Heads Up Hollywood

Ridley Scott withdrew from "Black Hawk Down", but he is a good guy and obviously didn't want to offend Jerry Bruckheimer, recommending him another British director-Simon West.

Simon West made an action blockbuster "Tomb Raider" last year. Speaking of it, he, like Michael Bay, is a "little brother" promoted by Jerry Bruckheimer from the bottom.

At that time, "Prison in the Air" produced by Jerry Bruckheimer promoted Simon West as the director, which made him famous in one fell swoop.

But Simon West was not as flamboyant as Michael Bay, and even Twain dared to challenge him.

Because he had a good relationship with the British film industry, Twain treated him coldly and would not deliberately target him.

But... those actors who insisted on participating in "Black Hawk Down" despite the public conflicts between Tang En and Jerry Bruckheimer, committed crimes against the wind, must be on his blacklist.

For example, several actors who have been confirmed to join, Josh Hartnett, Orlando Bloom, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore...

Australian actor Eric Bana was also offered the film, but he wisely declined.

This left a very good impression on Tang En.

Eric Bana... could give him the Hulk role!

With the experience of foresight, it is impossible for "Hulk" to be made into a movie alone, but as an important supporting role in "Avengers", this role is enough for Eric Bana to gain a firm foothold in Hollywood.

As for "Spider-Man 2"... With Nina Jacobson as the producer and Ridley Scott as the director, Twain no longer has to focus on this.

As soon as the news of the establishment of the "Spider-Man 2" project came out, it immediately attracted the enthusiastic attention of advertisers.

The current situation is very different from when Tang En was filming "Spiderman".

The major companies are almost holding a check, begging to come to their door.

"Titanic" has no advertising placement, and the "Star Wars" series is even less likely to include modern advertising. At the same level, the "Spider-Man" series with unparalleled influence has undoubtedly become the favorite of major companies.

FedEx sponsored $1.5 million, Coca-Cola $5 million, Ford Motor $15 million, Motorola mobile phones $4 million, Hewlett-Packard computers $6 million, Ray-Ban glasses $1 million, Nike sneakers $4.5 million...

Even Marvel Studios has received a sponsorship check of up to 50 million US dollars without taking the initiative!

And these are just initial negotiations. With the development of the project and the finalization of the script, there will be more special advertisements involved. At that time, it is very likely that there will be close-up advertisement shots. The price offered by Marvel Pictures is very simple. $10 million in one second!

In short, the preparations for the project of "Spider-Man 2" are very smooth! The estimated cost of the film is 150 million US dollars, but the sponsorship fee can reach 80 million US dollars, solving half of the investment pressure.

Tang En's focus now is Warner Bros.

In the 1990s, a large number of superhero movies appeared, but suffered continuous disastrous failures, leading to the complete death of comic movies.

But in the new century, the emergence of "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" saved this market!

Marvel has received cooperation requests from many film and television companies to jointly develop their superheroes. With Twain in charge, these conditions were of course rejected.

However, Warner owns DC Comics, which is as famous as Marvel Comics, which is an uncontrollable force.

In particular, DC Comics has two overlord-level comic heroes-Batman and Superman!

Because Tang En is a shareholder of Legendary Pictures, and Legendary Pictures and Warner are investing in a platter of cooperation, so he has a little understanding of Warner's film projects.

Warner has already intended to restart the "Batman" series!

For movie fans, this may be a highly anticipated visual feast, but it is definitely not good news for Twain and Marvel Studios.

Of course, Tang En had already planned for a rainy day a few years ago.

He handed over the distribution rights of the movie "Wedding Crashers" to Tom Rothman instead of his old partner Bill McNick, and successfully exchanged the copyrights of 5 superheroes, including Twain's focus Subject - Daredevil!

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"Use Daredevil to fight Batman?" Christopher Nolan couldn't help widening his eyes when he heard Tang En's words, swallowed his saliva, and looked confused, "Batman is the most popular comic book hero in the United States. Even Spider Heroes are incomparable, but Daredevil... Even among the heroes of Marvel, he is only second-rate."

Tang En looked at him with a half-smile, "What? No confidence?"

Christopher Nolan shook his head, "I just think... this will cause mistakes in the company's strategy, after all, it's Batman!"

This is a seminar on the "Daredevil" project, which Twain attaches great importance to.

