Chapter 1087： warder

Originally, the schedule set by Warner Bros. for "Watchmen" was early March, but the sudden outbreak of copyright disputes forced the film's release time to be postponed to April.

Just like Marvel's comics, the copyright of some DC works is actually very complicated.

Especially the comics that did not expect to be popular in the future, they didn't care about some rights, and completed the authorization inadvertently.

It's easy to authorize, but it's hard to get back your rights.

Especially when part of the rights and interests of "Watchmen" fell in the hands of 20th Century Fox, one of the six major Hollywood companies.

As early as the early nineties, after Tim Burton’s version of "Batman" was a big success, Warner Bros. planned the adaptation of "Watchmen" into a movie and even started scripting. The screenwriter was Sam at the time. -Hamm, it was once rumored that Robin Williams will play Rorschach, Jamie Lee Curtis will play the ghost, Richard Gere and Kevin Costner will participate and so on.

In order to share the risk, Warner Bros. also recruited Twentieth Century Fox and authorized the distribution rights of "Watchmen" to Twentieth Century Fox.

However, the script was rewritten many times and the original author strongly opposed it. In the end, Warner Company shelved the filming plan of "Watchmen", and the cooperation with Twentieth Century Fox disappeared.

Hollywood has never been a harmonious group, and there has never been a lack of competition among the six major companies. Because of the age-old relationship, Warner Bros. ignored or did not take the agreement more than ten years ago seriously.

As a result, at the most intense stage of this year's screenwriters' strike, Twentieth Century Fox directly sued Warner Bros. to the court to obtain the distribution rights of the "Watchmen" movie.

Many times Warner Bros.'s mysterious operation is really unintelligible. They did not pay attention to this lawsuit in the early stage. It was not until the court ruled that Twentieth Century Fox won, which suddenly realized that they filed a copyright appeal.

When it comes to copyright disputes, the release date of "Watchmen" had to be postponed.

Finally, in order for the film to be released and to ensure the complete rights and interests of "Watchmen", Warner Bros. had to hold his nose and settle out of court with Twentieth Century Fox.

The two parties reached a settlement agreement before the Oscars, and the copyright dispute between Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox was settled before March.

Warner Bros. paid a considerable fee to Twentieth Century Fox. Not only did the compensation for the copyright pit of the "Terminator" sequel all be spit out, but also an 8% global box office share.

Correspondingly, Twentieth Century Fox no longer owns any rights and interests in "Watchmen" and will not act as the distributor of the film, and future sequels will have nothing to do with it.

To some extent, Warner Bros. openly used the copyright of the "Terminator" sequel to pit the 20th Century Fox, and the 20th Century Fox quickly seized the opportunity to get back.

"Twentieth Century Fox is too much."

In the theater, facing Kevin Tesuhara, Ronan said directly: "In this case, the usual practice in the circle is not a symbolic fee?"

Kevin Tesuhara shook his head: "They are really too much. Warner Bros. has always been friendly with other companies in the circle."

Ronan said casually: "The real master of Fox in the 20th century has returned. I heard from people in the UK that James Murdoch was more radical."

Warner Bros. was a little bit painful this time. Kevin Tesuhara has not suffered such a big loss in recent years, and he is a little angry: "A hairy boy who relies on his father's generation does not know that the sky is high and the earth is thick."

Ronan said: "Warner and Fox and News Corporation are very sensitive now, Kevin, there is no need to make such a big fire."

Kevin Tesohala did not answer, but asked: "I heard that there is also a contradiction between your Relativity Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox."

Ronan nodded and looked sincere: "The contradictions between "Fantastic Four" and "X-Men" are sharp and irreconcilable."

"This company..." Kevin Tesuhara said nothing. "This family is really unflattering."

Ronan faintly echoed: "Who said no?"

Judging from the current situation, if there is any trouble between Fox and James Murdoch in the twentieth century, Warner Bros. will definitely fall into trouble.

The competition among major Hollywood companies is also fierce, otherwise it would not become the Big Six, and even later become the Big Five.

When Zach Schneider came in, Ronan chatted with him for a while.

Since "Watchmen" has already completed all productions, since last year, Zach Schneider has been involved in the work of the Justice League Cinematic Universe. Of course, Ronan will not be told the specific progress, but the re-directing and shooting of the "Superman" movie has been made public. News.

The producer, Warner Bros., has full confidence in Zach Schneider and believes that "he has a keen sense of fashion and a visual style that matches it."

