Boss Jia was very helpless about the results of "Pokemon: Feather of the Phoenix King," but he didn't understand that this was the general trend.
It was difficult for a sequel to surpass its predecessor. 90% of the sequels in the world were not as good as their predecessors. The reasons were very complicated and won't be explained in detail.
If you want a sequel to surpass its predecessor, then it must be a movie that can be crowned as a god. Such a movie needs to rely on luck and can't be forced.
The most profitable theatrical version of Pokemon in history was actually the first theatrical version of Pokemon, "Super Dream's Counterattack." After that, no other theatrical version of Pokemon could surpass the results of the first movie.
After all, the movie itself wasn't a transmigrator and had the luck of a transmigrator.
However, Boss Jia didn't expect the "Pokemon" movie series to achieve good results every year. For Boss Jia, what he wanted was to make "Pokemon" into a series like "The Avengers" and use countless movies and TV animations to construct a complete world of Pokemon.
This way, he could form a fixed fanbase for a while. Then, all future movies of "Pokemon" would have a foundation. Even if it was a bad movie, as long as the title of "Pokemon" was used, it would have a base of at least 500 million USD at the global box office.
If one day in the future, Pokemon announced that it would make a movie like "Mythological Beast Alliance" and let all the mythological beasts that appeared in the previous movie form a team to do something big, then as long as it was publicized, it would instantly have a base of at least 1 billion USD at the box office. This was the best part.
In fact, although "Pokemon: Feather of the Phoenix King" wasn't as good as its predecessor in the North American box office market, it surpassed its predecessor in the global box office market and earned a total of 820 million USD at the global box office market.
This showed that the popularity and acceptance of Pokemon in the global market continued to increase. This was the best result for Pokemon and Boss Jia.
However, "Pokemon – Feather of the Phoenix King" also became the only movie released by the Da Qian Movie Company in 1997. This made many American filmmakers breathe a sigh of relief. If there were a few movies from the Da Qian Movie Company that dominated the American box office rankings every year, they would really lose face.
But what they didn't know was that in 1998, the Daqian movies would become very scary. This was because in the plan, there would be four movies, namely "Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", "Fantastic Four", "The Fast and the Furious", and "The Matrix". This was the moment when the Daqian movies truly began their own era.
At this moment, Boss Jia was also discussing with Jon Landau about another movie.
"Chairman, this is the script that Hua Xia's famous director, Li, suggested to me. I've read it and I think it's pretty good. What do you think?" Jon Landau took the script and discussed it with Boss Jia. "You're a Hua Xia, and this movie is about Hua Xia's martial arts. I think you'll like it!"
"Yes, I'm a Hua Xia, but I might not like this movie!" Boss Jia was too lazy to take another look at the script after reading the name.
It wasn't that the script was bad, but Boss Jia was already very familiar with this script because it was "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
However, Boss Jia didn't like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
In fact, this movie was quite good. Whether it was the movie's graphics, the actors' acting skills, the music, or the fighting scenes, everything was top-notch. There was also no problem with Li An's direction.
However, Boss Jia didn't like it. From the first time he saw this movie in his previous life, he didn't like it at all.
The reason was simple. Boss Jia grew up watching Jin Yong and Gu Long's wuxia movies. In his eyes, or rather, in the eyes of all Hua Xia people, the greatest heroes served the country and the people.
In a wuxia movie, other than martial arts, there must also be heroes. The kind of heroes who would laugh at the sky with their swords and leave the Kunlun Mountains behind.
However, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" didn't have any heroes.
Li Mubai, who was titled as a hero, wasn't actually a hero. Deep down, he was just a traditional Hua Xia scholar.
Yu Xiulian wasn't a hero either. She was just a traditional Hua Xia wife.
Yu Jiaolong wasn't a hero either. She was just a princess with an awkward personality.
Luo Xiaohu wasn't a hero either. He was originally a robber. Even if he wore the guise of love, it couldn't change the fact that he was a robber.
That was why there were no heroes, dragons and tigers in the movie. This was just a romance movie with a wuxia guise.
That was why Boss Jia didn't like this movie.
"Then we don't accept it?" Jon Landau said regretfully when he saw Boss Jia's expression.
"I didn't say that I don't want to accept this script!" Boss Jia shook his head.
Although he didn't like it, but the future reputation of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was real. If he didn't accept the script, Li An would go to Sony in the future. Letting a Fusang company film a Hua Xia movie would make Boss Jia even more uncomfortable.
Even though he didn't like it, the quality of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was still very good. That was why Boss Jia asked Jon Landau to accept the script. At the same time, he arranged the crew and funds to invest in this movie.
"Jia, you are such a complicated person. You obviously don't like it, but you still agreed!" Jon Landau sighed after everything was agreed upon.
"Haha, even if you are a commander, you still don't have the freedom of a commoner!" Boss Jia sighed.
"Chief Commander … Our current Chief Commander is in trouble," Jon Landau muttered. Now was the time when the zipper door incident was brewing. The news media had already forgotten about environmental protection and Tesla. The whole of America was focused on the same thing.
"Oh, Jia, I have an idea. I think our company can film a movie related to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms!" Jon Landau suddenly said.
"What?" This time, it was Boss Jia's turn to be stunned. He didn't expect Jon Landau to make such a suggestion.
Boss Jia recalled that other than Wu Yusen's "Red Cliff," there were no other famous movies about the Three Kingdoms. Why did Jon Landau suddenly mention a movie about the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? How did Jon Landau come up with this idea?
"I want to film the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I think the audience all over the world will like this story!" Jon Landau added.
"Jon, I'm very curious. How did you come up with this idea? Did someone give you the book? "Boss Jia asked curiously.
"Jia, the person who inspired me to come up with this idea was you!"
"It was me?"
"Yes, it was you!" Jon Landau nodded seriously. "Do you still remember? One day, I went to your office to look for you and saw you reading a book. I asked you what the book was called, and you said it was the Romance of the Three Kingdoms! "
"That's right … And then …"
"Then, I became curious about this book. Then, I happened to see the English version of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms on Amazon. So, I bought it and spent three whole months reading it!"
"Jia, this is definitely the greatest conspiracy and war novel in the history of mankind. It has surpassed all the war novels in the world. If this novel is turned into a movie, it will definitely become the greatest war movie in the world!" Jon Landau exclaimed excitedly.
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