I’m in Hollywood Chapter 853: Why do you look at me like this?

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Two weeks, Eric basically spent in frequent meetings with the management of Marvel, during which Katzenberg also came to New York in person and participated in several important meetings.

After repeated discussions during this period, the company has initially determined the basic organizational framework and film development plan of Marvel Studios.

Marvel Studios will be fully independent with Firefly Group's film and television production system, and with the planned future Marvel TV Production Studio, responsible for the development of all Superhero film and television works under Marvel Entertainment. At the same time, Eric will personally act as the Producer of all the Marvel first-phase movies, to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan.

In terms of film production, Marvel Studios will largely follow the standardized industrial processes of the Hollywood and Film Studio eras. All Producer members such as producers, Director, Actor, etc. must follow the overall style and will of Marvel. In order to implement cost control as much as possible and maintain the sustainability of the comic serial movie development plan, all the core roles of Marvel Studios's films must sign long-term packaging contracts.

At the same time, Eric no longer pursues the aggressive strategy of Marvel Films flowering across the board.

In the preliminary film universe plan, only the story line The Avengers was determined for the time being.

As for XX-Men, Fantastic Four and other projects, Eric decided to wait for the successful implementation of the The Avengers plan, Marvel Films gained enough influence, and then started the production of other series.

In the original time and space, it was the success of the Marvel The Avengers plan that completely activated all the IP of the Marvel and led all the Superhero brands of the Marvel into the heyday. Until then, other than the Spider-Man of Sony, other Marvel movies were not too successful. Especially for the XX-Men series, in Eric's view, XX-Men, which has a large number of rich characters, is completely screwed up by Fox. The character shaping is not concentrated, and the timeline is upside down. Most of the sequels of the entire series, Box Office, have only reached their baseline.

The Firefly family of Marvel, a large gold mine, is definitely not going to be dug. Eric will still adopt a strategy of cooperation with other Film Studio.

However, the premise of all this is that Marvel Studios must still have sufficient control over project development and more profit sharing.

But even if Firefly is closely related to Fox and Metro Goldwyn Mayer, if the huge potential of Marvel Superhero cannot be proved, the cooperation between the parties will not be so smooth. Therefore, the success of The Avengers has become a key to the development plan of Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Firefly has signed a contract with Cameron for "Spider-Man". Due to the great success of "Titanic", using Cameron as the Director for "Spider-Man" seems to be contrary to the production principles that Marvel Studios has just determined. But in fact, Cameron belongs to the technical commercial film Director that pays attention to the visual perception of the film. The film he directed has always focused on story rather than artistry. The positioning of Marvel Films is also based on SuperheroIP and popcorn movies with movie special effects. Both parties Almost coincidentally.

Of course, with Cameron enabled, the cost control of "Spider-Man" will certainly be impossible to talk about, but relative to the possible profits of the film directed by Cameron, these are also acceptable. However, there are some disadvantages, that is, in the future people will definitely attribute the success of "Spider-Man" to Cameron.

Therefore, in order to prove the commercial potential of Marvel Superhero, Marvel Studios must produce a standard Marvel Superhero film according to the established plan while shoots "Spider-Man".

As for which Superhero to choose, there is no need to hesitate for Eric.

"Tony Stark is a very anti-mainstream Superhero. He is conceited, arrogant and crazy. At the same time, he also has multiple identities such as genius, inventor, billionaire, playboy. This is a plasticity A very strong character, as long as he is properly managed, he will definitely look attractive on the big screen. "

During the Marvel Headquarters meeting, Eric briefly summarized his views, looked away from the memo in front of him, looked up at the crowd, and continued: "Moreover, Iron Man is still a second-line hero. If the movie is successful, it will undoubtedly prove Marvel Superhero I am very confident in the huge value of the role. And even if it really fails unexpectedly, it will not cause too fatal impact on the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe system. We still have many first-line characters to try ... "

Speaking in this way, Eric feels that everyone looks a bit strange in their eyes, especially the Stan · Lee around him, and old man smiles very cynically.

Subconsciously touching his cheek, Eric wondered: "Why are you looking at me like this?"

The inexplicable smile appeared on everyone's face, Stan · Li said: "Eric, set by Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tony · Stark was born in 1969."

According to the original comics, Tony Stark was born in the 1940s. According to the principle that the timeline of the film roughly coincides with reality, it should be more than fifty years old now. This is definitely not working, so it must be renewed. set up. In other words, the new version of Iron Man will be much younger than previous life's Downey version. According to the planned release date around 2000, the new Tony · Stark happens to be around 30 years old, which is undoubtedly the most attractive one for men. stage.

Eric nodded in doubt. He read the movie universe plan prepared by the creative department of Marvel many times in detail, and also provided a lot of modifications based on memory. Of course, this is clear.

Stan · Li Jian Eric nodded and continued to follow the temptation with a smile: "So, Eric, you see, you were born in 1970, not a few days away, right?"

Eric immediately understood the intention of Stan · Li and shook his head without hesitation: "Stan, don't even think about it."

Stan · Li is not willing to give up so easily, said: "Eric, don't you so eager to refuse. Everyone knows that the inspiration for my creation of Tony · Stark is Howard · Hughes, you are exactly the same as him No, no, no, you are better than him, so why not try this character, it is just tailored for you. "

"Come on, Stan, my pay is now 60,000 USD a minute, I ca n’t afford it myself, you do n’t even think about it."

