Hollywood Road

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"Is there something wrong with the style of the Marvel superhero movie that we have planned?"

Looking at Kevin Fitch and Avi Allard, Stan Lee said very seriously, "Will the style and theme be too young?"

Hearing what he said, thinking about the success of "Man of Steel", Kevin Firth and Avi Allard also showed thoughtful expressions on their faces.

The "X-Men" series and the "Spider-Man" series are indeed quite successful overall, but they also know that these successes actually have nothing to do with Marvel Comics itself. The production and issuers of the two series are respectively. Tenth Century Fox and Sony Columbia are all members of the six major Hollywood companies, and undoubtedly have extremely rich operating experience in film operations, which is far from comparable to newbies like Surprise Pictures.

Stan Lee sighed and said, "Murphy Stanton has proved that not only does black and serious themed commercial films have an audience, but the audience is also quite wide. Our surprising superhero character also has depth in itself. And thickness, why can’t you take this route?"

He shook his head and said, "Do we have to turn our heroes into a group of clowns playing talk shows? Why can't we make superheroes more meaningful and taller like Murphy Stanton?"

Avi-Allard frowned slightly, "Is such an imitation really good? Follow the trend..."

"What's wrong with this?" Stan Lee didn't care. "Marvel and DC were imitating each other. They started with comics decades ago, and now there is nothing imitating in movies."

He emphasized, “X-Men 3 and Spider-Man 3 are the final chapters of the trilogy, and there are serious problems in word-of-mouth, which will greatly affect the subsequent works of these two series. The facts It has been proved that a similar model cannot go long-term! In contrast, Murphy Stanton, since entering Hollywood, all participating works have been with a typical dark style, and have been successful, or a huge success, which fully proves The market potential of dark movies, why can't we use this proven successful model?"

"What you said makes sense." Avi Allard nodded slightly.

Although "Man of Steel" received a very poor evaluation from some audiences, the number of this group of people was too small. The reputation of this new Superman work was beyond the reach. The two most popular movies of Marvel Heroes, "Spider-Man" and X-Men is far from comparable.

This super high reputation will bring huge benefits to the future of the entire series, even if Murphy Stanton has laid a solid foundation for the entire DC follow-up series.

"I don't think this is right!" Kevin Fitch disagrees with Stan Lee's statement. "It is unlikely that we will succeed in this way."

Stan Lee looked at him, "Why?"

Kevin Fitch gave the answer directly, "Because we don't have Murphy Stanton!"

He looked at Stan Lee, "We rejected Murphy Stanton before. If we want to cooperate with him, we must pay great sincerity. Would you like to invite him personally?"

Stan Lee was silent.

"Murphy Stanton signed only one director contract for "Man of Steel" with Warner Bros." Avi Allard reminded.

But Stan Lee was still silent. He was good at imitating and borrowing something. He put down his old face and invited a hairy boy, saying nothing was impossible.

Indeed, the only contract between Murphy and Warner Bros. is the movie "Man of Steel". Strictly speaking, the contract between the two parties has expired.

However, there is no problem with Marvel's head, especially Kevin Fitch is always sober, and Murphy Stanton's style may not be suitable for Marvel's superhero movies.

"Are we going to continue working with Murphy Stanton?"

In an office in the Burbank Warner Building, Diego Harris put down the coffee cup in his hand, looked at Bruce Rosenblum across the desk, and said, “According to his past style, it should be soon Start preparing for the new work, if we don’t start negotiations with him in advance..."

"No!" Bruce Rosenblum raised his fingers and shook his head. "Warner Bros. will no longer work with Murphy Stanton on this series."

This answer was obviously a little surprising, Diego Harris was puzzled, "Why?"

"Diego, our marketing department has made a new market forecast for Man of Steel."

Upon hearing this, Diego Harris looked at the opposite curiously, and Bruce Rosenblum continued, “According to the film’s reputation and the first week of North American box office, the final North American box office of "Man of Steel" cannot be low. At 350 million U.S. dollars, there is a great chance that the global box office will exceed 800 million U.S. dollars."

Diego Harris understands the meaning of Bruce Rosenblum's words. Warner Bros. and DC Comics have indeed achieved great success, but they also have to pay a very heavy price.

