Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 178 The Real Superhero Movie

Compared with the previous Universal version of "The Incredible Hulk" and Fox's version of "Fantastic Four", the scripts created by Marvel's cartoonists and screenwriters who personally adapted complex film and television adaptations are obviously progress.

Although from the perspective of Wayne, who has memories of his past life, it is still a bit monotonous and not exciting enough.

But as a superhero movie, combat and special effects are the most important. The plot and other things cannot be said to be completely unimportant, but they can only be said to be not very important.

However, at this time, Avi Arad obviously did not have the ideas and ambitions to create a Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The plots of the three scripts are relatively separated. If he shoots according to this, it will be difficult to integrate into the Avengers system later, so he is a little entangled. Should he tell Avi Arad his plan now, or wait until later? Wait a moment.

The advantage of informing you now is that you can design and polish the script in advance. After all, there are too many things to consider in a huge movie universe.

However, the current shooting and special effects production technology do not meet the conditions for creating such a movie universe. Among other things, 3D technology alone will not be launched until Cameron's "Avatar" is released.

You design and polish the script so long in advance, what if the secret is leaked?
Apart from anything else, if Warner, which holds all the copyrights of DC, knows about this idea, it will immediately break through the original dilemma of Batman and Superman being poorly filmed, and create the DC movie universe faster than him.

If we look at Superman and Batman as being much more popular and influential than the Marvel superheroes, they might even force the Marvel Cinematic Universe to die!
"So we can't tell Avi Arad about this plan yet," Wayne made a decision after thinking about it for a while.

Of course, Marvel movies still have to be made, and he even changed his original idea of ​​​​prioritizing the filming of "Captain America" ​​and planned to continue filming "The Incredible Hulk".

But the script of "The Incredible Hulk" definitely needs major changes.

In the previous life, "The Incredible Hulk" was started immediately after "Spider-Man 1" was released and became a hit, and it was released only one year later than "Spider-Man 1".

At this time, the audience was still very interested in superhero movies, but even if "The Incredible Hulk" took advantage of some of the popularity of "Spider-Man 1", the global box office was only US$2.45 million.

In order to catch up with the schedule and complete the filming as soon as possible, the production cost of "The Incredible Hulk" was as high as 1.37 million US dollars.

In this way, even if the later disc sales revenue is included, Universal, which has been busy for a whole year, did not make much money from this movie, it just did not lose money.

And this is why, the second part of "The Incredible Hulk", "The Incredible Hulk", waited until 2007 to start filming again.

As for why the box office of "The Incredible Hulk" is so low, the most important thing is that the producers completely got the theme wrong.

The popularity of "Spider-Man" is mainly due to the fact that after the 911/[-] incident, the American people needed such a superhero.

And what was filmed in "The Incredible Hulk"?

A scientist was accidentally infected by gamma rays and mutated into a brainless green fat man who only knew violence and destruction. Then he was captured by the military and successfully escaped.

How does this setting and story resemble the superheroes that people need to protect them?

The script submitted by Avi Arad was personally created by Marvel's own cartoonists and screenwriters. Although it is more exciting than the original version, it still follows the comics and follows the origin story of the Hulk. There is no Essential breakthrough.

If this script is followed, even if the box office of the new version of "The Incredible Hulk" improves, it will not be too high, let alone the reputation, so this script has to make a breakthrough.

And if you want to make a breakthrough, the easiest way is to merge the story of the second "Incredible Hulk" with the first one.

After Dr. Banner accidentally mutated into the Hulk, the evil military wanted to capture him for human experiments. After several failed captures, they finally succeeded in capturing Dr. Banner using his girlfriend as a bait, and brought him back to the hiding place. A secret laboratory underground in New York.

During the human experiment, the villain mercenary Emil Blonsky could not withstand the temptation of power and secretly injected Hulk's blood. Although he had a power close to that of Hulk, he also turned into a monster. ——Hate.

Driven by ambition, he destroyed the base and all experimental materials to prevent anyone from obtaining the power of the Hulk like him, and planned to kill the Hulk as well.

Dr. Banner is unable to transform because he has taken inhibitors, so he is not a hateful opponent.

In a critical moment, his girlfriend ran over to save him, and the two took a helicopter together, planning to escape New York.

However, Abomination followed closely, and in the process of pursuit, it caused huge destruction in the city.

Then, in order to prevent innocent passers-by from being harmed, Dr. Banner jumped out of the plane and successfully transformed back into the Hulk between life and death.

Then the two sides fought fiercely, and the Hulk successfully defeated the Abomination.

However, in order to prevent his blood from being obtained by other careerists, Dr. Banner had to leave his girlfriend and hide alone.

In order to cover up its own mistakes and prevent other forces from noticing Hulk, the military teamed up with SHIELD to completely block the existence of Hulk and Abomination.

In this way, the Hulk can be regarded as a superhero, and it becomes reasonable for Iron Man not to know the existence of the Hulk.

Thinking of this, Wayne immediately took Mia and Hannah to the study, and while explaining the key points, he wrote down the outline of the new script.

After listening to Wayne's explanation, Mia finally understood what a superhero is and why Wayne was dissatisfied with the previous script.

Obviously, according to the outline of the script written by Wayne, the Hulk fits the name of 'superhero'.

"My dear, you are so awesome! I will give it to Avi Arad tomorrow and ask him to re-revise the script according to your outline!"

"Well, there's no need to worry about this. The main reason is that Industrial Light and Magic has already had enough work this year, so even if filming is to begin, it will have to wait until the end of the year or even next year."

