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Embassy Pictures held the North American premiere of Resident Evil 2: Revelations in Los Angeles on the first weekend in April, and the film received significantly more attention than Underworld 2, which premiered last month. .

Because Kate Beckinsale took over the relationship of the heroine of Van Helsing, Ronan plans to temporarily stop the second part of Underworld.

This series takes the heroine Selena as the absolute core. Once an actor has a problem, it will inevitably affect the entire movie.

In contrast, the Resident Evil series that can continue to be filmed, regardless of the film itself or Milla Jovovich, is much more valuable.

Ronan also appears in the premiere.

However, he skipped the red carpet and went straight to the theater.

Ronan saw Robert Lee, walked over and asked, How's the situation over there?

Robert Lee whispered: Marvel's life is difficult, there is a serious lack of funds, no one is willing to lend money if you want a loan, and you can't make a mortgage. The remaining comic characters are basically not famous. Banks and financial institutions are definitely not Willing to take risks. Now they're trying to make money, and it didn't take much for me to convince Avi Arad.

He scratched his head: If it weren't for the fact that the hero in our hands is not well-known, has not been adapted into a movie, and is of little value, it is estimated that Marvel will also find us.

Ronan nodded slowly, and said, You pay more attention to the situation of Marvel, and when their bad situation reaches a point, notify me and Bob in time.

Robert Lee knew exactly what Ronan was going to do, nodded, and said, I've got someone to keep an eye on it.

In fact, he has doubts. Now Marvel Comics is like a bottomless pit. No matter how much money is thrown into it, it will never die. If Relativity Entertainment really wants to acquire it, can it save Marvel?

If it was someone else, he would have suggested it long ago, but Ronan...

Robert Lee believes that if anyone in this world can save Marvel Comics, which has been a mess in the past ten years, it is Ronan.

Several Asian faces walked into the VIP room at this time, and Ronan and Robert Lee went over to exchange a few words. Anyway, Capcom is now a partner of Relativity Entertainment, and it belongs to relatively few requests kind of.

Capcom doesn't have too many ambitions for movies for the time being, and seems to be completely focused on games.

According to the standards of the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the island nation’s games and comics are definitely IP manufacturing machines, continuously producing works with a wide audience, and the copyright is not expensive.

However, when it comes to movie adaptations, with very few exceptions, 99% of the island country games or comic movies adapted by Hollywood have all hit the street.

Even Scarlett Johansson and James Cameron, who have considerable box office appeal, fell on it.

That Alita: Battle Angel, James Cameron is the producer.

Thinking of this, Ronan suddenly remembered something. It seemed that James Cameron liked the island comics adapted from this film very much.

What's the name of that island manga?

Ronan is quite unfamiliar with the island country comics, not even as familiar with the domestic dramas as before. Except for Brother Yixiu, Saint Seiya, Slam Dunk and the elementary school students who remember death because of where they go, other island country comics Not to mention knowing nothing, there are very few that can be remembered.

After thinking about it carefully, a name popped into my head.

Ghost in the Shell? It seems that the heroine is Scarlett Johansson. It is said that some concepts of The Matrix come from this anime.

Red chili? No, I can remember this name, because many people say that Christopher Nolan's Inception plagiarized this island comic.

Like a dream? After pondering for a long time, Ronan finally remembered a name - Gunmeng!

Ronan called Robert Lee to the corner, and said in a low voice: I just saw those islanders in Capcom, and I remembered an island manga I read a while ago. It should be called Gunmeng. Go check it out, if the copyright is still there, ask someone to go to the island country and buy it.

Robert Lee repeated: Gun Dream?

Ronan nodded: That's right, that's the name, go buy it and add it to the copyright library.

Compared with works in North America, the biggest advantage of the copyright of the island country comics is that it is cheap, and it does not cost much to buy. When discussing cooperation with James Cameron in the future, it may be able to be used.

Robert Lee didn't say much, and went straight out of the VIP room, took out his cell phone and started making calls.

For things like copyright grabbing, the sooner the action, the better.

Last year, because of a slow step, the copyright of The Da Vinci Code fell into the hands of Tom Hanks.

The crew came in one after another at this time, and Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich found Ronan by themselves.

