After Buying Marvel, I Became the King of Hollywood

Chapter 237:

The development of an IP cannot be without the boost of Tongren’s works.

In this regard, Japan is the best in the world.

Japanese works are not only free to give people doujin, but also allow doujin works to be sold for profit.

Of course, in the case that it is not profitable on a large scale, and does not affect the sales of the work itself.

For example, some book painters made hundreds of thousands of copies of the products themselves, and sold them out, and no one cared at all.

This will only boost the popularity of the work.

Here, Kevin named and criticized the copyright owner of Guoman in the previous life.

Originally, Guoman had a chance to become hot.

But pressure from all sides prevented the popularity of these works from rising to a new level.

For example, Kevin once worked as a part-time author, and found that on some novel websites, Japanese comics are rampant, and national comics are in danger.

Is it because the author doesn’t want to write Chinese comics?

It can only be said that there is a possibility of being sued by the copyright owner in court, and Riman Meiman is out of reach, and Riman is actually happy to see the development of this kind of thing.

This means that the influence of the work has gone out of the country and went overseas.

These two ideological differences have prevented the development of Guoman.

Of course, this is just the view of Kevin’s family.

Anyway, he was happy to see this happen.

These fanciful works have aroused a strong sense of substitution among readers.

Under these operations, Marvel’s fight against DC can be said to be broken.

The company under Kevin’s name is currently developing smoothly.

The film is still being filmed, and Zhang Yimou, who has been back in the mainland for a long time, came to the United States with a dozen people.

After the people were settled, Zhang Yimou went to the studio to discuss with Kevin about the movie he was going to shoot.

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On the set, Kevin was watching Jet Li and Johnson with admiration, fighting against the villain’s men.

This is a big factor in the success of the film.

Fight scene.

The actions that were rehearsed in advance, with the cooperation of Johnson and Jet Li, were extremely wonderful in the camera.

For this fight scene, Kevin prepared four cameras, and shot all the angles without dead ends.

The fighting style of Hurricane Rescue, consistent with Mission Impossible, is an outlier in Hollywood, and it is the kind of punch to the flesh.

This time, Kevin is also going to make some power through editing.

Increase the sense of substitution.

Make the fist as if it is right in front of you.

In Kevin’s memory, this type of movie, as long as the action scenes are well shot, really doesn’t lose money.

Of course, this time, the cost of hurricane rescue is actually very low.

That’s six million dollars.

The original hurricane rescue cost only $25 million.

Apart from the salaries of Jet Li and Johnson, as well as the actors, the overall cost is still much higher than this French film.

These money, of course, are not in vain.

The protagonist has to defeat gangsters in many countries around the world, and hit New York one line at a time.

The various scenes, the train station, the airport station, copy a little bit of Jackie Chan’s scenes.

Kevin is no less.

These one hundred and forty minutes are longer than ordinary movies, but they are fast-paced and have no connotation.

It is to fight all the way, kill all the way, with absolute power, tell the bad guy what will happen if he touches his daughter.

What Kevin has to do is to make this movie a meme.

There are a series of movie memes on the Internet, such as Don’t Touch Keanu Reeves’ dog, and Guoda Statham’s courier.

Kevin now has to add Yolan’s daughter, or Jet Li’s daughter.

As for Yolan, it is the name of the protagonist in the movie. Here, Kevin directly uses the name of the protagonist in the cosmic wanted list.

To be honest, Kevin loved that movie to death.

Unfortunately, this kind of subject matter is not the model of the public. It can be photographed, but it cannot be photographed by Kevin.

Because Kevin knows that the upper limit of this kind of movie is too low, in Kevin’s current situation.

If you make a movie with an investment of 30 million US dollars, you will end up with 100 million US dollars, although you will not lose money, but I don’t know how many people will criticize him.

Although he didn’t care much, he still had to be a little bit concerned about it.

His Steve Kevin’s golden sign cannot be broken so easily.

“Card!”

After repeating the shooting a dozen times, it was confirmed that there were no major flaws in the shots, or that some imperfect action scenes could be removed through editing.

