Hollywood What If Chapter 81
Doctor Strange, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, Star-Lord, Bck Pahor... Almost everyone who art of the MCU was acquired by Grey Pictures.
Marvel was fag its biggest slump in history and Kazir used this moment to acquire the movie chts to these superheroes.
Marvel still owhe ic book chts and other chts such as toys and many merdises. The tract stated that Grey Pictures had the authority over the movie chts for twenty years.
It should have been fifty years, but Marvel wanted an eous amount.
In the end, Grey Pictures bought the chts for 27 million.
These characters are not that famous and Marvel didn't care about these superheroes at all. Their famous superheroes are actually Spiderman, Iron Man and the Hulk.
Kazir sighed. He sighed with relief after acquiring the characters. Now that the tract was clear and he had paid the money, he didn't have to worry about Marvel making trouble. All he had to do was show the trabsp;
'Of course I'll still tact them. They know these superheroes better than I do.'
He had no problem inviting Stan Lee. But the MCU had to wait a decade.
The current graphics teology was not mature enough to create a superhero movie.
It was December 13, 1996. The Hangover was officially drop by the emas. The movie grossed 469.3 million at the worldwide box offibsp;
Because of this result, many film paried to tact Grey Pictures about Kazir's project. Unfortunately, every one of them was rejected.
Grey Pictures annouhat Taken would be financed exclusively by the pany.
As for Ted, Kazir sold the script to Warner Bros for 2 million. Buying a script for 2 million was a stupid move. But Warner Bros uood Kazir Grey's ability to write a edy. He had already proven himself twibsp;
'They invited me to be the executive producer. No problem. '
The position was nominal. Warner Bros needed Kazir's opinion on how to make the movie funny. All he had to do was show up o on a while. Fortunately, Warner Bros would start shooti the end of the year, around October 1997.
'But I think they will postpohis project...'
Kazir thinks he was free by then.
"Salvatore, what is Liam Neeson's answer?"
"Liam had no projeext year... He agreed, but he didn't like the tract."
"I uand..."
Siaken was a trilogy, Liam Neeson had to sign a trilogy tract. Also, Liam Neeson had to sign cameos iher movies. This was all doo solidify the tial ematiiverse. Liam Neeson had to show his fa other movies.
"Is he not happy with the sary?" Kazir frowned.
"He's happy with the 3 million. I think this is the highest sary he has received so far. But he didn't like the cuse for the wo movies."
"..."
With each sequel, Liam Neeson's sary would increase by 35%. This means that in Taken 2, Liam Neeson's sary would be 4.05 million. Then his sary would be 5.46 million in Taken 3.
"His agent is asking for a higher pertage increase. They are fighting for a 60% raise per movie."
"Make it 50%... But you have to sign some cameo tracts."
"Okay. I'll tact Rafael."
The iations with Liam Neeso well. At least Liam's agent was much easier to vihan WMA's.
In fact, after the problems with The Hangover, Kazir decided that he would not hire actors from WMA. He didn't want that agenterfering with his movie.
"By the way, I heard Enzo's brother is here. I want to see him."
Enzo's older brother was a stunt director in Hong Kong. He worked in many movies. He was a martial artist and knew many attack patterns. Kazir needed a professional stunt director to help him with the a sequences.
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Tae-Won Park. He is the brother of Hae-Won Park (Enzo Park). He was 32 years old at this time. He worked as a stunt director for seven years.
Just like Enzo, Tae-Won Park dreamed of going to Hollywood. However, he felt that his profession was not respected in Hollywood.
The a stunts in Hollywood are different from those in Hong Kong.
The a sequences of aovies in the 80s and early 90s were too simple and monotonous. They even have to repeat the punches so many times just to make a point.
The movie that influenced kung fu in Hollywood was The Matrix. Sihen, many movies have hired stunt directors from Hong Kong. But that would be a different story from now on.
Kazir Grey wao start the trend of hand-to-hand bat with great chraphy. He needed someone like Tae-Won Park.
The Korean opehe door nervously. He heard the director calling him. Actually, he had been waiting for a while, but Salvatore and Kazir were talking.
"Director..." His pronunciation was a little awkward. Perhaps influenced by the tonese nguage of Hong Kong.
Still, Kazir Grey could uand his English well enough.
"So you are Tae-Won Park."
"Director, thank you for taking care of my brother."
"It's nothing. You are a professional stunt director from Hong Kong. I wonder, do you know mixed martial arts?"
"I know, but we usually never use this kind of a chraphy in our movies. The movies we produce are all kung fu."
"It's okay. lenty of time to think about it. First I want to hear your thoughts."
Salvatore hahe remote to Kazir. He was slowly being an assistant.
'I o hire an assistant, huh.'
Kazir was embarrassed because Salvatore had been his "assistant' for the st two years.
"Anyway, check out this a chraphy and give me your ho opinion."
The footage began. On the s, Kazir Grey and Enzo Park started their fight. In this situation, Enzo Park took the role of retired agent Bryan Mills, while Kazir was simply a mob.
Enzo began to nd dired deadly punches on Kazir.
"It's different from what I expected." Tae-Won Park replied.
The a sequences were precise ahal. Almost like a veteran soldier with the sole purpose of killing.