Chapter 641 [Lower plan, extremely trusting]
Liang Kun consolidated his position in Hollywood and once again achieved double box office reputation!
Audiences have inertial thinking. Liang Kun has always been successful. As long as the reputation of the movie is not too bad, people are willing to go to the theater to watch. "Body of Steel" exploded, and "Quick Chase 2" can also benefit when it is released.
Zach Schneider is not good. This guy's reputation is too bad, even the reputation of making money is not very good.
Liang Kun's great success means that Zach will be completely abandoned by Warner. Zach will not participate in any DC movie. Whether as a director or a producer, it will be difficult for him to invest in blockbusters from Warner in the future.
I am not afraid of not knowing the goods, but I am afraid of comparing goods.
Zach's new film "Beautiful Girls' Team" released in April this year has both box office reputation and made three consecutive movies.
After watching the film "The Beautiful Agents", Warner people had to promote the depth and brain-burning of the movie again, and fooled the audience who gained superiority by "I can understand the movie" into the theater.
Some people are quite individual and think that Zach's bad movies must be read several times before they can be understood, so they are masterpieces. In fact, they are just idle. Most viewers want to sleep when they watch director Zach's movies. The story is in vague. If "Inception" is bad, it is probably like "Beautiful Girls' Team".
Sure enough, the box office after the movie was released was not as good as the comedy "The Little Brat Diary 2", with Rotten Tomatoes being fresh at 21%. The movie opened for 19 million yuan in North America and ended at 36 million yuan. Almost no one went to the theater except for the first three days, and the reputation collapsed.
The production cost of Zach's movie is as high as 82 million US dollars, plus the promotion cost of 20 million, the total investment is over 100 million. Even his father's boss will complain, and even if he invests in his filming, he can't even get the root of the root.
Someone online commented: "The director made a movie called "The Watchman: Spartan 300AV Worker".
There are also film critics saying: "The director should be ashamed of his kindergarten-level imagination, rather than showing off his own self-righteousness."
In general, almost all the films Zach took over are commercial movie types. However, he doesn't play them step by step in the movie types, likes to show off his skills, adds a strong personal style, and then makes the movie feel so good.
Moreover, he seems to be uncompromising in every movie. Some movie clips are indeed wonderful, but the overall movie is not good. The critics are also helpless. How should they praise this guy?
[Book Friends Welfare] You can get cash or coins by reading books, and there is also iPhone 12 and Switch waiting for you to draw! Follow the vx official account [Book Friends Base Camp] to get it!
Director Martin Campbell is still within the scope of Warner's investigation, but not wanting him to make "Green Lantern", but the Flash movie.
After the box office of "Man of Steel" was successful, Warner senior executives began to consider speeding up the progress and let other superheroes appear on the big screen as soon as possible to form the "Justice League".
Liang Kun went to Warner to hold a high-level meeting to discuss plans for the next DC blockbuster.
Warner's DC opening movie has had a box office hit "Thor" and "Captain America", and the filming progress still needs to be accelerated.
Marvel's "Avengers" will be released next year. The other party is "Avengers Assemble". DC will also film Superman alone.
Grig Berlanti wrote the first draft of the Flash movie script, and Warner's senior executives read it, and Liang Kun was no exception. He felt very familiar, and the plot was like a streamlined version of the TV series "The Flash Season 1", telling the origin of the Flash.
There is a serious problem with the script. The villain is the famous "Reverse Lightning". Barry Allen has to compete with Reverse Lightning in front of just over two hours after becoming the Flash. And he won, not using the "Reverse Lightning, I'll negotiate with you."
The audience didn't find it strange that Superman defeated Zod in a head-on PK, because he was Superman. But wouldn't it be too outrageous to "The Flash" such as the tool man responsible for restarting the DC universe, who soon obtained the superpowers, do the counter-lightning.
In the TV series, the Flash defeats the Flash by joining forces with Arrow and Firestorm. It is impossible to add those two to the movie, and it will steal the protagonist's role.
If Eddie, the ancestor of the Flash, committed suicide and defeated the boss, the action scenes would be boring. Without the preparation of so many episodes of the TV series, where did Eddie get such a high level of awareness? It would be better to let the Flash's girlfriend have more scenes.
Liang Kun can't think of how to make the Flash movie well. If he doesn't look for the anti-lightning as a villain, he has to pretend to be Dr. Wells to teach Barry to become stronger. The villain is a superpower created by the particle accelerator, so choose a more representative character.
After thinking, Liang Kun raised objections and suggested that the second film "Wonder Woman" be filmed. The Flash appeared in the third film, and then lay the groundwork before making a personal film.
This suggestion was not recognized, and everyone thinks it is too risky to photograph a female hero.
