After Buying Marvel, I Became the King of Hollywood

All departments are running at full strength, as long as the box office under Batman Dark Knight can grow a little bit, the overtime work day and night is worth it.

At the same time, in the face of this kind of overtime, no one complained.

The reason is very simple, Warner Bros. is willing to give money.

The bonuses are sufficient and everyone is motivated.

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Others struggled to promote the box office under The Dark Knight, and Steve Kevin, the director, didn't get away either.

Under the coordination of Warner, Kevin worked for a few days and made several TV interviews on major TV media.

With the limelight of the movie The Dark Knight, the ratings of these programs have increased significantly, and it has also further promoted Batman, and also allowed Kevin to once again swipe his face in front of the crowd.

A few days later, when the propaganda has reached a point where it begins to be disgusting.

Kevin just got idle.

I have to say that on these occasions, Jim Carrey, Christian Bale and Milla Jovovich who went together were obviously more used to it than he was.

Obviously, Kevin himself is not suitable for being in front of the stage.

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Inside the villa, Kevin began to enter a crazy writing time.

In this state of work, Helen and Emma, ​​the sisters who delayed his work the most, were temporarily paid away by him with a sum of money for shopping, and let them go home and play for a few days.

Although the scripts he chose are all classic scripts that have been tested by the original history.

But the classic script does not mean that there are no problems.

After these hours of tempering, Kevin's overall level is much stronger than his previous life.

I have to say that the directorial talents of the original owner were completely inherited by him.

Judging from his current eyes, what were the things he photographed in his previous life, it was purely to fool people.

In industry parlance, that is, the mainland market is too big, and all kinds of bad movies are watched.

This allowed him to successfully mix up the name of a director.

Of course, the past need not be mentioned.

After some careful consideration, Kevin finally chose the script he wanted.

Looking at all of Kevin's movies, it can be found that Kevin never touches love movies.

Rather, it is more about visual impact, action, and thriller.

These films, under the unified label of commercial films, have almost nothing to do with art.

New movies are also of this type.

His choice is exactly...

Chapter 138 The plan is completed

The Matrix!

That's right.

After some careful consideration, Kevin chose this movie.

The Matrix was originally distributed and produced by Warner Bros. and was released in 1999. After its release, it achieved a global box office of 460 million US dollars, which is quite eye-catching as an original film.

Especially since it cost only $63 million to make.

Even adding the subsequent millions of publicity costs, the total production cost does not exceed 70 million.

This means that the first part of The Matrix has earned Warner more than $200 million in revenue, not to mention the revenue from subsequent sequels and copyrighted DVDs.

With the confrontational relationship between Kevin and Warner in the future.

Kevin wants Warner to die.

He did this kind of thing, without hesitation.

The combination of these factors made him choose The Matrix without hesitation.

At the same time, this classic movie is absolutely right on Nicolas Cage.

As for Keanu Reeves, Kevin can only say sorry.

Although he also likes the actor, he still doesn't know him after all.

If they get to know each other later, he will compensate Keanu for other movies.

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Kevin buried himself in writing, and in a flash, another seven days passed.

During these seven days, Kevin turned the movie he remembered into the script.

But this is only the first step.

The original Matrix actually has a lot of shortcomings.

The Wachowski sisters...

No, the Wachowskis.

There are too many philosophical elements in the film, such as existentialism, structure, etc. too many nihilistic things.

The direct consequence is that the Matrix has become extremely difficult to understand for many audiences.

The Wachowskis probably didn't even know what they wanted to say to the audience in the movie.

However, Kevin's choice was to directly clear all the fog.

Simplify the story.

The story of The Matrix is ​​simply the future world, where humans are trapped in a virtual world by omnics as human flesh batteries.

And the protagonist, as the virus of the virtual world.

With the ability not to be discovered by the intelligence of the virtual world, he is also the only chance to save mankind from this virtual world.

From Kevin's perspective, this is a human catastrophe caused by an omnic crisis.

How human beings broke the game and recaptured the human world from the omnics is such a simple story.

