Chapter 320: Uncovering the Scar
There are three major difficulties facing Chen Tiandu. The first is the will of the Marvel management board; the second is the reaction of the capital market, such as changes in the external stock market; the third is the worry that the disruptor will appear.
"Spider-Man" has not been released yet, but the success of "X-Men" is obvious. In such a big Hollywood, it is impossible for Chen Tiandu to be the only one who has witnessed it. Maybe it's thinking, maybe it's waiting and watching, maybe it's planning... especially beware of Walt Disney, because after the Marvel is in the future, they still offer a high price of more than 4 billion US dollars to accept the Marvel Group in one fell swoop. But it doesn't matter, because the matrix has taken the lead in taking action.
The New York headquarters of Marvel Entertainment is actually not large, with not many people, only about one hundred people; a writer usually has an office of seven or eight square meters, with superheroes he created, newspaper crops, and even photos of his life and his family.
Including the office of the Nine-Headed Insect Organization, which will be very famous in the future, here, Chen Tian has seen these arrangements in many videos when Marvel became popular in the future.
The walls are covered with comic images of Marvel superheroes. They have different images, but without exception, they have an exaggerated form of American comic style.
Regardless of whether the business is successful or not, the visitors are guests. Avi Arad personally introduced, "Marvel has a history of 63 years, with more than 5,000 comic heroes including Spider-Man, Hulk, Daredevil, Thor, Captain America, X-Men, Ghost Men, Blade Warrior, Wolverine, Iron Man, etc...."
"Wait, is Iron Man very famous among the heroes of Marvel?" Chen Tian suddenly interrupted and asked.
Avi was suffocated and still said, "Of course, many of Marvel's characters are very famous." Although they are still praising them, they are a little helpless. In fact, the comics Iron Man is far less popular than Wolverine, Captain America, Daredevil, Blade Warrior, and Spider-Man. Chen Tian smiled and didn't care.
Aviarard said: "In fact, Marvel already has a plan to build Marvel Studios. We do not intend to continue to sell any hero copyrights, and we will gradually take back some classic characters and create a Marvel universe. And this plan is under implementation...
"That's also the future. At least so far, the two most famous movies of Marvel were created by other companies." Chen Tian suddenly stabbed him again and asked back: "And as far as I know, you have already implemented this movie plan since 1994. I hope to invest in superhero movies, increase Marvel's influence, and open up the market for toy sales. But so many years have passed, why hasn't the improvement and the stock has not seen any growth?"
Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter said: "That's because the computer stunt technology was not mature enough to show the charm of Marvel movies. But now the technology is mature."
"Maybe~~" Chen Tian still ignored it and turned his head to the Marvel management personnel around him and said: "Gentlemen. I want to remind you that Hollywood movies after 1994 are not without technology. You must know that at that time "Star Wars" was already famous all over the world."
"The most critical issue is that Marvel has neither the funds nor the ability, so she had to sell the adaptation rights of a large number of characters to the Hollywood giants. It was not until the bankruptcy protection process was initiated in 1996 that all these agreements were abolished, and some copyrights were returned to Marvel Entertainment!"
"Today, Marvel Entertainment suddenly woke up and wanted to cheer up again, but suddenly found that its most expensive characters, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Quick Silver, Red Witch, Cable Man, Deadpool, Silver Shadowman, etc. were in the hands of 20th Century Fox; Spider-Man, Venom, Doctor Octopus, Green Devil, Doctor Lizard, Sandman, Vulture, Mysterious Mage, Hunter Craven, Black Cat, Silver Shadowman, Electric Man, Rhino Man, etc. were sold to Sony Pictures. Moreover, the live-action movie of "Spider-Man" will be released globally in May this year. In case of a big box office sales, should you be happy or should you feel that a piece of meat in your heart has been cut off? If Spider-Man succeeds, Fox will use Spider-Man to develop a small spider product, Spider-Woman, Spider-Man and other superheroes. What do you think then?"
In this world, I always like to listen to good things more than bad things, but most of the time, bad things are the most useful. Chen Tiandu's words are quite disrespectful to the master, and many senior executives immediately showed anger.
Avi said with a serious expression: "What does this mean by you? Come to visit Marvel or come to mock us."
Chen Tiandu said calmly: "I love deeply and blame deeply. Facts are facts and there is no change. But we can change the future. Now that I am here, the opportunity is right in front of us, an opportunity for everyone to make a lot of money together."
He just gave everyone a blow, and now he spit out another red date, which immediately seduced the seedlings of desire in the hearts of these people. But at the critical moment, Chen Tiandu shut up again, making people feel hated.