The two were also familiar with Ronan. Paul Anderson said directly: Ronan, should we wait for a while to prepare the third part? , to play the heroine.

Ronan nodded and said, Yes, it's not too late to prepare the third part next year. I plan to release it in 2006.

No problem. Paul Anderson vowed: I will finish it on time.

The release rate every other year was originally within the planned range. This type of film is released too fast. The last two sequels of The Matrix are a lesson from the past.

When Ronan was sitting in the theater, he thought of Gunmeng and thought of the huge comics industry in the island country. Is there any copyright available? Perhaps after Netflix's streaming business becomes truly strong, it will also need to diversify its operations and increase works in various languages.

The network copyright and remake copyright of those cartoons should also be valuable.

Make a live-action movie version of Full Master? Ronan thought for a while, and finally shook his head. Instead of filming this, it is better to adapt it based on the superstars of the NBA. The audience around the world is much larger than this.

The movie began to show, and the premiere theater was full of seats.

The box office performance of the first film is not bad, and the audience attracted through the offline market in the past two years, naturally is very concerned about the release of the sequel film.

There are also game fans.

A month earlier, Capcom had released a data that added up all the released Resident Evil games and sold 24 million sets worldwide.

This is only genuine, excluding pirated audiences.

The popularity of the game has also brought more audience base for the film.

The film adaptation did not follow the idea of ​​the game.

Although Jill Valentine finally appeared in the film, the absolute protagonist of the film is still Alice.

Compared with the complete self-release in the later films, in Apocalypse, Paul Anderson, the director and screenwriter, still makes the plot of the film more or less connected with the characters, plots and events in the game.

Of course, more is still changing.

For example, the three game characters in Nemesis were added as sub-line characters to promote the progress of the plot. At the same time, more fighting and stunt scenes were added to attract non-game fans.

For Paul Anderson, Ronan at least has enough trust in the Resident Evil series.

Once the Resident Evil series was filmed to the end, Paul Anderson said in an interview: In this world, no one can make a game-adapted movie more successfully than me.

From a business point of view, this makes sense.

Taken together, no one has been more successful than Paul Anderson's Resident Evil franchise.

In terms of the number of game-adapted film projects directed, Uwe Ball can really compete with Paul Anderson. However, Uwe Ball did not have a fast-growing company and a huge platform behind him.

Perhaps, today's Uwe Ball can compete with Paul Anderson for this position.

Of course, from a purely film perspective, whether Uwe Ball or Paul Anderson has become the most successful game-adapted film director in the world, it can be called the tragedy of game-adapted films.

People in Hollywood kept trying this type of movie. Until Ronan left the other side of the Pacific Ocean, no one found a suitable answer and path.

In the second part, Alice still cannot escape this zombie nightmare. After being transformed by the underground biochemical laboratory of the Umbrella Company, she is endowed with superhuman strength, speed and perception, and continues to fight against zombies.

In addition to facing the zombie army and mutant monsters, Alice encountered more powerful enemies...

Compared with the first film, the pattern is bigger, zombies rush out of the laboratory, attacking the human world aggressively, and the umbrella company destroys the entire city in order to protect its own achievements.

The second part also completely determined the style of this series, not a horror thriller, but an action movie.

Regardless of the quality of the film, Apocalypse at least achieves one thing. The fast pace can at least allow the audience to sit down for more than an hour, enjoy the pleasure of sight and sound effects, and leave nothing behind.

This is also the entertainment of commercial movies.

Ronan feels that as long as it is entertaining enough, the adaptation does not have to follow the game plot.

Compared with those game movies with larger plot adaptations, movies that follow the game plot have a higher chance of hitting the street.

Looking at Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse, Ronan couldn't help but think of Uwe Ball. Brother Bao is adapting Vampire Ryan. Maybe Brother Bao can bring a masterpiece of a game adaptation movie?

The last time I received a call from Uwe Ball, Brother Bao had already persuaded Christana Loken, the actress who starred in Terminator 3 had agreed to play the leading role.

Extrapolating from Milla Jovovich and Angelina Jolie, it looks like a beautiful lead role is a key factor in the success of video game adaptations.

The screening of the second part ended, just like the first part, leaving suspense again so that the sequel could continue to be filmed later.