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Chapter 1217: 1217

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DC Comics and Marvel Comics, the two major mountains in the North American comic market, each have a huge fan base.

After the 1990s, both sales and popularity, including the advanced awareness of the expansion of the influence of adapted films, and even the degree of copyright concentration of superheroes, the former are far ahead and have the absolute upper hand, and the heroic images of Superman and Batman are even more popular. global.

However, after entering the 21st century, the latter has achieved a full overtake in the field of film and established a huge Marvel universe, which has become an important part of Disney's giant crocodile, while the former has been losing ground in competition. Lost all territories.

why?

Objectively speaking, after the millennium, Sony Pictures’ "Spider-Man" and 20th Century Fox’s "X-Men" were the first to debut, renewing the upsurge of comic superhero movies, but Christopher Nolan directed The "Batman" series can be regarded as a classic in film history. Word of mouth and box office have achieved an incredible win-win, even enough to be recorded in the annals of history.

At this time, dc comics and Marvel comics can be said to have their own merits, equally divided the world, and it is difficult to distinguish Xuanzhen.

However, "Iron Man" officially debuted in 2008, which not only revitalized the career of Robert Downey Jr., and gave it a new lease of life; at the same time, it also opened the ten-year dynasty of the Marvel frenzy and witnessed the era of Marvel's great victory. Witnessing the peak of Disney's return to the throne, after that, the gap between the two comics has grown wider and wider.

To be more precise, the decay of the DC superhero movie adapted by Warner Bros. started in 2012.

This is a very, very special year.

For Marvel, the "Avengers Alliance" won a big victory and stepped onto the stage of history with the arrogant attitude of creating history, officially announcing the full victory of the first stage of the Marvel universe, thus establishing the absolute market for superheroes. The status is hard to shake. After that, a series of Marvel movies such as "Captain America 2", "Thor 2", "Ant-Man", "Doctor Strange", and "Guardians of the Galaxy" made their debut and blossomed.

For dc, the official release of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" successfully completed the Batman story constructed by Christopher Nolan, but it also officially marked that Warner Bros. used to counter the comic Wei’s weapon is temporarily offline, and they must restart the project, re-layout, and start over.

The reason for emphasizing the particularity of 2012 is based on historical background.

After the millennium, Warner Bros. has established an absolute dominance in Hollywood, and its market share is far ahead. The "Matrix" series is the beginning, the "Harry Potter" series is the rise, and the "Batman" series is the peak. , The three series of works have been connected for a full decade of glory.

At the same time, Warner Bros. has never given up on the development of dc comics adaptations. "Catwoman", "Watchmen", "Green Lantern", "Superman Returns", "Hell Detective" and so on, they have been trying to explore superheroes. The market potential of the film, I hope to continue to explore more possibilities beyond the three sets of carriages.

Unfortunately, all of the above works failed, at least in terms of box office; at the same time, the "Matrix" series ended in 2003, the "Harry Potter" series ended in 2011, and the "Batman" series ended in 2012.

As a result, when 2012 ended, Warner Bros. was in a dilemma. Successful series came to an end, unable to develop a new superhero movie, and at the same time faced the competitor's success. All of this makes 2012 special.

It is against this background that Warner Bros., in order to fight against Marvel movies, formulated a new plan to create a dc universe with all its strength. In this plan, including "Superman: Man of Steel", "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", "Suicide Squad", "Wonder Woman", "Justice League" and many other works.

The idea of ​​Warner Bros. is undoubtedly correct. The three giants of dc comics are Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. They have a strong influence in American pop culture, and no one can match it, even Marvel’s Iron Man. , Spider-Man are hard to compete. Therefore, they plan to deploy the entire dc universe with the three giants as the core.

The first work was "Man of Steel", and then it extended the confrontation of "Dawn of Justice", which witnessed the historic debut of Wonder Woman; later, the "Suicide Squad" was brought out by the clown, "Wonder Woman". "Xia" appeared alone; then, the three big dc giants joined forces to lead to the "Justice League", and then derived single-player movies with various roles.

But what went wrong?

In short, too haste!

Before the success of the "Avengers", Marvel spent four years and four works laying the groundwork, two "Iron Man", one "Captain America", one "Thor", and even the failed one. "Invincible Hulk" can also be counted. After all the story lines are sorted out, the actors collectively enter the "Avengers" story, and take advantage of the trend to complete the inheritance, everything is logical.

