China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 216 From Pacific Rim to Movie Universe, search for boot

《飓风营救3》宣布提档了，从原定的7月22日提档到7月15日，不过这次提档就仅限大陆地区。

原来定档7月22日全球公映是为了避开7月15日全球公映的《哈利波特7》大结局，国内提档到15日是为了避开7月21日在大陆上映的《变形金刚3》。

《变形金刚3》美国上映日期是6月29日，大陆地区是7月21日，《飓风营救3》国内提档海外档期不变，这样就既避开了《哈利波特7》又避开了《变形金刚3》。

To put it simply, Li Mu was scared and dared not go head-to-head with "Transformers 3".

How?In terms of global box office, "Transformers 3" in the original space-time is 11.23 billion US dollars, and "Taken 3" is only 3.26 million US dollars.

Regarding the domestic box office of the two films, "Transformers 3" is the second film in the domestic market with a box office of over 10 billion. The first is "Avatar". , As a result, the domestic box office was only more than 3 million.

The two are not works of the same level at all. The Transformers series is currently the most popular foreign film in China at the box office.

The first part of the Transformers series was the domestic annual champion of the original time and space in 2007, the second was the annual runner-up in 2009, and the annual champion in 09. "2012 Doomsday", a world-class disaster blockbuster, the third is The annual champion in 2011, with a domestic box office of 10.7 billion.

In a sense, the reason why Li Mu has not developed the "Pacific Rim" series has something to do with this "Transformers".

The global box office of "Pacific Rim 1" in the original time and space is 4.11 million US dollars, which does not seem low, but its North American box office is only 1 million US dollars. Compared with its investment, this North American box office is actually very miserable. In 2013, the domestic movie market is only big. ?But the North American box office and the mainland box office of this film are evenly tied, both of which are 1 million US dollars, which shows how unpopular it is in North America.

They are all mechs. "Pacific Rim" is no match for "Transformers" and "Iron Man". Similarly, Tom Cruise's "Edge of Tomorrow" invested 1.8 million U.S. dollars and the North American box office is only 1 million U.S. dollars. It can be said that it is a loss. miserable.

In addition to reasons such as announcements and starring roles, audiences who have seen "Transformers" and "Iron Man".You let him watch the exoskeleton mecha in "Edge of Tomorrow" again?In front of the former, the mechs of "Edge of Tomorrow" are too crude. How can the exoskeleton be as cool as "Transformers" and "Iron Man"?
"Edge of Tomorrow" is adapted from RB's 2004 comics, and the copyright is also in the hands of Li Mu, who is keen to occupy the pit in advance, but Li Mu has been slow to develop it because he is worried about losing money.

Whether it is "Pacific Rim" or "Edge of Tomorrow", if you want to make money, the role of the domestic market must not be underestimated. The current scale of the domestic film market may not be able to support the important task of making these two films profitable, or the risk. It is very big, and therefore, although Li Mu's manga has been serialized in the "Pacific Rim" series, there has been no plan to start a movie project for the two.

However, Li Mu used "Pacific Rim" to successfully make "The Avengers" difficult.

At this point in time in the original time and space, "Avengers 1" should have been completed long ago, but in this time and space, it has just started up for no reason.

So what exactly is going on?
To put it simply, after Manwu Manga serialized the plot of "Pacific Rim 1", the company began to discuss how to proceed with the plot. During the period, some screenwriters suggested that it could be combined with Chinese classical mythology?
At the beginning, Li Mu didn't intervene. Now that he has decided to abandon the plot of "Pacific Rim 2", Li Mu is also very curious about what kind of ideas his group of screenwriters can come up with.

As a result, after seeing several ideas in succession, he himself was not very satisfied. Finally, he had an idea and thought of one by himself.

His thinking at the time was, since the "Thor" in the Nordic mythology system can fight side by side with the "Iron Man" in modern society, why can't Monkey King in Chinese mythology fight side by side with the mecha fighters in "Pacific Rim" ?

