Didn't you say that we would lose money after filming?

The most core character in "Transformers" is actually not the protagonist Sam, but the Autobots. These Autobots are the core of the whole film and also need actors to play them. After all, when the time comes to model, it is far from being done with special effects alone. It may even be necessary to make a few of them in reality and use them as props.

It's a very expensive, truly big production.

Likewise, there are coordination issues, for example, to shoot this film, a car is needed!

Need lots and lots of cars!
Even a supercar is needed!
This is also a problem.

Where to get these cars is also a big problem.

Because when shooting a movie involving cars, it's not like you can just buy a few cars as props. If other people's car models and logos appear in the movie, this will cause copyright issues, and you will need to find the car companies and manufacturers to coordinate.

If the problem was just this, it would be fine, because no car company would object to their products appearing in a movie, and they might even sponsor you with a smile, because to put it bluntly, this is a good opportunity for advertising.

The problem is that some of the car models in "Transformers" do not exist in the real world and are completely fictional.

Not to mention the distant past, just the protagonist's Camaro, the car model that Bumblebee transformed into, does not exist at all in the real world.

Similarly, the big truck that Optimus Prime turned into also does not exist. At most, a similar model exists, but as for the specific model, Xia Yuan has checked the information of many car companies and can be 100% sure that it does not exist.

This problem is very difficult to deal with. The only way to solve it is to consult with the car manufacturers and then customize and develop suitable models on the spot.

If you ask the car companies to sponsor you, authorize you to use their brands, or even ask them to provide you with cars for free for photography, most of them will agree with a smile and will open their doors to you very generously.

But once it comes to new car models, it is not such an easy problem to solve and handle. Every car launched by a car company basically goes through many processes, from design to research and development, and then to various tests. It can only be said that they are very cautious.

After all, cars are related to human lives, so safety must be guaranteed.

Who can be sure that the safety performance of the car model designed by you, a film company or even a director in a movie is guaranteed?

In America, once you produce a car model, you absolutely cannot sell it to the public! If you don't sell it to the public, they won't approve your car model. If you don't get the license, you can't produce it.

So once the corresponding car model appears, you must sell it to the public, even if you set up a limited edition model and only sell one or two units.

Then you have to sell it out too!

America has always been a capitalist country that focuses on market effects, unlike Hanxia. If this movie was shot in Hanxia, ​​you can do whatever you want, make up whatever you want, and create whatever you want, as long as you don't sell it outside. You can even build a monster car privately, as long as you don't put it on the road.

Therefore, finding suitable car companies to cooperate with and producing those cars becomes the top priority.

Fortunately, most of the car models involved have prototypes in the real world, except for the protagonist Bumblebee and Optimus Prime.

Next, Xia Yuan began the long process of looking for a car company.

The result was exactly as he had imagined, and he contacted several car companies in succession.

When it comes to the use of brand names, everyone is extremely easy to talk to. They are basically happy to say that you can use them freely. They can even provide free car sponsorship and you can crash or destroy them as you like.

They only had one request, which was to have their logo appear in the movie as much as possible, preferably with enough close-ups. But when it came to developing models, Heye needed a real Bumblebee.

All of them are in trouble.

They all said that there was no way and they were powerless and asked for help from others.

Xia Yuan was helpless, but he also knew that what they said was true. It was unrealistic to force them to come up with a new model. After all, how could safety performance be guaranteed? If a new model was put on the shelves without going through a long process of demonstration and testing, who would be responsible if something went wrong?

In this country, if anything goes wrong, you can be sued and lose a lot of money, and no one wants to take that risk for a movie.

Especially movies with uncertain prospects.

If you say this movie is very popular, that's fine, naturally someone will be willing to make it.

But the problem is that Heye Film and Television is not a well-known large film and television company nowadays, and even the "Transformers" IP is not known by many people.

Even though the comic magazine has been selling very well recently, only the second issue has been released so far, and it has only attracted a new audience in some local areas of Luosheng City.

This level of popularity is simply not enough to assess the specific value of this IP.

A person in charge of a car company even said to Xia Yuan bluntly: "The cost and difficulty of realizing your film are very high. To be honest, a company recently launched a new film that has a high degree of overlap with your new film type, but it is not that difficult for them to realize it. They also found our company. So you can think about it. If you were in our situation, who would you choose if you had to choose between the two?"

Only then did Xia Yuan realize that there was actually a company that was about to release a movie of a similar type to theirs.

And that company is Twenty-First Century Fox Film.

This upcoming movie is called "Motorcycle Man". It is an out-and-out superhero-themed movie. It tells the story of a protagonist who is a delivery man who suffers from social injustice, successive oppressions, and struggles to survive. In the end, his second-hand rotten motorcycle turns into a super-powered motorcycle due to the radiation of cosmic energy, and he therefore becomes a superhero who saves people from suffering with the help of this super-powered motorcycle.

This IP is also a popular IP of DT Comics under Fox in the 21st Century. It has a very large audience across the United States and the IP value is highly assessed.

The person in charge of that company said frankly that "Motorcycle Man" will also involve plots and shots with a large number of car models. They have already contacted many car companies, and after consideration, they will choose to sponsor "Motorcycle Man".

Xia Yuan actually had nothing to say about this choice. After all, it was human nature.

People just need cars, and these cars won’t turn into robots.

And then see what their movies are like?

Alien silicon-based life, the Autobots from Cybertron, those cars need to be transformed into robots.

And to put it bluntly, their IP is a very popular IP and is much more well-known than yours.

Don't blame them for choosing the opposite side. (End of this chapter)