According to Duke's plan, "Avengers" will be filmed in September or October, and the shooting time is tentatively two and a half months. After the $60 million allocated by Marvel Studios arrived, the preparations for the entire crew have been carried out in an orderly manner.

The film's layout is very grand, but it is not the case. Nearly 90% of the scenes in this film will be shot in a studio produced by Warner, which means Duke will use green screen to shoot on a large scale.

Except for a very few scenes that require outdoor scenes, Duke will basically complete the filming of this film in Los Angeles.

However, in the future, he will divide the crew into two parts. Anna Prinz will lead a group to shoot in multiple places including Germany, New York, Cleveland and other places, and shoot enough materials for post-synthesis shots.

To this day, the Avengers have been established for half a century, and the Marvel Comics company that grew with it has accumulated more than 70 years of history.

This half century has given comic writers enough time to mend and perfect the complex worldview of the Marvel Universe, and also given generations of creators the opportunity to dig deep into the characters. The independent background and story of each comic can no longer meet the needs. In this era when everything needs to be crossed, the emergence of the "Avengers" is inevitable.

Among them are grassroots heroes from civilians, artificial intelligence with technological crystallization, the most threatening alien life, and the great king of the divine world who is born with divine power.

Magic, technology, and superpowers reach a perfect balance through repeated frictions and cooperation; the harmonious coexistence of humans, gods and aliens is becoming more and more reasonable, and the Hollywood-style production process and current special effects technology also meet the needs of this series of movieization.

After the preheating of the previous movies, this series has formed a topic and has gathered fans. The sensory stimulation brought by the assembly of superheroes will inevitably increase exponentially.

In fact, in Duke's eyes, this film can realize the dreams of many viewers of different ages. Seeing several of his beloved heroes squeezing into one shot to fight monsters.

But it is not easy to make these superheroes successfully form a group to fight monsters. Not to mention the difficulties faced by Duke in preparation, some external interference will always jump out.

In Hollywood, after any film is so popular, all kinds of people will always come out of the box office, such as James Cameron's "Avatar", which is accused of plagiarism. The number of times the film is mentioned at the box office.

Some people are driven by interests, while others are driven by competitors. This is a complex and chaotic and fierce competition circle. It will not be surprising if any means are used in a business circle.

Duke had some trouble when preparing for "The Avengers".

In mid-May, the descendants of Jack Kobe, a famous American cartoonist, and his lawyers held a press conference, claiming that they would file a lawsuit in the Los Angeles court, suing Marvel Comics and Marvel Studios, demanding that the copyright of the comic characters created by Jack Kobe be terminated, the preparation and shooting of "Avengers" were suspended, and the profits brought by previous movies were shared.

This news was quickly reported by the media and became the focus of public opinion for a time. Many media even published news similar to the Avengers that would postpone it indefinitely.

Jack Kobe is one of Marvel's veterans and an important assistant to Stan Lee. He has participated in the creation of superhero characters such as "Fantasy Four", "Hulk", "Captain America", "Iron Man", and "Thor", and is one of the creators of the Avengers.

However, he is different from Stan Lee and he passed away as early as 1994.

There is no doubt that Stan Lee is recognized as the father of Marvel's superheroes. According to his agreement with Marvel, he also enjoys a 5% share of all profits brought by all superheroes involved in the creation.

But in fact, Jack Kobe, who had long passed away, had a much greater influence on Marvel than Stan Lee.

Jack Kobe's descendants sued Marvel Company in court and demanded the revocation of the copyright of a series of comic works created by Jack Kobe between 1958 and 1963, which would undoubtedly cause a lot of trouble to the entire Marvel plan.

Of course, Duke will not stop preparing and shooting. After the other party convened a press conference, he also convened a meeting for a while.

Regardless of whether Jack Kobe's descendants were instigated by some people, it is unlikely that he will win this lawsuit, because he is facing more than a Marvel comic.

If Jack Kobe's descendants filed a total of 45 lawsuits to terminate copyrights were finally realized, including the copyright and income of many characters such as Fantastic Four, X-Men, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man, etc.

