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Back in Los Angeles, Simon has to take care of the entire film business of Daenerys Entertainment, but Hollywood's attention is still firmly locked by "Batman: Hour of War" and the upcoming dc movie universe plan.

From January 19th to January 25th, "Batman: War Hour" was released in the fifth week. The film received another 31.63 million US dollars with a 23% box office drop, and the cumulative box office reached 303.36 million US dollars, officially surpassing the "Spiritual First". Six Senses, became the box office champion of the previous year.

In the words of some media, the profit that "Batman: War Hour" alone brings to Daenerys Entertainment is equivalent to the income of most Hollywood studios in the film business for the whole year.

This is basically the truth.

While other studios could only be jealous of Batman: War Hour's insane earnings, Warner Bros. Pictures could get a slice of the follow-up plans.

Therefore, Simon is back in Los Angeles these days, and Terry Semel, the CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures, who hopes to push forward the follow-up plan as soon as possible, keeps in touch with Simon almost every day, either by phone or directly to Santa Monica.

Amid the rush, Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner have also begun to accelerate some of the details of their plans for a follow-up DC Cinematic Universe partnership.

Santa Monica.

The time is Friday, January 26th.

Terry Semel came here early this morning after seeing a story in The Hollywood Reporter this morning.

Some details of the dc movie universe plan are still being negotiated, but because of Simon's full preparation in advance, the second Batman movie "Batman: War Hour" is in addition to Adam Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Tommy In addition to the fixed actors such as Lee Jones, even the role of the villain in the second film has been finalized in advance. Now, the only problem is the director.

As long as this problem is resolved, the film can start shooting in the middle of this year and will be released in the summer next year.

Since Simon confirmed that he will no longer serve as the director of the second film, many people in Hollywood have been tempted, and many of them want to take over the first-line directors. Warner will participate in half of the investment in the second film, and for its own sake, also recommended some candidates to Simon.

However, Simon's confirmed director surprised those in the know.

Jane de Bont.

If it is the time and space where Simon is, when they hear this name, many people can immediately think of "Speed ​​of Life and Death".

However, now Jane de Bont is just a photographer.

Although he made his debut in the 1960s and has made more than 20 films so far, Jane de Bont has never been a director.

Following the successful experience of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in his memory, he selected suitable candidates from the new directors to direct the DC Cinematic Universe project. This was Simon's plan from the beginning, and he did look for a lot of potential stocks. Jane de Bont is one of them.

In the original time and space, "Life and Death", which made Jane de Bont one of the first-line directors, was actually the first film he directed after switching to a director. The second work "Tornado" directed by De Bonte was also The global sale is enough to prove that Jane de Bont has the potential to switch directly to director.

Compared with other rookie directors who have only directed two or three works, Jane de Bont has accumulated more experience in more than 20 consecutive works since her debut in the 1960s. Moreover, as a 'new director', Daenerys Entertainment can also more easily negotiate a long-term package contract with Jane de Bont.

However, after Simon returned to Los Angeles last week to formally announce his decision to Warner, he was immediately opposed.

In Warner's view, Simon's use of a photographer who did not even direct a work as the director of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is completely messed up.

The two sides were still negotiating in private, but Terry Semel did not expect that the "Hollywood Reporter" suddenly published the news.

Perhaps, many people are now wondering who Jane de Bonte is?

After Daenerys Entertainment's announcement, Warner Bros. has investigated the details of Jane de Bont. Although the photographer has participated in the shooting of well-known movies such as "Die Hard", he has even been nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematography. Did not get it. How can such a person be a director of a heavyweight film that both Hollywood studios have high hopes for?

Arriving at the Daenerys Entertainment headquarters in Santa Monica, Terry Semel was told that Simon was not here. After inquiring, Semel hurried to the Daenerys special effects headquarters in the nearby block.

Simon is really here, and Jane de Bont, who has become the focus of many people's attention, is also here, and several people are watching something in front of a computer.

Speaking of which, Jane de Bont has worked with Warner for so many years, and of course has cooperated with Warner, such as the most recent one, "Who Is That Girl", which made Madonna the worst heroine of golden raspberry two years ago.

