Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 158 Hulk VS Iron Man

The classic villain in Hollywood movies has a halo of intelligence. At the critical moment, the villain's IQ starts to drop.

Although the routine is old, the audience and the market like it.

Even if Jamie were to write the script, he would only design it this way.

Of course, if this script was also written by Jamie, then the villain in the play would definitely not be the Red Giant.

Because in Jamie's original script design for "The Incredible Hulk", in the final decisive battle between the Hulk and the Abomination, General Ross also came with the army to rescue his daughter.

As a result, the men brought by General Ross were defeated by the Hulk and Abomination in three strikes and five divided by two. In the end, only Ross was left as a bare-bones general.

After the Hulk killed Abomination, he kicked General Ross to death in front of Betty, completing double revenge on Banner and General Ross.

As a result, Ovitz re-edited the ending in order to facilitate the development of the story of "Hulk vs. Iron Man".

General Ross is not dead, Betty is.

Abomination kills Betty, which completely angers the Hulk in Banner. Finally, the Hulk breaks out, kills Abomination, and leaves sadly holding Betty's body.

This ending has pros and cons in Jamie's opinion.

The advantage is of course that it facilitates the unfolding of the story of "Hulk vs. Iron Man", but the disadvantage is that the plot falls into a cliché.

Basically in all Hollywood commercial films, if the heroine's father is the villain, the heroine will be sacrificed to heaven in the end.

Jamie's original idea was to make the story of "The Incredible Hulk" come to an end, with all the villains dead.

Seeing that the story of "Hulk vs. Iron Man" was quite interesting, Jamie agreed to this modification.

Back to the plot, after the Red Giant severely damaged the Hulkbuster armor, he fought with the Hulk again.

The Red Giant had an obvious advantage, and the Hulk was defeated steadily at the beginning.

Tony took this opportunity to contact his artificial intelligence butler Jarvis, and with the help of the other party, he discovered the weakness of the Red Giant.

Although the Red Giant has the same ability as the Hulk, the angrier it becomes, the more powerful it becomes, but when the Red Giant is angry, its body temperature will rise sharply. When the body temperature reaches a certain critical point, the Red Giant's strength will begin to weaken.

After coming to this conclusion, Tony drove the broken Hulkbuster armor to harass the Red Giant while verbally attacking the Red Giant.

Stimulated by Tony's various trash talk, the Red Giant became more and more angry. He directly held down the Hulk and beat him. When it was over, he was about to come and clean up Tony. Finally, its body temperature reached the critical value calculated by Tony, and then its abilities began. Continue to decay.

Taking this opportunity, the Hulk exploded with force and took away the Red Giant with a wave of combos.

General Ross is completely offline.

After the war, Tony and the Hulk reached a reconciliation. Tony no longer caused trouble for the Hulk, and also promised to help Banner avoid being pursued by the military.

There is still an easter egg at the end of the script.

After the war, Tony returned to New York, and was visited by SHIELD's Black Braised Egg. The other party told Tony that he would soon face big trouble, and invited Tony to join the Avengers again.

With Tony's character, he must have refused without hesitation.

This is obviously a foreshadowing of the story of "Iron Man 2".

In fact, when he was reading the script of "Hulk vs. Iron Man" before, Jamie had a feeling of déjà vu.

Isn't this really a copycat of DC's "Batman v Superman" from the previous life?

Superman fought against General Zod and destroyed the Wayne Group's satellites and office buildings in New York. In the end, under the instigation of the villain Luthor, the two had a fight.

The Hulk fought against the Abomination, damaging the Stark Tower and injuring Pepper Potts. Iron Man then went to fight with the Hulk under the instigation of General Ross.

If this is just a coincidence, then the Easter egg at the end of "Hulk vs. Iron Man" really surprised Jamie.

Could it be that the screenwriter who wrote this story is also a time traveler?

Otherwise, how would he know the plot of "Iron Man 2" in his previous life.

The most important thing is that the agent sent by SHIELD to contact the Hulk in "Hulk vs. Iron Man" is none other than the widowed sister Black Widow.

This also echoes the plot in "Avengers 1" where the widow sister leads the team to find the Hulk to join the Avengers.

While shocked, Jamie immediately asked Ovitz the name of the screenwriter of "Hulk vs. Iron Man."

The result was an even more shocking answer.