When the audience saw the debut of the Avengers, except for the newly-launched Hawkeye and the Hulk who changed actors, all the other roles were clear at a glance, and the ins and outs were already connected, which meant that the screenwriter did not need to Spending a lot of pen and ink to introduce the characters can save more space to pave the way for the story, outline the characters, and even shake the burden.

As a result, the audience finally saw a wonderful popcorn blockbuster!

But Warner Bros. didn't have such patience. There were wolves before and tigers behind. They simply didn't have enough time to calm down and polish each superhero character carefully.

After "Man of Steel", "Dawn of Justice" directly drove the ducks to the shelves.

Batman is a new actor, Wonder Woman is also a brand new debut, even Superman’s own story clues are incomplete-Iron Man in the "Avengers" has two works before, which also makes Iron Man Becomes the core of this work and drives the whole story, but there is only one Superman.

Without a clear character outline and story line, the characters of "Dawn of Justice" are filled with a sense of separation. Each character is not complete enough, so that the philosophical topic discussion has become very different. It can be seen that, The director zack-snyder, who produced the best comic book "Watchmen", has been working hard, but with little success.

After this, everything became a disaster.

The same goes for the failures of the "Suicide Squad" and the "Justice League". In the movie, the screenwriter and director had to spend pen and space to introduce each character, but the limited space was unable to outline the complete role at all, and it also self-defeatedly further compressed the time of its narrative, which made Popcorn already weak. The story is even more fragmented.

Among the many works of the dc universe, "Wonder Woman" is the only one that succeeded for the same reason. In turn, this movie spent enough pen and ink to tell the origin and appearance of Wonder Woman. The ins and outs are incomparable. A clear and simple story connects the whole characters together, and then combines laughter, slot, cuteness and baggage, and the movie has successfully won the hearts of the audience.

If-just hypothesis, if Warner Bros. is willing to slow down, don't rush to form a confrontation with Marvel, but start with the three characters of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, shoot a separate movie well, and complete the preparation step by step. Afterwards, the Big Three joined forces to produce a work similar to the "Avengers", which led to a single-player movie of Joker or Flash, and expanded the layout of the second phase.

So, will the market structure change?

This is a question that everyone is curious about, but time cannot go backwards. With a done deal, even if Barry regretted not in the first place and wanted to overthrow it again, he was already powerless.

By the way, Universal Pictures tried to build a monster universe with works such as "The New Mummy" and "Godzilla", and they made the same mistakes.

Now Lanly is curious that he is not sure, if he puts forward his opinion to Ron Meyer, whether the helm who has never met is willing to listen to bad advice; but at least, he can try Barry Meyer in front of him, maybe , This can change the fate of Superman and Batman.

As a childhood memory, Lan Li still has a unique feeling for DC comics, just like Marvel’s Spider-Man. Every child more or less dreams of becoming Peter Parker, a high school student who is a little frizzy and impulsive, but because A magical accident changed his own destiny~www.novelhall.com~ For changing the pattern of the entire market, Lan Li has no ambitions and no interest, just thinking about it out of childhood memories.

Lan Li simply informed Barry of his own thoughts, thinking that Warner Bros. should slow down, don’t think about getting fat with one bite, and immediately form a confrontation with Marvel Pictures, but take every superhero’s work seriously. The individual works are first created to ensure that each series can get a place, and then the entire dc universe is considered, rather than standing on the height of the dc universe to create a separate movie for each superhero.

Barry listened quietly, a curious look appeared between his brows.

Everyone knows that Lan Li has a unique vision for the selection of roles, especially independent art films, which is even more unique. Although Lan Li's talent for commercial films has not yet been further confirmed, he can still feel it. His perspective and insights are unique.

For the second time, Barry recalled the conversation at the Almeida Theater, and a bold idea emerged, "Are you interested in participating in the production of Superman and Batman movies? I mean, as a producer, Of course, if you are willing to participate as an actor, that would be great."

"No, no, no." After Lan Li was slightly stunned, he laughed and waved his hands again and again. The panic, which was afraid to avoid it, made Barry interested and asked "why".

Lan Li spread his hands and expressed his helplessness, "I am an actor, a pure actor, not a producer. Sitting here and expressing opinions, I can talk freely, but these are just theoretical knowledge, there is nothing. Feasibility. Give professional work to professionals."

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