Chapter 179 The movie adaptation of "The Avengers"
That's it. In the waiting hall, Jester saw the Sega development team led by Yusuzuki, a unified black suit and a uniform queue. In this era, it would be impossible to not attract attention.
Jester also met at the first time. It was almost a year since he last met Yu Suzuki. Many things have changed drastically over the past year. For example, when we first met, Jester was just starting out, and Sega sold North American companies because of poor business in the North American market. Unexpectedly, after this year, Jester's Mars Entertainment grew rapidly into an industry giant like a Rocket. Like him, Nintendo also grew from an unknown small game company to a rulemaker in the industry in just one or two years.
Sega was busy and eager to take over North American business at that time, as if she wanted to escape from this quagmire. If it weren't for Sun Xiong of Zhongshan, Sega would probably not have the current situation. Although their new console performance was not good, it was worth it in the eyes of Shizuo Nakayama. At least he had learned a lot from the success of Nintendo and Mars Entertainment.
The young designers under his command are also growing and becoming more and more mature, especially Yu Suzuki, who is optimistic about it, has shown his style of a general in less than a year since he has been transferred from administrative position to R&D department.
But from Jester's personal senses, Yu Suzuki is indeed much more energetic now than Yu Suzuki he saw a year ago. When he met the other person last year, although he was just as stern as he is now, he could still see a kind of depression and embarrassment in the face of the overall failure of the North American industry in the other person. Although Yu Suzuki is still performing poorly in home computers, it may be because of the successful development of new game consoles in arcades, which also makes him radiant.
Just before he set out, Sega announced that the world's first somatic arcade "hang-on" that they had just developed successfully, and announced the first motorcycle racing game equipped on this system. Once this news was released, it immediately caused an uproar in Japan. Manufacturers like Nintendo who are focused on home game development do not pay much attention to this. After all, Sega cannot introduce this technology into home phones no matter how high it is.
But most of the franchise companies under Nintendo's Premium, especially the six giants, have considerable arcade sales, and the launch of Sega's new machine made them feel even more desperate. Because they suddenly discovered that nothing could match them within their capabilities, and they had never even had the idea of developing a similar somatosensory frame before.
"Brother Suzuki, we're meeting again."
When he arrived in front of Yu Suzuki, Jester took the initiative to stretch out his right hand, which made Yu Suzuki a little flattered. He was a little surprised when he saw Jaster lead the arcade. After all, according to Jaster's current status in the game industry, he was not qualified to let the other party come in person, unless he was his most respected president. Shiroozu Nakayama had this qualification.
It would be fine if the other party came in person. He originally wanted to extend his hand to express his attitude and honor, but he really did not expect that Jester would extend his hand to him when he was more than three steps away from him.
This made Yu Suzuki, who was used to being in a country with a strict hierarchy in Japan, feel a little inexplicably moved.
After the two shook hands and let go, Yu Suzuki continued to bow to the ground, which caught Jester off guard. He quickly helped Yu Suzuki up, while keeping saying, "Why are you so polite? I've told you before. We are a peer-to-peer relationship, so you let me do it. How can I get out of Taiwan?"
After Jester said a few words, Yu Suzuki stood up with a little embarrassed.
But soon, the expression on his face became as solemn as Jester saw at first sight. Jester didn't care about this. He knew that the Japanese were like this. He saw that these dozen Japanese teams had been exhausted after more than ten hours of long flights. He had taken a plane from Los Angeles to Japan. He knew what this was like. With the influence of the jet lag, it could almost be said that they were extremely physically and mentally exhausted.
So, although Jester seemed to be reluctant to speak when he saw Yu Suzuki, he still said to Yu Suzuki directly: "Brother Suzuki, although I also want to discuss games with you, I have to say that the current state of your team is not suitable for this work. Therefore, what you should do most at this time is to have a good sleep, accumulate energy, and wait for the time difference to adjust, let's talk about the game. Otherwise, half the result with twice the effort and not worth the loss."
