449 How many superheroes are left in Marvel?
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"Boss, here's a list of all the benign assets that Marvel has in existence!" After officially signing a contract with Pereman, obtaining 60% of Marvel's equity, and successfully controlling Marvel, Harry Potter also obtained the detailed asset registration form of Marvel for the first time, and then sent this registration form to Boss Jia.
On this registration form, the first ones are actually Marvel's comic book companies, studios, cartoonists, etc., but Boss Jia doesn't care about these at all, he only cares about how many superhero copyrights are still in Marvel's hands.
As a result, when he saw Marvel's remaining superhero copyright, Boss Jia's heart was half cold, and he felt that he had lost at least half of $22 million.
Pereman is so ruthless that he has controlled Marvel for only 4 years, and he has sold more than 50% of Marvel's top superhero copyrights.
Several main characters of the Avengers that everyone is familiar with in the future market, such as Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye, Winter Soldier, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel, and the last Thanos and so on.
And in addition to the classic characters of the Avengers, there are also Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Wolverine, X-Men series, Deadpool, etc., these are basically sold out, can you believe it?
Among them, Hulk and Namor were sold to Universal Pictures.
All characters from the X-Men series, the Fantastic Four, and the Skrulls series were sold to 20th Century Fox.
Iron Man was sold to Paramount
Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, and Captain Marvel were sold to Disney.
There are hundreds of other different superheroes, the copyrights have been sold, although Marvel claims to have 8,000 superheroes, but in fact, there are only two or three hundred of them, and there are only a few dozen of them.
If Boss Jia wants to shoot the Avengers now, then now the Avengers can only have Thor, Black Widow, and Spider-Man under the leadership of Captain America, and the entire Avengers have been directly lost in half, how can this beat Thanos? It's just miserable.
But the only thing to be thankful for is that the Spider-Man copyright was not sold at this time.
You must know that later generations revolved around the copyright of Spider-Man, Sony and Marvel fought several lawsuits, and finally the two sides decided to work together to operate the copyright of Spider-Man.
So Boss Jia always thought that the copyright of Spider-Man had been sold, but now looking at the list of assets, Spider-Man and all the superheroes of his series are lying peacefully in Marvel's assets, and they have not moved, and Boss Jia has a feeling that he has made a fortune.
In fact, the copyright of Spider-Man was only sold in 1998, when Marvel had just gone bankrupt and reorganized and urgently needed a large amount of money, so the most valuable Spider-Man series heroes in the hero list at that time were sold to Sony for $7 million, and it was sold to Sony permanently, and Marvel only retained the copyright of the comics.
"Boss, what should we do next? Is the Foundation going to be directly involved in running Marvel? Harry Potter asked obediently behind Boss Jia.
"Meddling? Will you run a comic company? Boss Jia glared at Harry Potter, who shook his head with a wry smile.
"By the way, what is Stan Lee doing now?" Boss Jia suddenly asked.
"He's still the editor-in-chief of Marvel!" Harry Potter thought for a moment and said, "But what kind of demonstrations are he organizing other editors to do recently, boss, should we get rid of him?" ”
"Fired off? Why do you want to fire it? Boss Jia knocked on Harry Potter's head, "You fired this guy, who will run Marvel for us, so let's go talk to Stan Lee, give him the position of president of the company, and let him run Marvel well." ”
"Yes!" Harry Bot nodded, hesitated, and then said, "Stan Lee has been shouting about the linkage between comics and movies, and what new media integration plan is going to be carried out, if he proposes a similar plan, should we cooperate with him?" ”
"You tell him that the company already has a complete film linkage plan, he just needs to maintain the daily operation of the comic club, and if it loses, the foundation will fill in some funds to pay them salaries, and that's it!" Boss Jia hesitated for a moment, and then said.
Before 2000, Marvel made several attempts to make a movie, but in the end they all failed, and it was not until after 2000 that Sony released the first Spider-Man movie, which turned out to be completely popular, and then made the American film enter the 20-year superhero movie era.
In fact, the movies in the United States are a little deformed after 00 years, because looking at it, more than half of the blockbuster movies are superhero movies, which is obviously a somewhat deformed market.
But Boss Jia doesn't care, otherwise what would he buy Marvel for.
But before 2000, it was still difficult for superhero movies to sell money, so Boss Jia hesitated for a while and decided not to challenge the objective laws and historical reality.
After all, it was only in that era that more efficient computer special effects would appear.
"Yes!" Harry Potter has always been meticulous in the execution of Boss Jia's orders, and he went to Stan Lee on the second day and told him that the company intended to appoint him as president.
At this time, Stan Lee was originally ready to resign and leave.
Historically, after Marvel went bankrupt and reorganized in 98, and then sold Spider-Man to Sony for money, Stan Lee was completely desperate for Marvel, so he left Marvel and established his own entertainment company.
And now, Marvel went bankrupt and reorganized in 1994, and with the bankruptcy reorganization, Marvel also began to brew delisting, and then re-privatize, and the foundation will fully control 100% of the equity and other things.
Stan Lee felt that he might be targeted by his new boss, after all, he was an old guy who had a huge influence within the company, and he was really hated.
But Stan Lee never expected that the Foundation would make the decision to appoint him as president.
"Why did you want me to be this president?" Stan Lee hesitated, then asked.
"Because our board of directors feels that Marvel must be controlled by someone who really understands Marvel!" Harry Potter said, and this sentence also made Stan Lee suddenly extinguish half of his thoughts about leaving.
Indeed, there is no one in the world who knows Marvel better than himself.
"Then how much real power do I have as the president?" Stan Lee asked another crucial question.
"All the day-to-day operations of Marvel are your responsibility, but you have no right to sell any of the company's assets, nor do you have the right to buy any assets for the company, and when you make some major decisions involving the company's overall situation, these must be reported to the board of directors before they can be decided!" Harry potter.
"Understood!" Stan Lee nodded, these are not the rights of a president, as long as he can control all the daily life of Marvel, it is enough.
"One last question?" Stan Lee looked at Harry Potter, "Will the company still sell my children?" ”
"What did you say?" Harry Potter was stunned for a moment, when was he going to sell Stan Lee's child, and he didn't have the ability to sell his child.
"Captain America, Spider-Man and so on, all superheroes, all my kids!" Stan Lee said earnestly.
"Haha!" Harry Potter couldn't help but laugh, "There is something I forgot to tell you, my dear Mr. President, the company has decided that it will invest tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars, in the future to recover all the superhero copyrights that Marvel has sold!" ”
"Really!" Stan Lee's eyes were red, and he confessed to Marvel all his life.