Rob Reiner's refusal came as a surprise, and he believed that Warner's top brass would have reacted in the same way if they had received such an answer.

"Why?"

Faced with Rob Reiner's soul question, Jamie replied calmly.

"Because Superman is dead."

Rob Reiner was stunned.

What do you mean?

"When Superman 1 was released in 1978, Mr. Reiner was supposed to be about my age, right? I mean, you'd probably have experienced the sensation when that movie came out, right? ”

Rob Reiner nodded.

Despite its long release, Superman 1 is still the most successful superhero movie to date.

Needless to say, how popular this movie is in the United States.

Even the small book, which was culturally closed and self-contained at the time, created a record of more than 80 million viewers when this movie was released.

At that time, the total population of Xiaobenzi was only 115 million.

The huge success of the movie even influenced all subsequent Superman comics, and DC's comic artists tacitly agreed to move the image of Superman closer to Christopher Reeve himself, who played Superman in the movie.

Rob Reiner, as a first-hand witness of all this, is also the most deeply touched.

So when Jamie went on to ask about the secret of Superman 1's success, Rob Reiner uttered a word almost without thinking.

Freshness!

As the first Superman in history to be put on the big screen, who in the audience at that time had ever seen someone who could fly?

Who has ever seen someone who can lift an airplane?

That kind of experience is no less than the visual shock brought to the audience by the later "Avatar".

Two years later, "Superman 2" inherited the reputation and popularity of its predecessor, and the box office and reputation were okay, but when it reached "Superman 3" and "Superman 4", it was completely unbearable and became a complete bad movie.

Warner, who was miserable, did not dare to restart Superman's movie project until nearly 10 years later.

However, today, four or five years have passed, the director has changed twice, I don't know how many versions of the script have been written, and the leading actor has still stayed in the casting stage.

In the previous life, the film was delayed until 04 years before it officially started filming, and it was released in 06, with a production cost of nearly $300 million and only a global box office of $391 million.

Warner, as the number one enemy of DC movie success, has never disappointed DC fans, and the curse that has never disappointed DC fans has been seen in this movie, which was eventually named "Superman Returns".

Jamie, who knows Warner's peeing well, asks Rob Reiner a question on the spot.

If he had written a script for a Superman movie, could Warner guarantee that he would have adopted it, and would not blindly direct the director and interfere with the plot during the filming process?

The answer is undoubtedly no.

Especially after the box office fiasco of "Batman and Robin" in 97, Warner has become more and more constrained, no longer daring to boldly delegate power to the director, and habitually intervene in everything.

For creators, this is the hardest part.

Similarly, Rob Reiner asked Jamie a question.

Before asking questions, he also emphasized that this was just a personal issue and had nothing to do with what they were talking about.

"Even if Warners don't adopt your script in the end, they'll still pay you, and there's nothing to lose to you, right?"

Jamie shook his head.

"No, if Warner hadn't adopted my script, I would have actually lost more."

"Because I'm so confident in the script I've written, it's definitely worth more than a million, and the reason I'm not bargaining with Warner is because I need a chance to prove it."

Rob Reiner had a hard time understanding where Jamie's confidence came from, but he agreed to transfer Jamie's terms to Warner's top brass anyway.

In fact, if Jamie's script is really as good as he says, Rob Reiner believes that Warner's top management will not be blind enough to be indifferent and throw it aside.

After all, they also invested $1 million in this script.

"Maybe you can add that Westar Pictures is also looking to buy the rights to Vulnerability, and they also have superheroes that I'm interested in."

"The only difference is that if Weststar Pictures had paid $1 million to ask me to write a superhero script for them, they would never have wasted it, after all, they are not as rich as Warner!"

Jamie suggested earnestly.

Rob Reiner had a serious face, and he didn't think Jamie was joking.

After all, at the party, he saw Logan Roy's youngest daughter with his own eyes.

Feeling the pressure, Rob Reiner immediately stood up, walked to the window with his mobile phone, and prepared to call the person in charge of the matter at Warner's top management.

However, just then, Jamie stopped him.

Under Rob Reiner's puzzled gaze, Jamie uttered something even more jaw-dropping.

"Mr. Reiner, I'm not done with what I just said, I'm willing to write a superhero script for Warner for $1 million, but I didn't say this script is Superman."

What?!

Rob Reiner's eyes widened on the spot, almost thinking he had misheard.

They've just been talking for so long, haven't they been talking about Superman all the time?

Jamie nodded, not shy away from acknowledging it.

At the same time, he also emphasized that he said at the beginning of the conversation that "Superman is dead".

The real understanding of this sentence should be that even a confident person like him refuses to write a script for Superman, then it means that Superman is really hopeless.

"When we were talking about "Superman 1" just now, Mr. Reiner said that the secret of the success of this movie is freshness, so I would like to ask, after more than 20 years, how can Superman give everyone freshness?"

"You might say that it's been almost fifteen years since the last time Superman was seen on the big screen, and the audience has changed generations, and everyone is now looking forward to Superman's return."

"That's right, but what everyone is looking forward to is a new, different Superman, not just a Superman who upgrades the special effects fights in the movie, and then nothing else changes."

In his previous life, when Jamie was the UP master, he once released a video dedicated to discussing why Superman movies are always bad, and he once made a hypothesis in it.

If Zack Schneider's version of "Superman: Man of Steel", which was released in 13, is released in 06 to replace "Superman Returns", can it get a relatively successful box office result.

In the end, it was concluded that the box office would definitely be a lot better, but it was not enough to make the film a big hit.

The overseas box office may be able to have a good performance, after all, Za Director's "Man of Steel" has superhero movie ceiling-level combat visual effects.

But local audiences aren't necessarily buying it.

The story of Superman and Superman is too well-known, and Americans have formed their own different inherent impressions of Superman, no matter how innovative and reactive the director is, there will still be a big gap between the Superman made in the movie and what the audience expects.