Chapter 254 Arriving in Korea Again
Chapter 254 Arriving in Korea Again
If we were to ask which Hollywood company holds the most Marvel character copyrights today, it would definitely be 20th Century Fox.
The company holds the copyrights to characters including X-Men, Deadpool, Daredevil and the Fantastic Four.
Especially the X-Men and Fantastic Four. For the former, 20th Century Fox has permanently bought all the copyrights of the series and has complete ownership of the word "Mutant", which can expand any X-Men comic character, including Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, who are more important in the later Avengers.
In addition to the Fantastic Four, the latter actually also includes a number of derived positive and negative characters such as Silver Surfer and Galactus.
The character copyrights of these two teams alone are enough for 20th Century Fox to develop two movie universes, not to mention that the X-Men series also has Deadpool, a unique hit that has proven its success in later generations.
The only pity is that 20th Century Fox only carried out normal series film development for these projects, and the subsequent movie universe plan was stillborn due to the failure of the reboot of the new movie.
Sony Pictures, which is now seeking to cooperate with Wang Hao, has the same problem as 20th Century Fox.
Sony Pictures also owns the popular Marvel character Spider-Man. If we really compare them, Spider-Man's popularity is actually far greater than that of second-tier heroes like Iron Man.
And like 20th Century Fox's X-Men, Sony originally purchased the film rights to Spider-Man and all related characters from Marvel.
After that, Sony also launched the Tony Maguire version of the "Spider-Man Trilogy", which grossed 25 billion yuan worldwide.
However, the final performance of "Spider-Man 3" was not as good as expected, so Sony had to temporarily terminate the series and place its hopes on Wang Hao's reboot of the "Spider-Man Cinematic Universe."
After reading the information in his hand, Wang Hao had a rough plan in his mind on how to develop the [Spider-Man Cinematic Universe] next.
The most important point of this plan at the moment is to take advantage of the opportunity when those Marvel characters are still scattered around and quickly gather some of them.
The only question is whether Sony Pictures will agree with his opinions and views and be willing to execute his own plan.
After all, most of the copyrights scattered around that are easy to collect have little commercial value, or have been adapted but with unsatisfactory results.
For example, the Punisher, Daredevil, or the Hulk and the vampire Morbius.
Acquiring the copyright to these characters doesn't seem to be a good decision.
'Perhaps the shell film and television company I founded in Hollywood can come in handy.'
Wang Hao was thinking secretly in his heart, but the plane had already begun to land slowly.
With a vibration, the plane landed, and he could only put this thought aside for the time being.
After all, it takes a lot of money to acquire the copyright of Marvel characters, and most of his overseas funds are now in his hands, ready to take advantage of the crisis in the second half of the year to collect some bloody chips.
Therefore, he does not have any extra money to purchase the copyrights of those Marvel characters at this time. If he really wants to purchase them, he will probably have to wait until next year or later.
Putting the matters of Marvel and Sony aside, Wang Hao got off the plane and got into the car specially arranged for him by South Korea's CJ Entertainment.
"Mr. Wang, shall we go to the hotel first?"
The person who was responsible for receiving him was a young and "beautiful" girl. Of course, the word "beautiful" should be put in quotation marks, because in Korea, it is said that every family will prepare money for plastic surgery for their daughters, and given the genes of Koreans, it seems that there are very few who are naturally beautiful.
"Send my luggage to the hotel first, and then go to the set."
Wang Hao leaned back in the leather seat, gave an instruction, then turned on his cell phone to check the messages he had not received on the plane.
As a well-known director, his daily affairs are still very busy. Even when he is on a business trip, there are always people looking for him.
Among them were strangers who talked about business, company employees who reported on their work, partners who invited him to participate in certain activities, and naturally there were also people who just wanted to chat with him.
For example, a young girl heard from somewhere that he was on a business trip to Korea, and took this opportunity to greet him. "Brother Wang, why are you flying to Korea [covering her mouth and laughing]."
"Are you still on the plane? I heard the temperature there is still a little low right now, so please keep warm!"
Wang Hao just glanced at the greeting and did not respond. He just dealt with other issues.
The car was driving very fast, and when Wang Hao finished replying to the message, they arrived at a film set.
The person in charge of receiving Wang Hao here is Park Xingwen, deputy director of the production department of CJ Entertainment. He is also in his forties and is considered an old employee of CJ Entertainment.
When Wang Hao communicated with them before, he mainly looked for him.
"Producer Wang, we welcome you to take the time to come and give us your guidance!"
Park Xingwen, speaking Chinese with a local accent, came forward warmly.
Wang Hao nodded at him and shook his hand again.
“I was so busy with the film Taken with Sony that I didn’t have time.
Now that the movie is in post-production, I can finally let it go for a while, so this one flew over here.”
Hearing this, the smile on Park Xingwen's face became even more enthusiastic.
"Director Wang is so young, and yet he can participate in Hollywood movies. He is really a source of pride for us Asians."
The two sides complimented each other a few more times and walked into the set.
It was an express delivery station built in an ordinary community. Cha Tae-seok, the shop owner played by Won Bin, was sitting on a stool packing express deliveries with an indifferent expression, while chatting indifferently with another little girl who was about eight or nine years old.
Wang Hao and Park Xingwen stood by and watched for a while without saying anything.
The on-site filming process went very smoothly. Although the little girl was not very old, she was very talented in acting. She was also quite cute, which added a lot of color to the entire scene.
After this scene was filmed, Park Xingwen took Wang Hao to the film's director Li Zhenfan.
And this movie is naturally the one that Wang Hao announced at the Shanghai International Film Festival, "The Man from Nowhere", which tells the story of a retired agent.
But what he didn't say at the time was that this was a co-production between China and South Korea.
And the main actors of this movie, except for the little girl, are all Korean actors.
As for why Wang Hao chose to co-produce this movie with CJ Entertainment, it was naturally because he wanted to expand the influence of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" to South Korea and make early plans for the company's subsequent development.
After all, it is a movie universe, and in the future it plans to follow the route of "a community with a shared future for mankind" in "The Wandering Earth". So if there are only Chinese characters in this movie universe, wouldn't it be too petty?
In the future, the [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] will not only have Korean characters, but also Japanese characters, European and American characters, and even Indian characters and Thai characters.
Wang Hao had taken this into consideration when he was filming "Source Code", so he specially chose Song Huiqiao to play the leading female role.
Now, cooperating with South Korea's CJ Entertainment to shoot "The Man from Lone Star" and introducing new Korean characters is just another continuation of this plan.
(End of this chapter)