It convened including Bill McNick, President of Tang En Pictures, Alan Fine, CEO of Marvel Entertainment, Chief Creative Officer Stan Lee, Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Brian Bendis, Marvel Entertainment Nina Jacobson, president of the film industry, and a group of elites including Andrew O'Hare, Deacon Whistler, Grant Hill, Kevin Feige, and the Nolan brothers.

It is to be able to combine the energies of several aspects, brainstorm, and truly push the role of "Daredevil" to the big stage of top superheroes!

Tang En shook his head with a smile, looked at Jonathan Nolan, and asked, "You've been studying the 'Daredevil' series of comics for more than half a year, what do you think?"

Jonathan Nolan was named by Twain as the first screenwriter for the adaptation of the "Daredevil" project. While bearing this pride, he was also more responsible. He said in a deep voice, "With all due respect, boss...Night Devilman and Batman are too similar! Or, Daredevil is a replica of Batman! If these two comic heroes are to compete in the box office market, I'm afraid..."

Andrew O'Hare is Tang En's absolute confidant, and he has been with him for 4 years. As a market analyst, he has enough power to speak, shook his head and said seriously: "No! Now is indeed a hot period for manga heroes, But if the two "Batman" films from the 1990s are released today, they will also fail miserably at the box office! In the final analysis, movies still have to rely on content and quality."

Bill McNick said: "Even so, it is difficult for Daredevil to compete with Batman. If two movies with the same theme are released at the same time, people all over the world will definitely choose Batman!"

"That's right, the heroes of Daredevil and Batman are exactly the same." Marvel's editor-in-chief Joe Quesada made a qualitative summary, "They are both masked vigilantes who only work in the dark. ;They all love their city deeply and are willing to give everything for it; none of them have superpowers against the sky, and the only way to fight against bad guys is their fists...Of course, the most important point is that they all have the principle of 'not killing people' Guidelines!"

Stan Lee raised his eyebrows, and suddenly thought of something. He glanced at the confident Tang En from the corner of his eye, and tentatively said, "It's actually not all."

"oh?"

Several old guys from Marvel Entertainment cheered up.

Stan Lee smiled slightly, "Have you forgotten? Who created the character Daredevil?"

"It's you." Alan Vann smiled slightly, "Oh, yes, and Bill, Bill Everett! You jointly created this hero."

Stan Lee shook his head and said: "No, Bill and I just created a model. The cartoonist who really made Daredevil a superhero in flesh and blood is someone else!"

Joe Quesada's face changed slightly, and he blurted out: "It's Frank Miller!"

Stan Lee sighed, with a complex expression on his face, "That's right, it's him, Frank Miller!"

Grant Hill doesn't know much about Marvel, but he is really familiar with the name, "Frank Miller? Isn't that the author of "Sin City" and "300 Spartans"? This is the 90s The hottest manga series ever."

"Yes, that's him!" Feeling helpless, Stan Lee shook his head and sighed, "Back then... Around 1979, Frank was still a newcomer in the comics industry and came to Marvel for an internship. Hehe, I was the one who took him. At that time,' The Daredevil character was dying, and I talked to a couple of cartoonists who wanted to give it up, but Frank came forward and asked for a chance to be in charge of the Daredevil series."

Kevin Feige is now the assistant to the president of Marvel Studios. He is very young and very motivated. He has collected all Marvel comics and fan series that can be found on the market, and studied them carefully.

Inside Marvel Studios, he is known as "Marvel Knows Everything".

However, he still didn't know anything about such an inside story. He opened his eyes wide and looked eager for knowledge, and asked eagerly: "And then? Daredevil has been very popular for a while, is it because of Frank Miller? "

Stan Lee nodded, "That's true. The 'Daredevil' series was handed over to Frank, and he also showed his extraordinary talent in comics, turning things around with his brilliant pen!"

Alan Fine, who was also in charge of Marvel at that time, also said with emotion: "Frank was under tremendous pressure at the time, redefining the tone of Daredevil, and turning it into the serious and dark tone he was good at. Because he likes Oriental martial arts, and added realistic martial arts and fighting scenes to Daredevil. Through a series of changes, "Daredevil" rose rapidly, and in the 1980s, it became the Marvel alongside Captain America and Spiderman Three heroes!"

Tang En has heard a little about these background details, otherwise he would not be so sure about "Daredevil".

However, I was still surprised to hear that Daredevil back then had the same influence as Spider-Man.

Marvel's fanatic Kevin Feige can't wait, listening to these old guys is tiring!

"And then? Why did Daredevil become lonely again?"