Chapter 259 Opening and Going to America
Chapter 259 Opening and Going to America
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At night, the city of Shangjing is brightly lit and cheered by the crowds. In the streets and alleys, you can see men, women, young and old, with smiling faces, holding small national flags in their hands and smiling happily.
Accompanied by a huge roar, huge footprint-shaped fireworks spanned half of the capital city and moved towards the Bird's Nest Stadium step by step.
In the stadium which is spacious enough to accommodate 91000 spectators, the countdown to the drums beating by 2008 performers is exciting and people are eagerly waiting.
The huge LED scroll that slowly opened captured the world's attention from the very beginning. Its visual effects and implicit meanings truly demonstrated the thousands of years of heritage of Eastern civilization.
Even Wang Hao, who was watching this scene with his grandfather, couldn't help but admire Zhang Yimou's ingenuity. It can only be said that he deserves the title of national teacher.
Among all the famous Chinese directors, he is the only one who can shoulder this important task.
Wang Hao and others sat in the venue for several hours, during which time they watched countless wonderful programs.
The scroll opens, the bright moon of Qin and the pass of Han.
Flower rain on the Silk Road, flying fairies of Dunhuang.
All the stars gather together to form five dreamy rings.
Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, beautiful flowers, spring river, moonlit night.
Zheng He's voyages to the West, Chinese Kung Fu, and children's smiling faces.
Liu Huan and Sarah Brightman sang together the most "loud and silent" theme song in history.
Finally, Li Ning's flying aeroplane lit the Olympic flame, which symbolizes light, unity, friendship, peace and justice, and kept it burning brightly in the ancient and glorious land of China.
This also seems to indicate that the future of Chinese civilization will definitely be bright, like flowers in full bloom and oil boiling in a blazing fire.
Wang Hao noticed that his grandfather's eyes were filled with tears. Perhaps being able to see such a grand scene in his lifetime would make his life without regrets.
There were definitely many people at the scene who shared the same idea as him. This night's visit to Beijing truly demonstrated the demeanor of a great country and perfectly demonstrated what "one world, one dream" means.
In the next ten days, the entire Shangjing City was extremely lively.
People from all over the world gather here to enjoy this sporting event.
Wang Hao also took the time to watch a few games that interested him, but with his current status, he didn't have so much time to be so leisurely.
A lot of things inside and outside the company fell on his shoulders. The jobs of two or three film crews, four or five companies, and hundreds of people all depended on him.
In mid-August, he had to end his rare rest time and boarded a plane to Hollywood.
At Sony Pictures, after a long discussion among senior executives and Keita Miyamoto's insistence, it was finally decided to implement the "Spider-Man Cinematic Universe" plan.
They also plan to invite Wang Hao to serve as the chief planner of this project, who will be fully responsible for the construction of the "Spider-Man Cinematic Universe."
This time when he goes to Hollywood, Wang Hao needs to submit the project plan for the "Spider-Man Cinematic Universe" to Sony.
If this plan is approved, they can officially sign the contract. Wang Hao had already made preparations for the Spider-Man Cinematic Universe. Combining the inspiration drawn from the previous Marvel movies and Sony's future attempts, he designed two routes in total, and just waited for Sony Pictures to choose.
Some people at Sony Pictures were also looking forward to Wang Hao's arrival.
After all, just last year, in 2007, Sony Pictures' "Spider-Man 3" won the North American box office championship with 3.36 million, and the global box office also accumulated 8.9 million.
These statistics seem pretty good, but compared to the cost of 2.6 million and the almost failing reputation (63 points on Rotten Tomatoes), the film is not considered very successful within Sony Pictures.
In addition, Sam Raimi, the director of the "Spider-Man" trilogy, had many conflicts with the film's executive producer during the filming.
For example, the role of Venom was forced into the movie by producer Avi Arad (former CEO of Marvel Films) against Sam Raimi's wishes.
The intensification of this contradiction has caused Sony's original plan to continue developing "Spider-Man 4", which is another option besides Wang Hao, to encounter great resistance.
Several versions of the script by director Sam Raimi failed to satisfy Avi Arad, and the three original villains of "Spider-Man 4" planned by Sam - Professor Lizard, Vulture and Black Cat - were all passed.
All these situations happened, and Sony Pictures was in contact with Wang Hao again, wanting to create the "Spider-Man Cinematic Universe".
Sam Raimi was unhappy and thought to himself that it would be difficult for him to make a breakthrough in the "Spider-Man" film series, so he simply gave up.
When Spider-Man's lead actor Toby heard that the director had withdrawn, he immediately decided to quit.
Ultimately, Spider-Man 4 was completely aborted, and due to the agreement between Sony Pictures and Marvel, there will be no new Spider-Man works within five years, and the copyright of Spider-Man will automatically return to Marvel.
So Sony doesn't have much time left, they have to make a new Spider-Man movie before 2012.
With no other options, Sony Pictures realized that Wang Hao seemed to be its only choice. So they made up their minds and agreed with Keita Miyamoto's suggestion and invited Wang Hao to give it a try.
Both Wang Hao and Sony Pictures attach great importance to this matter.
On the day of the review, in addition to Wang Hao, those present included several important leaders from Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures.
Wang Hao had met many of them before at the cocktail party at Keita Miyamoto's house. Although the relationship between the two sides was not very good, they were familiar faces after all, so the atmosphere at the judges' discussion meeting was quite harmonious.
At least those foreigners and Japanese people all showed polite smiles on their faces when they saw Wang Hao.
After the initial pleasantries, the meeting quickly got down to business.
Wang Hao also asked his assistant to distribute the materials prepared in advance to everyone present, and then turned on the projector and played the PPT.
In view of the situation of Sony Pictures itself and the well-known comic character IP of Spider-Man, Wang Hao has formulated two plans for the movie universe, that is, two different movie universe routes.
The first movie universe plan was relatively conventional. It was an improved version of Sony's own "The Amazing Spider-Man" movie universe plan that Wang Hao made based on his previous life. It was similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, both of which were movie models that grew from small to large and from single players to groups.
As for the second plan, it is more daring. Its inspiration mainly comes from Sony's other more well-known and successful animated film in the past, "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse", which directly threw out the "multiverse" trump card at the beginning.
(End of this chapter)