Terry Semel had just said hello to Simon when Jane de Bont's cell phone rang.

The 'new director' is clearly very busy today.

Saying sorry to everyone, Jane de Bont left to answer the phone.

Simon waited for De Bont to leave, and without waiting for Semel to speak, he said: "Daenerys Entertainment has signed a three-film contract with Bont, Terry, this matter is not negotiable."

With a choked expression, Terry Semel paused for a moment before saying helplessly: "So, Simon, will you follow up the entire filming in the second half of the year?"

"Of course, the

Here, I pay more attention to the dc movie universe project than you, so I also hope you can trust my judgment. "Simon said, and explained to Semel sideways: "Also, Terry, Mark Silves, you should have met. Plus, here's Roland Emmerich and Martin Campbell, who will be co-directing on Batman: The Dark Knight together, and then they'll be directing Superman and Wonder Woman, respectively. "

Roland Emmerich, this name hardly needs too much introduction. From "Alone Day" to "2012", Emmerich can be described as the godfather of Hollywood disaster films.

Speaking of which, Roland Emmerich is actually German. In 1984, Emmerich produced his first sci-fi film "Noah's Ark Criterion", and soon became famous in the German film circle. He has just tried it recently. Entering Hollywood, it fell into the hands of Simon.

Although the original time and space Roland Emmerich began to decline after 2000, and there are failures such as the 1998 version of "Godzilla", but the 34-year-old Emmerich is at the golden age of his creative career. age.

Moreover, although Emmerich's most famous films are a series of disaster films, he actually started out directing science fiction films, and the last few films starting with "Noah's Ark Principles" are science fiction films.

Simon has roughly seen Emmerich's works in recent years. The director's increasingly scattered multi-line narrative style has not yet been determined. After a little polishing, it is still very suitable for him to direct "Superman".

As for Martin Campbell, the director has already made his debut in the 1970s and has the same rich experience in film and television production, but he has never created a blockbuster work.

The original time and space Martin Campbell's famous work is "007 Golden Eye", he later directed another classic "007 Casino Royale", both of which were very successful. That's why Simon chose him as the director of Wonder Woman.

"Goldeneye" and "007 Casino Royale" both proved Martin Campbell's ability to master the big scene, which "Wonder Woman" sorely needed.

In addition, Martin Campbell is actually the director of the box-office "Green Lantern" in 2011.

In Simon's memory, Ryan Reynolds' version of "Green Lantern" burned through a budget of $200 million, and the global box office was only over $200 million. As a result, Warners fell into a huge loss and temporarily delayed the development plan of the DC movie universe.

However, the failure of "Green Lantern", like many subsequent DC projects, is not the responsibility of the director, but the result of Warner's hasty launch without even finalizing the script in order to compete with Marvel. In addition to the fact that the plot was messed up due to insufficient preparation in the early stage, the technical details such as the special effects and soundtrack of the film are actually very good.

And, at the end of the day, Simon is the one behind the DC Cinematic Universe project.

The choice of Jane de Bont, Roland Emmerich and Martin Campbell as directors, in addition to the strength of the three themselves, is mainly because this can ensure Simon's absolute control over the series. Like the MCU project, Simon doesn't give these directors much freedom.

Therefore, although Simon can afford a first-line director with the current momentum of the DC movie universe, in order to thoroughly implement his will, he does not intend to do so.

Simon introduced, and Jane de Bont came back after calling.

Everyone gathered in front of the computer just now.

Terry Semel discovered that Simon and others were watching the new functions recently developed by the Maya special effects software that Daenerys special effects studio had integrated and completed, which could simulate the explosion and collapse of physical buildings and other special effects.

Seeing a building shattering on a tiny computer screen, Terry Semel put aside his curiosity about Roland Emmerich and Martin Campbell for a moment, and asked Mark Silves, president of the special effects studio. Dao: "Can these be achieved on the big screen?"

Mark Silves nodded and said: "Some technical details of the synthesis of CG images and real people are still being perfected, and it will be fine by this time next year."

Terry Semel understands why Mark Silves said that.

