Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 157 Disney’s Warriors Cinematic Universe

Buzz!

The mobile phone on the carpet in the living room was vibrating constantly. Next to it was a long golden suspender skirt and a silver red-soled high-heeled shoe leaning on the ground.

After vibrating continuously for more than ten minutes, the phone finally stopped.

But soon, from the pile of men's clothes next to him, the sound of a new email being received on the BlackBerry continued to sound.

But Jamie and Serena, who were far away in the bedroom, couldn't hear this. They were fully immersed in the oldest sport of mankind, and nothing around them could affect them.

More than an hour later, Serena walked into the living room barefoot and wrapped in a bath towel.

She was looking for her cell phone, but she found Jamie's cell phone that had fallen on the ground first.

Picking it up and looking at it, I found a dozen missed calls.

It was all from Ovitz.

Serena returned to the bathroom and handed the phone to Jamie, who was lying on his back in the round bathtub.

"Michael's phone number, he called many times in succession. I guess he may have something urgent to do with you."

Jamie took the phone and was about to call Ovitz back when he caught a glimpse of a scene that made people's blood boil.

Serena reached out to untie the bath towel at her chest, and in the blink of an eye the bath towel slid down her smooth and white calves to the floor.

While entering the bathtub, Serena generously displayed her graceful and charming figure in front of her boyfriend.

It wasn't until his girlfriend's chest was submerged in the bath bubbles that Jamie looked back, and then dialed Ovitz's phone number.

As soon as the call was connected, Ovitz's resentful voice came from the other end.

"Thank God, you finally called me back. What did you do for the past hour or so?"

"I was exercising and not looking at my phone."

Ovitz on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment.

I believe you are doing exercise in the middle of the night!

"I have just received a definite piece of news. You will probably see it on the front page of the newspaper tomorrow morning."

Jamie asked casually:

“America’s War on Terror in the Middle East Is Over?”

This time Ovitz was fucked speechless.

He also wanted the war to end, but it was impossible.

After failing to sell the truth, Ovitz had no choice but to tell the truth:

"Messer's counterattack is coming faster than we imagined. Disney has reached an acquisition agreement with Warrior Comics for a price of US$20 million."

"After being acquired, Warrior Comics will establish a film production company - Warrior Pictures, which is wholly owned by Disney. The CEO of this company is an old acquaintance of ours. You must have guessed his name, right? ?”

Jamie switched to his left hand to hold the phone.

You can guess with your toes that the CEO of Warrior Pictures can only be David Messer.

Now he was more interested in another thing.

"Are you sure the purchase price is $20 million?"

Ovitz asked rhetorically:

"Do you suspect there is something wrong with this price? In fact, I also think the purchase price of 2000 million US dollars is too low. Warrior Comics is the third largest comic book giant in the United States with more than superhero copyrights."

Before he finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted by Jamie.

"As we all know, there are only two giants in American comics, DC and Marvel. As for Warrior Comics, I'm sorry, the last time I paid attention to their superheroes was when their Sub-Zero appeared in a cooperative publication of Iron Man."

Ovitz could clearly feel the disdain in his tone through the phone.

It’s not that Jamie “underestimates” the enemy, but that Warrior Comics really doesn’t deserve the title of giant.

The American comic market has always been divided between DC and Marvel, with the two giants accounting for more than 90% of the market share.

The remaining ten percent is divided between Warrior Comics and other comic companies.

The real market share of Warrior Comics may only be between 3% and 4%.

Even so, today, when the entire comics market is in decline, and even Marvel is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, one can imagine the days of Warrior Comics.

Now, under Messer's guidance, Disney actually spent US$2000 million to acquire a comics company with a market share of less than 5%.

Jamie's first reaction after hearing the news was that Disney had been taken advantage of this time.

You must know that Universal was only willing to bid $2 million to acquire Marvel after Ovitz and Palmater teamed up to deceive them.

The price is certainly depressed.

After all, the copyrights of Marvel's famous superheroes, such as Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, are all out.

Including Universal itself, they still hold the copyright to the Hulk.

