Chapter 156: Hulk VS Iron Man
The classic villain in Hollywood movies has an aura of reducing intelligence, and the villain's IQ begins to go offline at a critical moment.
Although the routine is old, the audience and the market are very comfortable with this set.
Even if Jamie were asked to write the script, he would only design it that way.
Of course, if this script is also written by Jamie, then the villain in the play is definitely not the Red Giant.
Because in Jamie's initial script design for "The Hulk", in the final Armageddon between the Hulk and the Abomination, General Ross also came with the army to rescue his daughter.
As a result, the men brought by General Ross were dealt with by the Hulk and Abomination, and in the end, only Ross was left as a bare-pole general.
After the Hulk hammered the abomination, he kicked General Ross to death in front of Betty, completing the double revenge on Banner and General Rose.
As a result, Ovitz revised this ending in order to facilitate the development of the story of "Hulk v Iron Man".
General Ross didn't die, it was Betty who died.
Abomination kills Betty, completely angering the Hulk in Banner's body, and finally the Hulk erupts, hammers Abomination to death, and leaves with Betty's body in his arms.
This ending seems to Jamie to have pros and cons.
The good thing is, of course, that it is convenient for the story of "Hulk v Iron Man" to unfold, but the disadvantage is that the plot has fallen into clichés again.
Basically, in all Hollywood commercial films, if the heroine's father is a villain, then the heroine will definitely be sacrificed to heaven in the end.
And Jamie's original idea was to make the story of "The Incredible Hulk" cool to the end, and the villains were all dead.
For the sake of the interesting story of Hulk vs. Iron Man, Jamie agreed to this change.
Returning to the plot, the Red Giant fights the Hulk again after severely damaging the Hulklander armor.
The Red Giant had a clear advantage, and at the beginning the Hulk was defeated.
Tony took the opportunity to contact his AI butler, Jarvis, and with the help of the other party, discovered the weakness of the Red Giant.
Although the Red Giant has the same ability as the Hulk to get angrier and stronger, the Red Giant's body temperature will also rise sharply when it is angry, and when the body temperature reaches a certain critical point, the Red Giant's strength will begin to weaken.
Having come to this conclusion, Tony harasses the Red Giant while harassing the Red Giant in his broken Hulk armor, and engages in a mouth cannon attack at the Red Giant.
Stimulated by Tony's various trash words, the red giant became more and more angry, and directly beat the hulk to a beating, and was about to clean up Tony, and finally its body temperature reached the critical value measured by Tony, and then its ability began to continue to decay.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Hulk broke out strongly, taking away the Red Giant with a wave of combos.
General Ross went off the line completely.
After the war, Tony and the Hulk reached a settlement, and Tony stopped bothering the Hulk and agreed to help Banner evade the military.
At the end of the script, there is still an easter egg.
Tony, who returned to New York after the war, was approached by S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Black Egg, who told him that Tony was about to face big trouble, and invited Tony to join the Avengers again.
With Tony's character, he must have refused without hesitation.
This is obviously foreshadowing the story of "Iron Man 2".
In fact, in the process of reading the script of "Hulk vs. Iron Man" before, Jamie had a feeling of déjà vu.
This is really not a copy of DC's "Batman v Superman" next door in the previous life?
Superman vs. General Zod, smashing the Wayne Group's satellites and office buildings in New York, and finally at the instigation of the villain Luthor, the two fight.
The Hulk vs. Abomination, damaging the Stark Mansion and injuring Pepper, Iron Man went to fight the Hulk at the instigation of General Rose.
If this is just a coincidence, then the easter egg at the end of "Hulk v Iron Man" really shocked Jamie.
The screenwriter who wrote this story wouldn't also be a time-traveler, right?
Otherwise, how would he know the plot of "Iron Man 2" in his previous life.
The most important thing is that the agent who was sent by S.H.I.E.L.D. to contact the Hulk in "Hulk vs. Iron Man" was none other than the widowed sister Black Widow.
This also echoes the plot of "Avengers 1", where the widow sister led the team to find the Hulk to join the Avengers.
Shocked, Jamie immediately asked Ovitz the name of the screenwriter of "Hulk v Iron Man".
It turned out to be an even more shocking answer.
Kevin Feige!
At that time, Jamie's whole body was numb.