The planned dc movie universe plan will have a window period this year.

Starting next year, big-screen productions will be launched at a rate of two films a year.

Already confirmed projects in 1991 were "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "The Flash."

The 1992 project was "Wonder Woman" and the rebooted "Superman". The technology developed by Daenerys' special effects will probably be used in "Superman" or "Wonder Woman".

Simon said to the staff in front of the computer again at this time: "By the way, show Terry the special effects of The Flash."

The staff nodded and quickly called up a set of experimental shots.

Terry Semel cheered up immediately.

On the computer screen, a staff member participating in the test was running around in a room, with looming electric lights entwined around him, and a faint sound of thunder came from the turned on speaker.

A total of five heroes have been confirmed to participate in the first phase of the DC Cinematic Universe project, namely Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash and Cyborg.

The choice of these five is mainly due to the technical limitations of special effects in this era.

"Sea King" and "Green Lantern" cannot be done with the current special effects technology.

In comparison, The Flash and Cyborg are easier.

In order to reflect the speed of The Flash, the production of "The Flash"

The big movie "Dianxia" mainly needs to use high-speed photography technology. This technology has already appeared in the 1950s. Although it is still far from reaching the high-speed shooting of 3,000 frames per second in many years, the existing technology adds cg special effects. , and it is enough to reach the level of special effects far exceeding the previous stage of the "Superman" series.

As for "Steel Bone", it will generally use a combination of model special effects and cg special effects.

In this regard, the liquid metal robot of "Terminator 2" in the original time and space and Schwarzenegger's robot endoskeleton are good references. Such technology can be realized in 1991. Simon believes that after two to three years of technical research, Can achieve very good steel bone special effects on the big screen.

In order to perfect the technical details of special effects as much as possible, compared to the three superheroes "Wonder Woman", "Superman" and "The Flash", which will be launched in succession in the past two years, the production of "Cyborg" will be relatively backward, and roughly Filming began in 1994 and was released in 1995 right after Justice League.

Everyone stayed in the Daenerys special effects studio until noon. After lunch, Jane de Bont and others left, but Terry Semel continued to stay. Of course he won't be so leisurely, but the dc movie universe project is roughly the most important job he has at hand.

As the media said, if this series is done well, Warner will not worry about eating and drinking in the next few years.

Now that Simon is firm in the direction of "Batman: The Dark Knight", and has also selected the directors of "Superman" and "Wonder Woman" in advance, Terry Semel won't say much more. He also believes that Simon will not mess with this promising series.

Right now, Terry Semel is more concerned with Warner's The Flash and Cyborg.

In order to maintain his control of the DC Cinematic Universe plan, Simon previously made a proposal to exchange half of the investment rights of "Superman" for half of the investment rights of the two superheroes "The Flash" and "Cyber".

Compared with "Batman" and "Wonder Woman", the other two Warners in the Big Three have half of the investment rights, Daenerys Entertainment's "Superman" copyright from the Salkind family has no corresponding investment. According to the terms of rights, Daenerys Entertainment can fully invest exclusively.

Although "Superman" is more popular than "The Flash" and "Cyberbones", if Warner agrees, it is basically tantamount to transferring the copyright of the two superheroes to Daenerys Entertainment.

With the increasing success of "Batman: Hour of War", the loss of the DC Big Three has already made Warner regret.

Now, two for one, Warners are reluctant to do so.

However, although he did not agree with Daenerys Entertainment's plan, Simon still has a strong say in the DC Cinematic Universe plan.

Not to mention, "The Flash" and "Cyborg", although Daenerys Entertainment does not participate in the investment, if you want these two superheroes to join the dc movie universe plan, such as movie script and director starring, etc., you still need to Get Simon's approval.

Daenerys Entertainment has also made it very clear before that if The Flash and Cyborg screw up, the two superheroes are likely to be excluded from the DC Cinematic Universe plan, and Daenerys Entertainment would rather The future Justice League will only have three heroes: Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman.

Although he has not yet realized the benefits of the plot linkage, Warners also knows that without the support of Daenerys Entertainment, he may not be able to play these superheroes.

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