Helplessly, John Lasseter asked on behalf of everyone and said, "What is the opportunity you mentioned? Can we agree to your acquisition?"
Chen Tiandu shook his head and deliberately gave a plain expression. He said slowly: "No, it's not time for me to speak generously to you. I don't want to waste this opportunity to visit. There are still several places that have not been visited. May I ask, is this a screenwriter's room? I am very interested in more than 5,000 Marvel characters in Marvel. Can anyone tell me how they created it?"
I came to the screenwriter's room. I have moved here many times and have gone through many years later, but some facilities still show the traces of time.
"certainly."
The answer was Stan Lee, who kept smoking and said proudly: "I wrote most of the heroes here. Do you want to know the specific method?"
Chen Tian showed an interesting expression and made a gesture of asking for advice, "I really want to." For this old naughty boy, you have to hold him.
Stan Lee nodded with satisfaction and spoke out his great invention.
In Marvel, they call this "Marvel-style creation": Step 1: Screenwriter and editor discuss and propose a story outline and outline; Step 2: After receiving the outline, the painter decides the pace and center of gravity of the story and draws it into a comic with a specified number of pages; Step 3: After the screenwriter gets the painter's pencil draft, he uses it as a guide to write the final script, including character dialogue and title; Step 4: The process of drawing characters, ink lines and coloring.
This approach is equivalent to screenwriters only providing creativity, and painters use their own creations to create, and then screenwriters "look at pictures and speak", which weakens the screenwriters' labor and increases the work of painters, so painters who cooperate with Marvel screenwriters are particularly important.
Relying on this large number of outstanding characters, by 1968, Marvel had caught up with and even surpassed DC and became another giant in the comics industry. At the same time, the comics industry finally got out of the dilemma and developed rapidly.
That era is also known as the Marvel era.
No wonder Stan Lee is so proud. He is a real super screenwriter. He and his old partner Jack Kobe have written too many characters. Such heavy workload is unimaginable for ordinary people. Sometimes even they themselves don’t remember the characters they have written. In order to facilitate memory, he deliberately chose the same initials and names when naming the characters in his works - Peter Parker (peter-parker), Bruce Banner (b-breast ce-banner), Matt Murdock (matt-murdock)...
Although this old man has no real power, he is a symbol of Marvel, and this cannot be changed.
"You are amazing. I started out as a screenwriter. Only the screenwriter can know the hard work of both screenwriters." Chen Tiandu sincerely praised.
This sentence has made many writers look a little more comfortable.
Marvel has the title of "Slaveowner of the South" in the United States, and there are many writers who left Marvel in the 1990s. The famous image comics company is the most typical representative. Why did it leave at that time? It was entirely because the writers could not enjoy the copyright share of their works and their treatment was low. If he could change the treatment of writers, he might be able to win over the support of a group of writers.
But these writers are the lowest-level existences of Marvel and cannot determine the fate of the company.
The company was so big that it took a walk around soon and finally came to the point. In Marvel's office, there were a number of shareholders and senior executives.
Chen Tiandu was quite stunning, standing at the forefront, and said, "Gentlemen, ladies, before making today's speech, I would like to introduce myself first. My name is Christmas Chen, and my Chinese name is Chen Tiandu. Many people know this, but maybe you are not very clear about me. In the eyes of many people, I am an ignorant Chinese, especially last year and this year. Because all my achievements have made the arrogant Americans feel embarrassed. I, a Chinese boy who has only been in the United States for 5 years, has become the most typical representative of the American dream. Now I have to waving money to buy TV stations and Marvel. Have you ever had this idea?"
Everyone looked at each other. Should they answer this sentence?
Fortunately, Chen Tian didn't mean to ask for answers and continued: "I will only tell you that I am not an ambitious person. I like all film and television art, including Marvel."
"I need to remind you, do you still remember the situation of Marvel in the 1980s?"
There was a silence in the office, and Chen Tian raised his eyebrows, "No one spoke? Or is this scar revealed by me that caused unpleasant memories, or do you don't want to look back on this history at all?"
"Ahem~~"
Avi coughed dryly and said, "There is nothing to say."
"Indeed, the 1980s was the golden age when DC and Warner dominated the comic-adapted film market. We were beaten to the point of being beaten and ran away. We watched the sequels of "Batman" and "Superman" come one after another, and the flowing stars came one after another. As the largest comic company in the United States, we can only watch our old enemy DC follow Warner to enjoy the good and delicious food, holding a large number of copyrights but not having a next home. We finally sold the copyright but no one was willing to take it on..."
He said it endlessly, which shows how painful this history is in Marvel's heart. (To be continued, please search for Piaotianyi, the novel is better and faster!
Chapter completed!