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Chapter 364 Human Image of Doom (Earth)

Adam underestimated Time Warner's interest in Truman.

He raised the bid from 2000 million to 3000 million, and promised Time Warner a share of the box office, which did not impress Time Warner executives.

This is not because the capitalists are unwilling to ask for the $3000 million, but because Time Warner is too eager for Truman, and they hope to use this as a condition to allow Truman to return to Time Warner.

Christmas in December was spent in this repeated pull, and neither Time Warner executives nor Adam enjoyed the festive joy.

After Christmas, the Chinese Lunar New Year is approaching.

Although the fish-eating fans in the mainland are eager for Truman to give back to the fans again, Truman has never thought of going back this year. I rested until March and went home to celebrate the New Year.

Ting Jun was overjoyed, but she was worried again. Could it be that Truman is going to fire her, otherwise, which serious company would take such a long vacation?
After persuading Mr. Ting to leave, Truman was the only one left in this huge Beverly Hills mansion.

On January 1, when Adam brought Robert Kirkman, president of Skybound Entertainment, to visit Truman, what he saw was Truman, who was wearing white and thin home clothes in a large house that had hardly been decorated, standing in a room because there was no furniture. And in an unusually empty living room.

There is not even a sofa in this living room, only a few simple cushions, randomly placed around a fireplace, from the floor-to-ceiling windows on that side, you can see the greenery of Beverly Hills, and there is a hiking trail there, you can go to On the hill, but the path is covered with weeds, apparently the owner of the house seldom uses it.

The first time Robert Kirkman saw Truman, he felt that he was completely different from the rumors.

Although it is rumored that Truman has multiple images, he is not only a highly anticipated cutting-edge director, but also an excellent actor with excellent acting skills, as well as a mental patient, violent maniac and religious saint.

Of course, Robert Kirkman would be surprised at how a human being could take on so many identities. The moment he saw Truman, he understood that this beautiful man with a very thin figure gave people a completely ethereal feeling. .

Correct.

It is ethereal.

He stood there, as ethereal as if he had no self-consciousness at all.

As an actor, he can play anyone, so you can call him anything, but outside of his career as an actor, he is nobody.

No wonder some people would call him a saint. Robert Kirkman has indeed never seen such a person. He should not be a mortal.

"This is Robert Kirkman, President of Skybound Entertainment." Adam introduced to Truman.

"Hi, I'm Truman." Truman shook hands with Robert, "Sorry, there's no furniture here, Ting Jun wants to buy some, but she's still busy returning home, so I think it's okay."

Robert sat on the soft cushion on the ground and said with a smile: "I reminded me of the days when I was an artist in Marvel. It's hard to imagine that your home will be like this when your neighbor is Emilia Clarke who loves banquets." Jian Jian, didn't she invite you to the banquet?"

"Did you invite me?" Truman asked Adam.

"I have sent emails." Adam said to Robert with a smile, "but CH doesn't like electronic devices. He doesn't have any computers or smartphones. He thinks using those things is too much work."

It's actually too complicated.Truman prefers simple things more and more.

"So, CH, what do you usually do?" Robert was a little curious about Truman.

"Talk to God." Truman said seriously, "and watch my doom."

"Oh..." Robert couldn't say anything about faith.

In fact, the entire Hollywood respects Truman's beliefs. After all, that Jimmy Kimmel ended his life with a bullet because he offended Truman's beliefs.

"You saw her again?" Adam asked in a low voice.

"She's been here all the time," Truman said.

"Does she 'know' better?" Adam asked again.

"Yes, I saw that she has brown hair, and she has been scolding me, very fierce..." Truman replied.

The conversation between the two made Robert puzzled, but Adam did not explain this, but instead introduced Skybound Entertainment.

"Skybound Entertainment owns all the intellectual property rights of Image comics, including The Walking Dead and Spawn..."

Image Comics was formed in 1992 by eight artists from Marvel and DC, whose works include Batman, X-Men, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy and X Special Attack Team".

These eight illustrators can be said to be the first-line illustrators in the field of superheroes at that time. Dissatisfied with the management and interference of illustrators by Marvel and DC, they left angrily and formed Image. They also launched the popular superhero character " Spawn".

But the movie version of "Spawn" caused Image to suffer Waterloo. It was launched in 1997 with an investment of 4000 million US dollars, and the final box office was only 8780 million US dollars, which made Image's underwear almost pawned.

In 2018, taking advantage of the popularity of Marvel and DC superhero movies, the director of "Spawn" McFarlane claimed to restart the project, but until today, there is still no news. If this IP does not come back again, readers who liked it at the beginning It's almost buried.

Since Truman wanted "A Nightmare on Elm Street," Adam thought "Spawn" would be good too, because Image had said that it would be made into a horror hero movie.

Now Image Comics has been transformed into Skybound Entertainment. Its drama version of "The Walking Dead" has received very good ratings, and it plans to launch video game products, but it still misses big superhero movies.

"We were supposed to visit you. But recently CH has trouble going out every time." Adam said, "CH was unfortunately involved in the snowstorm in Los Angeles in November and the typhoon in London in December. Whenever he went out, he would encounter All kinds of troubles, so I have to invite you to Beverly Hills as a guest."

"It's really unbelievable." Robert felt that Adam had no reason to lie to him, but this reason was really hard to believe.

"Bad luck has always been with me," Truman said, "and here she is."

Robert noticed that Truman used 'she' instead of 'it', and when he said this, his eyes were fixed on his left side, Robert couldn't help turning his head to look, but found that there was nothing beside him , of course, that can't be someone.

"Who is she?" Robert couldn't help asking, and when he asked this sentence, he felt a chill down his spine.

"CH." Adam coughed lightly, and explained for Truman, "CHIYU believes that bad luck appears in human form."

"At some point, she will have a human body," Truman said. "This is also the price we pay for using the power of God. It is inevitable."

"Let's talk about "Spawn"!" Adam forcefully changed the subject, "If Skybound Entertainment can sell us this IP, we are willing to pay 2000 million US dollars, limited to the authorization of one movie, how about it?"

"Does 'you' mean the production team of Shang-Chi 2?" Robert asked.

Hearing Robert's question, Adam knew that the price was not easy to negotiate.

(End of this chapter)