giants of the era

Chapter 204 "ET" "Lord of the Rings" and Marvel (first update)
Sun 1.0 Graphics Workstation, at present, although its performance is a little worse than the minicomputers of IBM and DEC, the price is 5 US dollars, which is much cheaper than the minicomputers of more than 10 US dollars, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. There are many, so once launched, it is very popular in the market!

Li Zetian directly asked Disney to purchase 500 Sun 1.0 workstations.

Movie special effects and computer animation both require high-performance graphics workstations. Li Zetian did this to promote the rapid development of Disney in these two fields!
Industrial Light & Magic is now also a company under the Disney Corporation, and it needs a large number of graphics workstations to produce computer special effects and at the same time carry out technology development.

Many people only know that Industrial Light and Magic is a computer special effects production company, but they don’t know that Industrial Light and Magic is more like a technology development company, and most of its annual income is used to develop new technologies!
The reason why Industrial Light & Magic has always been a leader in the industry and can produce lifelike, realistic, and extremely shocking computer special effects is because its investment in technology research and development has always exceeded other special effects companies!
If you want to do good work, you must first sharpen your tools!

Right now, the Sun 1.0 graphics workstation is naturally the best tool for Industrial Light and Magic!

After Disney purchased a large number of Sun 1.0 workstations, Li Zetian stopped by Disney.Since he joined Disney last year, Disney has undergone earth-shaking changes and reorganized a creative animation department.

However, this animation department belongs to the traditional Disney animation department. Each animation is purely hand-painted, then photographed, and then played continuously.It can be said that each animation is drawn frame by frame.

In fact, it's not that Li Zetian doesn't want to make changes, but that the computer animation production technology is not mature enough, not to mention the high production cost, and the effect is not as good as traditional animation!

Of course, computer 3D animation is the future development trend. Li Zetian separated the computer animation production department of Industrial Light and Magic and established Pixar Animation Studio, which specializes in the research of computer animation technology production. Key projects.

In addition to shooting animation, Disney naturally also produces and distributes live-action movies.

Although Li Zetian did not intervene too much in the development of Disney, he could not completely ignore it.

After coming to the company, Li Zetian asked Steven Spielberg over to discuss a business worth about US$20 billion.

Although the global box office of "ET" is only 7.929 million US dollars, the income of peripheral products is much more than that of the box office.Li Zetian had already asked a well-known Hollywood screenwriter to write a script according to his idea. Steven Spielberg had also promised to help him shoot a movie before, but he had to read the script first.

Li Zetian was chatting with Disney CEO Michael Eisner in the office, and not long after, Steven Spielberg came.

Everyone exchanged pleasantries first, and then Li Zetian said straight to the point: "Director Spielberg, you helped George Lucas finish filming "Raiders of the Lost Ark", should you help me make a movie now? I even have the script ready. Already!"

Spielberg nodded: "Of course no problem, have you brought the script? Let me see how the script is written first!"

"Well," Li Zetian responded, looking at Michael Eisner, Michael Eisner immediately took out the script of "ET" from the drawer, and handed it to Spielberg.

Spielberg took the script and read it carefully. As soon as he read the beginning, he was completely attracted by the story of the script, as if this was the story he always wanted to tell...

After reading the script, Spielberg looked up at Li Zetian and said excitedly, "Mr. Li, I accept this movie!"

Li Zetian smiled, because he was very sure that Spielberg was willing to shoot "ET", so he was not surprised.At this time, he stretched out his hand and said to Spielberg, "Director Spielberg, we have a happy cooperation. I hope "ET" can become a classic with good reputation and box office!"

"Ok!"

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"The Extraterrestrial ET" is a very warm sci-fi family movie, which is very suitable for the whole family to sit around and enjoy, and it always brings tears to the eyes inadvertently.The genre is a perfect fit for Disney, which beat blockbusters like Shrek and Finding Nemo to be voted the greatest children's movie of all time.

The investment budget of "Alien ET" is only 1000 million US dollars, which is a low-cost film.

When Disney announced the shooting of the film, it did not attract too much media attention.

The media wanted to see Disney film "Star Wars 3", however, the plan was temporarily shelved.Li Zetian knows very well that frequent shooting of sequels can easily cause the audience's aesthetic fatigue.As the saying goes, "beauty comes from distance", if you shoot one in a few years, the effect will be even better.

Li Zetian knew very little about popular Hollywood movies in the 80s. "Alien ET" and "Star Wars" are movies he is more familiar with. Many movies born in the 90s are well known.

Therefore, Li Zetian is temporarily unable to provide Disney with more suggestions for investing in movies.

In fact, under the management of Michael Eisner, Disney is thriving, and there is no need for Li Zetian to worry.

However, for a long-term plan, Li Zetian decided to win some super IPs, such as "Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit" and Marvel Comics.

Especially Marvel Comics, due to the downturn in the comics market, eight 90s changed hands several times, and sold a large number of superheroes, such as Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Wolverine, Deadpool, X-Men, Hulk, etc. and other roles.

Li Zetian felt that if he didn't buy Marvel Comics now, it would be very difficult to get these comic heroes back in the future.

After leaving Disney, Li Zetian thought of this, so he ordered Dongfang Yuqin to send someone to investigate first.

These things are easy to investigate. The next day, Dongfang Yuqin put the information on Li Zetian's desk.

In 1969, the United Artists Entertainment of the United States bought the copyright of the two books "Lord of the Rings - The Hobbit Adventures" and "Lord of the Rings" from Tolkien for 1 pounds and everything related. The right to operate the product and the right to adapt the film are also included. At the same time, United Artists will also pay 7.5% of the operating income related to the two books as royalties to Tolkien and Tolkien's beneficiaries. In 1976, United Artists resold the rights to Saul Zaentz, who remains with them to this day.

After reading the information, Li Zetian smiled faintly: "Hehe, that is to say, as long as you buy the copyrights of "The Lord of the Rings - The Hobbit Adventure" and "The Lord of the Rings" from Sal Zaentz! "

"Yes, Mr. Li." Dongfang Yuqin nodded with a smile, and then added, "According to the evaluation given by professionals, the copyright price of the two books is around 1000 million US dollars!"

"Ten million dollars? It's not expensive. I'll notify Disney later and buy it as soon as possible!" The sales volume is astonishing, and it has a huge user base. If it is made into a movie, the value of the surrounding industries derived from it will be an extremely astonishing figure. 1000 million US dollars is really not expensive, it is simply the price of cabbage.

Then, Li Zetian began to look at the materials of Marvel Comics, which was founded in 1939 and used to be called "Times Comics", and was officially named Marvel in 1961.Due to the downturn in the comics market, Marvel's main competitor, DC Comics, has been acquired by Warner Bros. and has filmed the "Superman" and "Batman" movies.And Marvel Comics is still lingering, looking for a buyer.

It's a shame that Marvel Comics is worth over $9000 million, and no one is willing to buy it right now.

The boss of Marvel Comics always sighs for this...

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(End of this chapter)