Chapter 597： Revelation

On the first weekend of April, Embassy Pictures held the North American premiere of "Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse" in Los Angeles. Compared to "Underworld 2" which premiered last month, this film is obviously more valued. .

Because Kate Beckinsale took over the heroine of "Van Helsing", Ronan planned that "Underworld" will temporarily be in the second part.

This series takes the heroine Selena as the absolute core. Once the actor has problems, it will inevitably affect the entire movie.

In contrast, the "Resident Evil" series that can continue to be filmed, whether the film itself or Milla Jovovich, is of much greater value.

Ronan also appeared at the premiere.

However, he did not walk the red carpet and went straight into the theater.

Ronan saw Robert Lee and walked over and asked, "How is the situation over there?"

Robert-Lee whispered: "Marvel’s life is not easy. There is a serious shortage of funds. If you want to borrow, no one is willing to lend. Mortgage cannot be done. The remaining cartoon characters are basically not well-known. Banks and financial institutions are definitely not. Willing to take risks. Now they are trying their best to make money. I did not expend much effort to convince Avi Allard."

He scratched his head: "If it weren't for the heroes in our hands that are very famous, have not adapted the movie, and are of little value, it is estimated that Marvel will find us."

Ronan nodded slowly and said: "You pay more attention to Marvel's situation. When their bad situation reaches a near point, inform me and Bob in time."

Robert Lee knew exactly what Ronan was going to do, nodded, and said, "I have someone keep watching."

In fact, he has doubts. Now Marvel comics are like a bottomless pit. No matter how much money is thrown in, they will never die or live. If Relativity Entertainment really wants to buy, can it save Marvel?

If it was someone else, he would have already made suggestions, but Ronan...

Robert Lee believes that if anyone in this world can save the Marvel comics that have been horrible for the past decade, there is only Ronan.

A few Asian faces walked into the VIP room at this time. Ronan and Robert Lee exchanged a few words in the past. In any case, Capcom is now a partner of Relativity Entertainment, and it is relatively rare. Kind.

Capcom doesn't have much ambition for the movie for the time being, and his energy seems to be entirely on the game.

According to the standards used on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the games and comics of the island countries are definitely IP manufacturing machines, producing a variety of works with a wide range of audiences, and the copyright is not expensive.

In terms of film adaptations, with very few exceptions, 99% of the island game or manga movies adapted by Hollywood are all on the street.

Even Scarlett Johansson and James Cameron, who have considerable box office appeal, are planted on it.

James Cameron is the producer of the "Alita: Battle Angel".

When Ronan thought of this, he suddenly remembered one thing. It seemed that James Cameron liked the island cartoon adapted from this film very much.

What is the name of that island country manga?

Ronan is quite unfamiliar with island cartoons, and even not as familiar as the domestic dramas he used to be. Apart from brother Yixiu, Saint Seiya, Slam Dunk, and Reaper elementary school students remembered because of where he went, other island cartoons. Not to mention ignorance, few can remember.

After thinking about it carefully, a name popped out of his head.

"Ghost in the Shell"? It seems that the heroine is Scarlett Johansson. It is said that some concepts of "The Matrix" are derived from this anime.

"Red chili"? Not right, I can remember this name, because many people say that Christopher Nolan's "Inception" is a copy of this island comic.

What kind of dream does it seem? Ronan pondered for a long time, and finally remembered a name-"Gunmeng"!

Ronan called Robert Lee to the corner and whispered: "Just seeing the islanders of Capcom, I remembered an island manga I read some time ago. It should be called "Gunmeng". Check it, if the copyright is still there, let someone go to the island country and buy it."

Robert Lee repeated: "Bun Meng?"

Ronan nodded: "Yes, just call it this name, go buy it, and enrich it in the copyright library."

Compared to works in North America, the biggest advantage of island comic copyright is that it is cheap. It doesn't cost much to buy it. It may be used when discussing cooperation with James Cameron in the future.

Robert Lee didn't say much, he went straight out of the VIP room, took out his mobile phone and started making a call.

For copyright robbing, the sooner the action is, the better.

Last year, because of a step slow, the copyright of "The Da Vinci Code" fell into the hands of Tom Hanks.

The crew came in at this time, and Paul Anderson and Milla Jovovich found Ronan by themselves.

