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Since the "superhero" group was moved from the comics to the big screen, before Marvel's rise with "Iron Man", only "Spider-Man" has been the most impressive and outstanding in the past few decades.

But many people in the outside world don't know this role, a big taint and pain of Marvel, although now they have opened the "superhero's way home" for this role.

"We all know this. Before Marvel was acquired by Disney, it was like a homeless man. It has always been a relatively poor company. At that time, we had no money to make movies and could only make money by selling comic characters."

As we all know, film companies must pay royalties every year to shoot and adapt tasks in comics.

The movie rights of Spider-Man were sold to Sony by Marvel, while the movie rights of "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" were sold to 20th Century Fox.

For Marvel at that time, perhaps selling copyright was indeed the most appropriate choice.

Because at that time, both the actors and the funds proved that Marvel's own films would not sell big, and no one from top to bottom could bear the corresponding losses.

But if you sell the copyright at the box office, it will have nothing to do with Marvel.

"I have thought...how could I have not thought about it, but for now, it is still a bit difficult to start this plan." Kevin shook his head slightly, a trace of recollection in his eyes.

Before he became the president of Marvel, when he was a young boy, Kevin initially worked as an intern next to Lauren Schuler Downer (producer, representative works of "X-Men" and all series of "Wolverine") assistant.

When he was in college, Kevin was very proficient in the background setting of Marvel comics and the structure of the Marvel universe.

It is for this reason that Lauren Schuler Downer began to tap his abilities, so he appointed Kevin as the assistant producer of the first film in the "X-Men" series.

Since then, Kevin Fitch has served as the producer of almost all subsequent Marvel comics adapted films.

Therefore, it can also be said that Kevin witnessed Marvel's step by step from decline to rise, and he participated in it.

The entire copyright transaction of "Spider-Man" was completed in 1999, and the movie "Spider-Man" was filmed in 2002, with a global box office of 822 million US dollars.Directly established Sony's position in the six major Hollywood.

It can be said that "Spider-Man" made Sony, even if Toby Quill's third part became a failure, it is still hot in Sony's hands.

In the eyes of those who only know money, they can find a replacement for Toby Quill. They firmly believe that there are a lot of young actors in Hollywood waiting for them to choose. This is the advantage of being a big company. .

"First of all, Li...because of your return, our time will be tight next, although the press conference has already been held in the first half of the year.

In addition, the "Era of Ultron" team has been formed. It is impossible for us to add Spider-Man in this movie. If too many superheroes are prevaricated in a movie, it will destroy the harmony of this movie.. .."

Kevin thought that Li Xianzhe was a bit eager for quick success. Yes, returning Spider-Man to the "Avengers" seems to be something to look forward to, but right now the copyright of "Spider-Man" has not completely returned, which is why Kevin declined. .

Suddenly patted his forehead, Li Xianzhe breathed a sigh of relief and licked his dry lips. "No, Kevin, you misunderstood what I meant. I mean, we can consider letting it come back, but not immediately."

"Isn't returning right away? Lee...So far, our relationship with Sony is pretty good. We have always cherished the friendship between Marvel and Sony. Forcing the copyright to be taken back for Spider-Man may be..."

Even though he didn't understand what Li Xianzhe meant, Kevin still reminded him gently.

"I didn't mean that, Sony launched "The Amazing Spider-Man" after Toby Quill's version failed.

Before that, I had counted a set of statistics. When Marvel sold the movie rights of some well-known characters to other companies, there was a rule that “if you don’t use it within a few years, it will be automatically taken back”. Having said that, you know better than me.

The result of this is that the company that bought the copyright of Marvel's character movies must restart a certain character's movie from time to time, otherwise the copyright will be taken back by Marvel.

For example, Sony's Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, Fox's Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four are rebooted.

Take the Sony version of the reboot series as an example. The box office of this series is still not within the expected range. Of course, I also know that the copyright of Spider-Man is the root of Sony.

Unless we spend a lot of money, but the problem is that we are Disney...so..."

At this point, Li Xianzhe gave Kevin a seemingly intermediate strategy and asked him to negotiate with Sony's producers.

The source of his confidence that the other party would agree is that after the failure of "The Amazing Spider-Man", Sony still wanted to make a new one.

Therefore, he suggested that, on the premise that both parties can accept, use the sharing method to obtain the copyright of Spider-Man's movie.

Marvel and Sony-"Spider-Man: Return of Heroes" will still be 100% invested and distributed by Sony, and Sony will receive all box office receipts.

Marvel Movies is responsible for making movies, which means that Kevin Fitch and Marvel Movies are responsible for choosing the actors and directors of the movie and the style of the movie.

"You mean... the movie copyright of Spider-Man still belongs to Sony, and then the Marvel Cinematic Universe can use the role of Spider-Man to achieve the purpose of sharing the copyright." Without waiting for Kevin to answer, a director sitting next opened Speak up.

Li Xianzhe nodded, picked up a black oil-based pen and hung it on a whiteboard on the wall, drew a simple frame picture, and pointed to the content on it to introduce it.

"As you said just now, we did this, then the actual result is: the "Spider-Man" series of movies are still invested and distributed by Sony. We are only responsible for shooting, and the box office goes to Sony, and Marvel takes the share. .

In other words, Sony paid for Marvel to shoot Spider-Man movies.And Marvel's benefits are more than simply dividing."

"For example..." Kevin couldn't wait to take out his mobile phone and patted the whiteboard on the wall.

Li Xianzhe pointed at a place on the whiteboard. "First of all, other works of Marvel movies can be interspersed with the role of Spider-Man. For example, I can make the role of Spider-Man return in "Captain America 3" when I write the script.

Just now when Downey and the others were there, I also introduced the general plot of this movie. Iron Man and Captain America split.

The two must find a helper for their own ideas, and the relationship between Spider-Man and Iron Man in the comics has always been very good. I think this is a good opportunity.

Contrast that you always wanted "Iron Fist" to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is actually the same truth.

Daniel Rand appeared in "Avengers 2", people will definitely be curious about his connection with these superheroes..." (to be continued)