hollywood draw

"I have done a detailed investigation before, and as early as the beginning of the creation of the "X-Men" comic, I was influenced by a unique era background."

Facing the executives of Twentieth Century Fox, Wayne raised his head and talked. "What happened to these times is the most unique thing about the X-Men. For example, the black movement represented by Martin Luther King and Malcolm, the former is moderate and the latter is radical, just like Professor X and Magneto."

"I don't understand what you mean, Wayne."

The shareholder representative sitting opposite him suddenly frowned and interrupted his narrative, looking at him, as if he was looking at a boastful liar. "Mr. Greenberg, I need to remind you that we are now discussing how to make X-Men successful, rather than listening to you..."

Townsend Rossman's stern eyes gradually made the Fox shareholder representative gradually stop. Although his words were not nice, they may also represent the doubts of most people at the scene.

"Sorry, Wayne." Townsend Rossman nodded apologetically and signaled him to continue.

"It doesn't matter."

Wayne shrugged, not affected by this interruption, and continued the topic just now. "What I want to tell you is that under the influence of the unique social background, "X-Men" is full of thinking about the disadvantaged groups in society. This is in my opinion, the most unique thing in the entire series of comics and the most prominent selling point."

For this point, he concluded after a long period of thinking. For the "X-Men" series, especially the director Brian Singer, the storyline and discussions about the film almost cover the situation of most vulnerable groups in society.

The reason why "X-Men" was successful must have had this impact. The composition and structure of North American society is destined to be a lack of various socially disadvantaged groups, and these people may not understand these in the film, but will only feel that the film is particularly attractive to them.

After he explained the words clearly, everyone in the office nodded thoughtfully. These people were basically elites in the Hollywood commercialization system and knew very well what Wayne said.

Because no matter which aspect is discussed, a movie should be targeted at the audience before it is planned to be filmed. At least these things are confirmed when commercial projects are conducting market research.

It is obvious that due to the special social background, the content of "X-Men" has a lot of discussions about vulnerable groups in society. In fact, the main force of North American movie viewing is the so-called low-level public, which will indeed become a unique and invisible selling point of the movie.

After everyone digested it for a while, Wayne continued to speak: "My opinion is that no matter how many movies the "X-Men" series will be filmed, this feature must be preserved, and it is best to run through it throughout. This is the core invisible selling point of the entire series."

It’s a pity that what he actually regrets is that the two movies "Dark Phoenix" and "Apocalypse" in his previous life have abandoned these thoughts.

"I can briefly talk about the specific settings of the movie here. First, we need to pull out a timeline. Note that it is not the trilogy you have designed like this, but a whole line. I said, we need to plan from the overall situation..."

If Wayne had not appeared, "X-Men" seems to have been successful in every movie, but in fact the planning tends to be conservative and traditional Hollywood old-school thinking. Although this is indeed the safest approach, it also loses the role of connecting all the videos through global planning and maximizing influence.

With the production of Twentieth Century Fox, "X-Men" was originally just a classic Hollywood trilogy and did not intend to be filmed into a universe similar to the Women's Federation. The reason why Wolverine appeared later was because the character's popularity was too high. Twentieth Century Fox certainly would not give up on making money through independent works.

The subsequent "X-Men" series of movies were released through time backtracking and time restarting, and the second series was created. For example, "First War", "Reversal of the Future", "Apocalypse", "Dark Phoenix", etc. Therefore, at the beginning of the "X-Men" series project, we did not consider the following trilogy at all, which is obvious.

No one knows whether it is because the executives of 20th Century Fox are too conservative or simply because they are eager for quick success and instant benefits.

"...I hope to create solid and profound movie characters for the "X-Men" series through movies, so that they can interact with each other in cross-cooperation. The purpose is to allow the movie fans of the movie characters to influence each other and become the strongest guarantee point in the box office.

Listen, if my plan goes well, I believe you have seen some of it in "Batman: The Moment of War". Don't worry, the subsequent "Batman: The Dark Knight" will let you see more. What follows is the explosion of peripheral sales related to the movie, and the cost of the IP-operating channel of the film is diversified and soaring. This is my so-called movie universe model. What Warner Bros. is also on this path."