The two are also familiar with Ronan. Paul Anderson said directly: "Ronan, will you wait for a while to prepare for the third?" He did not hide: "Mila took a film called "Fatal Violet" To play the heroine."

Ronan nodded and said, "Yes, it will not be too late to prepare for the third film next year. I plan to release it in 2006."

"No problem." Paul Anderson pledged: "I will finish on time."

The rate of release every other year was originally within the scope of the plan. This type of film was released too fast. The last two sequels of "The Matrix" are lessons for us.

When Ronan was sitting in the theater, he thought of the huge island country comic industry from "Gunmeng". Is there any copyright available? Perhaps after Netflix's streaming media business becomes really strong, it will also need to diversify its operations and add works in various languages.

The online copyright and remake copyright of those cartoons should also be valuable.

Make a live-action movie version of "Full Master"? Ronan thought for a while, and finally shook his head. Instead of filming this, it's better to adapt it based on the NBA superstars. There are more audiences around the world than this.

The film began to show, and the premiere theater was full.

The first film’s pretty good box office performance, and the audience that it has attracted through the offline market over the past two years, naturally cares about the release of the sequel film.

There are also game fans.

A month before, Capcom had released a data that all the "Resident Evil" games that have been released added up to 24 million units sold worldwide.

This is only genuine and does not include pirated audiences.

The hot sale of games has also brought a greater audience base for the film.

The film adaptation did not follow the idea of ​​the game.

Although Jill Valentine finally appeared in the film, the absolute protagonist of the film is still Alice.

Compared with the complete release of the self in the next few films, in "Apocalypse", Paul Anderson, the director and screenwriter, somewhat relates the plot of the film to the characters, plots and events in the game.

Of course, more is to change.

For example, the three game characters in "The Nemesis" were added as secondary characters to promote the progress of the plot. At the same time, more fighting and stunt scenes were added to attract non-game fans.

For Paul Anderson, Ronan at least has enough trust in the "Resident Evil" series.

Once the "Resident Evil" series was filmed to the end, Paul Anderson said in an interview: In this world, no one is more successful than me in making a movie adapted from a game.

From a business perspective, this makes sense.

On the whole, no one is more successful than Paul Anderson's "Resident Evil" series.

In terms of the number of directing game adaptation film projects, Uvi Bauer can truly compare with Paul Anderson. However, the former Uvi Bauer does not have a fast-growing company and huge platform behind it.

Perhaps, today's Uvi Bauer can grab this position with Paul Anderson.

Of course, from a pure film perspective, whether Uvi Bauer or Paul Anderson has become the world's most successful game-adapted film director, it can be called the sadness of game-adapted movies.

This type of movie was constantly tried in Hollywood until Ronan left the other side of the Pacific, and no one found the right answer and path.

In the second part, Alice still can't escape this zombie nightmare. After the transformation of the Umbrella Company's Underground Biochemical Laboratory, she was given superhuman strength, speed and perception ability, and she continued to fight with the zombies.

In addition to facing an army of zombies and mutant monsters, Alice has encountered a more powerful enemy...

Compared with the first one, the zombies rushed out of the laboratory and attacked the human world. The umbrella company destroyed the entire city in order to protect its own achievements.

The second part also completely determined the style of this series, not a horror thriller, but an action movie.

Regardless of the quality of the film, "Apocalypse" does at least one thing. The fast pace allows the audience to sit down and spend more than an hour to enjoy the pleasure of visual and sound effects, and the rest does not need to stay. What's next.

This is also the entertainment of commercial films.

Ronan feels that as long as it is entertaining enough, the adaptation does not necessarily follow the game plot.

Compared with those game movies with larger plot adaptations, movies that follow the game plot have a higher chance of hitting the street.

Watching "Resident Evil 2: Revelations", Ronan couldn't help but think of Uvi Bauer. Brother Bao is adapting "Vampire Lane". Maybe Brother Bao can bring a masterpiece of a game adaptation movie?

The last time I received a call from Uvi Bauer, Brother Bao had persuaded Christana Loken that the actress who had played in "Terminator 3" had agreed to be the leading actress.

Inferring from Milla Jovovich and Angelina Jolie, the beautiful protagonist seems to be an indispensable key factor in the success of the game adaptation film.

The second part of the screening is over, just like the first part, leaving suspense again so that the sequel can be filmed later.