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The set of "Avatar".

After Cameron finished filming a scene, he couldn't wait to communicate with Han Jiadong.

He kept Han Jiadong on the crew, obviously not letting Han Jiadong replace him.

What he values ​​​​is Han Jiadong's ability to see the text as if he can embody a real world, and to add many details to this world that are not mentioned in the text.

"Do you have a picture in your mind about the war between the Na'vi and humans? We all know that the outcome is definitely the Na'vi victory, but the Na'vi only have the most primitive combat tools, how can they defeat humans with powerful firepower?"

"I have some ideas, and I need to get the actual shooting locations before I can arrange them."

"Is this the Zhangjiajie you mentioned?"

"Yes, it is a beautiful place as described in your script."

"I am looking forward."

"However, although the details cannot be shown yet, some improvements can be made in the setting. Just like what is set in the script, Pandora is not the only life planet discovered by the earth. It is not the human government that attacks Pandora, but Greedy mining companies. Based on this, we can add some more settings. The human government does not allow the killing of local indigenous people during the development process. The mining companies have always been operating under the pressure of human rights organizations, with only some security personnel and employees. The soldiers and weapons are also some backward and old weapons. Coupled with the interference of the magnetic field, the Na'vi people fighting at home have a chance of winning..."

In a previous life, there was a view that this movie was against humanity, and the protagonist was a traitor.

It is not accurate.

What Cameron opposes is not human beings, but human greed. Mining companies cannot represent human beings. If Pandora is not mined, the earth will not perish, so the protagonist has nothing to do with human rape.

It would be better to say that it is a reflection on the bloody history of massacre during the founding of the United States.

After hearing Han Jiadong's setting and description of that important battle, Cameron's heart was full of yearning to go to Zhangjiajie to start detailed real-life shooting.

At this time, Han Jiadong came up with a streamlined script.

"This is the script I've made after removing some unnecessary or redundant parts in the past few days. Take a look."

Cameron frowned when he saw the thickness of the script: "Why is there so much missing?"

"It's quite a lot, nearly three hours of content. We are just making a movie, not a TV series. The content of your original script is enough for two "Avatar" movies. You can shoot the one that is most closely integrated with the plot first. Part of it, I’ll shoot the rest later.”

"You mean to make it into a series?"

"You have done so much work for this movie, or for that virtual world, but you can't do it just to make this movie, right?"

"This is not something I can decide, this is determined by the market."

Cameron said this, but he was obviously persuaded by Han Jiadong.

After Han Jiadong helped improve the settings and streamline the script, the shooting speed of "Avatar" has been visibly increased.

Han Jiadong, who did not get the right to direct, was also happy and relaxed.

He also has his own affairs.

"Interstellar" has been in preparation for a year.

The corn grown in the cold land of Canada with the help of money is growing just right. If I don’t shoot it, the corn will be ripe.

So after making an appointment to communicate by phone every day, Han Jiadong left the "Avatar" crew.

Just as he was about to leave for Canada, people from Marvel came looking for him again.

After a year of hard work and still nothing, Marvel finally made up their mind.

"We are willing to accept the conditions you mentioned last time and mortgage the filming rights of all our heroes in exchange for US$500 million."

Han Jiadong did not agree immediately, but asked: "Can you tell me about your shooting plan?"

"No problem, we plan to shoot a movie for the Hulk and Iron Man respectively." Han Jiadong understood.

In the previous life, Marvel relied on mortgaging the copyrights of its heroes to loan more than 500 million in start-up capital to Merrill Lynch, which led to its subsequent glory.

After pondering for a long time, Han Jiadong sighed: "Fifty million...if I want to acquire Marvel, how much do I need to pay?"

The person who came to talk was stunned for a moment and then said firmly: "No way, we have no intention of selling!"

Han Jiadong smiled and was noncommittal.

In the previous life, Marvel relied on the success of "Iron Man" to be able to get out of the predicament. Its valuation doubled several times to a new high, but it was still sold to Disney.

These are difficult times for Marvel, so how could they not sell it?
It's just that the price didn't meet expectations.

At that time, Disney’s bid exceeded $4 billion!
But Marvel is obviously far less valuable now.

The copyrights of those heroes are almost the most valuable thing in Marvel now.

Others, even most, have negative equity.

After Han Jiadong proposed the idea of ​​acquiring Marvel, someone else from Marvel quickly came to talk to him.

The people who came were also very determined and would never sell it in full!

But...it can be sold partially.

They also took a fancy to Han Jiadong's directing ability.

Just imagine, the Marvel movies directed by Han Jiadong can also make money like "300" and "Inception". How much profit can it bring to Marvel?

Because of this, they are even willing to lower their valuation in exchange for Han Jiadong joining Marvel, provided that every movie is directed by Han Jiadong.

Han Jiadong didn't want to exhaust himself to death.

So he only agreed to direct, but he would not direct every movie himself. At the same time, he would be responsible for all the scripts, and would participate in and control the shooting of each movie as much as possible.

After all the details were agreed upon, Marvel finally sold 49% of its equity to CP for a total valuation of less than one billion US dollars, of which US$ million was exchanged for CP equity.

The remaining more than 200 million US dollars were used to start the "Incredible Hulk" project.

The director is Li Eucalyptus, who just won the Oscar for Best Director this year for "Brokeback Mountain."

During the negotiation process, Han Jiadong had already started filming "Interstellar", so he did not take over the directorship of "The Incredible Hulk", nor did he intend to help Marvel make a movie immediately.

Didn't even remind them.

Let them try and fail more before they realize how important they are to them.

Han Jiadong is also very satisfied with the final acquisition result.

If he wants to acquire Marvel in full, no matter how tough Marvel's attitude is now, if Han Jiadong spends two billion US dollars at once, Marvel will agree without even thinking about it.

And this transaction will definitely not be a loss.

But Han Jiadong didn't do that after thinking about it.

First of all, he really doesn't have that much money now.

Secondly, if Marvel really becomes a subsidiary of CP, it will be fine as it is now. Once it becomes the most powerful monster in the global film field like its previous life, just wait for the US government to cause endless trouble!

Now with less than half of the equity and equity swaps, not only do we not have to worry about Marvel getting into trouble, but when CP gets into trouble in the future, there will still be people who will help solve the problem.

(End of this chapter)