"Cough cough!!!"
Li Zetian coughed twice and said, "Lucas, you don't have to do this, if "Star Wars" doesn't sell well, your hard work for more than a year will be in vain, and the director's fee and screenwriter's fee will still be paid! Since twenty Century Fox is unwilling to make additional investment, so it is up to Apple to make additional investment! However, the sales rights of related products and the ownership of sequels belong to Apple! That is to say, the copyright of "Star Wars" belongs to Apple! You guys Do you have an opinion?"
Steve Marlowe shrugged, okay, 20th Century Fox didn't like the Star Wars movie anyway.
George Lucas naturally has no opinion. Apple, as the largest investor, cannot justify it without copyright. And Lucasfilm has only invested a total of 1 million US dollars. How dare you take the copyright? In the previous life, if Twentieth Century Fox hadn't gone blind, the copyright of "Star Wars" belonged to it.
At this moment, Li Zetian was quite happy in his heart, but he was very indifferent on the surface, looked at George Lucas, and said slowly: "Okay, Apple can make an additional investment of 7 million US dollars, but it will cost more. time offer!"
George Lucas nodded again and again and said excitedly: "Okay, no problem!!!"
Li Zetian thought for a moment and said, "Apple will invest in the establishment of a film company. The previous $2 million and the next $7 million will be counted on this company!"
The two nodded clearly, set up a film company, and hired professionals to operate independently, so as to fully tap the potential of a film.
The next day, Li Zetian asked people to register a film company called "Star Wars Film Company", which specializes in the operation of the "Star Wars" series of movies and related products!
A week later, Star Wars Films, Lucasfilm, and Twentieth Century Fox signed new contracts.
After Li Zetian signed with them on behalf of Star Wars Films, he was very happy, and the stone in his heart was finally put down!
After sending Steve Marlow away, Li Zetian kept George Lucas and said, "Lucas, you can now go to Dolby Laboratories to cooperate with you, and Star Wars Films will fully support you. !"
George Lucas nodded, "The surround sound technology of Dolby Laboratories will be one of the key factors for the success of "Star Wars". The perfect combination of sound and picture can give people the greatest audio-visual shock!"
"Hehe, yes, I totally agree! By the way, you and I will go to the Walkman Lab again, and I will show you the same good thing!"
Hearing this, George Lucas couldn't help feeling very curious in his heart. He is a technology controller himself, otherwise he would not have established a company like Industrial Light and Magic. When Apple's Apple-l and Apple-ll came out, George Lucas was stunned and immediately became a "fruit fan". When Li Zetian said he was going to take him to see something good, George Lucas thought, what a great product!
Soon, the two came to the Walkman laboratory again.
"Go get a Walkman prototype!" Li Zetian told a developer.
"Okay, Mr.li."
"Lucas, let's sit here first, and the things will be brought over immediately."
"Um."
After a while, the developer brought the Walkman prototype over. It was a rectangular box, blue and silver, with a lot of buttons on the silver-white side. Lucas noticed that there was a cassette in the middle of the box.
Li Zetian introduced: "This thing is called the Walkman tape player. The Walkman you have seen so far is the first batch of prototypes manufactured according to the design drawings for testing, and many functions have not yet been developed and perfected. However, It's amazing enough! You put your headphones on first!"
George Lucas followed Li Zetian's instructions and put the headset on his head.
Li Zetian smiled slightly and pressed the play button on the Walkman.
The tape rustled, the Walkman made a lot of noise, but George Lucas' face was full of shock, and at this moment, an Elvis song came from the headphones!
"This... Is this the Walkman? It's amazing!" George Lucas opened his mouth wide, looked at Li Zetian and said, "If there is no loud noise and the sound effect is better, the Walkman will definitely be popular all over the world!"
"Yes! So we brought in Dr. Dolby to help the company develop the Walkman tape player!"
George Lucas nodded and said, "With the help of Dr. Dolby, the Walkman will be greatly improved. Chronos·li, after the development of the Walkman tape player, please be sure to give me one!"
Li Zetian smiled and said: "Of course there is no problem. Just, Lucas, have you never thought about putting the Walkman on the screen? I think this will definitely surprise the audience - this is what the future high-tech era should be. lifestyle!!!”
George Lucas nodded again and again: "Oh, Chronos·li, that's an excellent suggestion! I've decided to put the Walkman in the movie!"
"Well, when you need a Walkman, just contact me and I'll send you one!"
"OK… "
After visiting the Walkman, George Lucas immediately returned to the crew, and since the funds were in place, the filming progress was much faster than in his previous life!
The development speed of Walkman is estimated to be officially released in April and May next year.
Walkman can not only play music, but also record, in addition to backward, advanced, sound volume adjustment, song change, etc., all need to be added, these are basic functions. Even if all these functions are realized, it is necessary to keep improving and reduce the hardware cost as much as possible. After that, it will take some time for testing, and finally, the Walkman product production line will be established in the factory for mass production and stocking. At the same time, it is necessary to cooperate with record companies to produce licensed music tapes, which may take a long time.
When everything is ready, the Walkman can be officially released.
Before the Walkman was released, Li Zetian did not intend to let Apple raise funds. Therefore, the financing plan was postponed, and the listing plan was also postponed.
Everything is constantly changing, and plans can never keep up with the changes!
However, Li Zetian is used to it.
At about 3:30 in the afternoon, Zhang Yan came to Li Zetian with a happy face.
"Mr.li, Apple's headphone department has been formed, with a total of 8 members, all of them are technical experts poached from other companies, and Li Meisheng is one of them. Tomorrow morning, he will report to Apple. !"
"Well done!" Li Zetian laughed, "Then, I'll give you another task!"
"What mission?"
"Think of a profitable development project for Apple!"
"Mr.li, isn't it with you?"
"The three stooges are Zhuge Liang, and you all have ideas! Well, write a plan for me before October 1!"
Looking at the back of Li Zetian leaving, Zhang Yan couldn't help but have a bitter face. With Mac and Walkman Meiyu in front, what project can compare...
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