We all know that Hollywood movies in the next ten years will be dominated by the Marvel Universe, and we all know that the Marvel Universe series will sweep the world in the future. Besides, almost any series can compete with it, but even if we know, what can we do?
Although Li Mu is a time traveler, he really can't think of a way to compete with the Marvel Universe in the next ten years.

Unless you beat Marvel with Marvel!
Li Mu's thinking:

The Mech Warrior in "Pacific Rim" corresponds to Iron Man in "The Avengers".

Sun Wukong corresponds to Thor in "The Avengers".

The bull devil corresponds to the Hulk in "The Avengers".

The character who can turn bullets in "Assassins" corresponds to Hawkeye in "Avengers".

The queen of ice magic in "Frozen" corresponds to the female member Black Widow in "Avengers".

As for the general direction of the plot, it is nothing more than that the mecha fighters in "Pacific Rim" accidentally discovered the existence of mythical characters after they went to the monster's hometown to prevent future troubles. Then the mythical characters and modern mecha fighters, in order to defend the earth With this common goal, everyone has formed an alliance.

The following plots can draw heavily from the plots of the "Avengers" series of movies. Although "Avengers" has comics for a long time, the plots of the movies and the comics are basically two independent systems, which gives Li Mu borrowed heavily from the opportunities created by the plot of the "Avengers" series of movies.

As for the name of the superhero alliance built by Li Mu, it is actually called "Guardian Alliance". According to the setting, Sun Wukong once proposed to name it "Guardian Alliance" in the plot. I am not a god, so the name "Guardian God" is not worthy of the name. For this reason, Sun Wukong also used his magic power to check the current situation of the earth, and then said that the mech team is now a god, because there are "god statues" about them everywhere on the earth, and these god statues are built more than him. The "Great Holy Statue" is much more magnificent.

The mecha team laughed and said that those were sculptures, not god statues. Sun Wukong scratched his head after hearing this and said, he wondered why people have the money to make the god statues so tall but don't have the money to build a temple for the god statues to shelter them from the wind and rain.

Everyone laughed when they heard the words, and finally adopted the opinion of the mecha team and named the team "Guardian Alliance".

In order not to completely reduce this story to a fairy tale, Li Mu sent all other mythological characters to the depths of the universe, such as Tang Seng and Bajie, etc. will not appear, or at least there is no need to appear in the short term.

Li Mu didn't have the guts to make a movie directly, because he didn't know how the market would accept it, but it would be fine to make a cartoon, because the cost of a cartoon is much lower, that is to say, it won't cost much.

Judging from the market feedback in the past few years, the acceptance of this series in the North American market is quite good. Basically, the sales volume of each book is hundreds of thousands of copies. As for the domestic market, the sales volume is a bit exaggerated. The book could sell millions of copies.

As for word-of-mouth, it is better in foreign countries than in China. Some people in China have always questioned that it is too ridiculous to let the Great Sage and the mecha fight together, but the sales are getting hotter and hotter.

Li Mu thinks that with this popularity, this series can still be made into a movie, but the time is definitely not now, let's wait until he can copy almost everything he can copy in the future.

Now he is more curious about what the "Avengers" in this world will look like after being borrowed a lot of plots by himself.

Another thing is that Hua Shang's new movie "Search" has officially launched. The original novel of the movie "Sorrow for the Dead" was serialized on Jinjiang.com in 2007, and its copyright has naturally been bought by Li Mu.

The director is Xue Xiaolu, the director of "Beijing Meets Seattle". The two talked about this film at the premiere of "Beijing Meets Seattle". It was replaced by Zhu Yawen, and most of the other characters used the original actors, but the role of Yao Chen was replaced by Li Mu to Hai Qing.

　Thanks to "Book Friend 20171117224040813" for the reward.

　　In addition, there is a little less content today, and I will make it up tomorrow. I also feel that this chapter may be controversial, and I have a guilty conscience. Can you talk about it in the end?
　　
　
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