Heads Up Hollywood

The current "X-Men" series of films, produced by Twentieth Century Fox, has already released two films, with good box office results. Currently, the pre-production of "X-Men 3" is being prepared.

The person in charge of the "X-Men" project is the Hollywood gold medal producer Donald and his wife. Among them, her husband Richard Downer is a freelance producer. His wife, Lauren Shuler Donner, works at Twentieth Century Fox. She is the direct descendant of President Jim Ganopoulos and is the highest person in charge of the "X-Men" series.

In his previous life, Kevin Feige was once an assistant producer of the "X-Men" series and an assistant to Lauren Donner. Kevin Fitch is a diehard Marvel fan who has countless whimsical ideas. He suggested that Lauren Donner should not insist on filming the "X-Men" heroes, but to separate each superhero and film them. The origin and growth history of the film, and then film the assembly of heroes, which will be more marketable.

However, such a proposal was rejected by Lauren Downer.

Later, Kevin Feige switched to Marvel Pictures and became the president of Marvel Pictures. First, he succeeded in the origin of "Iron Man", and then successfully created the world-sensational "Avengers" series . Coming from behind, crushing the "X-Men" series.

Under this momentum, Lauren Donner had to go back to the advice given to her by Kevin Feizi, and also started the individual hero shooting of "X-Men". But the good show didn't last long. Before the individual hero movie of "X-Men" was officially promoted, 20th Century Fox was acquired by Disney at a sky-high price.

"X-Men" officially returns to Marvel!

Producer Lauren Downer also logically became a subordinate of Kevin Fitch.

Tang En couldn't wait that long.

He communicated with 20th Century Fox to explore the possibility of bringing "X-Men" home. But the answer given by Twentieth Century Fox is "never possible"!

"X-Men" is a super huge series, with hundreds of superheroes, this is a big treasure. Once successfully developed, it will become a long-term meal ticket for Twentieth Century Fox.

It is impossible to make a move.

However, Dunn never gave up his determination to bring "X-Men" home.

Twentieth Century Fox won't let go of the film adaptation rights of "X-Men", that's great... Twain will buy Twentieth Century Fox as a package!

Mergers and acquisitions are very difficult.

But Tang En is confident, he has the foresight, and he has many ways to deal with Murdoch with both kindness and power. Just wait for the listing of New Global and the arrival of the subprime mortgage crisis, and the impossible can be turned into possibility.

However, time cannot be delayed for too long.

Now, with the success of "Spider-Man," "Ant-Man," "Daredevil," and "Ghost Rider," Twentieth Century Fox must have realized the market for superhero origin movies.

It is conceivable that after filming "X-Men 3" and ending the production of the trilogy, Lauren Donner will definitely start the production of individual superhero movies, such as "Wolverine".

This is not good news for Marvel Pictures and the "Marvel" brand.

Based on the judgment of Marvel Pictures on the market, it is best to release between 2-3 Marvel-themed movies every year, and no more than 4 movies. For example, this year there will be two "Ghost Rider" and "Spider-Man 3", next year there will be "Iron Man" and "Ant-Man 2", and the year after that there will be "Thor", "Daredevil 2" and "The Avengers" "Three parts.

If it is too boring, it is likely to arouse the resentment of movie fans. It is the practice of drinking poison to quench thirst.

Marvel Pictures can limit production, but 20th Century Fox can't control it. Once 20th Century Fox really breaks out and starts to mass-produce "X-Men"-themed movies, it will be a big blow to New Universal and Marvel.

Therefore, Tang En has already made up his mind to win 20th Century Fox before "Wolverine" comes out!

At this time, Tang En was in the conference room of Marvel Pictures, participating in the discussion of the script creation of "Ghost Rider 2".

This is a very important memory, and the heads of Marvel Studios were all present, as well as the two main screenwriters responsible for the script, Deacon Whistler and Jonathan Nolan.

This is a dark Marvel theme, which is different from the popcorn of the "Avengers" series. This series focuses on darkness, depth, aftertaste, and a majestic epic sense.

Tang En has already read the outline of the script, and it is very good.

The big villain is Skadi, the messenger of fear. In the confrontation with Ghost Rider, she expressed a point of view: people eat sheep, and sheep eat grass. This is the law of nature. In the same way, it is also the law of the universe that gods cannibalize humans. Humans can feed on cattle, sheep and pigs, so why can’t gods feed on humans? They are all living beings in the universe. Is the existence of human beings higher than cattle and sheep?

If the existence of human beings is higher than cattle and sheep, does it also mean that the existence of gods is higher than human beings? This further demonstrates the rationality of God’s cannibalism. Since it is reasonable, why stop her from collecting human souls?

