[I know people are getting tired of me, but I just want to say that this novel is fi and has nothing to do with reality. Don't take it seriously].

  Hollywood What If Chapter 291

  ematiiverse. A huge franchise that made billions at the box offid its influence around the world was astronomical. Even outside the box office, the mo geed was in the billions.

  Ba Kazir's past life, there were only a few ematiiverses that could be sidered successful. The MCU, the DCEU and the Monsterverse.

  Star Trek and Star Wars could also be sidered ematiiverse, but they were just one franchise with many sequels, in Kazir's opinion. There was a differenbsp;

  However, after Kazir introduced the CCU, he basically messed with the timeline and ged a lot of things.

  Now, the CCU was the first official ematiiverse in this timeline, and Kazir was the founder of it.

  There was no tial ematiiverse in the inal timeline. Kazir basically put aovies into one universe and created a unique version.

  Kazir deserved a credit for that.

  The mohey made on that project was huge and Grey Pictures had a lot of moo i in their own film promotion.

  "If Kazir and Grey Pictures do it, why not us? We are one of the Big Six, the biggest studio in the world, and roduce more quality films than a sed-tier studio like Grey Pictures."

  That was Michael Eisner's view. He firmly believed that Walt Disney was capable of produg its own ematiiverse.

  However, he also admitted that creating one was dangerous and they were unsure of the sequeo begin with, this "genre" was new and Grey Pictures i it.

  Michael Eisner felt that su ambitious goal was impossible because of the cost and the situation. Nobody khe future and they didn't know if this venture would be successful. It would be difficult t many of the protagonists of each franchise into one universe. But Grey Pictures did it and made a lot of money doing it.

  This was the reason why Michael Eisner wanted Diso start its own ematiiverse.

  Michael Eisner didn't hesitate to acquire the Barsoom series as his pyground. The novel opur and the author was famous. Even though decades had passed, it could still attract the attention of many people.

  They even ied another 100 million in promoting the film, bringing their total expenditure to 350 million.

  250 million produ cost + 100 million for marketing.

  The executives at Walt Disney khat the iment was huge, but they agreed because of the promising future that the ematiiverse could bring.

  The initial worth of Grey Pictures was only 1-2 billion at best, but the success of tial ematiiverse ged everything. The pany's worth skyrocketed st year, especially when John Wick Chapter 2 and The Fast and The Furious grossed more than 1 billion at the box offibined, giving Grey Pictures a higher status.

  Despite the infighting at Walt Disney, executives and chairman Eisner agreed that John Carter should be taken seriously. Everyone wao make money.

  After months of preparation, from buying a ercial slot on the Super Bowl to pstering the film's posters everywhere, Walt Disney did everything to make sure the film would be a success.

  The plot was good.

  The special effects were good.

  The hype seemed promising.

  If there was a dowhey cast an unknown actor... They copied what Grey Pictures had done and cast an unknown but young actor as John Carter. They inally wao cast someone like Matt Damon, but he was busy with Bourne Supremacy, which was ing out in July.

  The executives alsued over the title of the film, but decided to go with Michael Eisner's. Chairman Eisner was a tyrant, but it was true that he was the one responsible for the current success of Walt Disney. In the end, they agreed to call the film John Carter instead of its inal title, Princess On Mars.

  So John Carter was born.

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  The premiere of John Carter was quite lively, Walt Disney paid a lot of attention to this film.

  The audience seemed excited and watched the film... Only to be left unsatisfied.

  Why was that? Because the st part of the film was left unanswered.

  Basically, Walt Disney focused too mu possible sequels instead of pleting the plot of the film.

  Did John Carter really return to Mars or not?

  A question that would be impossible to answer because, surprise, surprise, the film didn't get a sequel!

  Walt Disney screwed up. There were rumours that Michael Eisner was mianaging almost everything about the film, and the executives bmed him.

  At first, their expressions were full of excitement. Their faces lit up when they heard the good news. They waited 24 hours to hear the first day's results... And they were greeted with utter bullshit.

  John Carter's first day box office altry 9 million.

  Sounds promising, right? After all, many films could hardly do that on their first day, right?

  But John Carter was different... Or rather, the amount of mohey ied in this shit was fug huge.

  350 million dolrs! For a single film, they i 350 million!

  The executives were not stupid. They had been in the business a long time and khat 9 million on the first day was not enough to recoup their iment.

  The ma did some calcutions and predicted that the first weekend of John Carter would only be around 30 million at best.

  Yeah... the shit hit the fan.

  "N- No! Listen to me! This is just the beginning. The box office will be better in the few days, I believe. We're still doing our best promotiht?"

  Michael Eisner faced the shareholders and executives. He tried his best to calm things down.

  With his friend Michael Ovitz gone, Eisner was beginning to lose his authority.

  He prayed that John Carter would never betray him...

  "Box office my ass! Have you fotten that Star Wars will be released two weeks from now? We are losing money because of your stubborn decisions!"

  On 16th May 2002, Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the es was going to be released.

  This film certainly affected the performance of John Carter after its release. Star Wars had so many fans in the Uates alone.

  "No, this 't be happening..."

  Michael Eisner felt he would be fired after this. He was sweating profusely.

  Suddenly he remembered the time he had first iated with Kazir. If he agreed to kick Harvey Weinstein out of Disney and Miramax, perhaps his retionship with Kazir would ge for the better. The director could have worked with Walt Disney. But as, regret was of no use in the current situation.

  He could only hope that John Carter wouldn't be his downfall.