Since the group of "superheroes" was moved from comics to the big screen, before Marvel rose with "Iron Man", only "Spider-Man" has been the most impressive and has achieved the most outstanding results in the past few decades.

But many people in the outside world don't know this character, a big stain and pain on Marvel for a time, although now they have opened "superheroes go home" for this role. ”

"We all know that, before Marvel was acquired by Disney, it was like a bum. It was always a relatively poor company, and at that time we didn't have money to make movies, so we had to make money by selling comic book characters. ”

As we all know, film companies have to pay royalties every year for the assignment of adapting comics.

The film rights to Spider-Man were previously sold by Marvel to Sony, while the film rights to "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" were sold to 20th Century Fox.

For Marvel at the time, it was indeed the most appropriate option to probably sell the rights.

Because at that time, whether it was the actors or the funds, it proved that Marvel's own movies would not be a big hit at all, and no one from top to bottom could bear the corresponding losses.

But if the box office of the rights is sold, it will have nothing to do with Marvel.

"I thought about how I couldn't have thought about it, but at the moment, it is still a little difficult to start this plan. Kevin shook his head slightly, a hint of remembrance in his eyes.

Before becoming president of Marvel, Kevin initially worked as an intern assistant alongside Lauren Schuller Donner (producer of all X-Men and Wolverine series) when he was a young man.

In college, Kevin was very proficient in the background setting of Marvel Comics, the architecture of the Marvel Universe and other related knowledge.

It was for this reason that Lauren Schuller Donner began to tap into his abilities and appointed Kevin as an assistant producer for the first film in the X-Men series.

Since then, Kevin Feige has served as the producer of almost every subsequent Marvel Comics film adaptation.

Therefore, it can also be said that Kevin has witnessed Marvel's rise step by step from decline to rise, and he has been involved in it.

The entire rights deal for "Spider-Man" was completed in 1999, and in 2002 the film "Spider-Man" was filmed, which grossed $822 million worldwide. It directly established Sony's position in the six major Hollywoods.

It can be said that "Spider-Man" has made Sony, even if Tobyquail's third part becomes a failure, it is still hot in Sony's hands.

In the eyes of those who only know money, they can find a replacement for Tobiquille, who firmly believes that there are a lot of young actors waiting to be selected in Hollywood, and this is the advantage of being a big company.

"First of all, because of your return, we will have a very tight time for the rest of the year, although the press conference has already been held in the first half of the year.

In addition, the team of "Age of Ultron" has been formed, and we can't add Spider-Man in this movie anymore, and too many superheroes are prevaricated in one movie, which will destroy the harmony of this film."

Kevin thought that Lee Hyun-cheol was a little anxious, yes, it seems to be something to look forward to for Spider-Man's return to the "Avengers", but at the moment, the copyright of "Spider-Man" has not completely returned, which is why Kevin declined.

Suddenly patting his head, Li Xianzhe breathed a sigh of relief and licked his dry lips, "No, Kevin, you misunderstood what I meant, I mean, we can think about bringing it back, but not immediately." ”

"Isn't it coming back immediately? Lee has a pretty good relationship with Sony at the moment, and we have always cherished the friendship between Marvel and Sony, and it is possible to forcibly reclaim the Spider-Man copyright."

Although he didn't understand what Lee Xianzhe meant, Kevin reminded him very gently.

"I didn't mean that, Sony launched The Amazing Spider-Man after the failure of Tobiquill's version.

Before that, I had a set of statistics, when Marvel sold the movie rights of some well-known characters to other companies, there was a rule that "if you don't use it for a few years, it will be automatically recovered", I won't say how many years it is, you know better than me.

This leads to a situation where the company that buys the movie rights of Marvel characters must restart the movie of a certain character from time to time, otherwise the copyright will be taken back by Marvel.

For example, Sony's Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man, Fox's Fantastic Four, and the Fantastic Four reboot.

Take Sony's version of the reboot series as an example, the box office of this series is still not within the expected range, of course, I also know that the copyright of Spider-Man is Sony's root.

Unless we use a lot of money, but the problem is that we're on top of Disney so "

At this point, Lee Hyun-cheol gave Kevin a seemingly middle-of-the-road strategy and asked him to negotiate with Sony's producers.

The source of his confidence that the other party will agree is that after the failure of "The Amazing Spider-Man", Sony still does not give up wanting to make a new one.

Therefore, he suggested that under the premise that both parties can accept, the film rights of Spider-Man should be obtained in a shared way.

Marvel and Sony's Spider-Man: Homecoming will remain 100% invested and distributed by Sony, and Sony will receive all box office receipts.

Marvel Films is responsible for producing the film, which means that Kevin Feige and Marvel Movies are responsible for choosing the cast and director of the film and the style of the film.

"What you mean is that the film rights of Spider-Man still belong to Sony, and then the Marvel Cinematic Universe can use the character of Spider-Man to achieve the purpose of sharing copyrights. Without waiting for Kevin to answer, one of the trustees sitting next to him spoke.

Li Xianzhe nodded, picked up a black oil-based pen, hung it on a whiteboard on the wall, drew a simple frame diagram, and pointed to the content on it.

"As you said just now, we did this, then the actual result is: the "Spider-Man" series of movies is still invested and distributed by Sony, and we Marvel are only responsible for shooting, and the box office belongs to Sony, and Marvel takes a share.

In other words, Sony paid Marvel to shoot the Spider-Man movie. And the benefits that Marvel gets are more than just sharing. ”

"For example," Kevin couldn't wait to pull out his phone and start tapping at the whiteboard on the wall.

Lee Hyun-chul pointed to a place on the whiteboard, "First of all, other works of Marvel movies can be interspersed with the character of Spider-Man, for example, when I was writing the script, I could let the character of Spider-Man return in "Captain America 3" first.

When Donnie was there just now, I also introduced the general plot of this movie, Iron Man and Captain America split.

The two of them must be looking for helpers for their own ideas, and the relationship between Spider-Man and Iron Man in the comics has always been very good, and I think this is a good opportunity.

Compared to what you've always wanted to make "Iron Fist" appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this is actually the same reason.

Daniel Rand appeared in "Avengers 2", and people will definitely be curious about his connection to these superheroes" (to be continued) 2kReading.com