Kevin Feige!

Jamie's whole body was numb at that time.

Fortunately, he and Ovitz were also on the phone at the time, so Ovitz didn't notice anything unusual about Jamie.

Ovitz thought Jamie didn't know who Kevin Feige was and gave a detailed introduction on the phone.

This person is the assistant to producer Lauren Donnell.

Lauren Donnell is currently working for Weststar Films, responsible for the film and television projects of "X-Men".

The reason why Lauren Donnell chose Kevin Feige, who is still under 30 years old, as his assistant is that he is very proficient in Kevin's Marvel comic background setting, Marvel world view structure and other related knowledge.

Ovitz also found Kevin Feige because of this. After reading the scripts of "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk", Kevin Feige took over the writing of "Hulk vs. Iron Man" without saying a word. Script work.

The case was finally solved.

Instead of meeting a time traveler, I met another father of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

David Messer came up with the idea for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Kevin Feige was the one who actually made it happen.

No wonder the previous movie "The Incredible Hulk" was the only one among all Marvel movies that didn't include any Easter eggs.

Now the mystery is finally solved.

In Kevin Feige's complete plan, the Easter egg in "The Incredible Hulk" is to lead to the next Hulk and Iron Man crossover movie.

As a result, due to the unsatisfactory box office performance of "The Incredible Hulk" itself, coupled with the conflicts and disputes between Marvel and Universal over copyright and accounting, the planned movie had to be cancelled.

In this life, Jamie not only allowed the "Iron Man" script to come out in advance, but also revised the "Hulk" script. Ovitz accidentally found Kevin Feige, which made this movie "disappear" in the previous life. The movie needs to see the light of day.

At Jamie's suggestion, Ovitz decisively hired Kevin Feige from Lauren Donnell and invited him to serve as the director of "Iron Man", "The Incredible Hulk" and later "The Incredible Hulk vs. Iron Man" Producer.

The gears of fate began to turn quietly from this moment on.

His eyes returned to his eyes.

Serena in the bathtub is applying bath bubbles to her arms.

Jamie sank under the water in the bathtub, with only his neck and head exposed, and continued to ask while holding his mobile phone:

"You didn't deliberately leak the latest news about the Marvel Cinematic Universe to Disney to stimulate them to take action, did you?"

Ovitz bluntly admitted that he had indeed done so, but this time Disney reacted so quickly and decisively acquired Warrior Comics, thanks to the "assist" from Sony. "Sony held an internal test screening for "Spider-Man" the day before yesterday. The response was so good that Sony executives even raised their box office expectations for the movie."

“And you also know that this kind of situation will inevitably involve some insiders from other companies, so the news quickly spread to the ears of Disney executives, and coupled with the news from Marvel, they naturally couldn’t sit still. "

With the advancement of special effects technology, it has become the consensus of major Hollywood giants that superhero movies will become the next trend in Hollywood.

Warner exclusively owns DC, Sony owns Spider-Man, Vesta is developing "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four", and now Serial Ball is teaming up with Marvel to develop the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Among the Hollywood giants, except for MGM, which is about to fall out of the ranks of giants, Paramount and Disney are the only ones who do not have any superhero copyrights.

Paramount itself is the least adept at producing series movies among the Big Seven in Hollywood, so it can be forgiven for being slow to respond in this regard.

Disney has always been ambitious about moving from animation to leading live-action films, and superhero movies are undoubtedly the most suitable springboard for Disney's transformation.

But now that both DC and Marvel have been carved up by other companies, especially after Marvel, the overcooked duck, has taken flight, Disney executives can only settle for the second best and win the No. 3 Warrior Comics in the United States.

The first thing David Messer did after taking over as CEO of Warrior Comics Pictures was to announce the filming of a live-action movie called "Bleeding Warriors."

There is no doubt that Messer is planning to build the Warriors Cinematic Universe in the same way as the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

But Messer actually doesn't have many cards to play.

Among the superheroes under Warrior Comics, the only four that can be used are Blood Warrior, Sub-Zero, Nightshade and Pioneer Warrior.

According to Messer's idea that superhero movies must "keep up with current events", the only ones that can catch up with the current wave of enthusiasm for the war in Afghanistan are Blood Warrior and Zero.

Coincidentally, the positioning of Blood Warrior and Zero in the comics is similar to that of Captain America and Iron Man.

