Chapter 428 "Purification of the Lich King"
Ye Jiayi did not disappoint Fan Zhe. She had already negotiated a cooperation with Blizzard Entertainment on the "Warcraft" series.
I won’t say much about the details. The most important issue has been confirmed. As the boss of Dimension Entertainment, Fan Zhe has absolute control over this series of film and television works projects.
In terms of distribution of interests, the two parties finally reached an agreed contract.
When Dimension Entertainment filmed the first work of the Warcraft series, they had to pay Blizzard Entertainment $15 million directly as copyright fee. Each subsequent film was reduced by $3 million, until the fifth film was completed, there would be no more copyright fee.
At the same time, the entire post-production share will be divided into one percent of the world's total box office. After that, each film will increase by 0.5 percent until the fifth part, and finally reach 3 percent.
This strength is much higher than the cooperation between Penguin and Weidu Entertainment in "League of Legends". Blizzard Entertainment only pays a copyright and enjoys a very high income.
You should know that the share they get is calculated based on the global total box office, which means that they share the share with theaters, publishers, and taxes. Blizzard Entertainment doesn't care about them, and just divide the money according to the box office.
But Blizzard doesn't have to pay a price to get such high returns.
Penguin gets a relatively low copyright income, but they have the right to invest in movies, which can even reach up to 50%, which is the same as Weidu Entertainment.
Blizzard basically gave up this power and only retained almost five percent of the symbolic meaning.
Moreover, when Dimension Entertainment announced that it would produce the first film with Alsace as the protagonist, they even gave up the investment and prepared to only obtain copyright benefits.
Fan Zhe did not have any particularly big opinions on this.
After the contract was signed and had legal effects, Fan Zhe immediately held a corresponding meeting to determine the project launch matters.
Just the story of Alsace is enough to make a trilogy.
In Van Zhe's plan, the plot of the "Lich King" series of movies is basically set according to the battle plots in the expansion films of "Warcraft 3": The Rule of Chaos and the Frozen Throne.
The first part of the movie will tell the story of a young prince joining the Knights on the front line, receiving the teachings of Uther, the leader of the Paladin, and fighting the rebellious orcs.
In this process, he would notice the undercurrents in the kingdom, and began to lead his subordinates to investigate the Curse Sect that spread the people into zombies and undead creatures, and killed the leader of the Curse Sect, the great wizard, in Andorhal.
From Kel's Thujad's mouth, Arthas learned all this from behind the mastermind was Marganis, the devil of fear, and a large number of polluted grains had been sent to Stantam, a big city in the Kingdom of Lordaeron.
Then he led his army to Stantholm, and met his teacher, Uther, the Hand of Light, with his lover, and the mage, Gianna outside the city.
As the crown prince, he ordered Uther and his Knights to join his troops and enter Stantamom to purify the city - kill all the citizens who had eaten polluted grains and were about to turn into zombies.
Paladin Uther angrily rejected the order and was removed from the leader of the Knights by Arthas as the crown prince. He hoped that his lover, or former lover, Ms. Gianna could stay and fight alongside him, but Gianna also refused.
Then, in the history of Warcraft, the famous Stantamm massacre happened.
Here, Alsace killed all the residents of the city. Then, in order to pursue what he thought was the mastermind behind the scenes, he led his army to take a Shanghai ship and fight the Northrend continent covered with ice and snow.
Here he pulled out the famous magic sword, Frost Sorrow, and killed Marganis here, but also completed the last scene of his own fall.
This magic sword belongs to the Lich King Neozu. When Arthas pulled out the sword, he had been swallowed by the magic sword - or he had been swallowed by the obsession in his own heart.
Killing Marganis, his subordinates reveled in victory, but he could not feel any joy in victory. He left everyone behind, and his lonely figure disappeared into the wind and snow of Northrend.
These are roughly the story of Arthas in "Warcraft 3: The Governance of Chaos".
After planning out the general content, Fan Zhe realized that a movie might not be enough to tell all these stories.
If all of this movie, tentatively named "Lich King: Purification", is completed, Fan Zhe thinks that it will take more than five hours.
There is a lot of content, and the key is that no part is easy to delete.
So, it is an option to make two parts.
After the division, the first part will probably be told from the youth of Alsace. His birth, he followed the dwarf hero Muladin Bronzebeard to learn various combat skills, followed the legendary hero Uther, the messenger of light, and officially became a Paladin and joined the Knights of Silver Hands.
Then, telling the story of Steinbred's defense, the young prince joined the front-line battlefield to suppress the riots of the Southern Orc Tribe. The climax was that Alsace eliminated the Black Dragon Cyrunks, cast a weapon with its blood, suppressed the Black Stone Tribe, and killed the Black Sword Saint.
Then, we will investigate the Curse Sect and kill the great wizard Kel Thuzad. This place should be the second climax.
The final climax of the movie will be put into Stantolme's massacre.
So far, it should be the end of the first part of "Lich King: Purification".
The next part will probably talk about Artsus' northern expedition to Northrend, pulling out the grief of frost, killing Marganis, and finally falling into the country and assassinate his father, King Terenas.
That would also be a very classic scene.
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After the project was established, all work began to progress rapidly.
The related scripts were already written long before Weidu Entertainment and Blizzard reached an agreement, and now they have produced several versions of them.
Related art designs are already being done.
Another very important point is that the film's director and main cast members were selected, Fan Zhe directly sent his confidant Wang Zhixin to North America to serve as the producer and participate in the establishment of the main creative team.
Wang Zhixin has been with Fan Zhe for some time. When he was filming the "Hell Apartment" series of movies, he was the producer. Later, "Master of Martial Arts: War" was also the producer.
Chapter completed!