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Disney is discussing, and Warner Pictures is also discussing.
Coincidentally, Warner Pictures also has a Solomon, but this Solomon is the director of Warner Pictures’ distribution department.
He and CEO Doug Walter suggested: "DC has waited too long after "Baby Begins". Doug, you have to urge Little Gilbert to start the second one as soon as possible."
"Of course," Doug Walter said: "I just called Gilbert Jr. this morning, and he said that after finishing the series project, he would start working on "The Dark Knight."
Speaking of this, Doug Walter sighed: "I have to admire Gilbert Jr.'s foresight. I heard that he controlled Marvel as early as 1998.
But until now, Marvel Studios' first A blockbuster movie came out.
Now, people are fully aware that the era of superhero movies is coming.”
An executive suggested: “Doug, why don’t we make it. Can we win the distribution rights from Disney? We at Warner can offer much better conditions than Disney.
When the time comes, why not let D swallow up Marvel..."
I have to say that this suggestion is very, very good, and Doug Walter was very moved.
“It depends on what Little Gilbert wants. After the success of “Iron Man”, we are not the only company that is eyeing Marvel.” Doug Walter said.
If he could win over Marvel, Doug Walter would certainly be willing, but he would have to face a lot of resistance. The biggest resistance comes from other giant Hollywood companies, followed by the antitrust bill.
The federation may use antitrust to forcibly break up the combination of Marvel and DC under lobbying.
But it all depends on the human condition. Doug Walter felt that he still had to give it a try. Whether he succeeded or not was another matter.
Doug Walt was right. Not only Disney and Warner had ideas, but Universal, Paramount, Sony Columbia, and MGM United Artists all had a strong interest in Marvel.
Prince Abdullah, the head of MGM United Artists, personally called Gilbert Jr. and asked if there was a possibility of Marvel cooperating with MGM United Artists. Gilbert Jr. declined.
To be honest, if there was another share exchange and it was replaced by another Hollywood company, Little Gilbert would be too eye-catching and conspicuous.
Besides, now that Marvel has not reached its maximum value, little Gilbert has every reason to wait for the price.
As the working day arrives, the box office of "Iron Man" inevitably begins to decline, with a box office of US$16.67 million on Monday.
For this type of popcorn movie, the box office decline is relatively good, mainly because of the good reputation of "Iron Man" among the audience.
The film grossed US$15.93 million on Tuesday, US$13.35 million on Wednesday, and US$12.81 million on Thursday.
When "Iron Man" lasted seven days in North America, the cumulative box office in North America reached US$173.71 million.
The time has come to the second weekend. This week, the film "Crazy Priest" released by Paramount was released. However, this film was not very competitive and only received a first-week box office of US$28.05 million.
As a result, "Iron Man" achieved two consecutive championships without any suspense, earning a box office of US$60.57 million in the three days of the next weekend. After ten days of release, the North American box office reached US$234.28 million.
This result is quite good. Las Vegas no longer accepts the odds that the North American box office of "Iron Man" will exceed US$300 million, but has raised the odds to US$350 million.
The film also performed quite well at the overseas box office, easily retaining the title.
Thanks to dozens of new markets added this week, overseas revenue this week reached US$146.9 million, pushing the global box office of "Iron Man" to US$504.78 million.
Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker and other major newspapers have begun to predict that the box office of "Iron Man" will reach 900 million US dollars or even exceed 1 billion US dollars.
The shock brought by the box office explosion of "Iron Man" was undoubtedly very, very strong. Warner rushed to urge Gilbert Jr. to make a second "Batman" movie, and Marvel Studios also became the leader of Hollywood. Delicious. Because of the huge success, Marvel Studios held two celebration parties in Los Angeles and New York to celebrate the success of the movies produced by the company.
At the same time, Marvel Studios CEO Kevin Feige also announced new plans for Marvel Studios. New "Hulk", "Captain America", "Iron Man 2" and other movies have all entered the project approval stage.
The success of "Iron Man" has given Marvel Studios great confidence.
The establishment of these projects has also attracted many actors in Hollywood.
Watching Robert Downey Jr. become famous all over the world with Tony Stark, and Scarlett Johansson becoming a new generation of sexy goddess, the actors are envious, jealous, and wish they could replace them.
Even if I can’t replace these two people, I can still replace Kate Beckinsale’s position!
For a time, Kevin Feige found that there were more agents coming to visit him, and many unknown young actors were always hanging out at Marvel Studios, trying to attract attention.
But the person who has the most say in all Marvel Studios projects is undoubtedly Little Gilbert.
At this time, little Gilbert was working with special effects engineers on how to build a cyberpunk city.
Little Gilbert is not a film master, nor is he a real-shooting fanatic like Christopher Nolan, but he is not entirely inclined to green screen shooting to present the entire cyberpunk city.
For example, when Marvel later even filmed a scene in a coffee shop with a green screen, little Gilbert felt it was very undesirable.
It is undeniable that green screen technology is improving, but green screen technology still has a fatal weakness on the big screen, and that is that it is too fake.
If you observe all green screen technology movies, you will find that the movies always emit a very strange green light, and this green light cannot be eliminated through post-processing technology.
So movies that use green screen technology must have extremely gorgeous visual effects and even cause light pollution. Only in this way will people ignore the unreality brought by the green screen itself.
It just so happens that cyberpunk cities have a lot of light pollution.
But little Gilbert still doesn’t want to use green screen technology to produce all the episodes. He hopes to have certain real materials to complete the entire production stage, and these things should be retained until the next time they can be recreated. Enable.
Little Gilbert held many meetings with the art team to determine the design of prosthetics, such as the mantis knife, molecular rays, bouncing legs and other things.
Props and special effects engineers are trying their best to create real objects based on the design. Of course, it's not the kind that can actually be used, but it will give people a sense of immersion, and maybe it can be used as a peripheral.
In addition, the producer of the series, Charles Rowan, also went to discuss with car manufacturers and motorcycle manufacturers, asking them to help design sports cars and motorcycles full of futuristic science fiction, and even gave several Design sketches of ten cars and motorcycles.
Ford took over this task, and their automotive engineers began to design and manufacture based on the sketches. The very difficult thing was that Gilbert Jr. required that these cars must be real and able to go on the road.
Those futuristic motorcycle designs were taken over by Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company. The engineers looked at the design sketches with different shapes and were very excited and couldn't wait to start work.
In addition, little Gilbert expressed satisfaction after inspecting an abandoned air force base in Nevada, so the crew moved in and began to build various urban scenes from scratch for shooting needs.
The series will be produced using real shooting, special photography and green screen. For this purpose, the crew specially sent people to the island country and invited a special photography team to come over and complete the work with the crew.
Of course, these preliminary preparations are very tedious. But building a world from scratch is a pretty exciting process.
In addition, the selection of actors will also begin.
Although it is a drama series, because it was directed by Gilbert Jr., many actors still submitted their resumes, hoping to be selected by Gilbert Jr.
Many people feel that little Gilbert seems to be more interested in his own cyberpunk world than the Marvel universe.
(End of this chapter)