Chapter 853： Why are you looking at me like this?

In two weeks, Eric was basically spent in frequent meetings with Marvel's management, during which Kasenberg also personally rushed to New York to participate in several more important meetings.

After repeated discussions during this period, the company initially determined the basic organizational framework of Marvel Pictures and the film development plan.

Marvel Film will be solely responsible for the development of film and television productions of all the superhero characters of Marvel Entertainment, in addition to the Firefly Group's film production system and the planned Marvel TV production company. At the same time, Eric will personally act as the producer of all the film changes in the first phase of Marvel to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan.

In terms of film production, Marvel Film will largely follow the standardized industrial process of Hollywood studios. All producers such as producers, directors, and actors must follow Marvel's overall style and will. In order to implement cost control as much as possible and maintain the sustainability of the comic book-style film development program, all of the film's core characters of Marvel Pictures must sign long-term packaging contracts.

At the same time, Eric is no longer pursuing the radical strategy of the Marvel movie.

In the preliminary film universe plan, only the story line of the Avengers was confirmed for the time being.

As for the Wars, the Fantastic Four, and other projects, Eric decided to wait for the Avengers program to be implemented smoothly, and Marvel Films gained enough influence to open other series of productions.

In the original time and space, it was the great success of the Marvel Avengers program that completely activated all the ips of Marvel and led all the superhero brands of Marvel into the heyday. Before that, in addition to Sony's Spider-Man, other Marvels can't be too successful. Especially in the Wars series, in Eric's view, the warriors with a large number of rich characters were completely messed up by Fox, the characters were not concentrated, and the timeline was upside down. Most of the sequel to the entire series was only returned. line.

Marvel's big gold mine firefly family is definitely not to be dug, Eric will still adopt a strategy of cooperation with other studios.

However, the premise of all this is that Marvel Films still has to have sufficient control over project development and more profit sharing.

But even if the fireflies are closely related to Fox and MGM, if the great potential of the Marvel superhero can't be proved, the cooperation will not be so smooth. Therefore, the success of the Avengers will affect the entire Marvel. The key to the film universe development plan.

Fireflies have signed a "Spider-Man" film with Cameron. Due to the great success of "Titanic", using Cameron as the director of "Spider-Man" seems to be contrary to the various Principle of production. But in fact, Cameron belongs to the kind of technical commercial film director who pays attention to the visual perception of the film. The film he directed has always focused on the story rather than the artistry. The positioning of the Marvel movie is also based on the super hero ip and the movie. The special effect of the popcorn movie, the two sides almost coincide.

Of course, with Cameron enabled, the cost control of Spider-Man is certainly impossible to talk about, but it is equally acceptable compared to the profits that Cameron can direct. However, there are some disadvantages, that is, in the future, people will definitely attribute the success of Spider-Man to Cameron.

Therefore, in order to prove the commercial potential of Marvel Superhero, Marvel Studios must produce a standard Marvel Superhero movie according to the established plan while shooting Spider-Man.

As for which superhero to choose, it is natural for Eric to not hesitate.

"Tony Stark is a very anti-mainstream superhero. He is self-sufficient, arrogant and crazy. At the same time, he also has multiple identities such as genius, inventor, billionaire, and playboy. This is a very malleable A strong character, as long as he can get it right, he will definitely look charming on the big screen."

At the meeting of Marvel Headquarters, Eric outlined his point of view, looked away from the memo in front of him, looked up at the crowd, and continued: "And, Iron Man is still a second-line hero. If the film is successful, it will undoubtedly prove The great value of the Marvel superhero character, I am very confident about this project. Moreover, even if it is a real accident, it will not cause too fatal impact on the entire Marvel movie universe. We still have a lot of lines. The role can try..."

With that said, Eric feels that everyone looks at his own eyes, especially the Stan Lee around him, the old man is very embarrassed.

Subconsciously touched his cheek, Eric wondered: "Why are you looking at me like this?"

There was an inexplicable smile on everyone's face, and Stan Lee said: "Eric, according to the Marvel movie universe, Tony Stark was born in 1969."

According to the original manga, Tony Stark was born in the 1940s. According to the principle that the film timeline and reality are roughly coincident, it should be in his fifties now. This is definitely not going to work, so it must be re-set. In other words, the new version of Iron Man will be much younger than the previous Downey version, according to the planned release date around 2000, the new Tony Stark happens to be around 30 years old, which is undoubtedly the most attractive for men. a stage.

Eric nodded in doubt. He read a lot of the movie universe plan that was developed by Man Wei's creative department. He also provided a lot of revisions based on memory. Of course, this is clear.

Stan Lee saw Eric nod and continued to smile and seduce: "So, Eric, you see, you were born in 1970, it can't be a few days, right?"

Eric immediately understood Stan Lee’s intentions and shook his head without hesitation: “Stan, don’t even think about it.”

Stan Lee didn't want to give up so easily, saying: "Eric, don't be so anxious to refuse. Everyone knows that my inspiration for Tony Stark comes from Howard Hughes, you are exactly the same as him. No, no, no, you are better than him, so why not try this role, it is tailor-made for you."

"Oh, Stan, my pay is now $60,000 a minute. I can't afford it myself, you don't even think about it."

"Oh, look, conceit, arrogance, and a little madness," Stan Lee laughed more cumbersomely, like a little wolf: "So, Eric, you are Tony Stark, or you are not I will first pick this superhero to shoot."