Hearing Jester's tone of resoluteness, Yu Suzuki also swallowed what he wanted to say before and wanted to start working immediately. He was a workaholic, and the people he brought this time were also some workaholics, and he could even work continuously without resting for three days and two nights. However, he thought that this was the chassis of Mars Entertainment after all, and he was just a deputy, and the other party was a designer who made countless classic games, so he could only agree.
Jester also told him that the car and the place where he lived was ready. Before renting a suitable apartment for them, they all arranged for a four-star hotel in Los Angeles. In the hotel, Jester also asked him to prepare a sumptuous dinner. Jester originally planned to welcome them personally, but he had to deal with it in the evening, so he had to leave temporarily after picking up the plane.
Yu Suzuki also expressed his understanding. He knew how busy people with status like Jester were usually. After all, no one’s money was blown by the strong wind. He was already flattered by Jester’s ability to take time to pick up the plane.
In fact, what Jester wants to deal with is big and small is not small.
Because the recent hot sales of several new games of Mars Entertainment have caused great responses throughout the United States, the Balotelli series is now regarded as a treasure by Jester, and they will not easily consume this image casually, especially in terms of filming. Therefore, the previous film companies wanted to obtain the adaptation rights of "Sir Balotelli" movies, and were pushed back by Jester.
However, Jester doesn't value the game "Avengers" so much, but instead thinks it is the most suitable time to adapt it into a movie.
The reason is nothing else. He knew that once the Qing Dynasty action game first created by "Avengers" was launched, it would inevitably become popular in a short period of time, just like in history. Moreover, many companies have the technical reserves for production of such games, especially those Japanese companies. They only need to point out this layer of window paper. Soon, if they do not go long for more than a year, many excellent similar games will appear.
By then, the flowers were competing for beauty, and there would definitely be no better publicity and promotion effect than the current "Avengers" that stand out from the crowd. Therefore, it is naturally the best to be adapted now.
More importantly, when Jester and Mark Seney designed the script of "Avengers", they comprehensively considered the plot rhythm of Hollywood movies. The content of the first part was very suitable for adaptation. Moreover, the kung fu craze triggered by Bruce Lee is still popular in Western society. When this movie was shot, in addition to the kung fu craze brought by Bruce Lee, the influence of "Avengers" itself in the eyes of game fans. As long as the quality of the film was not too poor, you can make a lot of money.
Why not do such a transaction?
Tonight, a film company was going to discuss the matter about "Avengers", but because "Avengers" was not his work, but Mark Seney's work, Jester asked Mark Seney to discuss the matter with the other party, and then rushed over after he picked up the plane. However, even if Jester went there, it was just a statement, representing the importance of Mars Entertainment on this matter. Jester still gave the real right to make a decision to Mark Seney.
Because of love and courtesy, he could not take the right to decide on this matter from Mark Seney.
The place where Mark Seney talked to the other party was in a more famous cafe in Los Angeles. When Jester arrived, they had been talking for about half an hour. Marc Seney had explained Jester's situation to the film company, and the other party also expressed understanding of Jester's lateness.
After arriving, Jester first apologized, then whispered to ask how he was talking to the other party. Mark Seni also explained the situation to Jester - basically no progress has been made.
Although Mars Entertainment's scale is not small now, if Jester really wants to make money with Mars Entertainment, he may just need to come up with the idea of financing and can easily get at least hundreds of millions of dollars. However, the other party's film company is even bigger. Although it is about to decline now, it was indeed a well-deserved film overlord before, especially before World War II.
There are countless classic films that have been filmed, such as "Ben Hur", which Jester liked very much in both this era and before his rebirth, and for example, it is known as only two movies in the United States, one is "Gone with the Wind" and the other is "Gone with the Wind".
In the United States, this time we negotiated with Jester and the others, MGM, which was not very easy.
Laurien is a senior executive at MGM. He was attracted by the copyright of "Avengers". To be on the safe side, he personally came to discuss the movie adaptation with Mars Entertainment, the copyright owner of the game.
But unexpectedly, he encountered a difficult problem when he started the negotiations.
It is a discussion on the ownership of script adaptation rights.
Chapter completed!