The day after Sophia left the United States, Ryan and his party went to the headquarters of Marvel Comics to formally meet with Ronald Perelman, the head of Marvel Comics.

Along the way, Ryan is thinking about the Marvel Comics, and according to the information from Swift's investigation, combined with the memories of his past life, he strives to reach a permanent buyout contract with Marvel Comics.

According to the memories of previous lives, when Disney acquired Marvel Comics, that is, Marvel, it spent $4 billion.

These include a bunch of superhero character copyrights, as well as the entire Marvel Comics company.

At that time, Marvel Comics had already established Marvel Films, spent a huge amount of money to prepare a large-scale Avengers plan, and the first Avengers film "Iron Man" was a box office hit.

For a while, the whole Hollywood knew that the rise of Marvel Film and Television and the Avengers, it can be said that Marvel was at a peak at that time, and the market value was naturally high.

But the current Marvel Comics is not the ambitious Marvel Film and Television, the sales volume of the entire company's comics has been declining, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc., the copyright of first-line superhero characters has long been sold.

Moreover, Ronald Perelman, the head of Marvel Comics, is full of conflicts with a group of shareholders, and the development plan formulated by the former is constantly blocked by other members of the board.

He now just wants to raise the company's share price as quickly as possible so that he can continue to reduce his stake.

The latter believes that the reason why Marvel Comics has fallen to the point where it is today is Ronald Perelman's fault, and some people have begun to propose to remove Ronald Perelman from his position, kick him out of Marvel Comics Company, and save the only remaining funds, otherwise the company's funds will be squandered by him sooner or later.

According to the trajectory of the previous life, what the shareholders never expected was that Ronald Perelman directly announced the bankruptcy of Marvel Comics in a fit of anger, and finally made a loss for both sides.

As for the overall acquisition of Marvel Comics, it is simply impossible, even if the market value of Marvel Comics continues to fall, but it is still close to $30 per share.

Ryan had already asked Swift to stop buying shares in Marvel Comics, and even liquidated the shares he had bought.

This decision was called by Swift, the wisest choice, and Ryan was depressed, and he didn't know that the stock price of Marvel Comics was so high that a fool would buy Marvel Comics stock.

You know, in a few years, the stock price of Marvel Comics will fall to about $2.

Ryan Gosling, the director, writer, producer, and sole investor of Saw Horror. ”

"Ronald Perelman, owner of Marvel Comics. ”

In an office on the building of Marvel Comics, Swift is very skilled at introducing each other.

"Saw Horror?"

"A really great horror movie. Ronald Perelman, who still looks very strong, looks at Ryan with some surprise, and he can't imagine that the person who came is so young.

"Thank you, Mr. Perelman, for the compliment. ”

"It's my greatest honor to be here in Marvel Comics. Ryan was very polite.

Ronald Perelman smiled, invited everyone to sit down, and went straight to the point: "I heard that you are interested in superhero character copyrights?"

"Want to buy them out permanently!"

Ryan said very frankly: "I am a big fan of the superhero characters under Marvel Comics, and I just invested in an animation studio, so I want to buy some superhero character rights to fill the creative space of the studio." ”

At the same time, it can also pull up the stock price of Marvel Comics. ”

Speaking of this, Ryan showed a hint of helplessness and said: "I am also one of the investors in Marvel Comics, although the number of shares I own is pitiful, but it is still shrinking. ”

Swift forced a smile when he said this, saying that buying stock in Marvel Comics was the worst investment he could make.

It's no secret that Marvel Comics' performance is poor, the market value is constantly depreciating, and the stock price is falling again and again.

Ronald Perelman knows this very well.

At that moment, he laughed out loud and said, "It seems that you chose to invest in Marvel Comics at the wrong moment." ”

When he bought Marvel Comics, he only spent more than $80 million, and then pushed the company to go public, reducing his stake by 20% in one fell swoop, which can be described as a big profit.