The scene to be filmed today is basically over.

When the crew was packing up, Zhang Yimou came.

Kevin also came to a high-end restaurant at the invitation of Zhang Yimou.

Of course, if it is high-end, it is only a few hundred dollars per person.

There is no way, Zhang Yimou is not rich, he has almost cut off his income during his appearance, and is all on his own.

Kevin said to give him a fixed salary, but he justly refused.

As an art artist, he still has this basic self-esteem, not to mention that, in his capacity, he hastily accepted the money and returned to China for a lot of censorship.

Kevin has no objection to Zhang Yimou’s invitation only to restaurants of this level.

He belongs to the kind of expensive food that can be eaten cheaply.

Of course, a few hundred dollars a meal isn’t cheap by any means.

After being seated, Zhang Yimou handed Kevin a film project book with a thoughtful look on his face.

and a script.

“Kevin, help me see this project, is there any drama?”

It is a Chinese habit to talk about things at the dinner table, Zhang Yimou is like this, and so is Kevin.

Therefore, Kevin is not surprised at all about Zhang Yimou’s actions.

After ordering some dishes, Kevin picked up Zhang Yimou’s script and read it.

What catches the eye is the three characters of Journey to the West.

Just these few words, Kevin knew that Zhang Yimou still listened.

As a mainland area, the most well-known IP is not one of them.

Zhang Yimou got the heat right.

It just depends on what tricks he can make of Journey to the West.

With this idea in mind, Kevin carefully studied the script.

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The whole script describes a complete story in detail, and the excerpt is the section of Shi Tuoling.

Of course, only the background of Journey to the West is used.

In the worldview of this script, demons feed on people.

In Shituo Mountain, people are just meat raised by demons. In such a day-to-day time, people are almost numb.

But there is one percent of human beings who have hope.

According to legend, the Bodhisattva once came here and told the people that a holy monk would bring his three apprentices here to destroy these demons and set the people free.

Seeing this, Kevin nodded.

However, what the United States likes most is the slogan of freedom.

On this point, Zhang Yimou did not learn in vain, so he focused on this point, and the box office was several million dollars.

Don’t feel exaggerated.

Under the liberal education, do not overestimate the IQ of Americans.

It’s not that hard to trick the average American into a movie theater, as long as you find the hi-spots for them.

Immediately afterwards, the holy monk really came, but he did not bring his apprentices.

Instead, it brought three circles.

Those who bring these three circles will become his apprentices and defeat the demons entrenched here.

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Looking at this magic version of Journey to the West, Kevin was very satisfied.

Not that its plot is very, very good.

But its core, in fact, is the same set of the United States, but put on a mysterious coat from the East.

This is the core.

If you really take the oriental set, American audiences can’t understand it at all.

Just like some future American movies, it is the same reason that the mainland cannot understand it.

Only the most simple and simple elements that are passed around the world can be killed all over the world.

“Yes, but is ten million dollars enough for this movie?”

“It’s not enough, that’s why I asked you to see if this script works. If it works, I’ll see if additional investment can be made.”

On this trip, Zhang Yimou has made all his preparations, and he will return to the mainland to shoot at that time, which can save costs on a large scale.

Of course, this is part of it.

In terms of special effects, he came with an entire art team in order to make the special effects company make the original taste of oriental mythology.

Not the Western magic movies.

The beautiful location, plus the special effects of oriental mythology, and a core story that conforms to American values, are covered with a layer of the skin of Journey to the West.

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This is Zhang Yimou’s plan.

Of course, the premise of all this is whether it can impress Steve Kevin to increase investment.

Otherwise, ten million dollars is unlikely to achieve the effect in his mind.

Just when Zhang Yimou was looking forward to waiting for Kevin to respond.

Kevin opened the project plan again and looked at it carefully.

After a while, Kevin raised his head and said slowly:

“Twenty-five million, this is the highest investment I can give you.”

After reading the script written by Zhang Yimou and the movie plan, Kevin decided that this was a mature project plan.

At the same time, Zhang Yimou is a powerful director.

Knowing these elements, Kevin made this decision.