China Entertainment: Been working as a director since 03

Chapter 584 Final Editing Rights Issue
Li Yu rested in the hotel for one night.

The next morning, he also had a classic rice breakfast of scrambled eggs with bacon, and a little sausage and cheese, which tasted pretty good.

It should be quite refreshing to eat it occasionally, but if Li Yu's Chinese stomach eats like this every day, it will be a bit difficult to accept.

After breakfast, around 9:30 in the morning, the foreigner named Ross from yesterday took Li Yu on a tour of DC Films and told Li Yu about the history of DC.

Ross is definitely a qualified tour guide. He told Li Yu that the history of DC Films can be traced back to 1934 in the last century. At that time, DC was a comic company that mainly published detective comics.

In 1938 they introduced the world's first superhero character - Superman.

The following year, they released Batman.

Both superheroes have become iconic characters in DC Comics.

When talking about these historical glories, Ross was quite proud and said that DC Comics is the American comic with the deepest heritage.

If there were any fans of Manwei at the scene, they would probably ask in return after hearing these words: "Your comics are so awesome, when will your movie universe be launched? Look at our movie universe."

Li Yu came here to cooperate, not to expose other people's shortcomings, so he didn't say anything that could easily break the opponent's defense.

Then, the other party introduced Li Yu to the history of the superhero Aquaman.

When the other party said that the character of Aquaman first appeared in the 1941rd issue of "Duoqu Comics" in November 11, Li Yu was a little surprised.

At first he thought that only Superman and Batman were born early, but he didn't expect that Aquaman was also born so early.

After Li Yu took a tour inside DC and had a certain understanding of the superhero Aquaman, he finally met with Warner and the top executives of DC.

Many people wonder what the relationship is between Warner and DC. In fact, it is the relationship between a parent company and a subsidiary.

In the field of film and television works, DC is responsible for publishing rights and production of film and television works, while Warner provides support and resources.

Strictly speaking, the decision to invite Li Yu to the United States this time was made by the top management of Huana.

"Before coming to the United States, I heard that at the beginning you had internal discussions about letting Wen Ziren direct Aquaman. Now that the news has been released, why do you want to change the director?" Li Yu asked.

"Because after the news was released, even our fans were skeptical. Wen Ziren became famous for directing horror films, and superhero themes are very different from his previous works."

The other party is very honest.

"Director Wen is a very talented director. I think with his talent, he can definitely handle superhero themes," Li Yu commented.

"We don't want to gamble on anything that carries huge risks. Even if he can handle the superhero theme, what about the box office? This is another reality that we have to face.

This time, we pay special attention to the Chinese market, and we want to seek new breakthroughs in the Chinese market.

In fact, our Hua Na is the first Hollywood film company to set up a studio in China."

The other party added that sentence at the end.

What they said was simply to convey to Li Yu that they have always attached great importance to the Chinese market.

This kind of words are just for listening, there is no need to take them seriously.

They said this because they saw that the Chinese film market is getting bigger and bigger and they want to get a piece of it.

To put it bluntly, it's all about money.

There is nothing wrong with this. As our ancestors said, the world is bustling with people seeking profit, and the world is bustling with people seeking profit.

Of course people will go wherever they can make money; it's human nature.

Moreover, DC's movies are much better than those movies that make money in the Chinese market while smuggling their own agenda.

DC's movies have never directly discredited the Chinese, but there are some subtle satires in them.

This is related to their dark film style. Their films often implicitly satirize and criticize political and social phenomena. Just look at their masterpiece Batman trilogy and you will know that the simple-minded Gotham police, government and lawyers are all evil, and those with a sense of justice have become a minority.

Then, Li Yu had a more in-depth exchange with them.

The other party was quite sincere this time and gave Li Yu the right to select actors and make all decisions regarding filming.

To put it simply, Li Yu has the final say on all matters concerning the filming.

It can be seen that they are really greedy for Li Yu's strong appeal in the Chinese market.

In order to open up the Chinese market through Li Yu, they made considerable concessions.

Many of their local directors do not receive as many privileges as Li Yu, a newcomer.

Their concessions were large, but they were also conditional.

They were in charge of the script and didn't let Li Yu interfere.

Their reason was that Li Yu, a Chinese, might not understand American culture very well.

For the sake of their core North American market, they have to do the screenwriting work.

Li Yu can understand and accept this.

Indeed, there are huge cultural differences between the East and the West. If you ask a top foreign screenwriter to write a script that Chinese audiences will like, he will most likely only be able to write a script that he thinks Chinese audiences will like. In fact, Chinese audiences don't like it at all and think the script is terrible.

It's the same for him. If he is asked to write a story that foreigners will like to read, it will be difficult for him to write well.

There are some jokes that he can get but foreigners can't.

Then, the other party proposed another condition that made Li Yu frown.

They want to keep the final editing rights in their own hands and will not give it to Li Yu.

This condition made Li Yu a little hesitant.

The national teacher suffered a great loss in this regard.

"The Great Wall" is such a bad movie, it's not unfair that the director Guoshi is criticized, but we can't put all the blame on him.

The national master doesn’t even have the power to modify the script, let alone the final editing rights.

There was one shot that the national master thought was particularly great, and he strongly recommended that it be kept.

Under his strong suggestion, foreigners only gave him half face.

Why is it half a face? Because the shot that the national teacher suggested to keep was deleted by the foreigners, and only the side view was shown.

The movie "Aquaman" was shot with reference to the original time and space version, so they would not deliberately edit it into a bad movie to trick Li Yu.

But having a sword and not using it and not having a sword at all are two completely different things.

Having the final editing rights and whether Li Yu intervenes in the editing are two different things.

As a big director, it would be very insecure if I don't have the final editing rights in my hands.

Without the final editing rights, if they really cheated Li Yu, Li Yu could only watch helplessly without any means of saving the situation.

Is there anything more painful than watching yourself get screwed and being unable to do anything?

Therefore, Li Yu had a tough attitude on this issue. He demanded that the final editing rights must be in his own hands.

(End of this chapter)