Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 251 Super Sek World View
"So after Lucy took all the CPH4, she became a spiritual substance and existed in the world?"

"That's right." Tang De nodded: "Her body is no longer able to bear this kind of expansion of thought. You can think of her as having ascended to a higher dimension. She has insight into the dimension of time and can exist in any fragment of history."

"Wow, that's really cool. What happens next, after she becomes Lucy?"

“She began to correct it… because at the moment of ascending, she saw the ancestors of mankind through history, saw the birth of life factors, and saw the indescribable Creator hidden in the sky, blocking out the sun.”

Logan Usher, who has a rich imagination, was shocked to hear this.

"So Lucy realized her mission. She had to tell humans about the real crisis facing the universe. But she also knew that the crisis could not be easily solved by one or two people. It was a crisis that all humans had to face."

"So she decided to correct history, put everything back on track, and make the super-powered people face up to the threat of the universe."

"Oh my God, she's so great." Logan Usher had to admit that the character of Lucy was really great. He believed that when comic readers saw this scene, they would fall in love with this character.

"That's right, and this is the beginning of our Super Sek Universe, the origin of everything." Tang De expressed his true thoughts: "We will use the correction thread of the character of Lucy to continuously launch various super heroes. Let them evolve from confused humanity to saving divinity, rush out of the earth and into the universe."

This is exactly the ultimate effect that Tang De wants to achieve.

Under a unified world view, interesting characters are constantly introduced, eventually forming a series of major events.

As long as it succeeds, Norton's Eye will have sufficient IP security for the next twenty years. As long as it doesn't commit suicide, it will sooner or later become a behemoth comparable to Disney.

Of course, this matter is far from being so simple. For example, the physical park, various supporting facilities, and a complete surrounding industrial chain are all things that Tang De must solve one by one, but at least there is a way now.

After listening to Tang De's idea, Sack Godwin, the company manager beside Logan Usher, nodded and praised: "This is really a very imaginative idea, I like it. In fact, when I was reading DC and Marvel before, I also read their big event comics, such as the Avengers, but I found that their comic universe is a bit too messy... Sometimes many settings are contradictory. Fortunately, the story of the comic is good, otherwise I might not be able to read it."

"This is normal. After all, cartoonists like to take on private work." Tang De shrugged.

This has been one of the problems in the comics industry for many years.

The comics industry has been in a state of wild growth for a long time. In order to increase sales, everyone has been constantly competing in drawing skills, stories, and storyboards.

The benefit of this strong competitive atmosphere is that it has made many good comics famous. The more exciting the story, the more popular it sells. This has promoted comic companies to constantly innovate and also allowed cartoonists to be in a relatively detached and free position in the comics industry.

But the downside is that comic book companies can't form a unified tone.

For example, in Marvel or DC, a character is often drawn by more than one cartoonist, and each cartoonist has a different style and narrative method, and even the clothing and ability strength are often different.

Once these comics are released to the market, fans will become confused and will never have a unified understanding of the characters and worldview.

In the era of comics, this unclear cognition was not so bad, as everyone just held their own opinions.

But when it comes to the movie era, this inconsistent understanding will cause fans to start quarreling and fighting.

Of course, the comic company doesn't want this to happen, so they can only try their best to make it right, unless they really can't.

Then just restart the universe.

This is what DC did, and its universe has been restarted five times in later generations.

So in order to avoid constantly restarting the universe like DC, Tang De's Super Sek Universe worldview established the most important concept from the very beginning.

That is, who are the creator and the destroyer, and how the universe's ability system and ability level are set.

Anyone who has written or read a novel knows how important it is to have a reliable ability system with a high enough ceiling.

This is not only related to the extension of the plot, but also to the size of the world view.

Therefore, in Tang De's setting, the ancient gods of creation are omnipotent. They are the starting point and end point of the multiverse and multidimensional universe, and they control all power.

But the only thing they cannot do is to destroy the ancient god of destruction who devoured the universe.

Because the power of the two comes from the same source and they are twins.