"Oh, this way," Eric did not intend to pay attention to the embarrassment of the old man, close the folder in front of him, saying: "In the future propaganda, you can use 'Eric Williams to deliberately appear in Iron Man personally. Stan Lee strongly opposed 'being as a propaganda gimmick.'

Everyone laughed.

Stan Lee also has some laughs and laughs: "Eric, you are upside down black and white."

"Of course, I want to reverse black and white. Who will be interested in normal news? That's it. I will return to Los Angeles next week to start the preliminary preparations for the film, give you a month to take out the first version of the script, and that's it. , meeting."

Eric slammed the sound, and everyone knew that the matter they had secretly discussed was definitely not going to happen. Everyone who had a bit of anticipation had a disappointing sigh and could only get up and leave the meeting room.

Eric is not entirely interested in playing Iron Man, but once he does this, this superhero movie is likely to become his ticket in the audience's mind. This is definitely not a good thing for the entire Avengers. The layout of the affiliate program is also very unfavorable.

Consoling a disappointing old man, Stan Lee, Eric left the office with Avi Arad when he was at work at Marvel Headquarters.

Coming to the underground parking lot of the office building, Eric saw the gorgeous fire red Maserati next to his car and Cindy Crawford, who leaned against the car and waved at him. Perhaps in recent years, the cause has revived again, and the supermodel who just turned 30 is more and more beautiful.

Avi Arad looked at Cindy Crawford, with envy in his eyes, and he was very active in ignoring people.

Eric walked over and stroked Maserati's hood and smiled: "Good car."

Cindy wore a black trench coat with a waist and high boots on her feet. A light silk scarf was placed between the white necks, and a po color was quietly asked. "What about the man?"

"More beautiful," Eric smiled and embraced Cindy. Instead of going to his own black Bentley, he got into the Maserati co-pilot.

Cindy wanted to go to Eric's car. When he saw him in his car, he turned to the driver's seat and got on the engine. He saw Eric comfortably leaning on the co-pilot. I suggest to the ground: "Would you like to drive?"

Eric smiled and said: "I am more suitable for the horses now, but also for the military."

"why?"

"When you hit something like this, it will seem to have an advantage."

"Oh," Cindy smiled and understood. Eric now definitely drives his own car. The hand is absolutely no longer mentioning this topic. He started the car slowly out of the parking lot and said: "I Set the location at Jean-George Restaurant, go eat first?"

Eric nodded: "Well, I will listen to you tonight."

Cindy complained: "I still say it, it’s really hard to ask you once, let me wait for two weeks."

In New York, Eric inevitably received invitations from various parties of the local snakes, most of which could be pushed off, and some could not be postponed. These days he had entertainment almost every night. It is also about to leave soon, and Eric will make time.

Listening to Cindy’s tone of resentment, Eric laughed: “I’m so anxious to ask me out, don’t you have a new boyfriend now, it’s not like your style.”

Cindy took the steering wheel and turned to look at it: "You don't want me to be single?"

"I hope you are married now, which is more exciting."

"Hey, hateful man," Cindy glanced at him, and said: "Trying to have a relationship, I feel too boring, broke up at the end of last year."

"Oh, it seems that the horizon has improved," Eric laughed and teased.

In the memory, Cindy passed the peak period of her model career. During this period, she lost a "Fair Game" in Hollywood, and did not arouse any waves. So she quickly converged her mind and married a New York nightclub owner. It must be said that compared with most of the supermodels that are no longer difficult to settle down, Cindy is probably a life winner.

But now, due to the emergence of Eric, Cindy's life trajectory completely deviates from the track of previous life. The serial identity of the Victorian Angel spokesperson and the producer and host of the "American Supermodel Contest" also revived her career. Her current annual income is no worse than those of Hollywood's first-line actresses, and even more than that. Correspondingly, my mind is destined to be no longer safe.

The two went to the Jean-George restaurant on Fifth Avenue, and after chatting, they chatted about some of the recent developments.

Waiting for the waiter to send the dishes to leave, Cindy said casually: "I also bought an irelyer recently. The assistant took the goods directly from the black market, $400. I can't think of the small things you made. The treatment of the goods."

Eric was still the first to hear this kind of thing, laughing: "I have to say a few, I will give you a few."

"Why dare you trouble with this little thing," Cindy smiled and said: "I saw yesterday that Firefly Electronics was sued?"

"Well, Chris has already flown to San Francisco to deal with it, and the problem is not big."

"I think so too," Cindy nodded. "I read that article. It said that the revenue from the record company's revenue from the Yahoo Music Store is not much different from the physical record. Even because of the convenience of the network, if the network Music stores are developing, record companies can get more, so why are they so excited?"

"This is just a superficial thing," Eric didn't know why Cindy was suddenly interested in this kind of thing, but explained: "The pure music industry, the global annual income does not exceed 20 billion US dollars, but music. The player market is much larger. This also involves the issue of patent monopoly. Traditional portable player patents are basically in the hands of Japanese manufacturers. A complete set of player patent licensing fees, the price will not be lower than the player. At 5% of the price, Japanese companies can earn more than one billion dollars in net income every year. The emergence of irelyer is equivalent to completely breaking the patent monopoly of traditional portable music player manufacturers, even once irelyer is popular, The elimination of alkman and other equipment, Japanese manufacturers originally worth tens of billions of dollars worth of patents will be worthless, so their reaction will be so strong." (To be continued.)