This involves not only Marvel and Warner Bros., but also Sony Columbia, Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount.

Without any surprises, Duke made a slight suggestion. The companies stood together and formed a huge group of lawyers, not only to respond to the lawsuit, but also filed a counter-claim against Jack Kobe's descendants.

Marvel filed accusations, claiming that Jack Kobe's works were created for the company's positions, so all copyrights belong to Marvel.

Under the American copyright law, if Marvel gives a screenwriter or painter a task to create a comic story with a new character, or draw a comic based on the description of his character, and pays for the screenwriter or painter to complete the task, the publishing company owns the copyright, not the screenwriter or painter.

Marvel Studios made a pledge to the press release, "All comics that Jack Kobe contributed to Marvel are in this category."

This will inevitably turn into an extremely long lawsuit. Faced with such a powerful interest alliance, everyone actually knows that the possibility of Jack Kobe's descendants winning is almost zero.

"It's just to add trouble to us."

In the Warner Studios studio, Tina Fey said to Scarlett Johnson who just walked in, "Add to increase our pressure. After all, once the lawsuit is lost, the entire project must be stopped. This psychological hint will affect the work of the actors and others."

Scarlett turned to Duke, "Dear, will you be affected?"

Duke, who was temporarily resting, put down the coffee cup in his hand and shook his head, "If it were affected by this kind of thing, I wouldn't have been here."

How many fierce competition has he faced along the way, and how many light or dark methods have his competitors used?

How could Hollywood easily see a force rising without any obstacles?

Not only himself, Duke is also at ease with his entire team. Like him, they have experienced countless baptisms of wind and rain, rather than the idiot who came to Hollywood to think this place was a holy land.

"Ska, when you rehearse with other actors..."

Compared to members of his team, Duke is still a little worried about the actors. "You can also talk to them about this, and the crew will never stop anyway."

Those actors are neither newcomers nor fools. With a little tip, you will naturally see that Jack Kobe's descendants have no chance to win.

Not to mention that Marvel authorized Jack to create it back then, even if it wasn't, it would be a fantasy for such a powerful interest consortium.

The laws of this country are indeed very sound, but only fools will think that American laws are fair and just.

"Well..." Scarlett nodded, "I know what to do."

Tina Fey was looking through the information, and suddenly said, "Duke, there is one thing you should pay attention to. "Fast and Furious 5" co-starring David Ellison and Universal Pictures is scheduled to be released on our next weekend."

"What again?" Scarlett stood up and walked to Tina Fei's side, looking at the information together, "Did he naively think that Fast and Furious 5 can win "Avengers"?"

"You can't be careless." Duke has never been an arrogant person. "The "Fast and Furious" series has accumulated a large number of fans. As long as there is no problem with the film and promotion, he is definitely a strong enemy."

“Wow…”

As if seeing something very strange, Scarlett shouted, and then said, "There is an acquaintance of you in this crew."

Before Duke could make any statement, she continued, "They invited Mel Gibson back from Australia to serve as the villain of the film."

"He's back." Duke flicked his coffee cup gently, "Tina, let's stare at Mel Gibson and the crew."

Tina Fei nodded.

But Scarlett Johnson thought of more things, "Will the lawsuit we face be related to David Ellison and his crew?"

Duke just gave an ambiguous answer, "It's possible."

As he said in the past, it doesn’t matter who does it. What’s important is who does it most benefit? As long as you can see the beneficiary, you will see where your enemies are.

Seeing Tina Fei start calling, Scarlett left the other side, came to Duke, held on the back of his chair, and said, "Are we supposed to do something? We can't just be beaten passively, right?"

"Ska, you care too much." Duke knocked on her hand and reminded, "What you should do most now is how to grasp your role."

"Okay, okay, I get it." Scarlett walked towards the seat opposite Duke, muttering as she walked, "Black Widow always obeys and is in a gray area. Although she is fighting for justice, she has a dark background. But she still fights for justice firmly, because on the one hand she has to do this, and on the other hand she is quite responsible, and she always speaks with her fists, which is how she can tell right or wrong." (To be continued.)

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