Chapter 1639

"Warner was actually very sad about the works regarded by DC as DC film universe at that time.

First, they found Martin Campbell, who directed 007: golden eye and 007: war against Casino Royale.

In terms of investment, it reached the top $200 million budget at that time, and the budget of iron man was not so high strictly speaking at that time. "

Li Xianzhe thought deeply and stretched out a finger. "It's only about $140 million."

"200 million dollars was really a high investment at that time."

Sam Remy's face was slightly red, probably prompted by the spicy taste of fried rice cakes. He drank a mouthful of strong tea and said with bright eyes, "but why did they choose the Green Lantern as the protagonist at that time?"

"This is because, first of all, heroes who can start the DC Universe must be front-line heroes with high status. Therefore, the second-line heroes such as the green arrow and superwoman are not within their consideration.

In addition, Batman and Superman, two first-class heroes, have had too many versions in the past.

Restarting the shooting of these two films was the pressure warner didn't want to face at that time. Superman said that at least he had succeeded, and Batman... "

At this point, Li Xianzhe mentioned another key point.

However, in his opinion, these things are not secrets that can not be told to the outside world, especially he has made up his mind to convince the two directors with sincerity.

"At that time, most of DC's first-line heroes were not suitable for launching movies.

In 2006, the failure of Superman film had a bad impact on 10 years. When the Green Lantern film was launched, it had not been eliminated, and the role was still hidden in the snow.

Batman, once a series of failed works, never brought the character back to life when Michael Keaton played.

So Warner chose to put him aside first（ In reality, Nolan's Batman film was being filmed at that time, so it was impossible to make another Batman film with different world views)

The remaining wonder women, female superheroes, were minefields at that time.

Even for the so far popular role of the black widow, marvel dare not launch the single film of the black widow, and the sea king... "

Li Xianzhe paused and took a look at Wen Ziren's "Sea King". At that time, his popularity was very low, and his popularity has increased in recent years. This is also the reason why I decided to take sea king out and write a single script, as well as steel bone.

The people in this justice alliance were equivalent to iron man. At that time, they were only three front-line heroes and had not been supported to the front line.

The remaining Mars hunters are too powerful to be pushed out when the universe was just established.

Shazan, the ability and appearance after transformation are highly coincident with Superman. "

It can be imagined that the difficulties faced by DC at that time and the headache of Warner executives were no worse than marvel.

Li Xianzhe looked at Wen Ziren and Sam Remy, who had dropped their eyes and meditated, and sighed, "so think about it. At that time, only flash and Green Lantern were suitable to launch movies.

Especially between 2009 and 2011, the popularity of the green lantern was slightly higher than that of lightning due to the big sale of comics of the Green Lantern Corps.

Therefore, it is a very appropriate decision for Warner to finally choose the Green Lantern as the opening work of DC film universe.

Moreover, the Green Lantern belongs to cosmic rays because there are too many stories about his characters.

Therefore, they have personal advantages in building DC's world outlook. We can try to think about it. Superheroes such as Batman, Superman, steel bone and wonder woman always stay on earth because of their background, while the Green Lantern often runs to space to perform tasks. "

In Li Xianzhe's view, there is nothing wrong with using the Green Lantern as a pioneering work.

However, Warner highlighted the fatigue of "opening high and walking low" in the preparation and production of this film.

"In terms of starring, we all know that Warner found a popular Ryan Reynolds at that time.

In addition, they believe that the director Martin Campbell has a resume of excellent works, the actors have both topic and popularity, and the budget cost is the highest level in Hollywood.

It can be seen that this green lantern has almost all the hard conditions for success. Even if it doesn't explode, it's not difficult to get a decent result.

However, it was surprising that the Green Lantern suffered Waterloo after it was released. Not only did it have a very bad reputation, but with its investment of $200 million, the global box office was only $200 million.

According to the popular saying that the box office is three times back to the capital, plus the publicity and distribution expenses and share, this film can be called one of Warner Brothers' most serious losses in recent 10 years. "

Compared with Wen Ziren and Sam Remy, their views on the film mainly focus on the story and special effects. Li Xianzhe's analysis is more comprehensive. He also talked freely during this period, which continuously improved the impression scores of the two directors.

In the end, it was directly placed on the equal status of both sides.

"In fact, for the failure of the green lantern, I mainly put the reasons for the failure on these points."

When he said this, Li Xianzhe suddenly glanced at Jin Zhiyan standing outside the kitchen and said, "Zhiyan, you go to my room and bring the briefcase on my computer desk."

"OK." Jin Zhiyan just looked at the three people talking to each other, but she couldn't get in and understand what they were talking about because she didn't know the language.

American English is really speaking too fast. Korean English, which they usually contact, is too different in pronunciation.

"The budget of $200 million was the highest level of investment at that time.

However, for the film Green Lantern, it seems that it is not enough. "

"Why not? As Lee said before, the investment cost of iron man was only about $140 million at that time, and the green lantern was 60 million more than iron man. "

Sam Remy expressed his doubts. In fact, when he directed Spider Man 3, Sony invested as much as $259 million in the film.

The cost of Spider Man 2 is also about $200 million. In his opinion, if you change to yourself, if you don't shoot Green Lantern with $200 million, you can't make it a special classic.

But at least the first one is in order, which is entirely possible as a good start.

Before Li Xianzhe could answer this question, Wen Ziren put down his tea cup and chewed his nails.

"I think what Lee said is not enough. It should refer to the problem of money and director?"

"Yes!" Li Xianzhe snapped his fingers.

"In fact, the reason why $200 million is not enough for the green lantern is that director Martin is not good at" spending money on the blade. "