Dominating Hollywood: Starting with Scarlett

Chapter 298 Animal Insurance Blackmail
After the trailer for Lucy was released, even without any publicity, it made headlines in many newspapers and became the focus of everyone.

Even many movie fans and bloggers on the Internet have expressed their opinions.

Most people are looking forward to it, and even a small number of people who are pessimistic are drowned out by public opinion.

Even professional film review media are optimistic about "Lucy: War of the Veil", because it is based on the original comics and directed by Tang De, so it can be said that it doesn't even know how it lost.

Over the years, director Tang De's works have never disappointed anyone.

Therefore, some people who are concerned about the quality of the film mainly focus on its length.

"If this movie has seven filming locations, then I am very worried about whether the plot presented in the end is complete, or whether it can perfectly present the plot of the comics. Even if it is three hours, I still think it is too rushed, because this chapter is the most important part of Lucy."

This statement was agreed by many comic fans.

But Vincent expressed his concerns about this statement.

"Seven filming locations does not mean that we have to film all the plots in the seven locations. Filmmaking is the art of making choices. I believe in Tang De. He will definitely give us a perfect answer and put a perfect end to the Lucy trilogy."

However, compared to the mild discussions among movie fans about the movie, the private meetings held by major film companies regarding "Lucy" were more intense.

In the conference room of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, then-president, was banging the table with the completed investigation materials.

"Looking at this report, 69% of fans said they would go to the theaters to support the third Lucy movie, 21% said they would wait and see, and 10% said they knew about the Lucy series."

"Compare it to our Avengers. 43% of fans said they would go to the theaters to support the film, while 35% said they would wait and see. Their comic sales have also skyrocketed recently, and they are on the verge of becoming the third largest comic company in the United States."

Kevin Feige pounded the table: "If they continue like this, their movies will take away some of Marvel's fans. This is no joke."

"President, I think the reason why the audience supports it is because Lucy has reached the most critical plot. I have researched their comics and this is a big climax. By the time the next one comes out, they won't be able to create such a buzz." Marvel's vice president explained.

"Of course I know!" Kevin Feige said, "So we have to speed up. The audience for any subject is limited, and the audience's patience for a subject is also limited. Young people in the new era like superheroes, but they won't like them forever. We need to capture this group of people as soon as possible and convert them into our audience."

"You're right."

"How is the progress of Avengers 2 going now?"

"The filming has been completed and we are about to enter the post-production process."

"Go check out the release date of Lucy. I need to know an exact time. These two films cannot collide with each other." If Kevin Feige had previously planned to let The Avengers and Lucy collide with each other to snatch some of the audience.

But now that Lucy is a established trend, and looking at the current level of discussion, he knows that unless the quality of Lucy itself declines, they will inevitably dominate the box office in the month of its release.

It is obviously not a wise choice to let Marvel's movies compete with it at this time.

So Kevin Feige chose another way, which was to find the black spots of the Lucy crew and use water army to discredit Lucy.

In fact, any IP that becomes popular will generate many black fans.

These people may not have any opinion on Lucy itself. In fact, many of them have not even seen any of the films.

They may simply be unhappy with a certain actor, or unhappy with the director, or even just unhappy with the influence of big companies and big IPs.

Therefore, if someone talks about Super Body and gives a positive evaluation, they will jump out and question whether they have received money from Super Body to promote him, and will also seize on some insignificant aspects of Super Body to criticize.

For example, a dog appears in the trailer and flees quickly from an explosion, but since there is no ending, they will suspect that the dog has met with misfortune and report it to the animal protection organization PETA.

When Tang De heard that the animal protection organization came to their door and accused them of abusing animals, he almost couldn't hold back.

"They just watched a trailer and came over to accuse me of animal abuse?" Tang De laughed. "Yes, and they held a demonstration downstairs of the company." You Fei was also a little helpless. This group of people was like dog-skin plasters. They would go wherever there was profit.

Tang De stood up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, picked up the telescope next to him and looked down.

Sure enough, a group of women in bikinis and dog-head hats were holding large signs to show the content of their protest to passers-by.

"What does their sign say?" Tang De asked.

Yufei followed him and asked the security guard through the headset, then replied: "The sign says: Refuse to abuse dogs, Super should apologize."

"How ridiculous." Tang De curled his lips: "How many media outlets have published the news?"

"Six media outlets, but the authoritative media did not take action and just issued a briefing."

"So how much money does the leader of their organization intend to extort from us?" Tang De put down the telescope and asked You Fei.

Yuffie answered truthfully: "They asked us to release the full footage shot by the animals and donate $5 million for animal protection."

"What a big appetite." Tang De returned to his chair and sat down: "Let the producer slowly negotiate with them, don't agree to any of their requests, and then let the animal breeders who have worked with us issue a statement."

He didn't say how to solve it, but Yuffie obviously understood what he meant.

"Okay." She turned and left.

Tang De immediately called the detective: "There's a job to do, buddy."

"You say." A voice that was unclear whether it was a man or a woman came from the phone.

"PETA, I heard they are euthanizing animals. Investigate them and make the animals look more miserable."

"clear."

After hanging up the phone, Tang De put the PETA blackmail issue behind him.

PETA is a notorious organization in the United States. They use the banner of animal protection to scam people everywhere. Whether it is movies, TV or games, they can't escape their scams.

For example, when Nintendo released Animal Crossing, they said it was "non-vegetarian" and should be boycotted just because it involved catching insects and fishing.

The "Final Fantasy" series was also targeted by them because it contained phishing content.

What's more, they advocate using women instead of cows and human milk instead of cow's milk because they believe that milking is abuse to cows.

Tang De was very curious. After this slogan was launched, shouldn’t feminists have a fight with PETA first?

All I can say is that there are indeed many crazy people in America. There is also the famous Political Correctness Company, abbreviated as SB, which also learned the same tactics from PETA.

In the final analysis, it's all business, not ideology.

Tang De is not afraid of these guys. No matter how loudly PETA shouts, they cannot produce any solid evidence. On the contrary, they dare to provoke Tang De.

Then you must be prepared to be hammered by public opinion across the United States.

Just three days later, the detective's photos were sent to him. Although Tang De had known about the organization's actions for a long time, he was still a little surprised after seeing the photos.

Because he found that this organization had far more no bottom line than he thought.

(End of this chapter)