On the first weekend of April, Embassy Films held a North American premiere for Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse in Los Angeles, which is clearly more valued than the premiere of "Legend of the Night 2" last month.

Because Kate Beckinsale takes over the heroine of "Van Helsing", Ronan plans to enter the second part of "Legend of the Night".

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

In contrast, the Resident Evil series that can continue to be filmed is much more valuable, both the film itself and Mira Jovovich.

Ronan also appeared at the premiere.

However, he did not walk the red carpet and went straight into the theater.

Ronan saw Robert Lee and walked over and asked, "How is the situation over there?"

Robert Lee whispered: "Marvel's life is not easy, there is a serious lack of funds, no one wants to lend, and there is no mortgage, and the remaining comic characters are basically unfamiliar, and banks and financial institutions are definitely unwilling to take risks. Now they are trying their best to make money, but I have not spent much effort to convince Avi Arad."

He scratched his head: "If the heroes in our hands were not very famous and had no adapted movies and were of little value, Marvel would probably come to us."

Ronan nodded slowly and said, "You pay more attention to Marvel's situation. When their bad situation reaches a near point, inform Bob and me in time."

Robert Lee knew exactly what Ronan was going to do, nodded and said, "I'll keep watching."

In fact, he has doubts. Now Marvel Comics is like a bottomless pit. It’s not dead for a lot of money to throw it into. If Relativity Entertainment really wants to acquire it, can it save Marvel?

If it were someone else, he would have made suggestions long ago, but Ronan...

Robert Lee believes that if anyone in this world can save the mess of Marvel comics that have been bad in the past decade, there is only Ronan.

Several Asian faces walked into the VIP room at this time. Ronan and Robert Lee exchanged a few greetings. No matter what, Capcom is now a partner of Relativity Entertainment, and they are the kind that makes relatively few requests.

Capcom does not have much ambitions for the movie yet, and his energy seems to be completely focused on the game.

If we look at the standards that once were across the Pacific, the games and comics of the island country are definitely IP-making machines, and they continuously produce various works with a wide audience range, and the copyright is not expensive.

But in terms of movie adaptation, with extremely few exceptions, 99% of the island game or comic movies adapted by Hollywood have failed.

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

James Cameron was the producer of that film "Alita: Battle Angel".

When Ronan thought of this, he suddenly remembered something. It seemed that James Cameron liked the island comic adapted from this film very much.

What is the name of that island comic?

Ronan is quite unfamiliar with island comics, and is even less familiar with the domestic dramas that he once had. Apart from the Ikkiko, Saint Seiya, Slam Dunk, and the primary school student who remembered because of the death wherever he went, he knew nothing about other island comics, and there were very few people who could remember them.

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

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

"Red Pepper"? Not right, I can remember this name because many people say that Christopher Nolan's "Inception" plagiarized this island comic.

It seems like something dream? Ronan thought for a long time and finally remembered a name - "Gunmeng"!

Ronan called Robert Lee to the corner and whispered: "Just seeing those islanders in Capcom, I remembered an island comic I read some time ago. It should be called "Gunmeng". If you ask someone to check it, if the copyright is still there, please go to the island country and buy it."

Robert Lee repeated: "Gunmeng?"

Ronan nodded: "That's right, just call this name, buy it and enrich it into the copyrighted curry."

Compared with works in North America, the biggest advantage of the copyright of island comics is that they are cheap, and it won’t cost much money to buy them. When discussing cooperation with James Cameron in the future, they may be able to use them.

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

In the case of grabbing copyright, the faster the better.

Last year, because of a step slowdown, the copyright of "Da Vinci Code" fell into Tom Hanks' hands.

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

The two of them are familiar with Ronan. Paul Anderson said directly: "Ronan, will you wait for a while to prepare for the third part?" He did not hide it: "Milla took over a movie called "The Deadly Violet" and will play the heroine."

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

"No problem." Paul Anderson promised: "I will do it on time."

The rate of release every other year is within the planned scope. This type of film is released too quickly. The last two sequels of "The Matrix" are a lesson.

When Ronan was sitting in the cinema, he thought of the huge island comics industry from "Gunmeng". Is there any copyright available? Perhaps after Netflix's streaming business becomes truly strong, it also needs to operate diversifiedly and add works in various languages.

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

"Filled with Masters" to make a live-action movie version? Ronan thought for a moment and finally shook his head. Instead of shooting this, it would be better to adapt it based on NBA superstars, which has more audiences around the world than this.

The movie begins to be screened, and the premiere theaters are full.

The first movie has a pretty good box office result, and the audience it has attracted through the offline market in the past two years, naturally, it is very concerned about the release of the sequel movie.

Some of them are game fans.

A month ago, Capcom released a data that combined all the Resident Evil games released, selling 24 million sets worldwide.

This is only genuine, not including pirated audiences.

The hot sale of the game also brought more audience base to the film.

The movie adaptation does not follow the game's ideas.

Although Jill Valentine finally made her debut in the film, the absolute protagonist of the film is still Alice.

Compared to the complete release of himself in the latter few movies, in "Revelation", Paul Anderson, the director and screenwriter, still makes the plot of the film related to the characters, plots and events in the game.

Of course, more changes are still.

For example, three game characters in "The Goddess of Nemesis" were added as the sub-line characters that promoted the progress of the plot, and 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 filming of the "Resident Evil" series ended, Paul Anderson said in an interview: In this world, no one can make a game adaptation movie more successful than me.

From a business perspective, this makes sense.

As for the overall situation, no one is more successful than the "Resident Evil" series filmed by Paul Anderson.

In terms of the number of movies directed by the directing game adaptations, Uvi Ball is the one who can really compete with Paul Anderson, but the former Uvi Ball is not behind the rapid development company and huge platform to promote it.

Perhaps, Uvey Ball can compete with Paul Anderson for this position now.

Of course, from a simple film perspective, whether Uvy Ball or Paul Anderson becomes the most successful director of the game adaptation film in the world, it can be regarded as the tragedy of a game adaptation film.

This type of movie, Hollywood keeps trying, until Ronan leaves the other side of the Pacific, no one finds the right answer and path.

In the second part, Alice still cannot escape this zombie nightmare. After the transformation of the underground biochemical laboratory of the Umbrella Company, she was given superman power, speed and perception ability, and continued to fight with zombies.

In addition to facing the zombie army and mutant monsters, Alice encountered a stronger enemy...

Compared with the first one, the zombies rushed out of the laboratory and attacked the human world. The Umbrella Company destroyed the entire city in order to protect its own achievements.

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

Regardless of the quality of the film, "Apocalypse" has done at least a little bit, and the fast pace can allow the audience to sit down for more than an hour and enjoy the pleasure of visual and sound effects, and there is no need to leave anything else.

This is also the entertainment of commercial movies.

Ronan feels that as long as the entertainment is sufficient, the adaptation does not necessarily follow the game plot.

Compared with those game movies with larger plot adaptations, the chances of movies that follow the game plot are more likely to fail.

Looking at "Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse", Ronan couldn't help but think of Uvi Ball. Brother Bao is adapting "Bloods" and maybe Brother Bao can bring a masterpiece of a game-adapted movie?

The last time I received a call from Uvi Ball, Bao Ge had convinced Christana Loken that the actress who has starred in "Terminator 3" has agreed to be the heroine.

Inferred from Milla Jovovich and Angelina Jolie, the beautiful heroine seems to be an indispensable key factor in the success of the game adaptation movie.
Chapter completed!