The Greatest Showman

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DC Comics and Marvel Comics, the two mountains in the North American comics market, each have a huge fan base.

After the 1990s, in terms of sales volume and popularity, including the advanced awareness of expanding the influence of adapted movies, and even the concentration of copyrights of superheroes, the former is far ahead, occupying the absolute upper hand, and the heroic images of Superman and Batman are even more popular. worldwide.

But after entering the 21st century, the latter has achieved a comprehensive overtake in the field of film, and has established a huge Marvel universe, becoming an important part of Disney's giant crocodile, while the former has been losing ground in the competition. Lost all territories.

Why?

Objectively speaking, after the millennium, Sony Pictures' "Spider-Man" and 20th Century Fox's "X-Men" took the lead in debuting, reviving the upsurge of comic superhero movies, but Christopher Nolan directed the film. The "Batman" series is a classic in film history, and the word-of-mouth and box office have achieved an incredible win-win, even enough to go down in history.

At this time, DC Comics and Marvel Comics can be said to have their own merits, divide the world equally, and indistinguishable.

However, the official debut of "Iron Man" in 2008 not only revitalized Robert Downey Jr.'s career and rejuvenated it; it also opened a decade-long dynasty of Marvel frenzy and witnessed the era of Marvel's great victory. After witnessing the peak of Disney's return to the throne, the gap between the two comics has grown wider and wider.

To be more precise, the DC superhero movie adapted by Warner Bros. began to decline in 2012.

This is a very, very special year.

For Marvel, the great victory of the "Avengers", with the arrogant attitude of creating history, took the stage of history, officially announcing the overall victory of the first phase of the Marvel universe, thus establishing the absolute market for superheroes position, unshakable. After that, a series of Marvel movies such as "Captain America 2", "Thor 2", "Ant-Man", "Doctor Strange", "Guardians of the Galaxy" and so on came on stage, fully blooming.

For DC, the official release of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" has successfully drawn a beautiful end to the Batman story built by Christopher Nolan, but it also officially marked the warner Bros. Wei's weapon is temporarily offline, and they have to restart the project, rearrange the layout, and start from scratch.

The reason for emphasizing the particularity of 2012 has a historical background.

After the millennium, Warner Bros. has established an absolute dominant position in Hollywood, with a far leading market share. The "Matrix" series is the beginning, the "Harry Potter" series is the rise, and the "Batman" series is the peak. , the three series of works have connected a full decade of glory.

At the same time, Warner Bros. has never given up the development of DC comics adaptations, "Catwoman", "Watchmen", "Green Lantern", "Superman Returns", "Hell Detective", etc. They have been trying to explore superheroes The market potential of the film, I hope to continue to explore more possibilities beyond the three sets of carriages.

Regrettably, all of the above-mentioned works failed, at least at the box office; meanwhile, the "Matrix" series ended in 2003, the "Harry Potter" series in 2011, and the "Batman" series in 2012.

And so, when 2012 came to a close, Warner Bros. was in a bind, with successful franchises coming to an end, unable to develop new superhero movies, and facing the odds against rivals. All of this makes 2012 special.

It is against this background that Warner Bros., in order to fight against Marvel movies, has formulated a new plan to create a DC universe with all its strength. In this plan, including "Superman: Man of Steel", "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", "Suicide Squad", "Wonder Woman", "Justice League" and many other works.

The idea of ​​Warner Bros. is undoubtedly correct. The three giants of DC Comics are Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. They have a strong influence in American popular culture, and no one can match, even Marvel's Iron Man. , Spider-Man are difficult to compete with. Therefore, they are going to use the three giants as the core to arrange the entire DC universe——

The first work is "Man of Steel", and then the confrontation of "Dawn of Justice" is extended, where Wonder Woman's historic debut is witnessed; Xia" appeared alone; then, the three giants of dc appeared together, leading to the "Justice League", and then derived a single-player movie of each character.

But what went wrong?

Simply put, it is too hasty!

Before the success of "Avengers", Marvel spent four years and four works to forge, two "Iron Man", one "Captain America", one "Thor", and even a failed one "The Incredible Hulk" can also be counted. After all the story lines are clarified, the actors collectively entered the story of "The Avengers", and completed the succession and integration of the situation. Everything is logical.