Zach Schneider also stated clearly that because of the success of Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight", his situation in Warner Bros. and the Justice League movie universe has been consolidated.

Ronan understood what he meant. From the visual style, Zach Schneider was the closest director to Christopher Nolan.

As far as the great success of "The Dark Knight" is concerned, in the case that Christopher Nolan will not cooperate, Warner Bros. Choosing Zach Schneider seems to be a very correct decision.

At the very least, the successful model and style can be continued in future DC comics.

The image style of "Watchmen" was very obviously influenced by "The Dark Knight", and its strong dark style appeared from the first second of the opening.

The dark style is a major feature of the film. Another major feature is that Zach Schneider, as a **** fan of DC comics, makes the film loyal to the comics to the greatest extent.

Before the media interview, Zach - Schneider also mentioned this indicates strive to maintain faithful to the book and the author: "For now, their creativity has stood the test of time."

Whether this is good or bad is hard to say clearly.

This is a big event for comic fans. Zach Schneider adheres to the principle of loyalty to the original-the original comics highlight the elements of **** and violence, which is a break from the tradition of superhero comics, and the movie version follows this The setting, full of extremely **** shots, can also be described as a breakthrough in superhero movies; the movie version not only follows the original structure, and even maintains the consistency of the lens settings with the comics.

Many passers-by expressed that they were not very friendly, especially the plot of a comic interspersed in the movie. Although the comic was highly restored, the passerby audience felt that this paragraph was a bit redundant.

Fortunately, Zach Schneider didn't completely follow the comics, and successfully linked up many classic scenes of comics, so it would not be confusing.

It is undeniable that some fans who have watched "Watchmen" and are familiar with comics will have an illusion: Zach Schneider seems to be afraid of leaving his mark in the film. It is more like a translation rather than a translation. The conversion of the media to another media has made some of the flaws in the original comics more obvious.

Comics are not movies.

In fact, the most sensible decision made by the previous Marvel series of films was to make drastic changes to the comics. Despite these and other problems, the villains are all mentally handicapped, but they ensure the popularity of the film. Lower the barriers to entry for theaters.

What happened to Warner Bros. and Zach Schneider? Instead, it continues to raise the barriers to entry for DC superhero movies, and in the end it even makes passersby completely confused.

Judging from this "Watchmen", Warner Bros. and Zach Schneider have embarked on this extremely correct path.

In short, this movie, Zach Schneider has not gone to extremes, and it can be considered a preliminary problem-how to retain the richness of the multi-level and multi-characters in the original "Watchmen" to satisfy the desire of comics fans, on the other hand , To make a foreshadowing in the film to ensure that more viewers who do not know the original work are willing to sit down and watch this 160-minute R-rated movie.

This story about “superheroes” is not ordinary. It describes a world full of sin and conspiracy. “Superheroes” are exiled. The most important thing for them is not to save human beings, but to overcome extreme anxiety, nothingness and Save yourself from loss.

Even so, the reputation of "Watchmen" is inevitably split like "Three Hundred Warriors of Spartan".

Although it is not as exaggerated as "Twilight Saga: New Moon", except for 10 points is 1 point, but it is not much better than Brother Bao's "Vampire Hunter Lincoln".

People who like it are held up to the sky, and there is a curse of dislike.

The themes of comics, especially the film adaptations of superhero comics, have always been regarded as commercial works dedicated to making money.

In recent years, film works adapted from superhero comics have been successful like "Spider-Man," "Iron Man" and "The Dark Knight", and others like "The Hulk" and "Dark Knight".

But one thing is obvious. There is also a special analysis in the circle. Even the commercial superhero movies are not particularly bad at the box office.

"Watchmen" opened in 3911 theaters The scale is the most R-rated superhero movie. Warner Bros. seems to want to make this film into Bizark-Schneider's last film. "Bada Three Hundred Warriors" is a more popular and topical movie.

But the box office of the film is not very good, especially the trend, Friday>Saturday>Sunday, 25.14 million US dollars> 19 million US dollars> 11.52 million US dollars, the curve is not healthy.

According to normal circumstances, this kind of non-sequel film will exceed or at least equal the Friday box office on Saturday.

During the opening weekend in North America, "Watchmen" earned 55.21 million US dollars at the box office.

It's not particularly good, but it's not bad, and it even exceeded the $50 million expected by Warner Bros.

Zach Schneider at the very least handed in a passing answer to Warner Bros. and DC Comics.

(In reality, Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox had a serious dispute over the copyright of "Watchmen", and the two parties even sued separately and tossed for several months.)

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