"James, it's too risky for you to do this. The difficulty of adapting a comic movie is not that high, let alone a comic or a Fusang comic." Xia Tian frowned and advised Cameron.

In history, there are countless examples of poor box office reputation for comic-adapted movies, especially movies adapted from Fusang comics. Due to the different cultures of the East and West and the different expressions, they are more likely to cause deviations in understanding, making the box office and reputation of the work hard to describe.

For example, the famous Fuso comic "Dragon Ball" movie adapted from the United States in 2009 had a Douban score of only 3:6, which can be said to be a peerless bad work that ruined childhood.

For example, "Bei Dou Shenquan", adapted from a well-known fighting comic in 1995, had a Douban score of only 4:30, which is also a bad work.

It can be said that the comics adapted from American comics, at the least, they are not lost and are just average. At the worst, the plot collapses and the whole game is lost.

Although James Cameron is a world-renowned director and has great skills in both screenwriters and directing, he does not have any advantage in the comic adaptation of Fusang comics.

Instead of adapting comics to Fusang comics, it is better to re-written it. At least the new story is a piece of white paper that can be read at will. However, adapting comics to Fusang comics is equivalent to changing Doraemon to Iron Man, and the difficulty is not ordinary.

"Mr. Xia, I think I can." Cameron waved his hand, looking very determined.

Seeing that he did not listen to the advice, Xia Tian shook his head helplessly.

A successful director like Cameron is usually more tempered. To put it nicely, it is called "adhering to your own creative philosophy."

To be honest, if there was no such persistence, he would be knocked down by the cruel reality in his newcomer stage.

For example, when Cameron was directing the movie "Pizzard", he was still a newcomer and had no right to edit the movie. For this reason, he used his credit card to pry the door of the editing room every night and sneaked in to edit.

If he had not insisted so much and allowed the producer to edit "Pizza", the movie he had produced would probably be very different from what he wanted, and would probably not have achieved a good box office, and he would not have the opportunity to make the next film.

For example, after Cameron wrote the script of "Terminator", in order to obtain the director rights of the film, he only asked the film company for one dollar of royalties.

Many film companies think that the script of "Terminator" is very good, but they have no confidence in him, so they are willing to pay a high price to buy the script, but are unwilling to ask him, the newcomer, to be the director.

But Cameron always disagreed and insisted on being a director himself. In the end, he met a company that dared to use him. He eventually successfully made a name in Hollywood with the movie "Terminator".

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It’s just that “persistence” is a double-edged sword. Some succeed because of “persistence”, and some are unlucky because of persistence.

Although Xia Tian was not sure that Cameron would be in trouble, the possibility of success was not high.

Cameron is a director he is very optimistic about. Xia Tian is planning to cooperate with him for a long time and continue to release fine movies. It would be a pity to encounter Waterloo because of this comic adaptation.

"Of course I trust your ability. However, I think we should be more secure at this stage. It's better to film "The True Lies 2" first." Xia Tian suggested with a smile, "I just had a good idea."

"Oh?! Then I want to hear it." James Cameron asked curiously immediately when he heard it.

Xia Tian is a world-renowned screenwriter. His works include "The Love of Man and Ghost", "The Sparrow Turns into Phoenix", "Death Comes", "Hangover", "The Speed ​​of Life and Death", "Saw", "Mulholland Road", and "Jurassic Park", etc., which not only achieved a good box office, but also won a good reputation.

In fact, after filming "The True Lies", he always wanted to continue to expand it and become a series of spy action movies such as "007" and "Mission: Impossible".

In this way, the value of the IP "The True Lies" will be greatly improved. He will also make a lot of profits from this series of movies.

However, James Cameron had never thought about what kind of story to shoot in "The True Lies". When he wanted to shoot, the terrorist attack happened in Meiyao, which immediately made works on related topics immediately taboo.

When many years later, when the people are no longer so sensitive to this matter, the timing is no longer right. The male protagonist Schwarzenegger has been elected governor of California, and it is full of affairs, so it is difficult to come out to film again. He also has the project "Avatar", so the best time to film the sequel to "The True Lies" has been missed and will almost never come back.

In this life, Summer hopes that Cameron can film the sequel to "The True Lies".

On the one hand, the last movie was really popular, with a global box office of 379 million US dollars, which was one of the highest box office movies at that time. The global box office of "007: Golden Eye" released at the same time was only 350 million US dollars. If the sequel was filmed, as long as the quality was guaranteed, it would be able to earn more than 200 million US dollars in any case.

Such box office results were definitely considered a big hit in the 1990s.

On the one hand, "The True Lies" was actually invested by Forbes, and Xia Tian does not own this copyright. If Cameron can be persuaded to film the sequel, he can jointly run the "The True Lies" ip with Forbes by providing stories, scripts, and investments.

At that time, this IP will automatically be converted from exclusive to Forbes and will be shared by both of them.

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"That's right, this movie still needs to catch terrorists." Xia Tian smiled. "The last time, the terrorists' plan to bomb San Francisco failed, they decided to make a comeback. This time, their plan was to hijack civil aviation planes and smash the Statue of Liberty to declare war on Western society..."

When Cameron heard about Xia Tian’s creativity, his eyes lit up.

The Statue of Liberty is a representative building of beauty, and is also regarded as a beacon of freedom, and is given a lot of symbolic meaning. Once this statue is destroyed, it will be equivalent to destroying the totem in the beauty's mind, and the effect is very shocking.

Moreover, using civil aviation to hit the scene is also very creative. In previous movies, terrorist attacks were mostly done by explosions, and the most amazing thing was to use nuclear bombs. If you use them too many times, it would be meaningless.
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