After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

The development of an IP cannot do without the boost of Tongren's works.

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

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

Of course, it is under the condition of not making large-scale profits and not affecting the sales of the works themselves.

For example, some book illustrators make hundreds or thousands of volumes themselves, and sell them without anyone caring.

This will only boost the popularity of the work.

Here, Kevin names and criticizes the copyright owner of Guoman in his previous life.

Originally, Guoman had a chance to become popular.

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

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

Is it because the author doesn't want to write Guoman?

It can only be said that there is a possibility of being sued by the copyright owner, but Riman and Meiman, on the one hand, are too far away, and on the other hand, 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 gone overseas.

These two ideological differences have prevented the development of Guoman.

Of course, this is just the opinion of Kevin's family.

Anyway, he is happy to see this kind of thing happen.

These fan-oriented works evoked a strong sense of substitution among readers, wishing to enter these works and become superheroes, friends, lovers, etc. of the protagonist...

Under these operations, Marvel's DC can be said to be defeated.

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

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

After settling people down, Zhang Yimou went to the set to talk to Kevin about the movie he was going to shoot.

Chapter 348

On the set, Kevin was admiringly watching Jet Li and Johnson fighting against the villain's subordinates.

This is an important factor in the success of this movie.

It's fight scene.

The movements rehearsed in advance, with the cooperation of Johnson and Jet Li, are extremely exciting in the camera.

For this fighting scene, Kevin prepared four cameras, and shot all angles from multiple directions without dead ends.

Taken's fighting style is consistent with that of Mission: Impossible, and it belongs to a different type in Hollywood. It is the kind of punching to the flesh.

This time, Kevin is planning to make some effort through editing.

Increase the sense of substitution.

Let the fist seem to be in front of you.

In Kevin's memory, for this type of movie, as long as the action scenes are shot well, there is really no loss.

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

That's $6000 million.

The original Taken cost only $500 million.

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

Naturally, the money was not in vain.

The protagonist wants to defeat the gangsters in many countries around the world, and hit New York line by line.

The various scenes in it, such as the train station and the airport station, copied a little bit of Jackie Chan's scenes.

Kevin is no less.

These 140 minutes are far longer than ordinary movies, but the whole process is fast-paced and has no connotation.

It is to fight all the way, kill all the way, with absolute strength, 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 Guo Dashen's Express Delivery.

Kevin will now add Youlan's daughter, or Jet Li's daughter.

As for Yulan, it is the name of the protagonist in the movie. Here, Kevin directly applies the name of the protagonist in the universe wanted order in a wicked way.

Honestly, Kevin loved that movie to death.

It's a pity that 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, given Kevin's current situation.

If you make a movie with an investment of 3000 million U.S. dollars and get [-] million U.S. dollars in the end, although you won't lose money, I don't know how many people will speak badly about him.

Although he didn't really care about it, he still had to be a little scruples.

His golden signature of Steve Kevin cannot be broken so easily.

"Card!"

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

The scene to be filmed today is basically over.

While 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 capita.

There is no way, Zhang Yimou is not rich, and he almost cut off his income during the period of appearance, and he is eating his laurels.

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

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

Kevin doesn't have any opinion on Zhang Yimou's invitation to a restaurant of this level.

He belongs to the kind that eats expensive things and can eat cheap ones.

Of course, a meal of several hundred dollars is not cheap anyway.

After taking his seat, Zhang Yimou gave Kevin a film project book with a face full of thinking.

and a script.

"Kevin, help me check out this project, is there any play?"

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

Therefore, Kevin is not surprised by 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 big characters of Journey to the West.

With just these few words, Kevin knew that Zhang Yimou had listened to him.

As the mainland region, there is no one of the most well-known IPs.

Zhang Yimou caught the heat right.

It depends on what tricks he can shoot in Journey to the West.

With this in mind, Kevin carefully read the script.

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The entire script describes a complete story in detail, and the excerpt is from the section of Shituoling.

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

In the world view of this script, monsters eat people.

In Shituoling, people are just meat raised by demons. In such a day after day, people are almost numb.

But one percent of human beings have hope.

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

Seeing this, Kevin nodded.

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

This point, Zhang Yimou did not learn it in vain, just focus on this point, and the box office will be several million dollars.

Don't think it's an exaggeration.

With loose education, don't overestimate the IQ of Americans.

As long as you find the high point of ordinary Americans, it is not difficult to trick them into the movie theater.

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

Instead, it brought three circles.

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

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Looking at this modified version of Journey to the West, Kevin is very satisfied.

Not that its plot or anything is very, very good.

Rather, its core is actually the same as that of the United States, but it is covered with a mysterious coat from the East.

This is the core.

If you really use the Eastern style, American audiences can't understand it at all.

It's the same reason that some American movies in the future will be incomprehensible even in mainland China.

Only the most simple and simple, some elements passed by the whole world can be killed all over the world.

"Good, but is $1000 million enough for this movie?"

"Not enough, that's why I asked you to see if the script is ok, and if it's ok, see if you can invest more."

For this trip, Zhang Yimou has made his overall preparations, and will return to the mainland to shoot at that time, so as to save costs on the largest scale.

Of course, that's part of it.

In terms of special effects, he came with a whole art team, in order for the special effects company to produce an authentic taste of oriental mythology.

It's not the kind of magical movie in the West.

Beautiful location, special effects of oriental mythology, and a core story in line with American values, and then a layer of Journey to the West skin.

Chapter 349 Schneider's New Job

This is Zhang Yimou's plan.

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

Otherwise, 1000 million US dollars is unlikely to achieve the effect he had in mind.

Just as Zhang Yimou waited expectantly for Kevin to respond.

Kevin opened the project proposal again and read 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 film proposal, Kevin judged that this is a mature project plan.

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

After knowing these elements, Kevin made this decision.