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Chapter 747 [Bumblebee] should be gone, the Hollywood film and television industry is fierce and wild
Regarding the conversation between Spielberg and Peter Jackson, Zhang Nan was relatively far away, and he is now entangled with a rich second-generation North American.

"In the [Transformers] series, I have long ceased to be a director, and now I am just a starring role. There is no point in asking me!" Zhang Nan said helplessly.

That's right.

The second-generation North American rich man who haunted Zhang Nan was Travis Knight, the successor to the Nike Group. Later, it went viral on the mainland Internet that a confident director who returned home to inherit millions of assets after the filming failed.

If we really talk about it, Travis Knight still has some directorial ability.

The first animated film he directed last year, "Legend of the Magic Strings," was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Although it was only nominated but not awarded, it was already very good.

And in the original time and space, it was even after [Transformers 5] completely ruined the reputation of the series and only took in $5.92 million in box office worldwide.

Travis Knight took over the IP of the "Transformers" series and used a "Bumblebee" spin-off project to take away US$4.57 million in global box office.

Although it did not revive the IP value of the [Transformers] series, it did not overdo it. At least it stabilized the value of the [Transformers] series IP.

We must know that it is difficult to conquer a country, but it is even more difficult to defend a country, and it is even more difficult to defend a country that has been ruined.

"Bumblebee" actually almost reflects Travis Knight's directorial ability - good, but not as good as the world's top directors.

Because if it were Steven Spielberg who was in his prime of youth, relying on the remaining box office appeal of the [Transformers] series IP, he could at least bring the [Transformers] series back to life.

Even if Michael Bay at his peak was in Travis Knight's [Bumblebee] position at the time, he would probably do better.

"Zhang, please believe me, I really love the [Transformers] IP. As long as you give me a chance, I will lead the [Transformers] series to create greater glory." Travis Knight However, he did not believe that Zhang Nan had no say in the [Transformers] project, and continued to pester Zhang Nan.

Of course.

In fact, Zhang Nan does have a great say in the [Transformers] series.

Just say it!
Replacing Michael Bay as director is just a matter of Zhang Nan's words, and Paramount Pictures will not resist at all.

but……

Zhang Nan looked at Travis Knight and said silently in his heart: Young man, bragging has to be judged! I am the one who knows what you did and what you are capable of in the original time and space!
"As long as you can convince Paramount Pictures to agree, I have no problem at all." Being entangled, Zhang Nan had no choice but to say this to Travis Knight.

And Travis Knight saw that Zhang Nan was being pestered by him and still had such an attitude. He also knew that there was no use in continuing to pester him, so he had to leave calmly.

After watching the other party leave, Zhang Nan immediately called Old Luke and ordered: "Communicate with Paramount Pictures about my attitude towards Travis Knight, don't let this guy pull me away. Hupi, go raise the banner with Paramount Pictures.”

Old Luke nodded when he heard this, and then said with a hint of speculation: "Zhang, do you think that if this kid gets your skin, he can get the IP rights to the [Transformers] series from Paramount Pictures?" ?”

"Are you too close to me and a little unclear about my energy?" Zhang Nan did not answer, but answered with a rhetorical question.

Old Luke understood what was said and continued: "Then without your tiger skin, would this kid have obtained the filming rights for the [Transformers] series IP from Paramount Pictures?"

"Ninety-nine percent, the remaining one percent chance of success is still the miracle probability given by his father, the CEO of Nike." Zhang Nan replied.

What Zhang Nan said was really not nonsense. In the original time and space, after the trilogy of the [Transformers] series ended, the remaining two parts felt a bit like random filming.

In the end, [Transformers 5] was only released in the global movie market, with a box office of US$5.92 million.

As a result, the "Transformers" series has slipped from the ranks of the top series that have exceeded one billion US dollars in global box office.

But in that case, Paramount Pictures only gave Travis Knight the IP rights to shoot the "Bumblebee" derivative film.

But under his influence, the current "Transformers" series set a complete story framework of ten parts from the beginning. As of the filming of "Transformers 4", which is about to be released, it is still one short of half of the entire story. Department.

To put it more graphically, Paramount Pictures has just tapped into the IP gold mine of the [Transformers] series.

Not to mention Zhang Nan and Paramount Pictures, at the beginning of the "Transformers" series, they decided to learn the operations of "Survival of the Doomsday" and "Rebirth of the Doomsday".

After the completion of the ten-part series of [Transformers], there is still a multi-part plan for Rebirth.

Therefore, for Paramount Pictures, the current situation of the [Transformers] series IP is that less than half of the shallow gold mines on the surface have just been excavated, and the deep underground gold mines have not moved at all.

Under such a situation, let alone Travis Knight wanting to be the director of the [Transformers] series.

Even if his father, the founder of Nike, wants to be the director of the "Transformers" series, Paramount Pictures is not afraid.

After all, the Hollywood film and television industry is quite wild and fierce.

Let alone making sneakers, the current market value of Nike is only over 90 billion US dollars. At its peak in the future, Nike will only be worth over 200 billion US dollars.

The DuPont Group, which now has a market value of nearly 200 billion U.S. dollars, is too much for the Hollywood film and television industry to look down upon (or it may be because of others' orders, but even if it can be used as a reason to attack a group with a market value of 200 billion U.S. dollars, it is quite fierce and wild) ), just start filming.

And it was successful. DuPont Group, which had a market value of nearly 2017 billion U.S. dollars in 2024, gained more than 2020 billion U.S. dollars, and it has not recovered until . You must know that inflation in North America around has already It's so powerful that it has a market capitalization of several trillions.

Of course.

This film project called "Dark Waters" by DuPont Group is still being filmed and will not be released until November 2019.

……

After Peter Jackson and Travis Knight's affair.

At the subsequent premiere of [Jurassic World 3], there was finally no other story.

Otherwise, Zhang Nan can still bear it.

But Universal Pictures is going crazy, and they suspect that some people are jealous that they have collaborated with Zhang Nan on "Fast and Furious" and "Jurassic World", two top series that started with a global box office of one billion US dollars.

(End of this chapter)