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As early as the early 1990s, "Watchmen" began to prepare for the production. The screenwriter at the time was Sam Hamm, and early rumours that Rorschach would play Robin Williams, but the script went through After several rewrites, Warner Corporation finally shelved the filming plan.

In 2004, the film was once again ready for shooting. The director, script, and all aspects were ready, but just as it was about to start, Paramount, a venture capitalist, decided to disembark and change his mind. Soon after, the original director Paul Greengrass Withdraw from the crew and switch to filming "Terror Flight 93".

At the beginning of 2006, Warner's internal executives proposed to produce "Watchmen". Naturally, the reason was that this comic was well received in the comics industry and the mainstream media, and it was regarded as a classic work in the comics media.

After all, "Watchmen" won the Hugo Award-and it is the only set of comics in history to win this literary award.

No matter how you look at it, "Watchmen" is an excellent adaptation project, but the adaptation is too difficult, and Warner did not find a clear direction until the appearance of "300" and "I Am a Hero" to make them truly Attaches great importance to Zach Schneider, and strives to lead the participation in the project...

In the box.

Lehman thought of the mixed reviews of the film in the future, the difference in the length of the director's cut version and the theater screening version, and sincerely felt that this project was not easy to handle-it would be difficult to cut the scenes if it was detailed.

Then, Lehman asked Director Zha, "What do you plan to do in this case?"

"It's hard for me to refuse it. I am thinking about adapting it in sleep now. Mr. Luster..." Dao Zai thought of something, suddenly a little solemn.

But Lehman can guess what he wants to say, "We will have cooperation in the future, right. You can do what you like, and I support your choice."

In the era of large studios, the director would be an accessory of the studio, but at this time, the status of film practitioners and capital is not that great.

A director, as long as he is talented, can make a profitable film, and can even attract capital to chase it in turn, such as Spielberg, Nolan (the first director of Legendary Pictures to invest in Legendary Pictures) and even Michael- shell......

As soon as these words came out, the troubles in Zadao's heart disappeared.

He really wants to take over a challenging work like "Watchmen".

Ever since, Zha Dao felt that Lehman was very angry with him.

Similarly, Firefly can maintain a cooperative relationship with Zha Dao and can do a lot of things that Lehman can't do alone, so he also has the intention.

To put it more directly, Lehman doesn't care about anything a year, concentrates on filming, and the output will not exceed 4 at most, and the time is tight, and he is exhausted. That is not to enjoy the movie.

Furthermore, even with Marvel, Lyman is also greedy for DC.

Youdao is Marvel playing entertainment, DC has depth. In terms of phase, DC’s super-British characters are more dramatic, but since Warner’s management took a look at the Batman trilogy, they pinched their noses many times. He was already very wary of giving up the benefits.

However, if the two of them work together, they may be able to exchange two steamed buns in the DC project, so it is a good thing to be refreshed at this time and not to give people a psychological burden.

Anyway, Lyman has upgraded the olive branch.

From then on, the projects that Zha Dao and Firefly cooperated with have enjoyed the same treatment as the producer, except for the copyright.This is the same as Nolan's conditions. After the project generates revenue, he enjoys the same proportion of box office share, the same proportion of offline revenue and his personal director salary.

In the past 500,000, Nolan and Zhadao could get 10% of the net profit, which is 50,000. Now it has risen to at least 150,000. 200,000 is not impossible, and they can make overseas money anymore. It is a market in North America.

The specific ratio depends on the priority of the project. For example, the project provided by Firefly will appropriately reduce the director's income, because the idea is the company. If it is a project provided by them, it will be given a certain degree of tilt according to the budget.

In other words, it’s the same filming. In the future, if Zhadao directs the "300" sequel or the end of the zombie trilogy, he will take less than Nolan’s Batman trilogy ending, because the former is mainly fireflies. , The latter is dominated by Warner and Nolan, and the project itself has little to do with Firefly.

This cooperation plan can be said to be fairly fair, with the sharing clauses fluctuating in a timely manner, and it is based on the more common and improved benefit distribution of leading leaders in the market.

Further up, it may be that directors like George Lucas, Spielberg, and Lehman can enjoy the status treatment. The five majors have basically a negotiable attitude towards these three, because all three are direct If you ask for conditions, you will cooperate if you are willing to do so, and you are not willing to pull it down.

It’s not that Lehman’s ability to direct the rise of the Firefly has been unanimously recognized because Lionsgate can agree to such a harsh split clause. Another example is Paramount’s "Indiana Jones", strictly speaking. Pilberg, Lucas and other creators work part-time because they get more than Paramount.

Paramount has become accustomed to this, anyway, the complicated entanglement between the "Mission Impossible" series and Tom Cruise will continue for many years.

As long as the market does not meet expectations, Tom Cruise will be blamed for taking too much, but the high-quality projects can't keep up with the company's business, and he will rush to ease the relationship, and then shoot another one and fight over the profit distribution.

Zha Dao has been in the circle for so long, and he has his own team and the auxiliary work of the brokerage company behind him. He must understand this. Knowing that Lehman's terms are already very favorable terms in the industry, he nodded happily. the reason.

What kind of results match what kind of treatment, everything is left to the market.

Both of them understand that there are more possibilities in the future in terms of the level of interest and the tacit understanding of relationships.

Later, both of them had a tacit understanding and didn't talk about other topics, but just talked about the "Watchmen".

Lehman thought about the shooting of several works of the Firefly project, and at the same time thought that the director Zha had suffered a lot of setbacks, but he was also curious about Warner’s internal attitude towards "Watchmen". As a result, he asked. be thrown off balance.

He said that the first time Warner gave a budget of only 110 million, even the choice of actors was more difficult.

"So low?"

Don’t you see that the third part of the Caribbean series has spent 300 million, and works with more than 150 million production costs have appeared one after another, which has become the first line of normal. Is it that Warner is so optimistic about the future of the project and so low costs?

It seems to be the same. The adaptation of "Watchmen" is indeed risky, otherwise it will not be delayed for so many years. I still want to pull Paramount into the car in the middle, but when it starts, Paramount said that it will not play...

"Some people don't agree with it, and they're very wrangling." Zha Dao has been in contact with this project for a long time, and he understands some situations.

For this project, Warner is also wavering internally.

Is that so, Lehman thought.

......

I had a meal with Dao Zha and contacted his feelings. In the next few days, Lehman specially ordered Joseph to contact Warner, and he himself returned to the new line studio to take on the production of "Invincible Hulk" jobs.

On the set, Lehman can often see Kevin Fitch, Stan Lee, and Lee Press arguing.

The former requires lowering the threshold for viewing movies, being more vulgar, and adding more entertainment elements. The latter has its own shooting direction and does not want to be a violent saboteur, to vent unintelligible emotions, without deep incentives, think more Digging into Bruce Banner, the master's mind and the kind of helplessness driven by anger.

Stan Lee in the middle is better talking, just making suggestions. Anyway, he is a cameo. In "Iron Man", he played an old playboy surrounded by beauties in the reception. At this time, he was thinking about "Invincible Hulk". Acting will not affect the plot, but a passerby who has a role in the scene, after all, he is not a professional actor, but has dedicated most of his life to Marvel and wants to continue to accompany Marvel's elderly.

And he can often stand in the perspective of a creative manga creator and provide some ideas for filming.

Although he can't make movies, he can tell stories.People are getting old, energy is no longer, and they have retired to Taiwan for many years, but who knows more about Marvel's roles than him, but few...