the producer's manipulation again and again has made the entire IP disappear on the road to the street."

"After all, it's best to be creative at the beginning of a series of movies, and after that, as long as the finished product is not bad, you can win with feelings alone!"

"What we have to do now is to show the audience the sincerity and, of course, ......"

"Buy Marvel."

Yes, the reason why Roland asked Kevin Feige to go back to write the plan first, instead of investing directly like Peter Jackson, is that in addition to really wanting to understand the full layout, the other is more to prepare to buy Marvel before the movie is released.

In Hollywood, where the box office revenue of movies only accounts for 20% of the total IP revenue, movies are actually like a large-scale advertisement that lays down the world, and all the real money is derivatives.

Now that he knows all this, Roland will definitely not watch Marvel eat this part of the profits.

Do I make movies and you make money?

What is not good?

And when it comes to buying Marvel......

Naturally, I exchanged the Yahoo stock in my hand.

He owned 16.5 percent of Yahoo, and if he wanted to get rid of it, he would have to comply with the 'Rule 144' of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.

Shareholders of listed companies who hold more than 5% of the shares shall not sell more than 1% of the shares issued in the same category every three months or the average trading volume in four weeks......

Even if Roland wants to sell all the stocks, even if Carl Icahn is willing to take them all, it will take eighteen months to complete the whole transaction, and if he waits until the peak of the market value and thinks about getting rid of it, then all the stocks will be smashed in his hands!

"It's April 24th, and even if the report is submitted now, it will have to wait until January 2,000 to sell all the shares, although on the surface, almost 12 percent of the shares will not reach the peak price, or rather, compared with the peak stock price, at least 7 to 9 percent of the shares will be sold at 7 to 9 percent, but ...... I ran away! ”

"The money that runs into his own hands is the real money, as for whether Carl will finally kick Yang Zhiyuan and Son Masayoshi out of Yahoo and resell Yahoo to Microsoft? It has nothing to do with me! Anyway, I can eat Marvel and get a lot of cash flow at the same time, and avoid the Internet bubble in March......"

"I'm selling now, it's the best time, now anyone can see that the Internet represents the future, my behavior at this time is compared with the rising stock price, that is a fool's behavior, the sooner I eat the shares from me, the more book profits Carl Icahn has, and when I run away, when the Internet bubble crashes, people will only sigh that the original fool is really lucky, because my motive for selling stocks now is to join forces with the world to create "X-Men", and with the current market value of Yahoo, Even if all the stocks in my hands are sold, it will only make a few hundred million while eating Marvel......"

"While the shrewd Jews who wiped my ass won't think I'm stupid, they won't notice anything unusual about me, because even if they eat the bubble, they're still making a lot of money compared to past gains!"

It is precisely because of the noble idea of letting others make money and making their own blood lose money, so when Roland took his plan and found David in a hurry, the guy who had just returned from Irvine shook his body and almost didn't fall.

"You're crazy! Are you going to get rid of all your Yahoo shares? ”

David's eyes were like a cow, and the surprise made people wonder that he would pull out the hammer in the next second, smash Roland's head, and see if it was, urine, or fart.

"Any questions?" Roland asked knowingly.

"Big problem!" David knocked on the table and said loudly: "Yahoo is gaining momentum now, and if it continues to rise under the current situation, it will be able to surpass Berkshire Hathaway in about two thousand years!" You now own one percent of Berkshire Hathaway, which can bring you a billion net worth, but Yahoo you have 16.5 percent! Even if Berkshire Hathaway's market value stagnates, in two years, you will be worth 16.5 billion! ”

Roland knows this, and likewise, he knows that Yahoo did surpass Berkshire Hathaway in its previous life, but "if you don't have a share, you'll always be paper wealth, right?" ”

"Even if my net worth is inflated by Yahoo's skyrocketing, what's the use?"

"Taking them to the bank as a pledge is not as good as Berkshire Hathaway."

"No matter how good the Internet momentum is, it will never affect Berkshire Hathaway's position in the hearts of Wall Street."

"Because they won't believe Yang Zhiyuan, they will only believe Warren Buffett! Trust Carl Icahn! ”

"Now it's not me who wants to sell Yahoo, it's Microsoft who places an order for Carl Icahn to buy Yahoo......"

Yes, Roland knew that David would be adamantly opposed to his sale of Yahoo shares, because even a pig could now see how popular Yahoo really was, but this insistence was simply untenable in the face of Carl Icahn and Microsoft.

In Roland's previous life, in that unspeakable eastern country, Warren Buffett was a hundred times more famous than Carl Icahn, but in America, this is exactly the opposite, because Carl Icahn is fierce and popular with a bunch of speculators, and every time Carl Icahn is eyeing a company, the company's stock will be bought up by investors.

Because they know that this company has value!

Because they know Carl Icahn will kick out the founding team and sell the company for a good price!

And entering the market at such a time is a real sure deal.

Because in the end, there are only two kinds of results.

The first is that the target company buys back shares for cancellation, forcibly inflates its own company's stock price, cuts flesh and bloodlets, and begs Carl Icahn to sell his shares and leave the market.

Second, if the target company is swallowed up by other companies, the market value will also increase in the acquisition transaction.

Whatever the outcome, it can bring tangible benefits to speculators.

As for confrontation?

No kidding.

No one wants to be audited by KPMG today, audited by Deloitte tomorrow, transferred by Ernst & Young the day after tomorrow to read the resolution of the board meeting, and the day after tomorrow is dealing with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and no one wants to hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders three times in half a year......

If you don't give me money, I'll toss you.

If you don't sell the company to me, I won't let you run normally.

With the negative news and the on-site operation, you can wipe out the market value of your company in minutes!

Angry?

Wrath?

Don't just look at it!

There's a kind of you're going to hit me!

As long as you dare to do it, I dare to stand here and let you have a good time!

Because of this, no public company wants to hear the news that Carl Icahn has announced that he owns nearly four percent of the shares of XXX Company.

The same is true, when Roland moved out of Microsoft, which regarded antitrust law as nothing, and the wolf queen who wantonly trampled on the US Securities and Exchange Commission, David's insistence also came to naught in an instant.

"Are you sure?" The guy sitting behind the desk asked seriously.

"Of course!" Roland smiled and nodded, "Carl told me personally, and William personally confirmed the existence of this matter. ”

"The reason why they told me before they started was not because they were afraid of me, but because now we are in the same camp, and I have been very disciplined in everything I have done for so many years."

"They're barbarians, but they're not casual savages, are they?"

"Okay, I'll talk to Carl."

After receiving an affirmative answer, David did not ask any more questions.

Because he knows that what listed companies are most afraid of is a guy like Carl Icahn who wanders on the edge of the rules.

At all times, it is more cost-effective to be friends with such people than to be enemies.

Even if this kind of person will never help a friend against the enemy for free, and at the same time, because of interests, he will take a very disgusting order to deal with a friend, but ...... More often than not, he doesn't use disgusting tricks on his friends.

I don't recognize you as a friend for money.

But I recognize you as a friend, so when I rob you of your money, I will tell you first.

We can do the best business with the kind, if not, I have also done my duty as a friend, remind you.

When the time comes to really do it, it will be life and death, and if you don't accept it, you will do it.

Although it is robber logic, it is much better than punching first and then asking questions when you fight......