Yes, Warner Bros. is indeed taking this path, and some achievements have been initially revealed, but what Wayne did not explicitly say is that the upper limit of DC's entire comic system is far from comparable to that of "X-Men". Even if "X-Men" is a treasure, it cannot be compared with the entire DC.

You should know that if it weren't for the weird operations of Warner Bros. management for many years, in the superhero market, whether it was comics or movies, the DC series had always been pressing Marvel under its body. It was all about tears. The world-renowned Big Three Justice, in the end, was completely beaten by Marvel's desperate universe plan.

"Relying on the overall design and planning of the timeline, obvious phased finale emerged to end the plot, constantly promoting the expectation of the story and the high nest! The genius idea!"

Avi Adra murmured to himself and expressed the thoughts of everyone on the scene. It was not until this time that everyone realized what future did the young director sitting opposite him bring to Warner Bros.

As for Warner Bros. and even Time Warner’s protection, everyone instantly figured it out. Wayne Greenberg brought Warner Bros.’s media group not only its current performance revenue, but if everything goes well, it will bring a new emerging market in units of tens of billions of dollars, which is different from the traditional Hollywood revenue.

Townsend Rossman seemed to have expected it, and in fact there were some things that he did infer. "Wayne, what's the specific timeline planning plan? You, the first opening work of the "X-Men" series..."

“hey, hey, Townsend.”

Wayne's mouth slowly raised his head, and he looked at the other party with a light eyebrows, stretched out a finger and shook it left and right, teasing: "Those are all jobs after signing the contract, and this is also the meaning of you spending a lot of money to invite me, right?"

“Ok.”

Townsend Rossman stood up without a hint of embarrassment and stretched out his right hand. "The conditions are agreed upon by your agent. We will sign the contract as soon as possible. Don't worry, Wayne, 20th Century Fox will hold a grand press conference for you!"

"Tomorrow is Christmas, Townsend, you know, the post-production work of "The Dark Knight" is still waiting for me." Wayne clasped his hands tightly, his face also filled with smiles. "So I hope the time will be arranged as soon as possible, how about the twenty-sixth day after Christmas?"

Townsend Rossman thought for a while and time was really tight. If he wanted to hold a grand media conference, reporters who were not far away from two days could come over.

However, he did not insist anymore. The young man opposite him was indeed very busy during this period of time in the post-production work of "The Dark Knight" and his covetousness of this year's Oscars, so he finally nodded and agreed.

"I will notify the media as soon as possible, hoping that our cooperation will be as pleasant as the one a few years ago."

"Don't worry, Townsend, I promise this is a win-win!"

For Wayne, this collaboration is for his own commitment, and for the large amount of money and movie sharing paid by Twentieth Century Fox. There is a deeper point. If the X-Men series continues to be successful in the future, will they satisfy the characters who only appear in the movie universe?

Think about the copyrights of the Fantastic Four in their hands. At that time, the tickets that they have "Iron Man" and "Black Widow" in their hands were truly worth a lot of money.

After personally sending Wayne and others into the elevator, Townsend Rossman put away his smile and returned to the office. Facing the Fox executives who were discussing, he first turned his attention to Avi Adra, who had been following this project in the early stage.

"Avi, you can't be responsible for too many specific matters with this series. In fact, the producer work still needs you to fulfill. I hope you can participate in it from the start of script writing to subsequent film preparations."

"no problem."

Avi Adra nodded seriously. Everyone knew that Wayne Greenberg could not focus all his energy on the 20th Century Fox project for a long time. As long as the first part of the "X-Men" series is successful, it will be when the other party withdraws with a large amount of cash and share.

At that time, the whole process of participating will become the leader of the entire project plan, which is also tempting for Avi Adella.

He turned his eyes out the window, stared at the direction leaving Century City, and sighed: "There has always been a legend in the circle that Wayne Greenberg will become a top commercial producer even if he doesn't act as a director. Sure enough, rumors often prove to be true in the end!"

"That was Fox who personally sent him to the arms of Warner Bros.." Townsend Rossman did not hesitate to his past mistakes and shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Who knew that we would offer a sky-high price today and invite the other party back!"

490-Invisible Core Selling Point