Wayne put down his pen, stretched, then put his arms around her slender waist, and said with a smile: "Now let you see my more powerful things~"

When Mia heard this, her whole body softened and she fell into his arms.

However, an in-depth exchange before dinner had already exhausted her physical strength, so: "No, my dear, you should go find Amanda and Lydia~"

Wayne felt that his greatest advantage was his ability to do good things, so he went to Amanda's room tonight and called Lydia over.

Of course, the two Amandas combined cannot match the strength of Charlize Theron, and they obviously cannot be Wayne's opponent.

However, there had been a high-intensity battle during this period, and it was time to take a rest. So after defeating the two, Wayne did not go to find anyone else. He hugged the two sisters and fell asleep early.A night of silence.

After breakfast the next morning, Wayne personally drove Mia to the company for work, and then turned around and went directly to Nicole Kidman's place without even entering the company building.

There was no way. He had gone to Las Vegas to film for more than ten days, and now that he was back, he must have so many women who needed to be fed.

However, Camilla is still filming in "Hotel for Dogs", and Nicole Kidman alone is seriously insufficient to fight, so after she agreed, Wayne cast Monica Bay, who is also Prime Minister Cao's favorite type. Rucci, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Kate Beckinsale were called over.

Originally, he also called Rachel Weisz.

Although Rachel Weisz is not married, she is still a ripe peach.

It's just that Rachel Weisz is currently traveling back and forth with the crew to promote "The Mummy 2" which was just released yesterday, so she can't come over.

This can't help but make Wayne feel a little regretful.

But soon, this regret was melted away by the tender care of the four elder sisters.

By the time Wayne rearranged his clothes and walked out of Nicole Kidman's house refreshed, the sun was almost setting.

"Tsk, tsk, we haven't seen each other for more than ten days, how come Nicole and the others' combat effectiveness has improved so much? The four of them combined, it feels like they are almost as good as the last six of the 'Old Fox' Angela Lindworth and the others."

"By the way! Heidi Klum seems to be married too!"

"What a mistake, I forgot about her!"

Shaking his head, Wayne looked at the time on his watch, and then drove to the recording studio where Avril Lavigne was.

In order to befriend Wayne, Howard Stringer deliberately asked Sony Music to adjust Britney Spears' concert schedule. Now there are only two days left before the first concert of this tour.

In order not to embarrass herself and Wayne in her first performance, Avril practiced very hard during this period.

But as soon as she saw Wayne, Avril, who was sitting on the floor in the practice room tired and imageless, seemed to be fully charged in an instant, and she jumped up and threw herself into his arms.

"My dear, why are you here?"

"I'm here to pick you up for dinner~" Wayne smiled and touched her head. While looking at her, he scolded: "Didn't I tell you to eat well? Look at you, you have lost weight."

"If you don't eat well, I will find a nutritionist to keep an eye on you! You don't want this, right?"

"By the way, didn't you say that the licorice candies I bought for you in Chinatown last time were really good for your throat? I know you don't have time to buy them yourself, so I just went to Chinatown again and bought some for you."

"In addition, I heard from the Chinese medicine doctors there that herbal tea made from licorice mixed with a plant called Pangda seaweed and tea leaves is both delicious and more effective, so I also bought some."

"Wait for you to try and see if it's true. If the effect is really good, I'll buy more for you."

It was just a very ordinary word of concern, but when it fell in Avril's ears, it made her feel extremely happy and sweet. She hugged Wayne tightly with both hands, wishing she could become one with him.

"I'm sorry, my dear, the main reason is that this concert is too important, but I will listen to you and eat well in the future."

At this time, Avril was as obedient as a kitten. As she spoke, she rubbed Wayne's chest vigorously.

This scene immediately stunned the band and arranger on the side.

The little punk princess who is usually cool, cool and a little rebellious actually has such a girly side?This is incredible!

Among the crowd, only Sandy Robert, the manager, could still look normal. After all, he knew how much Avril liked Wayne.

To be honest, he really doubted that with Wayne's appearance, figure, temperament, wealth, fame and influence, and even his extremely powerful abilities in that area, what other woman could be Wei Wei? Grace cannot conquer.

"At least here in Hollywood, if he wants to, no woman can escape his powerful charm, right?" Sandy Robert couldn't help but think to himself.

In fact, it's not just him, Harvey, Howard Stringer and others also think so, so they also have some headaches when it comes to making friends with Wayne.

After all, they can't befriend Wayne with something he can easily get, right?
For details, please refer to the chips and bunny girls sent by MGM.

So it's okay for Howard Stringer. After all, he is backed by Sony Entertainment, which has global influence.But Harvey really put a lot of thought into it.

Wayne could also think of this, so he was quite looking forward to Harvey's party.

But tonight he had better comfort his little punk princess first.

"Come on, baby, let's go home~"

After a romantic candlelight dinner, the two returned to Avril Lavigne's residence together.

Although she has been busy practicing singing and not eating well these days, her mental and physical strength are not in normal condition, but Avril still used her tenacious fighting spirit to exert 120% of her fighting power and increased the fighting time to 40 minutes.

So, after another night of recuperating, Wayne had breakfast with Avril the next day, and then drove her to the studio in person, and then went straight to full fire, which only took one day. , and took care of everyone except Camilla, Martina, and Isla Fisher who were filming.

In the evening, Wayne picked up Avril Lavigne home from get off work like the best boyfriend would, and then made dinner with Avril together, then returned to Wayne Manor, changed into a dress, and went to Harvey's party.

"Haha, Wayne, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

Different from the previous ones, this time Harvey waited directly at the gate in person, and took the initiative to greet Wayne as soon as he saw him getting off the car.

(End of this chapter)