In order to convince Marvel's board of directors, Messer prepared two plans.

One set is safe, the other radical.

The safe plan is to test the waters with the third-tier superhero Iron Man first. Even if it fails, there is still Captain America who can give it another try.

The radical plan is for the US team to take the lead, and success or failure depends on this.

Now switching to Warrior comics, Messer has no choice but to choose between Blood Warrior and Sub-Zero.

If Messer wants to take revenge on Ovitz and Jamie, the best choice is of course to film Zero and have a head-on confrontation with "Iron Man".

Fortunately, Messer is relatively rational and knows that he can't do it.

Regardless of all the bells and whistles of Zero Degree Armor, he is also a well-deserved hero of Warrior Comics.

His status is the same as Superman is to DC.

But comics and making movies are not the same thing.

When Messer proposed filming "Iron Man", he was interested in the rationality of the Iron Man story being close to reality.

In this regard, Zero Degree Armor is at a disadvantage.

First of all, Zero is an alien, not as down-to-earth as Iron Man, a native of Earth.

Secondly, the black technological capabilities of Zero Degree Armor are relatively abstract, and many of them have even left the realm of science fiction.

The most important thing is that shooting Zero Degree Armor requires a large number of special effects lenses, which will further increase the production cost of the movie.

Any superhero movie universe that launches with such big-budget yet ungrounded superheroes has a high risk of screwing up.

In the previous life, Warner has proved this with the box office hit "Green Lantern".

After that, Warner once again chose "Superman: Man of Steel" as the launch work of the DCEU.

I originally wanted to rely on Superman's high popularity to change my destiny, but as a result, "Man of Steel" still failed to satisfy expectations at the box office despite the five BUFFs of popularity, script, director, casting, and special effects.

Even after it was released in theaters, the production and publicity costs were not recovered. Later, I made a small profit by relying on film and television rentals.

This is true for DC, let alone Warrior Comics, which has only a fraction of its fame and influence.

The Bloody Warriors are different.

Although it is slightly less famous than Zero, its setting in the comics is very suitable as the first work of the Warriors movie universe.

There are two major attractions in the superhero Blood Warrior. The first is his immortality.

You must know that it is only 2001, and Wolverine and Deadpool in "X-Men" have not yet appeared on the big screen.

The last time the audience saw this kind of invincible little strong character on the screen was the T-2 mercury robot in "Terminator 1000" ten years ago.

Blood Warrior is making a live-action movie at this time. As long as the special effects are passable and the super power of immortality is used, a large number of audiences will be willing to buy it.

This is a major selling point of the movie at the special effects level.

In addition, at the plot level, Blood Warrior also has a very interesting setting in Jamie's opinion.

The origin of the Bloody Warrior in the comics is very interesting. This guy had an affair during marriage and was discovered by his father-in-law, who was a high-ranking military official. In a rage, he was arrested and used as human body material for the military's secret experiments.

After the transformation was completed, the Bloody Warrior gained a set of terrifying superpowers. At the same time, his original memory was deleted and a new memory was implanted.

At this time, the military controlled the bloody warriors' methods.

Every time a bloodthirsty warrior completes a mission, his memory will be deleted and rebuilt, and he will be used like a tool.

Until the Bloody Warrior accidentally discovered this during a mission, and determined to resist and retrieve his true memory.

If the screenwriter can seize this point and design it well, maybe he can create a superhero version of "The Bourne Supremacy".

In the steaming bathtub, Jamie changed his hand to hold the mobile phone.

"Can you tell me who the screenwriter of "The Bloody Warriors" is?"

Ovitz regretfully told Jamie that David Messer had already suffered a loss once and would definitely not let some specific details of the "Bloodshot" project leak out again.

However, Ovitz's deep connections accumulated in Hollywood over the years cannot be ignored. Although he did not find out the script information, he got another piece of blockbuster information.

David Messer is set to cast a new actor in the lead role.

This decision is not surprising at all.

As "Blood Fighter" is a "test of the waters" for the Warriors movie universe, investment will definitely be strictly controlled within a certain range.

The money has to be spent on special effects production, so of course it cannot afford to hire big-name actors.

In fact, even if he could afford it, Maisel, who is ambitious and ready to build a huge movie universe, would not do it.

(End of this chapter)