Rob Reiner knows in his heart that Superman and Superman stories have lost their freshness in the eyes of the audience, and it is difficult to convince Warner to abandon the Superman movie project.

After all, Warner has already smashed tens of millions into it, and if it doesn't continue to advance, the money will be spent in vain.

What's more, Warner is in such a hurry to put Superman on the big screen, and there is also the reason for the stimulation from competitors.

This competitor is certainly not Marvel, which is still half-dead at the moment, but Sony, which holds the rights to Spider-Man.

Next year, Sony's investment in "Spider-Man 1" will be released, which is the first screen appearance of Spider-Man, one of the Big Three of American comics.

Industry insiders are very optimistic about the prospects of this movie, and some critics even predict that the film will be as successful as "Superman 1" that year.

And Warner at this time is very embarrassed.

In the past 20 years, DC's achievements in film and television have been beating Marvel.

Of course, it can't be beaten, because Marvel was on the verge of bankruptcy at that time, and could only rely on selling its superhero copyrights to survive.

No one would have imagined that in a few years, Marvel would turn the tables against the wind and completely reverse the position of itself and DC.

However, whether it is the once glorious DC, or the Marvel that will take off in the future, it actually confirms that sentence.

It's all up to your peers!

In the future, if there is no DCEU, it will not be so successful as the MCU.

And this time, the success of "Spider-Man" is Warner's long-prepared "Superman Returns", this version of Superman has been crushed into slag by the spider in terms of plot and special effects.

The "Spider-Man" trilogy in the previous life continued to hold a record until the time when Jamie and John traveled through.

The average box office per film in this series is the highest of any single superhero movie.

The "Spider-Man" trilogy grossed $2.496 billion at the total box office, with an average of $832 million per movie.

Even "Iron Man", "Team America", and "Thor", which were later blessed by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, were not the opponents of Little Spider.

And Warner actually delusionally relied on cheap costumes like cos costumes, thinking that Superman would be able to compete with the little spider as long as he continued to wear red underwear.

It's just wishful thinking!

In front of Rob Reiner, Jamie said very unceremoniously that he was not optimistic about Warner's strategy of using Superman against Sony Spider-Man.

What really surprised Rob Reiner was another layer of meaning under this statement.

Superman can't kill little spiders, so who can?

The answer is clear.

The Big Three of American Comics, the only one left who has not yet participated in the war is Batman.

Almost as soon as he thought of this answer, Rob Reiner reacted that Warner's real interest to Jamie was Batman.

Jamie's so-called script worth far more than $1 million should be said to be the same.

Because of this, Rob Reiner felt particularly shocked.

Superman rebooted, it has been more than 10 years since the last failure, and "Batman and Robin", the movie that almost vomited blood from Warner's pit, has only been released for 4 years.

Who gave Jamie the courage to propose to Warner to restart Batman at this time?

At this time, Rob Reiner was even a little glad that Jamie had just stopped him from calling Warner executives in time.

If it was after that phone call that Jamie told him that he actually wanted to write a Batman script for Warner, Rob Reiner didn't know how to explain it to Warner executives in turn.

In fact, including Rob Reiner himself, there was a feeling of being teased at the moment, which made his tone of voice very unceremonious when he spoke next.

"With all due respect, the reason why you are not optimistic about Superman movies is that the audience has no freshness, and this conclusion is not the same true for Batman?"

Jamie shook his head.

Nonsense, of course it's not the same.

Superman is DC's own son, the god of the world.

Batman is DC's own father, and he is a mortal body comparable to a god.

The truth that your dad will always be your dad is as true as it is for Batman and Superman.

Superman was a god from the beginning, whereas Batman was a man who became a god.

The divinity is singular, while the human nature is complex.

This alone determines that there are too many stories to dig into Batman.

Not to mention, Batman is the only superhero who can take on the role of opening the DC Cinematic Universe, and its importance is even greater than that of Iron Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Without Iron Man, Marvel can also use other superheroes to start the MCU, at most the process is more twists and turns.

But without Batman, it would be difficult to rely on other superheroes to start the DCEU successfully.

After all, those wrong options have been tried by Warners in the previous life.

Green Lantern can't do it, and neither can Superman.

Even the Flash, who had high hopes, failed in the end.

However, in the previous life, Warner became Batman and defeated Batman.

obviously had the opportunity to open the superhero movie universe one step ahead of the old rival Marvel, but because Nolan's version of Batman was too successful, it was delayed.

As a qualified copyist, of course Nolan's Batman trilogy will not let go, but the "meeting gift" that Jamie prepared for Warner this time is a different script.

In Jamie's own words, it was a story about the origins of Batman.

Rob Reiner opened the script with a skeptical attitude, and the five bold letters of JOKER on the title page came into view.

Rob Reiner jerked his head up and looked at Jamie with a puzzled look on his face.

"The main character of this script is the Joker?"

Jamie nodded.

Rob Reiner put down the script and said with a serious expression:

"What about Batman? What does he have to do with this script? ”

Jamie shrugged and replied casually:

"Batman's parents were killed in the show, does this count?"

Rob Reiner had a shocked look of "you're kidding me".

He admits that the Joker is probably the most popular and charismatic villain in the history of American comics, if not one of them.

But with a villain as the protagonist of the movie, Rob Reiner couldn't help but wonder if the young man in front of him was crazy.

"Well, I admit that unfolding the story of Batman from the perspective of a villain is indeed an unprecedented and bold initiative, but it also represents an exponential increase in risk, and not all studios like this kind of adventure, especially a big company like Warner."

Jamie couldn't agree more with Rob Reiner.

He raised his hand and looked at his watch and said:

"It's less than an hour before the party starts, is Mr. Reiner going to leave now, or is he going to stay a little longer, taste the wine and pastries that my girlfriend and I have prepared for everyone, and read the script in hand by the way?"

Looking at the cool RM002 tourbillon watch in Jamie's hand, Rob Reiner suddenly changed his mind.

Since Jamie is so confident in the script, then he will read it before leaving.