Ghost Rider's Johnny Blazer is human, and he is understandably protecting the interests of the human community. However, Johnny Blazer, who has descended from demons and gained energy, has jumped out of the realm of human beings and has become a god. He needs to look at the truth from a higher perspective and guard the balance of the universe instead of defending the small world of human beings. A group of small ants.

Of course, according to normal movie logic, these theories can only shake Ghost Rider’s heart for a short time. After a series of events, he still cheered up, fought against the fear messenger Skadi, and drove her out of the earth .

Right now it's just a script outline, no story details.

However, purely from the point of view, the topic to be expressed in "Ghost Rider 2" is already deep enough, with unlimited room for aftertaste and thinking. The dialectical philosophical relationship expresses a theme even deeper and more complex than Daredevil 2.

"This idea is very good." Tang En first expressed his approval of everyone's work. This idea of ​​conception is very positive, much better than the two versions of "Ghost Rider" released by Sony Pictures in the previous life.

However, there are also some problems.

"How will Ghost Rider defeat Skadi? She is an omnipotent god of fear. When she comes to Asgard, all the gods in Asgard must forbear and retreat. From the perspective of ability That said, Ghost Rider is no match for her at all."

"The main style of the "Avengers" series is humor and jokes, the strength of the ultimate villain...it doesn't really matter, as long as the protagonists are interesting enough in the process of punishing evil and promoting good, and bring enough to the audience. It’s enough for the joy. But the series of Dark Marvel is different, which is more serious.”

"During the confrontation between Ghost Rider and Skadi, the plot design must be rigorous and serious enough, and there must be a positive logic of the relationship between the strong and the weak, rather than gags or luck. Only by defeating the opponent in a dignified way will there be more success." It's an overwhelming feeling."

Tang En's rhetoric was not very clever. This was what Nina Jacobson reported to him. He came to this meeting today mainly to discuss and solve this problem with everyone.

The schedule for "Ghost Rider 2" is the summer of 2007.

It is now the end of 2004, and it is time to finalize the content of the script as soon as possible.

Director Zack Schneider has no right to speak. To solve this problem, he needs to know enough about Marvel comics and be familiar with the overall structure of Marvel Pictures' future comic-changing movies.

Kevin Fitch raised his hand, gestured to Dun En, and then said slowly: "I thought about it all night yesterday. On the basis of not adding coincidence elements, let Ghost Rider defeat the fear messenger Skadi It's unreasonable. If you want to defeat it openly, you must increase the power of the Ghost Rider."

Tang En nodded, "Continue."

Kevin Fitch said: "The abilities of Ghost Riders are also constantly growing. In the early days, Ghost Riders only had a few skills such as Hellfire, Eye of Judgment, Chain Art, and Ghost Motorcycle. In the later comics, skills More and more, there are abilities such as immortality and dimension teleportation. It might as well appear in the second movie the ability of immortality."

Nina Jacobson pondered: "This design shouldn't be too complicated, otherwise it will be confusing to some non-comic fans. However, even so, Ghost Rider will not be Skadi's opponent. Skadi It is the Goddess of Fear. She can smash all the opponent's psychological defenses and physiological mechanisms, and make the enemy fearful, thereby reducing the ability and entering a state of numbness. According to normal logic, Ghost Rider does not even have the ability to hurt Skadi, let alone Don't say drive her away."

Zack Schneider tentatively said: "How about changing to a relatively weaker villain? Such as cold bat, man-eating spider banshee or snake girl..."

Nina Jacobson shook her head and said: "No, we are going to shoot a pg-13 popular movie. Those villains are too scary and difficult to handle in terms of rating. And logically speaking, the theme of the movie is more in line with Skadi's point of view."

Zack Snyder was a little embarrassed.

He's not bad at making movies, especially his control over the visual effects of the lens, which is second to none in Hollywood. However, the screenwriting ability is very immature, which is probably a common problem of directors from the mv industry.

Tang En waved his hand and said with a smile, "Kevin, you've been thinking about it all night, is that all you have?"

Kevin Feige said sternly: "In short, if you want to defeat Skadi, you must enhance the ability of Ghost Rider. If your personal ability is not enough, then...give him a helper!"

"helper?"

Everyone was shocked and thoughtful.

This is an independent superhero movie. As the protagonist of the movie, according to normal Hollywood thinking, the protagonist will definitely break through many difficulties and defeat the opponent with his personal ability.

Another helper... It seems a bit of a failure, or rather, it's not cool enough.

The plot design of "Daredevil 2" is that from the beginning to the end, "Daredevil" alone defeated the opponent through his own ability and will.

Zach Schneider's eyes sparkled, and he said excitedly: "I agree! One more helper, of course, will have an unpleasant feeling. However, if this helper is attractive enough, it will make people's eyes shine and be full of expectations. , might as well turn passive into active. This will be an easter egg in disguise!"

"Easter eggs?"

Tang En blinked and thought of something.

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