"Hey, look, arrogant, arrogant, and a little crazy," Stan · Li smiled more timidly, like a big bad wolf: "So, Eric, you are Tony · Stark, or else you Will not pick this Superhero to shoots first. "

"Nà, like this," Eric did not intend to ignore the nagging of old man, closed the folder in front of him, and said: "In the future, you can use 'Eric Williams to have personally appeared in Iron Man, and was Stan · Li Strongly opposed to 'as a publicity stunt.'

Everyone laughed.

Stan · Li was also crying and laughing: "Eric, you are upside down black and white."

"Of course you have to reverse the black and white. Who will be interested in normal news? That ’s it. I will return to Los Angeles next week to start the preparatory work of the movie. I will give you a month to take out the first version of script. , Just like that, break up. "

Eric is the final word, and everyone knows that the matter they are discussing in secret must be gone. Everyone who had been expecting for a while gave a disappointed sigh and could only get up and leave the meeting room one after another.

Eric is not completely uninterested in playing Iron Man, but once this is done, this Superhero movie is likely to become his ticket work in the minds of the audience, which is definitely not a good thing, for the entire The Avengers plan The layout is also very unfavorable.

Consoling the disappointed Stan · Father Li, Eric stayed in Marvel Headquarters until the end of work hours before leaving the office with Avi · Arad.

Coming to the underground parking lot of the office building, Eric saw the gorgeous fiery red Sarah pedestal next to his car at a glance, and Cindy · Crawford who leaned beside the car and waved to him with a smile. Perhaps the career has revived again in recent years. The supermodel, who just turned 30, looks more and more beautiful.

Avi · Arad glanced at Cindy · Crawford, with envious eyes, and actively flashed people in a fun way.

Eric walked over, stroking the hood of Ma Sarah and smiled: "Nice car."

Cindy wore a black tunic with a waist, stepped on high boots, a pale silk scarf tied around his white neck, and a POSE was quietly placed, asking, "What about that person?"

"Prettier," Eric smiled and hugged with Cindy, instead of putting on his own black Bentley, he got into the co-pilot of Ma Sarah.

Cindy wanted to get on the Eric car. When he got into his car, he turned to the driver ’s seat and started the engine. He looked at Eric as he comfortably leaned on the co-pilot. Suggested: "Would you like to drive?"

Eric smiled and said: "I am more suitable for driving a Hummer, but it must be military."

"Why?"

"When you hit something like this, you will have an advantage."

"Hehe," Cindy smiled and understood that Eric must seldom drive by himself now, and that is absolutely absolute. It is no longer mentioning this topic. I started the car and slowly drove out of the parking lot. I ’ve set a place at Jean-George restaurant, go to dinner first? "

Eric nodded: "Well, I will listen to your arrangement tonight."

Cindy complained: "Also, it's really difficult to ask you once, so I waited two weeks."

In New York, Eric inevitably received various party invitations from the ground snakes, most of them could be pushed away, and some could not be postponed. These days he has entertainment almost every night. This is also about to leave, Eric only made time.

Listening to Cindy with a small bitter tone, Eric smiled and said: "So anxious to ask me out, don't you still have no new boyfriend, this is not like your style."

Cindy turned the steering wheel and looked around: "Don't you want me to be single all the time?"

"I wish you were married now, this is more exciting."

"Bah, abominable man," Cindy gave him a blank look before saying: "I tried to make a relationship, and it was too boring. I broke up at the end of last year."

"Oh, it seems that the horizon has improved," Eric quipped with a smile.

In my memory, Cindy passed the peak period of his professional model career. During this period, he tossed a "fair game" in Hollywood, and did not arouse any waves. So he quickly converged and married and had a child with Boss, a nightclub in New York. It must be said that compared with most of the supermodels that are difficult to settle until Fenghua is no longer, Cindy is probably a winner in life.

But now, due to the emergence of Eric, Cindy's life trajectory has completely deviated from that of previous life. A series of identities such as Victoria’s Secret angel spokesperson and "America's Next Top Model" Producer and host, also made her career rejuvenated. Her current annual income is not much worse than those of Hollywood first-line actresses, and even more so, correspondingly, her mind is destined to be no longer settled.

The two came to the Jean-George restaurant on Fifth Avenue. After sitting down and ordering food, they chatted casually about the recent situation.

Waiting for the waiter to bring the dishes away, Cindy said casually: "I also recently bought a Fireflyer. The assistant took the goods directly from the black market, 400USD. I ca n’t think of the small things you made. The treatment of prohibited goods. "

For the first time, Eric heard this kind of thing and laughed: "Say early, I will let you give you a few."

"How dare you bother you with such a small thing," Cindy smiled and said: "I saw yesterday that Firefly was sued?"

"Well, Chris has flown to San Francisco to deal with, the problem is not big."

"I think so," Cindy nodded: "I read that article. It said that Record Company's share revenue from the Yahoo music store is not much different from the physical record. Even, due to the convenience of the network, if With the development of online music stores, Record Company can get more, so why are they responding so aggressively? "

"This is just a superficial thing," Eric is not clear why Cindy was suddenly interested in this kind of thing, but still explained: "In the pure music industry, the annual income of the global range does not exceed 20billion USD, but the music player The market is much larger. This also involves the problem of patent monopoly. Traditional portable player patents are basically in the hands of Japanese manufacturers. A complete set of player patent licensing fees, the price will not be lower than the player price 5%, only this one, Japanese companies can get more than 1 billion USD net income every year. The emergence of Fireflyer is equivalent to completely breaking the patent monopoly of traditional portable music player manufacturers, and even once Fireflyer became popular, the Walkman and other equipment Eliminated out of the game, Japanese manufacturers' original value of 10 billion USD patents will also be worthless, so their response will be so strong. "(To be continued.)