Fortunately, he and Ovitz were also on the phone at the time, so Ovitz didn't notice Jamie's abnormality.
Ovitz thought that Jamie didn't know who Kevin Feige was, and gave a detailed introduction on the phone.
This man was an assistant to producer Lauren Donner.
And Lauren Donner is currently working for Westar Pictures, in charge of the film and television project of "X-Men".
The reason why Lauren Downer chose Kevin Feige, who is not yet 30 years old, as his assistant is that he is very proficient in Kevin Marvel's background setting, Marvel's world view structure and other related knowledge.
Ovitz also found Kevin Feige because of this, and after reading the scripts of "Iron Man" and "Hulk", Kevin Feige took over the work of writing the script of "Hulk v Iron Man" without saying a word.
Now the case has finally been solved.
Instead of meeting a time-traveler, he met another father of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
David Messer came up with the idea of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Kevin Feige was the one who actually put it into practice.
It's no wonder that the "The Incredible Hulk" in the previous life was the only one in all Marvel movies that didn't have easter eggs.
Now the puzzle is finally solved.
In Kevin Feige's complete planning, the easter egg in "The Incredible Hulk" is the one that leads to the next Hulk and Iron Man linkage movie.
As a result, because of the unsatisfactory box office performance of "The Incredible Hulk" itself, coupled with the conflicts and disputes between Marvel and Universal due to copyright and account sharing, the planned movie could only be cut.
And in this life, Jamie not only let the script of "Iron Man" come out in advance, but also revised the script of "The Incredible Hulk", and Ovitz found Kevin Feige crookedly, so that this movie that "disappeared" in his previous life could see the light of day.
At Jamie's suggestion, Ovitz decisively poached Kevin Feige from Lauren Donner and invited him to be the producer of "Iron Man", "Hulk" and later "Hulk v Iron Man".
The gears of fate began to turn quietly from this moment.
Look back at the eyes.
Serena in the bathtub is applying bath bubbles to her arm.
Jamie sank under the bathtub, exposing only his neck and head, holding his phone and continuing to ask:
"You wouldn't have deliberately leaked the latest news of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to Disney to stimulate the other party to take action, right?"
Ovitz bluntly admitted that he did it, but this time Disney reacted so quickly and decisively bought the Warrior Comics, thanks to the "assist" from Sony.
"The day before yesterday, Sony held an internal preview screening for "Spider-Man", and the response was excellent, and Sony's top management even raised the box office expectations for the film."
"And you also know that this kind of occasion will inevitably be mixed with some ghosts of other companies, so the news quickly reached the ears of Disney's top management, coupled with the news from Marvel's side, they naturally couldn't sit still."
With the advancement of special effects technology, it has become the consensus of the major Hollywood giants that superhero movies will become the next outlet in Hollywood.
Warner owns DC, Sony owns Spider-Man, Westar is working on X-Men and Fantastic Four, and now even Universal is teaming up with Marvel to develop the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Among the Hollywood giants, except for MGM, which is about to fall out of the ranks of giants, Paramount and Disney do not have any superhero rights in their hands.
Paramount itself is the least adept of Hollywood's Big Seven in making film series, and it's understandable that it's slow to react in this regard.
Disney has always been ambitious to move from animation to live-action film, and superhero movies are undoubtedly the springboard most in line with Disney's transformation.
But at present, DC and Marvel have been divided by other families, especially after Marvel's boiled duck flies, Disney's top management can only retreat to the second place and win the third Warrior Comics in the United States.
And the first thing David Messer did after becoming CEO of Warrior Comics Pictures was to announce the filming of the live-action movie "Bloodshed".
There is no doubt that Messer intends to build the Warriors Cinematic Universe in the same way as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
But Messer doesn't have many cards to play.
The superheroes under the Warrior Comics are the four that can be handled: Bloody Warriors, Zero Degree Warframes, Night Shadow Heroes and Pioneer Warriors.
According to Messer's idea that superhero movies must "keep up with current events", the ones who can catch the current wave of the war in Afghanistan are the bloody warriors and the zero-degree armor.
Coincidentally, the positioning of the Blood Warrior and the Zero Degree Warframe in the comics is similar to that of Team America and Iron Man.
At the beginning, in order to persuade the Marvel board of directors, Messer prepared a total of two sets of plans.
