Hollywood What If Chapter 285
Was it enough to work with Grey Pictures?
Avi Arad was still skeptical about the idea. Sure, he khat Kazir was one of the best, if not the best, director in this new genre, but Avi Arad was still not fident in w with the studio.
He least some assurance. Walt Disney was very serious about acquiring their characters and they were willing to pay a lot.
Although there was a dowo that, because Marvel wouldn't start their own ematiiverse if they sold their characters to Walt Disney.
And that was the problem with Grey Pictures. Even though the studio bought the chts to many of the characters, it didn't mean that Grey Pictures inteo start a ematiiverse about Marvel.
Maybe they wao make a stand-alone movie like Spider-Man. That was not enough to revive Marvel ibsp;
Siting the chts back would be cumbersome, Avi Arad decided to go as far as he could.
"I want totiate the tract," Avi said, and both Kazir and Stan looked at him.
Kazir nodded, already expeg this. Avi Arad was the arvel id he had to do his job as CEO for the sake of the pany.
"I want to hear your thoughts."
"ematiiverse. I want to make sure that Grey Pictures is itted to a Marvel ematiiverse. With at least one Marvel movie a year."
Kazir was not surprised.
'Well, since MCU was a massive success in my past life, I have no problem with that. CCU has a steady performand I foCU for a while. However...'
"... And what I get?"
Kazir didn't fet that he had the upper hand in this iation.
"If you don't, we'll kill every character you acquired in the ics."
Kazir grinned. It seemed petty, but surely Avi had his iions.
"So you want to kill the Hulk? He's one of yreatest superheroes."
"We kill him or we ge his image. We make him a vilin, we make him a killer, a thief, even a rapist."
Marvel ics had the rights to all the characters and they do what they want with them.
Surely Grey Pictures would never make a Hulk movie if he became a rapist in the ics, which was the plot. So the chts would just be useless.
"We both lose if you do that."
If Marvel were serious about this, they would just destroy themselves.
Avi Arad khis. It was just a threat, but a threat that would never happen uhey were backed into a er.
They love every character and they didn't want to make them bad.
"Avi, I know your iions and I assure you that I'm sincere."
"We will extend the chts up to 15 years if you agree with our terms." Avi said.n
"I guess you want to use some of your people for this project."
"That's right, the writers should be from Marvel ics."
"No problem with that. That's my pn anyway."
"Marvel wants to increase the 13% profit share to 15%. We need money."
Marvel was in a near death situation.
"The numbers should be discussed by ents and so on. But I also have my proposal."
"Tell me about it."
Looking at the grin on Kazir's face, Avi khat it could affect them.
"Marvel will shoulder at least 30% of the produ cost."
Now this dition could be a double-edged sword. It could be good or bad for them.
"I agree, but Marvel should increase its box office share to 20%"
"No, our inal agreement is that Marvel ics only get 13% of the box office."
"Then iment could be a problem."
"Then there's no ematiiverse."
"..."
Avi Arad and Kazir had a stare-down.
As for Stan Lee, he just stood there. He was a creative person and a great artist, but business was never his strong suit.
Actually, it was impressive that Kazir could do business. He had a talent for business ma, otherwise Grey Pictures would not have reached its current greatness.
Too bad, because Kazir disliked doing business. If he had a choice, he would have let his agent hahose kinds of iations.
But after the Big Six deed to i in Taken, Kazir decided to strike out on his own and form a produ pany that would i exclusively in his own films. It was a dangerous gamble, but ohat paid off in the end.
"Exactly as you said, this iation of numbers should be given to our ma ahem fight over it."
"Very well."
So in the end, there was no clear agreement except for the pn to make a Marvel ematiiverse.
For obvious reasons, Marvel ics was actually on the bad side of this iation.
First of all, Marvel ics could start their own studio and make their own movies.
However, they were not sure if their movies would be successful. On top of that, all of their famous characters had already been acquired by many studios, and they would have a hard time getting them back.
In this situation, Marvel ics could only agree with Kazir's decision.
'If our situation is the same as DC's, then maybe one of the Big Six has already bought Marvel ics.' Avi gritted his teeth.
Superman and Batman were basically the mascots of Warner Brothers and they were very famous all over the world. The main reason for that was the movie adaptations. Both superheroes had successful movies.
In fact, Avi Arad was hoping that one of the Big Six would acquire them... At least that would make their lives easier.
Suddenly, Avi Arad's fat cell phone in his pocket started ringing. The phones in 90s and early 2000s were thicc as fubsp;
Avi excused himself and answered the call.
Kazir and Stan were left alone.
"S- So Kazir, what's your pn if yoing to make Iron Man?"
"I have some in mind, but I'm not sure yet, I'll tell you ter, maybe when Spider-Man 2 starts produ. I'll give you a clear pn. In the meantime, I'm going to foy current project."
Kazir lied. Of course he had thought about it. Hell, he even watched it.
"Of course." Stan Lee uood.
In fact, he was already grateful that Kazir was direg Spider-Man. He was the biggest safety in this projeot the cast and not Sony-bia. Directrey was the assurahat every studio wao acquire.
Stan Lee was the creator of Spider-Man and he was very happy to see his "son" have a successful run in Hollywood.
Now a lot of people around the world know about Spider-Man. That was enough for him.
Although Stan was hoping that Kazir would also make Spider-Man 3. That would be the biggest piece of good news he could get.