Under Boss Jia's suggestion, these bitter researchers finally got a week off and could have a good rest. Our Boss Jia went home immediately and slept for a day and a night. After all, studying was a very hard thing.
While Boss Jia was sleeping, the world was constantly developing.
For example, "Fantastic Four", the movie that Marvel's Empress Dowager had been working on for a long time, was finally released all over the world.
First of all, the IP of the Fantastic Four was the most popular superhero IP in Marvel, and even in the entire United States.
Some people might say that the most popular superhero in the United States should be Iron Man, or United States Captain America, or Superman.
I've never even heard of the Fantastic Four before!
This idea was wrong, because it was the idea of the Hua Xia people, and it was the idea of the Hua Xia people through Marvel Movies, but it was not the idea of the United States people.
In fact, the Fantastic Four was still the biggest superhero IP in the entire United States, and had the most supporters. Otherwise, it would not have been released three years earlier than Iron Man, in 2005.
But the problem was that the first "Fantastic Four" was a flop, and it received a lot of bad reviews, and the box office was a flop. If it were not for Spiderman's unexpected hit worldwide, the superhero movie would have been a flop because of the flop of "Fantastic Four", and naturally, there would be no Marvel Universe in the future.
So now, the premiere of the movie of the Fantastic Four was very popular in the entire Northern America.
At the same time, because it was also a movie produced by the Daqian Film Company, and the Daqian Film Company had just created such a huge mess in the film industry, it had a huge amount of news traffic, and many people would be interested in the new movie produced by the Daqian Film Company.
So the movie had a fantastic start, and it received 80 million USD in the box office on the first day of release.
But just when everyone thought that the movie was going to take off, it fell at an even faster speed.
On the second day, the movie's box office was directly cut in half, and on the third day, it died again.
By the second week, the box office had never exceeded 10 million USD in a single day.
As for the third week, many cinemas directly chose to stop screening this flop movie.
The reason was simple. The movie was too lousy. The plot of the movie was too ambitious. Even though it was only 120 minutes long, it wanted to show the story of the Fantastic Four in all aspects. It wanted to show their life experiences and the journey of their hearts.
In fact, it was not wrong to do so. After all, this was something that all excellent filmmakers and scriptwriters wanted. However, the problem was that it would be too ridiculous to stuff four people's things into a movie. It was bound to affect the entire story line of the movie. In the end, it would turn into a half-cooked, half-shit-like thing. It was disgusting.
According to the audience's evaluation, he went in without knowing anything and came out without knowing anything. They could not understand the plot at all.
However, there were still some core Marvel fans who came out to defend the movie. They said that the movie was actually very good, and that it was a collection of the essence and famous scenes of the Fantastic Four comics over the past 30 years.
In addition, those who said that they couldn't understand the plot were all due to their own ignorance. They only needed to read a total of more than 40 individual volumes of the Fantastic Four to understand the detailed plot and design. Then, they would be able to understand the plot very easily.
Well, with such comments, I believe that everyone understood where the problem was. After all, normal people would not be interested in reading 40 individual volumes of the Fantastic Four.
On the other hand, there were many people who were behind this. After all, there were many people who liked the Daqian, and there were also many people who hated the Daqian. For example, the Oscar committee immediately cheered after seeing the bad reviews of the movie. They organized a group of people and started to go crazy about the movie.
As for the previous film critics, they couldn't wait to magnify all the flaws of "Fantastic Four" by a hundredfold. Naturally, "Fantastic Four" completely blew up.
In the end, the global box office of the Fantastic Four was 200 million US dollars. Of the 200 million US dollars invested, they only got back less than 60 million US dollars. They lost 140 million US dollars directly.
This also made the film companies around the world breathe a sigh of relief. In recent years, the Daqian movies had put too much pressure on them. In the past few years, not a single movie had flopped. All of them were big box office hits, and they kept setting box office records.
Only now did they know that the movies produced by the Daqian movies could also flop. Otherwise, they would have thought that Jia Yapeng was a time traveler who knew what kind of movies the audience liked to watch.
However, this money was not lost by the Daqian, but by Marvel. After all, the Daqian movies were only the producers of the movie. They were only collecting production fees. Although it was not much, it was a steady profit.
The real investors were Marvel and the America First Foundation. The 200 million US dollars investment was obtained from the America First Foundation by Stan Lee, who was thick-skinned and put his reputation on the line.
The America First Foundation made it clear from the beginning that they were not optimistic about the movie and did not intend to invest in it. However, Stan Lee insisted and even threatened to bring in external capital. In the end, the America First Foundation reluctantly invested.
However, the two parties signed a bet when they invested. If the movie was profitable, all the profits would be distributed by Marvel, except for the investment that would be returned to the America First Foundation. 50% of the profits would belong to Stan Lee himself, and the foundation would not interfere.
On the contrary, if the movie lost money, all the losses would be borne by Stan Lee alone. He would be responsible for repaying the losses.
At that time, Stan Lee signed the contract with full confidence. In his mind, with the Daqian movies, the movie giant that made Titanic, in charge of the movie, and a huge investment of 200 million US dollars, they would be able to produce three times the special effects of Titanic. Coupled with the huge IP bonus of the superheroes, this movie would not lose.
However, in the end, it lost, and it lost to Stan Lee himself. This was because the original script given by the Daqian movies was not like this. The first half of the movie was the birth of the Fantastic Four, the middle part was their daily life of showing off, and the last part was the collective killing of monsters and bosses.
It was very conventional, but it was also a movie script with full confidence that it would attract the audience.
However, in order to limit the connotation of the characters and maintain the original plot, Stan Lee had to redesign the plot himself. Later on, he even did the storyboard work. In the end, the director of the Daqian movies was so angry that he left directly. Stan Lee found a small director who would absolutely listen to his orders to be in charge of the next shooting. It was not surprising that this would happen in the end.
In fact, it could not be said that Stan Lee's idea of wanting to show the core story and spiritual core of every superhero was wrong. On the contrary, this was correct. Only by filming superheroes like this could the audience really remember them.
A few years later, Stan Lee also figured out this problem himself. Hence, the following Marvel movies were mainly about individual heroes. Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and so on. Each superhero had their own exclusive movie.
Then, these superheroes gathered in a movie and formed the Avengers series. With more than 20 movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was created. This was the Marvel World in Stan Lee's heart.
The problem was that if you wanted to squeeze more than 20 movies into one movie, it would be over.
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