Chapter 691

Since the group of "superheroes" was moved from comics to the big screen, before Marvel rose by iron man, only "Spider Man" has been the most impressive and achieved the best results in the past few decades.

But many people in the outside world don't know this role, once a big stain and pain of marvel, although now they have opened the "superhero home road" for this role

"We all know this. Before Marvel was acquired by Disney, it was like a tramp. It has always been a relatively poor company. At that time, we had no money to make movies. We could only make money by selling comic characters. "

As we all know, film companies have to pay royalties every year for the task of shooting and adapting comics.

Spider man's film copyright was previously sold to Sony by marvel, while the film copyright of "X-Men" and "magic four" was sold to 20th century fox.

For marvel at that time, it was really the most appropriate choice to sell copyright.

At that time, both actors and funds proved that Marvel's own films would not sell well at all, and no one from top to bottom could bear the corresponding losses.

But if you sell the box office of copyright, it will have nothing to do with marvel.

"Thought about... How could I not have thought about it? Just for now, it's still difficult to start this plan." Kevin shook his head slightly, with a trace of memory in his eyes.

Before he became president of marvel, when he was a young man, Kevin initially worked as an internship assistant with Lauren Schuler downer (producer, representing all series of X-Men and Wolverine).

In college, Kevin was very proficient in the background setting of Marvel Comics and the structure of Marvel Universe.

For this reason, Lauren Schuler downer began to tap his ability, so he appointed Kevin as the assistant producer of the first film in the X-Men series.

Since then, Kevin Fitch has been the producer of almost all subsequent Marvel comic adaptation films.

Therefore, it can also be said that Kevin witnessed Marvel's gradual rise from decline, and he participated in it.

The entire copyright transaction of "Spider Man" was completed in 1999, and the film "Spider Man" was made in 2002, with a total global box office of 822 million US dollars. Directly established Sony's position in the six Hollywood.

It can be said that "Spider Man" has made Sony. Even if Toby Quayle's third film has become a failure, it is still hot in Sony's hands.

In the eyes of those who only know money, they can find a substitute for Toby Quayle. They firmly believe that there are a lot of young actors waiting for them to choose in Hollywood. This is the advantage of being a big company.

"First of all, li... Because of your return, our next time will be very tight, although the press conference was held in the first half of the year.

In addition, the team of the Olympic era has been established. It is impossible for us to add spider man to this film and prevaricate too many superheroes in one film, which will destroy the harmony of this film... "

Kevin thinks Li Xianzhe is eager for quick success and instant benefit. Yes, it seems to be something worth looking forward to for spider man to return to the "Avenger alliance", but at present, the copyright of "Spider Man" has not completely returned, which is also the reason why Kevin declined.

Suddenly patted on the forehead, Li Xianzhe was slightly relieved and licked his dry lips. "No, Kevin, you misunderstood me. I mean, we can consider returning it, but not immediately."

"Not immediately? Li... At present, our relationship with Sony is quite good. We have always cherished the friendship between marvel and Sony. The compulsory withdrawal of spider man copyright may... "

Although he didn't understand Li Xianzhe, Kevin gently reminded him.

"I don't mean that. Sony launched Superman after Toby Quayle's version failed.

Before that, I counted a group of data. When Marvel sold the film copyright of some well-known characters to other companies, there was a rule that "if it is not used for many years, it will be automatically recovered". I won't say the specific number of years. You know better than me.

This leads to the situation that the company that buys the copyright of Marvel's character film must restart the film of a character from time to time, otherwise the copyright will be recovered by marvel.

For example, Sony's spider man and extraordinary spider man, fox's magic four and magic four restart.

Take Sony's restart series for example. The box office of this series is still not within the expected range. Of course, I also know that the copyright of spider man is the root of Sony.

Unless we spend a lot of money, but the problem is that our top is Disney... So... "

Here, Li Xianzhe gave Kevin a seemingly middle strategy and asked him to negotiate with Sony's producers.

The source of his confidence that the other party will agree is that after the failure of extraordinary spider man, Sony still doesn't give up trying to make a new one.

Therefore, he suggested that on the premise that both sides can accept it, we should obtain the film copyright of spider man by sharing.

Marvel and Sony - "spider man: the return of heroes" will still be 100% invested and distributed by Sony, and Sony will get all box office receipts.

Marvel films is responsible for making films, which means that Kevin Fitch and marvel films are responsible for selecting the actors and directors of the film and the style of the film.

"You mean... The movie copyright of spider man still belongs to Sony, and then Marvel film universe can use the role of spider man to share the copyright." Before Kevin could answer, a director sitting next to him opened his mouth.

Li Xianzhe nodded, picked up a black oily pen, hung it on a white board on the wall, drew a simple frame diagram, and pointed to the content above.

"As you said just now, we did this, and the actual result is that the Spider Man series films are still invested and distributed by Sony. Marvel is only responsible for shooting, and the box office belongs to Sony, and marvel takes a share.

In other words, Sony paid marvel to make spider man movies. Marvel's benefits are more than just sharing. "

"For example..." Kevin couldn't wait to take out his cell phone and began to shoot at the whiteboard on the wall.

Li Xianzhe pointed to a place on the whiteboard. "First of all, other works of Marvel films can be interspersed with the role of spider man. For example, I can let the role of spider man return in Captain America 3 when writing the script.

Just now, when Downey was with them, I also introduced the general plot of the film, the split between iron man and Captain America.

They must find help for their own ideas, and the relationship between spider man and iron man in the cartoon has always been very good. I think this is a good opportunity.

It's the same truth as you always want "iron fist" to appear in Marvel's film universe.

Daniel Rand appears in the Avengers 2, and people will certainly wonder about his relationship with these superheroes... (to be continued)