The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Ye Jiayi did not disappoint Fan Zhe, she had already negotiated with Blizzard Entertainment on the cooperation of 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 the film and television works of this series.

In terms of benefit distribution, the two parties finally reached a consensus contract.

When Dimension Entertainment filmed the first work of the "Warcraft" series, they needed to directly pay Blizzard Entertainment 15 million US dollars as a copyright fee. Each subsequent film will be reduced by three million dollars, until the fifth film is finished, there will be no more copyright fees.

At the same time, for the entire post-production share, the first Blizzard will enjoy a revenue equivalent to 1% of the total global box office, and each film after that will increase by 0.5%, until the fifth film, and finally reach 3%.

This intensity is much higher than the cooperation between Penguin and Dimension Entertainment on "League of Legends". When Blizzard Entertainment only pays for the copyright, the benefits it enjoys are quite high.

You know, the share they get is calculated according to the total global box office, which means sharing with theaters, sharing with distributors, paying taxes, etc. Blizzard Entertainment doesn't care about it, just divide the money according to the box office and it's over.

But to get such a high income, Blizzard is not without paying a price.

Penguins get a relatively low copyright income, but they have the right to invest in movies, and they can even get up to 50%, which is on par with Dimension Entertainment.

Blizzard basically gave up this power, retaining only five percent of the almost symbolic meaning.

Moreover, when Dimension Entertainment announced that it was going to make the first movie with Alsace as the main character, they even gave up the investment, planning to only take the proceeds from the copyright.

In this regard, Fan Zhe did not have a particularly big opinion.

After the contract was signed and began to have legal effect, Fan Zhe immediately held a corresponding meeting to finalize the start-up of the project.

The story of Alsace alone is enough to make a trilogy.

In Fan Zhe's planning, the plot planning of the "The Lich King" series of movies is basically set according to the battle plots in the two "Warcraft 3" expansion films, Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne. .

The first part of the film will tell the story of the young prince, who joins the knights on the front line, accepts the teaching of Uther, the leader of the paladins, and fights against the rebellious orcs.

During this process, he will detect the undercurrents in the kingdom, and thus start to lead his men to track down the curse sect that spreads the people into zombies and undead creatures, and kill them in Andorhal. Killed the leader of the Cult of the Damned, Archmage Kel'Thuzad.

From Kel'Thuzad, Alsace learned that the mastermind behind all this was Malganis, the demon king of fear, and that a large amount of contaminated grain had been sent to a large city in the Kingdom of Lordaeron, Stan. som.

Then, he led the army, went to Stratholme, and met his teacher, Uther the Hand of Light, and his lover, the mage Jaina outside the city.

As the crown prince, he ordered Uther and his knights to join his army and enter Stratholme to purify the city—kill all the citizens who had eaten the contaminated grain and were about to turn into zombies .

The paladin Uther angrily rejected the order, and Alsace dismissed him as the leader of the Knights as Crown Prince. He hoped that his lover, or ex-lover, Ms. Jaina would stay and fight alongside him, but Jaina also refused.

Then, in the history of Warcraft, the famous Stratholme massacre happened.

Alsace is here, killing the inhabitants of the entire city. Afterwards, in order to hunt down Malganis, the fearful demon king who he thought was behind the scenes, he led the army, boarded a sea boat, and went northward to Northrend, which was covered by ice and snow.

Here, he draws his famous sword, Frostmourne, and kills Mal'Ganis here, but also completes the final scene of his own fall.

This magic sword belonged to Ner'zhul, the Lich King. When Arthas pulled out the sword, he had already been swallowed by the magic sword—or he had been swallowed by the obsession in his heart.

Killing Malganis, his subordinates rejoiced for victory, but he couldn't feel any joy of victory. He left everyone behind, and his lonely figure disappeared in the snowstorm of Northrend.

These are roughly the stories of Alsace in "Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos".

After planning out the general content, Fan Zhe realized that maybe one movie is not enough to tell all these stories.

If the film tentatively titled "The Lich King: The Purification" is completed, Fan Zhe feels that it will take more than five hours.

The content is a bit too much, and the key is that no part is easy to cut.

Ever since, making it into upper and lower parts is an option.

Divided, the first part will probably be told from Alsace's youth, his birth, he learned various fighting skills from the dwarf hero Muradin Bronzebeard, and learned the way of the Holy Light from the legendary hero Uther the Lightbringer, At the age of nineteen, he officially became a paladin and joined the Knights of the Silver Hand.

Then, it tells about the defensive battle of Steinbrad. The young prince joined the front line to suppress the riots of the orc tribes in the south. The climax was that Arthas destroyed the black dragon Xilinox and used its blood to forge weapons. And suppressed the Blackstone tribe, killed the Blackstone Sword Master.

Then, it is to track down the curse sect and kill the archmage Kel'Thuzad. This should be the second climax.

And the final climax of the movie will be placed in the massacre of Stratholme.

So far, it should be the end of the first part of "The Lich King: Purification".

The next one will probably talk about Alsace's northern attack on Northrend, pull out Frostmourne, kill Malganis, and finally fall and return to assassinate his father, King Terenas.

That would be a classic scene too.

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After the project was established, various tasks began to advance rapidly.

The relevant scripts were already being written long before Dimension Entertainment and Blizzard reached an agreement, and now they have produced several versions.

Relevant art design is already underway.

Another very important point is the selection of the film's director and main cast and crew. Fan Zhe directly sent his confidant Wang Zhixin to North America to act as the producer and participate in the establishment of the main creative team.

Wang Zhixin has been with Fan Zhe for a while. He was the producer when he was filming the "Hell Apartment" series of films, and he was also the producer of "Martial Arts Master: War".

Fan Zhe trusted him very much.