If Ovitz hadn't used Iron Man and the Hulk to give Universal executives a super pie of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Universal executives would never have been able to give this price.

As for Warrior Comics, although it has more than 2000 superhero copyrights, the only four that are actually famous are Blood Warrior, Pioneer Warrior, Sub-Zero and Nightshade.

If these four superheroes were placed in DC and Marvel, their status would be roughly equivalent to that of the third-rate superhero Iron Man, or even slightly inferior.

Otherwise, if there was a joint issue between Zero Armor and Iron Man, Iron Man would not be the leading issue, and Zero Armor could only play a supporting role.

Warrior Comics also knows that it cannot compete with giants like DC and Marvel on mainstream superheroes, so it very wisely chose to delve into the niche comic market. The style is the same as Jamie's online cool articles in his previous life.

Each of its superheroes has the template of Long Aotian, and they are all super stitch monsters.

Take the most popular Blood Warrior as an example. The setting in the comics is a soldier with a red circle on his chest and cutting-edge nanotechnology in his body.

Blood Warrior can rely on nano-replication to regenerate, and can also control various electronic devices.

At first glance, the setting of this ability is created by stitching together the regenerative abilities of Marvel's Deadpool and Wolverine, and DC Cyborg's ability to control electronic products.

The Zero Degree Armor is even more exaggerated, with all kinds of cool and earth-shattering alien black technologies piled on its body. The main thing is to show off its domineering attitude.

Disney spent US$2000 million to buy four "Long Aotian" from American comic book superheroes.

Did Disney not know these situations before the acquisition?

Of course not, it’s just that Disney has no choice now.

Originally, if David Messer's plan went smoothly, Disney could have waited until the prototype of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was completed and showed sufficient potential before making an acquisition.

This is a sure-fire plan. Unfortunately, both Disney and Messer underestimated Ovitz's revenge.

Even Jamie didn't expect that Ovitz seemed to have a good relationship with Maisel on the surface, but secretly took over Maisel's Marvel Cinematic Universe plan directly.

Because of Jamie's appearance, the idea of ​​the movie universe was no longer Messer's initiative, so Ovitz really had no psychological burden at all when he plagiarized.

Just after meeting Messer, Ovitz quietly contacted Marvel Executive Chairman Palmater and easily convinced him.

Originally, when Palmater agreed to hire Messer, the reason was that the other party did not want money but only stock options.

Now the plan proposed by Ovitz does not even need to give stock options to Messer, it is completely free of charge.

With Palmater's stingy character, there was no reason not to agree.

Although Messer drew a better pie for Marvel's board of directors - first mortgage the copyrights of ten superheroes to the bank and use the loan to shoot Marvel's own superhero movies.

After success, Marvel's market value will rise sharply, and the stocks in everyone's hands will become more valuable.

But the reality is that Marvel wants to start its own movie universe, and the only superhero in hand who is suitable to take the lead is Captain America.

But it’s too risky to go directly to the US team. If the shoot fails, there won’t even be a chance to make amends.

Iron Man, who has a linkage with Captain America, has become the safest choice.

He is only a third-rate superhero in Marvel. Even if he messes up, the risks and losses are within controllable limits.

The only problem is that Marvel doesn't own the rights to Iron Man.

If you want Iron Man to return, you have to cooperate with Jamie.

Messer was already ready to accept Jamie Lion's big opening. Who would have thought that Ovitz directly cut off the Iron Man script, and then went to Universal executives with the two scripts of "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk" , and did what Messer planned to do first.

Messer's plan was to go to the bank after getting the rights to "Iron Man" and trumpet the prospect of a superhero movie to convince the bank to lend money.

Ovitz copied Messer's plan intact, but changed the target of the criticism from the bank to Global executives.

The only difference was that Ovitz had two completed scripts.

The scripts of "The Incredible Hulk" and "Iron Man" were convincing enough, but Ovitz came up with a plan that made Universal executives excited.

"Hulk vs. Iron Man"!

In order to make this plan more convincing, Ovitz also deliberately compared Superman and Batman in DC next door, asking Universal executives to imagine how exciting it would be if a scene of Superman and Batman fighting appeared on the screen. .