When the audience saw the appearance of the Avengers, except for the newly debuted Hawkeye and the Hulk who changed the actor, all the other characters were clear at a glance, and the ins and outs had been connected, which meant that the screenwriter did not need to Spending a lot of pen and ink to introduce the characters can save more space to pave the way for the story, outline the characters, and even shake the burden.

So, in the end, the audience saw a wonderful popcorn blockbuster!

But Warner Bros. is not so patient. There are wolves in front and tigers in the back. They

There's simply not enough time to stop and polish each superhero character.

After "Man of Steel", "Dawn of Justice" went straight to the shelves.

Batman is a brand-new actor, and Wonder Woman is also a brand-new debut, and even Superman's own story clues are incomplete-Iron Man in "Avengers" has already had two works before, which also makes Iron Man Becomes the core of this work and drives the whole story, but there is only one Superman.

After the lack of a clear character outline and storyline, the characters of "Dawn of Justice" are full of a sense of separation, and each character is not complete enough, so that the philosophical theme discussion becomes dissimilar, which can be detected. Director Zack Snyder, who directed the comic book "Watchmen", has been working hard, but with little success.

After that, everything became a disaster.

The same goes for the failures of "Suicide Squad" and "Justice League." In the movie, the screenwriter and director had to spend pen and ink and space to introduce each character, but the limited space could not outline the complete character at all, and it was self-defeating to further compress the time of its own narrative, which made the already weak popcorn. The story is even more fragmented.

Among the many works in the dc universe, "Wonder Woman" is the only one that succeeded, and the reason is the same. In turn, this movie spent enough pen and ink to tell the origin and appearance of Wonder Woman, and the ins and outs are incomparable. The clear and simple story connects the whole characters, and then integrates the jokes, grooves, cuteness and burdens, and the movie has successfully won the hearts of the audience.

If - just hypothetically, if Warner Bros. is willing to slow down, don't rush to confront Marvel, but start with the three characters of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, and shoot a separate movie well, step by step to complete the foreshadowing After that, the three giants joined forces to make a work similar to "The Avengers", which led to the single-player movie of The Joker or The Flash, and started the second stage of the layout.

So, will the market landscape change?

This is a question that everyone is curious about, but time cannot be reversed, and when the boat is done, even if Barry regrets the past and wants to overthrow it again, he is already powerless.

By the way, Universal Pictures tried to build a monster universe with works such as "The New Mummy" and "Godzilla", and they made the same mistakes.

What Renly is curious about now is that he is not sure whether the helmsman, whom he has never met, is willing to listen to the advice he has given to Ron Mayer; but at least he can try the Barry Mayer in front of him, maybe , which could change the fate of Superman and Batman.

As a childhood memory, Renly still has a unique feeling for dc comics, just like Marvel's Spider-Man, every child more or less dreams of becoming Peter Parker, the edgy and impulsive high school student, but because of A miraculous accident changed his destiny.

Renly has no ambition or interest in changing the landscape of the entire market, just out of childhood memories.

Renly simply informed Barry of his thoughts, thinking that Warner Bros. should slow down, stop thinking about eating a fat man in one bite, and immediately confront Marvel Studios, but take every superhero's life seriously. Individual works are built first to ensure that each series can get a place, and then the entire dc universe is considered, rather than standing on the height of the dc universe and creating individual movies for each superhero.

Barry listened quietly, and a curious look appeared between his eyebrows.

Everyone knows that Renly has a unique eye for character selection, especially in independent art films. Although Renly's talent for commercial films has yet to be confirmed, it can still be felt that his perspective and insights are different.

Barry recalled the conversation at the Almeida Theater for the second time, and a bold thought came to him, "Are you interested in working on the Superman and Batman movies, I mean, as a producer, Of course, if you're willing to be involved as an actor, that's great."

"No, no, no." After Lan Li was stunned for a while, he laughed happily and waved his hands again and again. The panic that he was afraid to avoid made Barry interested and asked "why".

Renly spread his hands, expressing his helplessness, "I'm an actor, purely an actor, not a producer. Sitting here to express my opinions, I can talk freely, but these are just theoretical knowledge, without any Feasibility. Professional work, leave it to professionals.”

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