Therefore, in order to prevent the universe from being swallowed up by the ancient gods of destruction, the ancient gods of creation spread their own life factors and multiplied various forms of civilizations in the universe.

The purpose of their birth is to snatch back the swallowed fragments of the universe from the body of the ancient god of destruction.

In short, they are gold miners.

Each fragment of the universe is wrapped in negative energy and is a collection of the dark side of the universe. Countless bizarre and cruel stories take place here.

This is also the room Tang De leaves for various heavy-tasting stories.

After all, in comics, all kinds of bloody and restricted plots are part of what you have to appreciate.

Many cartoonists like to draw this kind of comics to provide visual stimulation for readers.

For this reason, when Logan Usher heard this setting, his eyes immediately lit up.

"Tang, we can definitely make some changes in these negative universes, such as a righteous hero accidentally drifting here. Or, some heroes who are both good and evil are born in the negative universe! This setting is really great."

As expected of a cartoonist, after hearing the setting, he had already thought of several ways to unfold the plot.

"Very good, that's it." Tang De nodded: "But remember, there must be only one main artist for each character. At the same time, the main artist's design draft needs to be shown to me. As long as it's not too outrageous, I won't hold you back."

"I understand..." Logan Usher and Don De discussed the setting of the Super Sek Universe again.

However, the current settings are far from perfect, so Logan Usher's next task is to gather several main cartoonists and screenwriters to enrich this universe and create a basic distribution of forces.

It was already dusk when we came out of Warrior Comics.

Tang De drove directly back home.

As soon as I got home, I heard the voices of Jessica Alba and Anne Hathaway.

"Oh, baby! Don't touch that!"

"Hey, honey, that's dangerous, you know that?"

Tang De pushed open the door and looked into the living room.

Anne Hathaway was seen holding Elena, who was over one year old, and persuading her slowly. In the kitchen behind the living room was Jessica, who was wearing an apron.

"What's wrong?" Tang De took off his shoes and walked into the living room.

Anne Hathaway stroked Elena's black hair and explained, "The little angel just insisted on touching the kettle."

"That's really dangerous." Tang De walked over to her and teased his baby daughter's tender face with his fingers.

When Elena saw her father coming back, she immediately waved her chubby little arms like lotus roots and hugged her father's neck.

Tang De held it in his arms and raised it up twice: "Little angel, are you happy today?"

"Happy..." Elena answered her father incoherently. "Great, you are speaking more and more fluently now." Tang De smiled and led her to the sofa.

But Elena couldn't sit still and started climbing on Tang De.

"How's work going lately?" Anne Hathaway asked as she sat next to him.

"Fortunately, the film universe is already on track. What about you? I heard Nolan has already booked your schedule?"

"That's right." Anne Hathaway nodded and said, "He wants me to play Catwoman in his next movie, The Dark Knight Rises."

"It's a good role. Oh, by the way, I also have a movie invitation for you." Tang De said as he picked up his daughter who had climbed onto the back of his neck.

"What role?" Anne Hathaway was a little curious.

"There's a supporting actress in The King's Speech. I think she has a good part, so I kept it for you," Tang De explained.

"Really? I quite like this director." Anne Hathaway raised her eyebrows. This movie is a biographical film directed by Tom Hopper and has been attracting much attention since it was announced.

"Yes, I think your image is very consistent with the court temperament they want."

"Then I must take a good look at the script."

"You are so beautiful when you wear court costumes." Tang De said sweetly.

"Really?" Anne Hathaway came closer and asked meaningfully.

"Really." But it was not Tang De who answered, but Elena.

The little guy bit Tang De's arm with his baby teeth and spoke vaguely.

This cute look immediately made the two of them laugh.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Jessica walked out of the kitchen, came to her daughter, patted the little girl's butt gently, and picked her up.

"You little rascal, you only know how to bite your father's hand."

Seeing this, Tang De said, "Thank you for your hard work, Jessica."

"Nothing." Jessica sat on the sofa: "We'll eat when the soup is ready."

Ever since she drank the chicken soup Tang De made for her several times when she was pregnant, she fell in love with drinking soup and now she has started to learn how to make soup by herself.