It’s also Jamie who wasn’t there, otherwise he would have given Ovitz a thumbs up.

You are such a fucking talent!

Things that even time-travelers dare not think about have been thought of by you.

Although Iron Man and the Hulk are far from comparable in terms of popularity and national popularity to Batman and Superman, who have a DC father and a DC son, Ovitz will be in trouble if he can't stand them.

Under the temptation of his lavish talk and sweet words, Universal executives really believed his evil deeds and actually sat down with Marvel to start negotiating the acquisition.

The two parties have only reached a preliminary acquisition intention, which does not mean that Universal will immediately acquire Marvel.

Marvel will first mortgage the copyrights of ten superheroes including Captain America to Universal in exchange for the return of the Hulk's copyrights.

At the same time, Marvel also agreed to the conditions Jamie proposed to Messer for the return of the Iron Man copyright.

Eventually the three parties reached a cooperation agreement.

It is invested by Universal, Jamie provides the script, and Marvel is responsible for producing and filming "The Incredible Hulk" and "Iron Man".

The two films will start production at the same time and will be released in a "back-to-back" format after production is completed.

"Iron Man" takes the lead, with the appearance of Nick Fury, the villain in the post-credits scene, which introduces the setting of the Avengers and the plot of the Hulk.

After "The Incredible Hulk" is released, there will be a trailer for the Hulk vs. Iron Man in the Easter egg.

If both movies meet box office expectations, Universal will officially acquire Marvel and start filming "Hulk vs. Iron Man."

There is no need for Jamie to take action this time. Ovitz has already found someone else to write the plot of "Hulk vs. Iron Man."

The plot follows Jamie's version of "The Incredible Hulk", in which the Hulk and the Abomination fight in New York. By coincidence, the place where the two finally fight is in Stark Tower.

When the war broke out, Tony was helping the military fight terrorists in the Middle East. When he received the news and rushed back, Stark Tower had been smashed to pieces.

What made Tony the most angry was that during the battle, Pepper Pepper was injured while trying to evacuate the company's employees.

This undoubtedly touched Iron Man's "reverse scale". He held a press conference on the spot and offered a reward of US$1 million for the Hulk's whereabouts.

Iron Man's move also attracted the attention of General Ross and S.H.I.E.L.D.

General Ross found Tony Stark and handed Tony the abominable corpse and the Hulk blood sample obtained from the university professor, hoping that Tony could cooperate with the military to develop a method to restrain the Hulk.

On the other side, SHIELD was not idle either. Nick Fury sent agents to find the Hulk, hoping to persuade Banner to join SHIELD.

After some research on the Abomination Corpse and the Hulk's blood samples, Tony failed to find a way to restrain the Hulk, but inadvertently developed a serum that could transform into an invincible monster like the Hulk.

Because he was unsure of the effectiveness of the serum, Tony did not tell General Ross about it.

But a military scientist who assisted Tony in his research secretly told General Ross about this.

Because Tony only produced one serum, General Ross ultimately decided to use himself for human experiments.

In the end, the transformation experiment was successful, and General Ross transformed into a red monster similar to the Hulk. Not only could he retain his consciousness, but he also had the same abilities as the Hulk.

The angrier you are, the more powerful you are.

At the same time, the contact between agents sent by SHIELD and Banner was not smooth. Banner refused to join SHIELD on the grounds that he could not control the Hulk.

At this time, there was also a mole within SHIELD, who leaked the Hulk's whereabouts to Tony.

Tony arrived in the newly developed Hulkbuster armor, and Banner had no choice but to summon the Hulk in his body to fight Iron Man.

Just as the two were locked in a stalemate and fighting inextricably, the Red Giant transformed by General Ross secretly attacked and seriously injured the Hulkbuster armor driven by Tony.

The reason why the Red Giant took action was that if the Hulkbuster armor could compete with the Hulk, it would definitely pose a threat to itself, so he simply took this opportunity to get rid of it together to avoid future troubles.

(End of this chapter)