Liang Kun introduced his thoughts. "I think it's better for the Big Three DC to take turns to play. There hasn't been a movie about heroines in recent years. Wonder Woman will make people shine. After Chris (Nolan)'s Batman trilogy, Batman will then appear in the DC Universe. The third film "Batman vs. Superman" can join the Flash and let him play a guest role."
One person asked with a smile: "There are few movies in the heroine, because all the films were filmed failed. If we filmed Wonder Woman badly, it would cause a serious blow to future movie plans, right?"
Warner suffered a great loss in this regard, and was afraid of a rope when he was bitten by a snake for ten years.
"Catwoman", released in 2004, starring Halle Berry, who is in full swing. Before the release, it was once called the sexiest Catwoman in history because of her styling. The extremely bad plot after the release, coupled with her poor acting skills, directly allowed Halle Berry to win the Golden Plum Award, which made her classic scene of holding an Oscar on site to receive Golden Plum.
In 2005, Marvel made a movie called "Erika" even worse. Even Jennifer Garner's look was criticized. She was nailed to the pillar of shame in Marvel's films like "Dark Devil".
The poor performance of these two movies not only became a stain on the performance history of the two starring actors, but to a certain extent, the female superhero movies are even more difficult to produce. No company wants to make female hero movies, and those who make big productions are even more afraid to try.
Liang Kun insisted on his own opinion. "No one will shoot it. If we shoot it well, we will attract more audience attention and lay a solid foundation for the "Justice League" movie. Marvel dares not shoot Black Widow movies. We dare, this is a big gimmick. I will write the script and be a director, and I am confident of getting a high box office."
Warner and his group began to discuss, and most people still thought it was safer to shoot the Flash and Green Lantern.
In parallel worlds, Wonder Woman debuted in "Batman vs. Superman". After fans gave this character a good review, Warner released the personal movie "Wonder Woman". In fact, the order is not good, and it is filmed in the reverse. There are no Easter eggs in the movie "Woman", which is too independent.
If you are filming a female hero's personal movie first, you can shoot an Easter egg at the end, which is a clip of her modern life. "Batman" Bruce Wien got photos of her past, or the two met and chatted something, and by the way, laying the foundation for the next DC movie.
Liang Kun smiled and said, "I will write a script first when I go back and then discuss how? After reading the script, everyone will probably be confident in this movie."
Charles Rowan asked: "Which era do you want to shoot?"
"Diana left Paradise Island after learning that the war broke out and came into contact with the outside society. Because she didn't know anything and had never seen a man before, she was simple and kind, and had just started to fall in love."
"She knew that human kindness and ugliness coexist, but she still resolutely and gave her strength. She did not want to defeat a boss or achieve some seemingly extraordinary goal. She has always fought for the equality of love, peace and human nature. This is true feminism..."
Liang Kun actually doesn't want to do anything feminist. He knows that movies will become popular, and the starring Gal Gadot will become popular.
In parallel worlds, the plot of the "Wonder Woman" movie is flawed, but the box office is very successful, with a global $822 million. It is a popcorn movie that shows "Gal Gadot so beautiful!" in a slow motion.
The story is simple, colorful, and a love story is added to the fighting scene. This is Warner's transformational work after taking the dark style and his reputation and box office losses one after another, and the audience was very satisfied.
Liang Kun is preparing to modify some details to make the box office of the movie higher than the parallel world.
After Marvel was acquired by Disney, the most powerful thing was not its works, but the awesome control of the high-level team.
All movies, directors and actors are screws in huge commercial machines. Disney Marvel has a firm will and clear business thinking for the expansion of its own territory. In the movie, the director needs to give up many of his own qualities and complete a movie within a given framework.
Will Marvel's series of assembly line movies ruin the art of film?
The answer is no. Because the audience likes the things shot in this assembly line, it is not too late to change them when they don’t like Marvel. As it turns out, adding more comedy elements to the movie will make it easy to edit.
DC directors can retain their own traits. Unfortunately, some people's traits are "stumble".
Liang Kun has a very clear understanding of the target users, and then accurately designs the plot of the movie for such people. Such ideas will bring a large number of fans and box offices. It is of course better to have depth in the movie, but it is more difficult. It is much easier to reduce the flaws of the movie, just change the bad parts of the original version.
Warners are willing to wait and see Liang Kun's new script and trust him very much. Nolan said that he only filmed the Batman trilogy and would not be included in the DC universe. He went to film other things. DC wanted to compete with Marvel and needed talents like Liang Kun.
If it weren't for Liang Kun, Warner would have attached such importance to Zach Schneider in the future. Even though he was nominated for the Golden Solid Mae's Worst Director Award when filming "Batman vs. Superman", he still became the producer of many movies.
Liang Kun replaced Zach. Unless he himself doesn't want to, he will put the names of producers and screenwriters in many DC movies in the future and check them for other crews.
Chapter completed!