Mike Mohan waited quietly, he knew what Li Zetian might be thinking about right now.
After a while, Li Zetian's voice finally came from the other end of the phone.
He asked, "Mike Mohan, have you ever thought about making a Blizzard game into a movie?"
Mike Mohan was startled when he heard this.
Many games under the Flamingo Company have also been adapted into movies. Since 1993, “Super Mario Bros.”, which was adapted from the popular game “Super Mario”, came out, which opened the chapter of game adaptation movies.
So far, many games have been adapted into movies and have achieved great success. The box office revenue is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it has increased the influence of the game and attracted countless fans!
Blizzard has never had any idea of movie adaptation before. The main reason is that for the Blizzard team, Blizzard is a very pure game development company. Its purpose is to develop the most fun games in the world. Players will buy it, so there is no careful consideration of the movie adaptation at all.
Of course, another reason is because they don't understand movies.
At this time, Li Zetian proposed to let Blizzard company adapt its game into a movie, Mike Mohan unconsciously pondered, in his opinion, Li Zetian, a character like Li Zetian who is extremely talented and wealthy, can never aim for nothing. His idea of adapting games to movies must be justified.
Li Zetian continued: "In 1995, Japan's SNK's "King of Fighters" was adapted into a movie, with a cost of 20 million US dollars and a box office of 120 million US dollars; $275 million at the box office; in 2002, "Resident Evil" was adapted into a film and released, with a box office of $120 million..."
Speaking of this, Li Zetian suddenly paused, this life "Resident Evil" game is also available, but hesitant Li Zetian has registered the Umbrella (Umbrella) company, so "Resident Evil" has a new company - Tianqing Technology, the rest are basically Nothing has changed. As for the game manufacturer of "Resident Evil", it is Japan's CAPCOM (Capcom), which has been acquired by Flamingo in the early years.
Li Zetian then continued: "Since the success of the film adaptations of "Tomb Raider" and "Resident Evil", the number of global gamers has increased significantly! By next year, the second film of these two films will be released... "
"It can be seen that by building game IPs into movie IPs and influencing each other, we can create enduring super IPs and generate enormous commercial value!"
"Blizzard, as one of the most famous game manufacturers in the world, owns "Warcraft", "StarCraft", "Diablo" series and the next "World of Warcraft", each game has its own story background, The world view is very suitable to be adapted into a movie.”
"Warcraft and StarCraft have been listed as major competitions by many famous e-sports competitions, and enjoy high evaluation in the computer game industry. Their own popularity is their inherent advantage of being adapted into movies. With some advantages of popularity, topicality and potential fans, the movie can be popular before it is broadcast, thus attracting passers-by to watch the movie and guaranteeing the box office!"
"Nowadays, with the advent of the era of big IP and pan-entertainment, the level of film production has gradually improved. I believe that game adaptation films, as an important source of film IP, will eventually usher in their glorious moment!"
Game adaptation movies have successes, and naturally there are failures, and most of them fail.
Blizzard is not afraid to get involved because of the fear of the failure of the game adaptation.
At this moment, after listening to Li Zetian's words, Mike Mohan was still moved. He finally realized that the Blizzard team was too conservative before, and he knew how to develop games in silence. He was timid about how to develop a larger market and lacked certain courage. and courage. In addition, he also thinks that Li Zetian is right. The level of film production has been improved year by year. With the computer special effects level of Industrial Light and Magic, now it can fully support Blizzard to shoot "Warcraft" and "StarCraft"!
"Mr. Li, your proposal is very good!" Mike Mohan firmly said, "Blizzard has to take the first step bravely!! By the way, Mr. Li, you think our first step needs to be adapted. What's a movie? Is it Warcraft, or is it StarCraft?"
Li Zetian analyzed: "Next, Blizzard will launch "World of Warcraft", "World of Warcraft" is based on the plot of "Warcraft" as the historical background, relying on the historical events and heroes of "Warcraft", it has a complete historical background. Timeline... Therefore, the adaptation of "Warcraft" is similar to the adaptation of "World of Warcraft". We can wait two or three years after the launch of "World of Warcraft", and then adapt it when the popularity reaches its peak. In this way, the effect is the most obvious.
"StarCraft" has been popular for seven or eight years, and its popularity has declined. Therefore, it is imperative to launch an adapted film when "StarCraft" is very popular, so as to maintain the popularity of "StarCraft", so as to provide the next movie or The game lays the foundation. "
"As we all know, "StarCraft" broke three records in the "Guinness Book of World Records", one is the PC real-time strategy game with the highest sales; It can be seen that "StarCraft" is also the most suitable game to be adapted into a movie at present! Therefore, the IP of "StarCraft" is worth digging by Blizzard, just like "Star Wars", it will continue to be popular!"
Speaking of this, Li Zetian paused for a while, thought for a moment, and said, "The first movie was called "StarCraft: Uprising", which was adapted from "Uprising" by Blizzard employee Mickey Nelson, so that it could be used as "StarCraft". "Prequel!" After "StarCraft: Uprising", it is possible to adapt Jeff Gruber's "Liberty's Crusade" and Alan Rosenberg's "Queen of Blades". Adapting the plots of StarCraft novels such as "Shadow of Xel'Naga" and "The Legend of the Dark Templar" created by Gabriel Mesta to expand the main line!"
Mike Mohan's face flushed after listening to it, obviously because of excitement. In his mind, he couldn't help but picture scenes after "StarCraft" was adapted into a movie. How exciting and fascinating these pictures are ! ! !
"Mr. Li, with your description, I can't wait to make "StarCraft" into a movie now!" Mike Mohan said loudly with fiery eyes in his eyes.
At this time, Li Zetian suddenly felt a strong 'passion' coming through his mobile phone...