Sure enough, Bruce Rosenblum said directly, "We have to pay Murphy Stanton 20% of the global box office as dividends, as well as DVD sales, which will be as high as tens of millions of dollars. Warner Bros. In the next period of time, it is very likely that a huge sum of more than 200 million US dollars will be paid for Murphy Stanton."

This money is indeed too much!

Diego Harris still has some doubts, "Without his words, the next series..."

"From the current situation, "Man of Steel" can lay a solid foundation for the entire series." Bruce Rosenblum said confidently, "and it also brings a unique style to DC superhero movies. And the theme, as long as we follow this pattern, the following videos will not be a problem."

He laughed, "We can find suitable candidates from some lesser-known directors with similar styles, so that we can avoid paying too much."

"What about Murphy Stanton?" Diego Harris asked again.

"He is a very smart person, he should have realized this when he first negotiated with us." Bruce Rosenblum was also simply, "That's why he offered such a terrifying pay, he took this The series is not for other things, but for money."

In fact, Bruce Rosenblum saw it very clearly that Murphy took over the director of "Man of Steel" for high rewards.

There is nothing to say about this. The director does have a higher artistic pursuit, but the director is also a human being. He also has to eat, wear, shelter, and pursue a better quality of life. In today's society, if you can enjoy these words, Even no one can deny that money is the most basic condition.

Frankly speaking, Murphy himself does not think that Warner Brothers will continue to cooperate with him.

However, now he has no time to consider these, and there are more important things to do.

The blazing sun was shining from among the palm trees, and the cobblestone path came with a gurgling sound. A tall figure in long boots slowly walked into the sparse palm forest. She held a sword in her right hand, and a sword in her left hand. Arms with a shield, long black curly hair draped over the retro-style Greek armor, and the legs under the blue dress are surprisingly long...

Her bright eyes roamed around vigilantly, as if Wonder Woman was fully guarded, ready to deal with a sudden enemy attack.

"This guy..." The goddess of war's face was a little red, with a strange anxious expression in her expression, "Where did you go? I'll find him later, I must..."

Having said that, she thought of the battle that would inevitably happen, and became more timid and impatient. At the same time, she became more anxious. After preparing for such a long time, she finally created the atmosphere of today...

She couldn't help but swear secretly that she would do her best to squeeze that guy out in the close hand-to-hand combat later!

"Who?"

The palm grove is not big at all, the goddess of war saw a maroon red cloak behind the biggest one, and said loudly, "Come out, surrender, Clark, you can't run away!"

A gust of wind blew, and the cloak exposed behind the thick tree trunk became more obvious.

Gal Gadot curled his lips and muttered to himself, "This fool, he thought he was hiding well."

She drew the Vulcan sword from behind, took it in her hand and strode over, planning to catch Murphy, first use a long sword to slap him in the butt, and then tie him with a mantra lasso. On the tree, so you can do whatever you want...

Thinking of this, Gail Gadot's eyes curled up with a smile, and the water droplets inside seemed to be able to pour out at any time.

When approaching the tree, she suddenly picked up speed. Due to the systematic training before, although she was not as good as a real female warrior, Gal Gado was also very fast, almost between two breaths. , Rushed to the side of the tree, then turned around the tree, raised the Vulcan sword, and prepared to put it on the neck of the person behind the tree.

"Uh..." The sword in Gal Gadot's hand stopped in mid-air.

There is no Superman behind the tree, only Superman's chestnut red cloak is wrapped around the tree.

At this moment, an arm came out silently from behind, and Gal Gadot had just seen the dark blue uniform on it, and her arm had gently restrained her slender white gooseneck.

"Be careful," a familiar voice came from behind, "Princess Diana Prinz."

"When did Superman learn to sneak attack!" Gal Gadot's words were full of indignation, not knowing whether it was intentional or unintentional, "It's too despicable and shameless!"

"Give me your sword..." A threatening voice came from behind.

Gal Gadot obediently handed the Vulcan sword into the opponent's hand, and felt a hand rubbing against his waist for a while, looking down, the mantra lasso hanging on the armor was taken away by the person behind. .

The long sword was placed on the back, and the commanding voice sounded, "Go!"

Feeling the Sword of Vulcan poking lightly on the armor at the back, Gal Gadot walked toward the front left in cooperation, until he walked to a very smooth pillar twenty feet away, the sound from behind again It sounded, "Stop! Get on it!"