hollywood melon man

Chapter 613 2077, Start

Disney is discussing it, and so is Warner Bros.

Coincidentally, Warner Bros. also has a Solomon, but this Solomon is the head of the distribution department of Warner Bros.

He and CEO Doug Walter suggested: "DC has waited too long after 'Batman Begins'. Doug, you have to urge Gilbert Jr. to start the second one as soon as possible."

"Of course," Doug Walter said, "I just called Gilbert this morning and he said that after he finishes the TV series, he will start preparing for The Dark Knight."

Doug Walter sighed: "I have to admire Gilbert Jr.'s foresight. I heard that he controlled Marvel as early as 1998.

But after waiting until now, Marvel Studios' first blockbuster has finally come out.

Now, people are fully aware that the era of superhero movies is coming.”

An executive suggested, “Doug, why don’t we take the distribution rights from Disney? We at Warner can offer much better terms than Disney can.”

Then, at the right time, why not let D swallow up Marvel…”

I have to say that this suggestion is very, very good, and Doug Walter is very tempted.

"It depends on what Gilbert Jr. thinks. After the huge success of Iron Man, we are not the only company eyeing Marvel," said Doug Walter.

Doug Walter would certainly be willing to take over Marvel, but he would face great resistance. The biggest resistance comes from other Hollywood giants, followed by antitrust laws.

The federation may use antitrust laws to forcibly break up the combination of Marvel and DC under lobbying.

But everything depends on human effort. Doug Walter felt that he should still give it a try, whether he succeeded or not was another matter.

Doug Walter was right. Not only Disney and Warner had ideas, but Universal, Paramount, Sony Columbia, and MGM United Artists all showed great interest in Marvel.

Prince Abdul, the head of MGM United Artists, even called Gilbert Jr. personally to ask if it was possible for Marvel to cooperate with MGM United Artists, but Gilbert Jr. declined.

Honestly, if there was another share swap with some other Hollywood company, Gilbert Jr. would be too conspicuous and too visible.

Besides, since Marvel is not at its highest value now, Gilbert Jr. has every reason to wait for a good price.

As the weekdays arrived, the box office of "Iron Man" inevitably began to decline, closing at $1667 million on Monday.

For such popcorn films, the decline in box office sales is relatively good, mainly because Iron Man has a good reputation among the audience.

The film closed at $1593 million on Tuesday, $1335 million on Wednesday, and $1281 million on Thursday.

When "Iron Man" lasted for seven days in North America, the cumulative box office in North America reached 1 million US dollars.

It's the second weekend now. Paramount's film "The Mad Priest" was released this week, but the film was not very competitive and only earned 2805 million US dollars in the first week box office.

As a result, Iron Man won two consecutive championships without any suspense, earning $6057 million in the three days of the second weekend. After ten days of release, the North American box office reached $2 million.

This result is quite good. Las Vegas no longer accepts the odds that "Iron Man" will exceed 3.5 million US dollars at the North American box office, but instead raises the odds to million US dollars.

The film also performed quite well at the overseas box office, easily retaining the top spot.

Thanks to dozens of new markets this week, the film earned $1 million overseas, pushing the global box office of "Iron Man" to $4690 million.

Major newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the New Yorker have begun predicting that the box office of Iron Man will reach $900 million or even exceed $1 billion.

The shock brought by the box office explosion of "Iron Man" was undoubtedly very strong. Warner rushed Gilbert to shoot the second "Batman" movie, and Marvel Pictures became a hot commodity in Hollywood. Because of the huge success, Marvel Pictures held two celebration parties in Los Angeles and New York to celebrate the huge sales of the company's movies.

At the same time, Marvel Studios CEO Kevin Feige also announced new plans for Marvel Studios. The new "Hulk", "Captain America", "Iron Man 2" and other films have entered the project establishment stage one after another.

The success of "Iron Man" has given Marvel Studios great confidence.

The establishment of these projects has also attracted many Hollywood actors.

Seeing Robert Downey Jr. become famous all over the world for his role as Tony Stark, and Scarlett Johansson becoming the new generation of sexy goddess, actors are envious and jealous, and wish they could replace the two.

Even if I can't replace these two people, I can replace Kate Beckinsale!

All of a sudden, Kevin Feige found that more agents came to visit him, and many unknown actors also kept hanging around Marvel Studios, trying to attract attention.

However, the person who has the most say in all Marvel Studios projects is undoubtedly Gilbert Jr.

At this time, little Gilbert was working with special effects engineers to study how to build a cyberpunk city.

Gilbert is not a film fanatic, nor is he a real-life shooting fanatic like Christopher Nolan, but he is not completely inclined to use green screen shooting to present the entire cyberpunk city.

Gilbert Jr. thought that Marvel's later practice of using a green screen even for shooting a coffee shop scene was extremely unacceptable.

It is undeniable that green screen technology is improving, but it still has a fatal weakness on the big screen, which is that it looks too fake.

If you observe all the green screen technology movies, you will find that the movies always emit a very strange green light, and this green light cannot be eliminated through post-production technology.

Therefore, movies that use green screen technology must have extremely gorgeous visual effects, or even create light pollution. Only in this way can people ignore the unreality brought by the green screen itself.

As it happens, cyberpunk cities have a lot of light pollution.

But Gilbert Jr. still does not want to use green screen technology to produce all the episodes. He hopes to have certain real materials to complete the entire production stage, and these things should be preserved until they can be reused next time.

Gilbert Jr. held many meetings with the art team to finalize the design of the prosthetics, such as the mantis blade, molecular ray, bouncing legs, etc.

The props and special effects engineers try to create the real thing according to the design. Of course, it is not the kind that can be used in the real world, but it will make people feel involved, and it may be used as a peripheral.

In addition, the producer of the series, Charles Roven, also consulted with automobile and motorcycle manufacturers, asking them to help design sports cars and motorcycles that are full of futuristic science fiction. He also gave them design sketches of dozens of cars and motorcycles at once.

Ford took on the task, and their automotive engineers began designing and manufacturing based on the sketches. The very difficult part was that Gilbert Jr. required that these cars must be real and able to be driven on the road.

The futuristic motorcycle designs were taken over by Harley-Davidson Motor Company. The engineers looked at the design sketches of various shapes and were very excited, and couldn't wait to start working.

In addition, Gilbert Jr. expressed his satisfaction after visiting an abandoned Air Force base in Nevada, so the crew moved in and began to build various urban scenes required for filming from scratch.

The series will be produced using a combination of real-life shooting, special effects and green screen. For this purpose, the crew specially sent someone to the island country and invited a special effects team to come and work with the crew to complete the work.

Of course, all this preparatory work is tedious, but building a world from scratch is a very exciting process.

In addition, the selection of actors is about to begin.

Although it is a TV series, because it is directed by Gilbert Jr. himself, many actors submitted their resumes, hoping to be selected by Gilbert Jr.

Many people feel that Gilbert Jr. seems to be more interested in his own cyberpunk world than the Marvel Universe.

(End of this chapter)