Even the value of the shares in Marvel Comics in his hand now is not a small number.

"So I want to buy the rights of more than 2,000 superhero characters under Marvel Comics for $15 million permanently, which can fill the rights of the animation studio's characters, and secondly, I can drive the stock price of Marvel Comics and take the opportunity to cash out. Ryan said half-truthfully.

"Very good idea. ”

Ronald Perelman showed a look of appreciation and said, "If it weren't for some reason, I wouldn't be able to help but sell my shares in Marvel Comics so that the stock price would not continue to depreciate." ”

"However, the price of $15 million is too low, and you want the rights to more than 2,000 superhero characters, and they are perpetual. ”

"If you can go above $50 million, I can try to convince other shareholders to agree to buy the rights to more than 2,000 superhero characters in perpetuity. ”

$50 million, or $50 million in 1994, a proper lion's mouth.

As for the reason is very simple, to pull the stock price of Marvel Comics, it needs at least a deal of tens of millions of dollars, not just a mere $15 million.

"No, no, no, the price of $50 million is too high, and Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc., the copyright of first-line superhero characters has long been sold by Marvel Comics. ”

"The rest of the superhero copyrights are all second- and third-tier superheroes, and they are not worth $50 million at all. Ryan gets to the point, Marvel Comics doesn't have any particularly famous superhero character copyrights.

I have to say that Marvel Comics is not ambiguous at all about selling his own son.

"But Marvel Comics also has a lot of superhero character rights, such as Captain America, Black Panther, Black Widow, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Ant-Man, Punisher, Humanoid, Vampire Morbius, Wolverine, etc., which is also the main purpose of your visit. ”

"In addition, I can agree to sign a supplemental clause, all the copyrights of the superhero characters of the Marvel Comics that you buy can be regarded as perpetual copyrights, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc., the copyrights of the superhero characters that have been sold in the Marvel Comics. Ronald Perelman's tone, neither slow nor slow, added some leverage.

After negotiations some time ago, Marvel Comics did not agree to this supplementary clause at all, and even some second-tier superheroes who were slightly famous refused to sell the copyright permanently, and there must be a time limit.

In fact, Ronald Perelman doesn't care how many superhero character rights are sold, even if it's permanent, he only cares about one thing now, how to drive up the company's stock price.

To put it bluntly, he is an investor, he has no comic ideals, and only thinks about how to get the most benefits.

Even if the Marvel Comics company collapsed because of this, it didn't have much to do with him.

He is involved in a very broad business and is far more than just a comic company.

"These are second-tier superhero characters, long outdated, and how many young people will remember them now?"

"In contrast, I want the Spider-Man copyright more, and Spider-Man is the representative of the superhero characters under Marvel Comics. ”

"It's impossible for me to pay such a high fee for the copyright of some second- and third-tier superhero characters. Ryan didn't budge.

Even Captain America, who is the most famous in it, has now become unpopular, and his recognition is far inferior to Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man.

"$50 million is my bottom line, otherwise I'd rather decline this partnership. "Ronald Perelman naturally won't give up his interests easily, otherwise the shareholders on the board of directors would have to make a fuss.

In desperation, Ryan could only take a step back and said: "50 million dollars is not impossible, unless it is similar to the agreement between Marvel Comics and Twentieth Century Fox, while owning the copyright of all characters in perpetuity, it can be extended to any comic book character that has appeared in the copyright, and automatically owns the copyright of the characters in its comics." ”

At the same time, Marvel Comics no longer enjoys any form of sharing, including animation, film and television, TV series, and film and television works. ”

It can be said that this is a complete robbery, and it is a little harsher than the contract of Twentieth Century Fox.

"It's impossible. Ronald Perelman refused outright.

The contract with Twentieth Century Fox a few months ago has already caused dissatisfaction among many of the company's top executives.

If he agrees again, such harsh conditions will have to cause shock at the top of the company.