The first part tells the story of humans who discovered the truth of the virtual world and launched a counterattack against the omnics.

That's Kevin's version of The Matrix, the story to tell.

After clarifying it, what Kevin has to do next is very simple, and delete some of the inexplicable and incomprehensible plots drastically.

Add a little more action that the audience loves.

The classic scene of dodging bullets, the protagonist obtains the memory of kung fu from the brain machine and simply defeats the enemy's handsome scene.

All are reserved, and some scenes are elongated.

In this way, a brand new Matrix is ​​completed.

In terms of the perfection of the film and the ability to direct, Kevin is confident that his Matrix can completely blow up the Wachowski brothers' Matrix.

Not that the Wachowskis' version of The Matrix is ​​bad.

Here, there is an audience problem to consider.

Kevin's version is the most popular version of Shuangwen, with the largest audience, even if the quality is not so extreme, but Kevin is confident that the box office can completely blow up the Wachowski Brothers' Matrix.

Sometimes there is no absolute relationship between film quality and box office.

Kevin had already realized this.

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Three days later, Kevin with messy hair finally walked out of the villa.

These few days, his bodyguard, what he has to do every day is to deliver meals to him, and the rest of the time is basically a short vacation.

Kevin made a phone call in advance, and the bodyguard quickly drove over to pick him up.

I bought a brand new set of clothes in the mall, took care of myself at the same time, and then called my two canaries to let them come back.

Kevin then walked towards Twentieth Century Fox with the plan in his hand.

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Inside Fox.

Many executives and presidents are looking forward to the box office summary under today's Batman Dark Knight.

As an investor who is about to reach a movie cooperation with Steve Kevin, in their opinion, the box office of Batman The Dark Knight is the movie box office of the movies they cooperate with in the future.

As such, they're arguably the most concerned about Batman's Dark Knight box office aside from Kevin and Warner.

The employee in charge of data reporting came in and looked at the report in his hand. After confirming that it was correct, he said clearly:

"Yesterday's The Dark Knight in the U.S. grossed $13 million in a single day, and the U.S. gross to date is $280 million."

"Okay, got it!"

Davis nodded, indicating that he understood, and then waved the employee to go down.

Some executives couldn't hold back their breath and said:

"President, let's go and see director Steve Kevin. It's been more than half a month, and I don't know how his movie plan is going."

"No hurry, Steve Kevin took the initiative to come to the door, which means that he really wants the copyright. Well, he will naturally come to us, there is no need to be so anxious..."

Davis replied calmly.

The female secretary, Caitlin, pushed in the door and said in a hurried tone:

"Director Steve Kevin, here comes the plan!"

Davis' calm expression suddenly changed, and he said eagerly:

"Take me to meet him."

"Let's go too."

Other executives followed.

The female secretary nodded and led the way.

A group of Fox executives and presidents, led by the secretary, trot all the way, almost making the other Fox employees think something happened.

In this way, a group of people trot all the way to the VIP reception room.

Looking at the postures of a group of people, Kevin knew that they were running over and understood that they were eager. Kevin said directly without ink:

"This is my plan. Take a look. If you think it's fine, we can sign the contract."

While talking, he handed them the plan in his hand.

Davis took over the plan and did not rush to read it immediately, but looked up at Kevin and said with a smile:

"Kevin, congratulations, Batman The Dark Knight is a big hit at the box office."

A smile appeared on Kevin's face. Although he was in retreat, he immediately read all the news that he should know after leaving the retreat.

Although it is not as powerful as the original, it has abandoned the influence of the times.

He didn't humiliate the name of the movie.

Congrats to Davis.

Kevin also replied smoothly:

"The movie plan I came up with, in my opinion, is not inferior to Batman at all."

"It's also a good movie with depth and commerciality."

As soon as these words came out, the executives' mouths rose.

Davis made a few polite words and instructed the female secretary to entertain Kevin, and then he left here in a hurry with other executives and went to Fox's department that specializes in reviewing plans...

Chapter 139 Combating the New Marvel Cinematic Universe