Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 68 Superman Is Dead
Jamie's rejection surprised Rob Reiner. He believed that Warner executives would have the same reaction if they received such an answer.

"why?"

Faced with the question about Rob Reiner's soul, Jamie answered calmly.

"Because Superman is dead."

Rob Reiner was confused after hearing this.

What do you mean?
"Mr. Reiner must have been about my age when Superman 1978 came out in 1, right? I mean, you must have experienced the buzz when that movie came out, right?"

Rob Reiner nodded.

Although it was released a long time ago, "Superman" is still the most successful superhero movie so far, bar none.

It goes without saying how popular this movie is in the United States.

Even at a time when the culture was closed and self-contained, this movie set a record of more than 8000 million moviegoers when it was released.

At that time, the total population of Xiaobenzi was only 1.15 million.

The huge success of the movie even influenced all subsequent Superman comics. DC cartoonists all unanimously moved the image of Superman closer to Christopher Reeve, the actor who played Superman in the movie.

As a witness to all this, Rob Reiner has the deepest feelings.

So when Jamie then asked about the secret to the success of "Superman 1," Rob Reiner said one word almost without thinking.

Freshness!
As the first Superman to be put on the big screen in history, who among the audience at that time had ever seen a flying man?
Who has ever seen a person who can lift a plane?

That kind of experience is no less than the visual shock that later "Avatar" brought to the audience.

Two years later, "Superman 2" inherited the reputation and popularity of its predecessor, and its box office and reputation were not bad. However, when it came to "Superman 3" and "Superman 4", it was completely unable to hold up and became a complete bad movie. .

After suffering such a misfortune, Warner did not dare to restart the Superman movie project until nearly 10 years later.

However, today, four or five years have passed, the director has changed twice, countless versions of the script have been written, and the lead actor is still in the casting stage.

In the previous life, the film was delayed until 04 before it officially started shooting. It was released in 06. The production cost of nearly 3 million U.S. dollars only earned a global box office of 3.91 million U.S. dollars, and Warner ended up with a loss.

As the number one enemy of the success of DC movies, Warner's curse of never disappointing DC movie fans has begun to take shape in this movie, which was eventually titled "Superman Returns".

Jamie, who was well aware of Warner's peeing, asked Rob Reiner a question on the spot.

If he writes a script for a Superman movie, can Warner guarantee that it will be adopted and that it will not blindly direct the director or interfere with the plot during the filming process?

The answer is undoubtedly no.

Especially after experiencing the box-office failure of "Batman and Robin" in 97, Warner became more and more constrained, no longer daring to boldly delegate power to directors, and habitually intervened in everything.

For creators, this is the most uncomfortable thing.

Rob Reiner also asked Jamie a question.

Before asking the question, he also emphasized that this was just a personal question and had nothing to do with the serious business they were talking about.

"Even if Warner doesn't accept your script in the end, they will still pay you. There is actually no loss for you, right?"

Jamie shook his head.

"No, if Warner doesn't use my script, I will actually suffer a greater loss." "Because I am confident in the script I wrote, and its value is definitely more than 100 million, and the reason why I don't bargain with Warner is Because I need a chance to prove it."

It was difficult for Rob Reiner to understand where Jamie's confidence came from, but he still agreed to pass on Jamie's conditions to Warner executives.

In fact, if Jamie's script is as good as he said, Rob Reiner believes that Warner executives will not be so blind as to be indifferent and throw it aside.

After all, they also invested $100 million in this script.

"Maybe you could add that Vestar Films is also looking to buy the film rights to 'Weakness,' and they also have superheroes that I'm interested in."

"The only difference is that if Weststar Films spent $100 million to invite me to write a superhero script for them, they would definitely not waste the script. After all, they are not as rich as Warner!"

Jamie suggested seriously.

Rob Reiner looked serious, he didn't think Jamie was joking.

After all, he met Logan Roy's little daughter with his own eyes at the party.

Feeling the pressure, Rob Reiner immediately stood up, took his cell phone and walked to the window, preparing to make a call to communicate with the person in charge of the matter at Warner Management.

However, at this moment, Jamie called him.

Under Rob Reiner's puzzled gaze, Jamie said something even more jaw-dropping.

"Mr. Reiner, I haven't finished what I just said. I am willing to write a superhero script for Warner for $100 million, but I did not say that this script is about Superman."

what? !

Rob Reiner's eyes widened on the spot, almost thinking he heard wrongly.

They had just been chatting for such a long time, weren't they always talking about Superman?

Jamie nodded, admitting this without hesitation.

At the same time, he also emphasized that he said "Superman is dead" at the beginning of the conversation.

The true understanding of this sentence should be that even a confident person like him refuses to write a script for Superman, which means that Superman is really hopeless.

"When we were talking about "Superman 1" just now, Mr. Reiner said that the secret to the success of this movie is freshness. So I would like to ask, after more than 20 years, how can Superman still give everyone freshness?"

"Perhaps you can say that it has been almost 15 years since the last time we saw Superman appear on the big screen. The audience has changed for several generations, and everyone is now looking forward to Superman's return."

"Yes, but what everyone is looking forward to is a new Superman that is different from the past, not a Superman who simply upgrades the special effects fighting in the movie and then nothing else changes."

In his previous life, when Jamie was the host of UP, he published a video specifically discussing why Superman movies always failed to produce well. He once made a hypothesis in it.

If Zack Snyder's version of "Man of Steel" released in 13 was released in 06 instead of "Superman Returns", would it be able to achieve a relatively successful box office result?

The final conclusion is that the box office can definitely increase a lot, but it is still far from enough to make the film a success.

It may have a good performance at the overseas box office. After all, director Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" has combat visual effects that are at the ceiling of superhero movies.

But local audiences may not necessarily buy it.

The stories of Superman and Superman are so well-known to every household that Americans have formed different inherent impressions of Superman. No matter how innovative and creative the director is, there will still be a big gap between the Superman produced in the movie and what the audience expects.

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