Ye Jiayi did not disappoint Fan Zhe, she has already negotiated with Blizzard Entertainment about the cooperation of the "Warcraft" series.

There is not much to say about the details, the most important issue has been confirmed, Fan Zhe, as the boss of Wedo Entertainment, he has absolute control over the film and television projects of this series.

In terms of the distribution of benefits, the two parties finally reached an agreed contract.

When Dimension Entertainment filmed the first installment in the Warcraft series, they had to pay Blizzard Entertainment $15 million directly as royalties. The subsequent reduction of $3 million for each film will be reduced, and until the fifth part is completed, there will be no more such copyright fees.

At the same time, the entire post-production is divided, and the first Blizzard will enjoy the revenue equivalent to 1% of the total global box office, and then for each film, it will increase by 0.5% until the fifth part, and finally reach 3%.

This strength is much higher than the cooperation between Penguin and Wedo Entertainment on "League of Legends". Blizzard Entertainment just pays for the copyright, and the benefits enjoyed are also quite high.

You must know that the share they get is calculated according to the total global box office, which means that it is shared with the theater chain, with the distributor, and paid taxes.

But with such a high income, Blizzard is not free from paying a price.

Penguin gets a relatively low copyright income, but they have the right to invest in movies, and even up to 50%, which is the same as Wedo Entertainment.

Blizzard, for its part, largely relinquished that power, retaining only an almost symbolic five percent.

And, when Dimension Entertainment announced that they were going to make the first Alsatian film, they even gave up the investment, intending to just take the copyright benefits.

In this regard, Fan Zhe did not have a particularly big opinion.

After the contract was signed and began to have legal effect, Fan Zhe immediately convened a corresponding meeting to determine the start of the project.

The story of Alsace alone is enough to make a trilogy.

In Fan Zhe's planning, the plot planning for the "Lich King" series of movies is basically set up according to the battle plots in the two "Warcraft 3" expansions, Reign of Mayhem and Frozen Throne.

The first part of the film will tell the story of a young prince who joins the knights on the front line, is taught by the paladin leader Uther, and fights against the troubled orcs.

In the process, he will perceive the undercurrents within the kingdom and begin to lead his men in the hunt for the Cursed Cult that spread the power of the populace to turn people into zombies and undead, and kill the leader of the Cursed Cult, the Archmage Kel'thugad, in Andohar.

From Kel'thugad's mouth, Arthas learns that the mastermind behind all this is the Dreadlord Marganis, and that a large amount of contaminated grain has been sent to Stratholme, a large city in the kingdom of Lordaeron.

He then led his army to Stratholme, where he met with his teacher, Uther, the Hand of Light, and his lover, the mage Gianna, outside the city.

In his capacity as crown prince, he ordered Uther and his knights to join his forces and enter Stratholme to purify the city by killing all the citizens who had eaten the contaminated grain and were about to turn into zombies.

Paladin Uther angrily refused the order, and was relieved of his position as the head of the Order by Arthas as the crown prince. He hoped that his lover, or ex-lover, Lady Gianna, would stay with him, but Gianna refused as well.

Subsequently, in the history of Warcraft, the famous Stansom massacre, took place.

Arthas is here, killing the entire inhabitants of the city. Subsequently, in order to pursue the Dreaddemon Lord Marganis, whom he believed was behind the scenes, he led an army and took a sea ship to the snow-covered continent of Northrend.

Here, he drew his famous magic sword, Frostmourn, and here he killed Malganis, but also completed the final act of his own fall.

The sword belonged to the Lich King Neozu, and when Arthas pulled it out, he had been consumed by the sword—or rather, he had been consumed by the obsession in his own heart.

Killing Marganis, his men reveled in victory, but he felt no trace of the joy of victory. He left everyone behind, and his lonely figure disappeared into the snowstorm of Northrend.

These are about the stories of Arthas in Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos.

After planning out the general content, Fan Zhe realized that maybe one movie was not enough to tell all these stories.

This movie, tentatively titled "Lich King: Purification", if all of them are done, Fan Zhe feels that it will have to exceed five hours in length.

There's a lot of content, and the point is that it's not easy to cut any part.

Therefore, making the upper and lower parts is an option.

Divided, the first part will probably tell the story of Arthas's boyhood, his birth, his learning various combat techniques with the dwarven hero Muradin Copperbeard, learning the way of light from the legendary hero Uther the Lightbringer, and officially becoming a paladin at the age of nineteen, joining the Knights of the Silver Hand.

Then, in the Battle of Steinbled, the young prince joins the front line to suppress the rebellion of the southern orc tribes, which culminates in Arthas's elimination of the Black Dragon Sirinox, forging weapons with its blood, and suppressing the Blackstone tribe, killing the Blackstone Juggernaut.

Then, it is time to track down the Cursed Sect and kill the archmage Kel'thugad, which should be the second climax.

And the final climax of the movie will be set in the massacre of Stratholme.

At this point, it should be the end of the first part of Lich King: Purification.

In the later part, it will probably talk about Alsace's Northern Expedition to Northrend, pulling out the Frost Sorrow, killing Malganis, and finally falling, returning to assassinate his father, King Terenus.

It would be a classic scene.

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After the establishment of the project, the work began to move forward rapidly.

The relevant scripts were already being written long before the agreement between Dimension Entertainment and Blizzard was far from being reached, and now several versions have been released.

The related art design is already being done.

Another very important point is that the director of the film and the selection of the main cast and crew, Fan Zhe directly sent his henchman Wang Zhixin to North America to serve as the producer and participate in the establishment of the main creative team.

Wang Zhixin has been following Fan Zhe for a few days, when he first filmed the "Hell Apartment" series of movies, he was the producer, and later "Martial Arts Master: War" was also the producer of "Martial Arts Master: War".

Fan Zhe trusted him very much.