A few people sat down and watched TV together in a happy atmosphere.

A few days passed like this, and in the second week, Tang De did not go to the company early in the morning, but went to the digital field for a special effects meeting.

However, just when he finished the meeting, he suddenly received a call from Youfei.

"What's wrong?" Tang De picked up the phone. At this time, there was still a year before Apple released the new iPhone 4.

However, Tang De had already made arrangements in advance and purchased Apple stocks.

Tang De would definitely not miss out on the few key points in his memory where he could make money.

Yufei's voice rang out on the phone: "Boss, Victor publicly accused you of violating his right to free creation in the newspaper, and denounced you as a dictator. He wants to ask the union to sue you."

"?" Tang De's mind was full of questions: "What did he say? The right to create freely?"

"That's right." Youfei explained, "He published it in the Hollywood Industry News. We don't have any cooperative relationship with this media, so we can't do any public relations. We can only find other newspapers to clarify. I have contacted three cooperative media and will be able to publish the clarification tomorrow."

"Then let's clarify it." Tang De frowned, "And let the legal team prepare the materials. Since he wants to sue, then let's sue."

"Okay." After Youfei hung up the phone, Tang De asked his subordinates to buy him a copy of the Hollywood Industry News.

After searching for a while, he soon found Victor's accusation against him on the second page of the newspaper.

In this complaint, Victor said that Tang De was an out-and-out dictator who threatened and physically attacked him many times while he was writing the script. He did not respect the fruits of his labor and described the script he wrote as a pile of shit, causing him to suffer a lot of mental pressure that he should not have to bear.

And now he broke the contract at the last minute and laid himself off ahead of schedule, which caused him to face huge financial pressure. And because of being laid off, many companies that had cooperated with Tang De did not dare to recruit him at all, and even the script writing contracts that had been agreed upon were broken one by one.

These actions undoubtedly destroyed his life. Every time he picked up a pen to write, he would think of Tang De's mental intimidation and could not concentrate on writing at all. The hospital diagnosed that he had depression.

So he wanted to accuse Tang De of high-pressure management and mental control, and demanded that Tang De publicly apologize to him and compensate him for his reputation loss of 5 million US dollars.

Tang De was so angry that he laughed after reading this report.

This guy is really shameless to the extreme. Although I made some dirty remarks about his script, he never targeted him as a person.

He doesn't have the time to bully an ordinary screenwriter.

Not to mention the outrageous rhetoric of mind control. I can only say that the screenwriter is worthy of his name, knowing that the public nowadays likes to watch this kind of plot where the weak challenge authority.

Although this matter is not a big deal, it must be handled properly.

After all, the Writers Guild just ended its strike last year and is currently in a state of supervision. If the Norton Eye runs into trouble, the Writers Guild might take some measures to demonstrate the union's capabilities.

So Yufei's emphasis is correct.

After reading the report, Tang De let the matter go. The current Norton's Eye is no longer the small company it once was. If anyone wants to throw dirty water on him, he should be prepared to be targeted by the legal team.

Tang De doesn't mind suing him until he loses everything.

As expected, the next day, several major media outlets promptly published Norton Eye’s statement.

And in the statement, several facts were announced.

First of all, the sudden dismissal was because Victor did not respect Tang De’s basic settings and made random changes. Tang De terminated the contract after enduring many times to no avail.

Secondly, Victor has a tense relationship with other screenwriters in the workplace, and they often quarrel over trivial matters, and often use some terrorist words, such as blowing up a building.

Finally, Norton Eye's legal team will countersue Victor and is now collecting evidence.

Many people thought that this was not a big deal after seeing the news. It was just a normal act of throwing dirty water at each other after the screenwriter and the company had a falling out.

However, at this moment, a company suddenly publicly supported Victor's remarks and expressed its intention to fight the lawsuit with Norton's Eye to the end.

"Who is it?" Tang De was sitting in his office when he learned the news.

"It's Miramax." Yuffie replied from the opposite side.

Hearing this answer, Tang De raised his eyebrows, a little confused.

(End of this chapter)