The news that the Wyler Company is looking for a pick-up for the Superman franchise due to a lack of money has long been spread around the world, and it is no secret that the price they are looking forward to.

$250 million!

Don't want 998, don't want 98, just 250 million US dollars, equivalent to about 1.65 billion yuan, you can bring home the world-famous "Superman" series.

This price scared off a lot of people.

$250 million is definitely worth the money for the "Superman" series at its peak, after all, there were still people at that time who joked: "A billion dollars can't buy one of Superman's thighs!" ”

But it was at its peak.

As the old saying goes, everyone has it at its peak, don't take a moment as permanent!

The "Superman" series is 50 years old, such an old IP, and the results are so bad, how much value is left now?

Spending so much money to buy Superman's copyright, assuming that you can make a net profit of 25 million a year, it will take a full decade to pay back.

So here's the problem.

Can the entire series of spin-offs of "Superman", including peripheral derivatives, make $25 million a year?

The answer is no!

The Superman series, which has entered the darkest hour, now has a very high global reputation, but the results are so rotten that it can't earn 25 million a year, or 10 million dollars a year.

Therefore, the offer made by Weller's company directly scared away 90% of the people, and most of the remaining companies that are very interested in "Superman" are holding the idea of gambling.

What to bet on?

Of course, it is a bet that after winning "Superman", he will be able to bring this series back to life.

It's a superhero anime character who was once a smash hit and enjoys a high reputation all over the world, although his life is hanging by a thread now, what if he can live out his second life?

There are a total of seven animation companies, film and television companies, and even comic companies with this idea, of which except for Wanbao, which is a Chinese company, the remaining six are local companies in North America.

Now it's interesting.

Seven companies jointly sought to buy the full series of copyrights of "Superman", and only Wanbao was a foreign company. As soon as this news broke, many fans who loved the "Superman" series began to feel anxious.

Whoever takes it can accept it, but you must not sell it to the Chinese!

The thought that Superman is very likely to become a Chinese superman and be labeled as a Chinese country by Wanbao makes many North American fans feel as uncomfortable and disgusting as swallowing flies.

So, they organized a protest.

But this is obviously useless, the Weiler company only looks at the money, no matter how much the fans protest, they don't care, but they are very happy to see the appearance of Wanbao, a spoiler.

Because, other companies lack confidence in the "Superman" series, and during negotiations, they repeatedly asked Weller to lower their offers, and they bought them cheaper.

Only Wanbao is different.

Wanbao did not dispute the price, and said that even if the copyright goes to them, the comics will still be created by the current authors.

Look, what is sincerity?

Wanbao was so sincere that he could not only accept the offer made by the Wyler company, but even continue to hire the original author to create comics, which impressed the Wyler company.

Even though fans from the outside world continued to protest and various media outlets called for "Superman" not to be sold to a Chinese animation company, the two sides still reached an agreement.

[The dust has settled on the battle for "Superman", will you expect Superman made by the Chinese? 】

[Shocked! Wanbao turned out to be ......]

The news that Wanbao spent $250 million to successfully purchase the rights to the entire series of "Superman" spread all over the world almost overnight.

Chinese netizens cheered.

Although Wanbao bought the copyright of Superman, it can't change anything, but as long as they think that Superman is a Superman who belongs to the Chinese people, everyone is secretly happy.

On the other hand, the attitude of North American netizens is not very friendly.

Many North American fans even shouted extreme slogans such as "boycott the "Superman" comic anime" and "Superman is dead", calling on everyone not to buy the follow-up comics of "Superman" and not to watch the follow-up animation and movies and TV series of "Superman".

Not to mention, it's quite powerful.

It's just that Gu Miao was not frightened by them, on the contrary, he even felt that the current scene was a little indescribably funny.

Resist Superman? Don't watch Superman?

Before Wanbao took over, you didn't support "Superman"? Otherwise, how could the results of the "Superman" series be so bad at that time?

"It's just a bunch of weirdos."

Gu Miao smiled and did not take these so-called boycotts and protests to heart.

If the follow-up works of the "Superman" series are wonderful and good-looking, they can get up no matter how much they boycott it, but if the follow-up is also bad, does it make a difference whether they resist or not?

……

Gu Miao stayed for five days.

On the afternoon of his last day, he met with George, the chairman of Mardete Comics, to talk about the acquisition of Mardete.

But this time it still didn't work.

Old man George was too greedy, perhaps because he learned that Gu Miao had just bought the entire copyright of "Superman", not only did he not reduce the price, but he increased the price again.

Is this still a hammer?

Gu Miao is not sick in the brain, how could he accept this condition of sitting on the ground and starting the price, and he flew back to China that night.

Perhaps it was Gu Miao's move of taking a plane back to China overnight that made George, a bad old man, realize that he was too ugly to eat, so the day after Gu Miao returned to Jiangchuan, he finally relented and lowered the price.

"Tell him that you won't buy it."

Gu Miao was really angry, and said directly to Dave on the phone: "Now talk to me about sincerity, why did you go earlier?" You tell him that not only will we not buy Mardete, but we will also dump Mardete in the North American market! ”

After winning the copyright of "Superman", Gu Miao was very confident in saying this.

After all, "Superman" is a well-known anime character in the United States, and if he can live out the second life in the hands of Wanbao, just Mardete Comics can be suppressed at will.

Of course!

There are too many problems with the "Superman" series, and Wanbao, who has just won this IP, still needs to make some adjustments to these problems, and the progress of living out the second life may not be so fast.

But then again......

Even if "Superman" can't get up for a while, it won't make a difference, after all, Wanbao Comics also has a "super popular" serialized work - "Dragon Ball"!

It just so happens that the manga version of "Dragon Ball Z" is almost finished, and it is time to launch the manga version of "Dragon Ball GT" and pull a wave of performance for the manga company.

Speaking of Dragon Ball GT......

If Gu Miao is not mistaken, this thing is not a work created by Akira Toriyama, but a sequel to "Dragon Ball Z" produced by Aunt Dong after obtaining authorization?

It's embarrassing!

The other works in the Dragon Ball series are easy to say, but "Dragon Ball GT", its legitimacy needs to be verified, and it is also a question whether Akira Toriyama himself approves of this thing.

The biggest problem with GT is that there are no comics......

(End of chapter)