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"For the works that DC considered the DC movie universe at the time, Warner was actually very sad in this regard.

First, they hired Martin Campbell, who has directed "007: Golden Eye" and "007: Casino Royale".

In terms of investment, it reached the top 200 million US dollars budget at the time, and the budget of "Iron Man", strictly speaking, was not so high at the time."

Li Xianzhe thought for a while, and stretched out a finger "only about 140 million US dollars."

"US$200 million was indeed a very high investment at the time."

Sam Remy's face was reddened, probably because of the spicy smell of fried rice cakes. He drank a sip of strong tea and said brightly, "But why did they choose Green Lantern as the protagonist at the time?"

"This is because the heroes who can take on the opening of the DC universe must be first-line heroes with a high status. Therefore, the second-line heroes like Green Arrow and Supergirl are not within their consideration.

In addition, Batman and Superman, two first-class heroes, have had too many versions in the past.

Restarting the filming of the two-person movie was a pressure that Warner was unwilling to face at the time. Fortunately, Superman had at least succeeded, and Batman was...

Speaking of this, Li Xianzhe mentioned another important point.

But in his view, these things are not secrets that cannot be told to the outside world, especially since he has made up his mind to convince the two directors with sincerity.

"At that time, most of the first-line heroes of DC were not suitable for launching movies.

In 2006, the failure of the Superman movie had a bad influence that had not been eliminated when the Green Lantern movie was released for 10 years, and the role was still in the snow.

Batman, a series of failed works, did not even bring this character back to life when Michael Keaton appeared.

So Warner chose to put him aside first.(In reality, Nolan’s Batman movie was being filmed at the time. It is impossible to shoot another Batman movie with a different world view)

The remaining Wonder Woman, the female superhero was a minefield at the time.

Even the role of Black Widow, who is so popular so far, Marvel dare not launch a single-player movie of Black Widow, and Aquaman..."

Li Xianzhe paused and glanced at Wen Ziren. "Aquaman, the popularity at the time was very low, and the popularity has increased a little in recent years. This is also the reason why I decided to write Neptune out and write a single-player script, as well as steel.

This Justice League is equivalent to Iron Man. At that time, he was only a third-line hero and had not been supported to the first line.

The remaining Martian Hunters have too strong character abilities to be introduced when the movie universe is just established.

Shazam, after transforming, his abilities and appearance are highly overlapped with Superman."

It is conceivable that the difficulties faced by DC at the time and the headaches of Warner's senior management were no worse than Marvel.

Li Xianzhe looked at Wen Ziren and Sam Remy, who had cast their eyes down in contemplation, and sighed, "So after thinking about it, the only ones who were suitable to launch a movie were The Flash and the Green Lantern.

Especially between 2009 and 2011, the popularity of Green Lantern was slightly higher than that of Lightning due to the huge sales of "Green Lantern" comics.

Therefore, it was a very appropriate decision for Warner to choose Green Lantern as the pioneering work of the DC movie universe.

Moreover, the Green Lantern belongs to the cosmic rays because of the characters' stories.

Therefore, we have a personal advantage that other heroes do not have in constructing the DC universe worldview. We can try to think about it. Superheroes like Batman, Superman, Steelbone, Wonder Woman have always stayed on Earth due to backgrounds and other reasons. , And Green Lantern often goes to space to perform missions."

In Li Xianzhe's view, there is nothing wrong with using Green Lantern as a pioneering work.

However, in the preparation and production of this film, Warner highlighted the fatigue of "high driving and low going".

"As far as the leading role is concerned, we all know that Warner brought in the popular Ryan Reynolds.

In addition, they believe that the director Martin Campbell has a history of excellent works. The actors have both topicality and popularity, and the budget cost is the highest level in Hollywood.

It can be seen that this "Green Lantern" has almost all the hard conditions for success. Even if there is no big hit, it is not difficult to get a satisfactory result.

However, what is surprising is that after "Green Lantern" was released, it encountered Waterloo. Not only was the reputation very bad, with its US$200 million investment, the global box office was only 200 million.

According to the popular saying that the box office is tripled, plus the publicity fee and the share, this film can be regarded as one of the worst losses for Warner Bros. in the past 10 years."

Compared with Wen Ziren and Sam Remy’s views on this film, which are mainly focused on the story and special effects, Lee Xianzhe’s analysis is more comprehensive than that. It is also the talk during this period, which impressed the two directors on him. The score is continuously improved.

In the end, it was directly placed on the equal status of both parties.

"In fact, for the failure of "Green Lantern", I mainly put the reasons for the failure on these points."

When he said this, Li Xianzhe suddenly glanced at Jin Zhiyan who was standing outside the kitchen and peeking here and said, "Zhiyan, in my room where you went, put the briefcase on my computer desk. Bring it."

"Okay." Jin Zhiyan looked straight at the three of you while chatting, but because of the language barrier, she couldn't intervene at all and couldn't understand what they were talking about.

American English is really too fast, and the Korean English that they come into contact with on weekdays is very different in all aspects of pronunciation.

"The $200 million budget was the highest level of investment at the time.

However, for the movie "Green Lantern", it seems to be far from enough."

"Why is it not enough? As Lee said before, the investment cost of "Iron Man" was only about 140 million US dollars at the time, and "Green Lantern" was 60 million more than "Iron Man."

Sam Remy expressed his doubts. In fact, when he directed "Spider-Man 3", Sony invested up to 259 million US dollars in the film.

And the cost of "Spider-Man 2" is also around 200 million US dollars. In his opinion, if you change to yourself, you can rely on 200 million US dollars to make "Green Lantern" a particularly classic taste.

But at least the first part is quite satisfactory, as a good start is entirely possible.

Before Li Xianzhe could answer this question, Wen Ziren put down the teacup in his hand, biting his nails and groaning.

"I think Lee hasn't said enough, it should be referring to the money and the director's problem?"

"Right!" Li Xianzhe snapped his fingers.

"In fact, the reason why US$200 million is not enough to burn "Green Lantern" is because director Martin is not good at "spending money on the edge."