One set of insurance, one set of radical.
The insurance plan is to test the waters with the third-tier superhero Iron Man first, and even if it fails, there is still the American team to fight again.
The radical plan is that the American team takes the lead, and success or failure is here.
Now that it's a Warrior comic, Messer has no choice at all, so he can only choose between the Blood Warrior and the Zero Warframe.
If Messer is bent on revenge against Ovitz and Jamie, the best choice is, of course, to shoot the Zero Degree Armor, and be tough with "Iron Man".
Fortunately, Messer is still more sensible and knows that he can't do it.
Don't look at the bells and whistles of all kinds of black technology in the Zero Degree Warframe, and he is a well-deserved brother of Warrior Comics.
The status is the same as Superman is to DC.
But comics and making movies are not the same thing.
When Messer proposed to shoot "Iron Man", he took a fancy to the rationality of the Iron Man story close to reality.
In this regard, the Zero Degree Warframe suffers more.
First of all, the Zero Degree Armor is an alien, not as down-to-earth as the Earth's indigenous Iron Man.
Secondly, the black technology capabilities of the Zero Degree Warframe are relatively abstract, and many of them have even been out of the category of science fiction.
On top of that, shooting the Zero Armor requires a lot of special effects shots, which will further increase the production cost of the movie.
Any superhero movie universe that does this kind of big-production and ungrounded superhero as soon as it comes up has a great risk of screwing up.
In the previous life, Warner had proved this with "Green Lantern", which was a box office hit.
After that, Warner once again chose "Superman: Man of Steel" as the launch of the DCEU.
originally wanted to rely on Superman's high popularity to change his life, but as a result, "Superman: Man of Steel" was still unsatisfactory at the box office when the five buffs of popularity, script, director, casting, and special effects were stacked.
After the theater was released, it failed to recover the cost of production and publicity, and later made a small profit by relying on film and television rental.
This is not the case with DC, not to mention the Warrior comics, which are only a fraction of their fame and influence.
The Blood Warriors are different.
Although the fame is slightly inferior to that of the Zero Degree Warframe, the setting in the manga is very suitable as the pioneer of the Warriors Cinematic Universe.
There are two major attractions about the superhero of the Blood Warrior, the first of which is the immortal body.
You must know that it is only 2001, and Wolverine and Deadpool in "X-Men" have not yet appeared on the big screen.
The last time the audience saw this kind of unbeatable Xiaoqiang character on the screen was back ten years ago in "Terminator 2" T-1000 mercury robot.
The Blood Warrior makes a live-action movie at this time, as long as the special effects pass the level and rush to the superpower of the immortal body, a large number of viewers will be willing to buy it.
This is a big selling point of the movie at the special effects level.
In addition, at the plot level, the Blood Warrior has a setting that Jamie thinks is very interesting.
The origin of the bloody warrior in the comics is very interesting, this guy cheated in marriage, and was discovered by his father-in-law who served in the top of the military, and in a fit of anger, he arrested this guy and used it as human material for the military's secret experiments.
After the transformation was completed, the Bloody Warrior gained a terrifying superpower, and his original memories were erased and a new one was implanted.
At this time, the military controlled the means of the bloody soldiers.
Each time the Blood Warrior completes a mission, his memories are deleted and reconstructed, and they are constantly being used as tools.
It wasn't until the Blood Warrior accidentally discovered this during a mission and was determined to resist and regain his true memories.
If the screenwriter can grasp this point and design it well, he may be able to come up with a superhero version of "Spy Shadow".
In the steaming bathtub, Jamie took his phone in another hand.
"Can you find out who the writers of "Blood" are?"
Ovitz regretfully told Jamie that David Messer had already suffered a loss and would certainly not let some of the specifics of the Blood Warrior project leak out easily.
However, the deep connections that Ovitz has accumulated in Hollywood over the years are not covered, although he did not inquire about the script, he got another bombshell information.
David Messer is ready to use a new talent to play the leading role.
This decision is not at all surprising.
"Blood Warrior" is a "test of the waters" of the Warriors cinematic universe, and the investment will definitely be strictly controlled within a certain range.
The money has to be put on special effects production, and of course you can't afford to hire big-name actors.
In fact, even if he could afford it, Messer, who was ambitious and ready to build a huge cinematic universe, would not do so.
(End of chapter)