The Fantasy Entertainment Empire

Chapter 428 “Purification of the Lich King”

Ye Jiayi didn’t let Fan Zhe down. She has negotiated with Blizzard Entertainment about 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 projects in this series.

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

When Dimension Entertainment filmed the first work in the “Warcraft” series, they had to pay Blizzard Entertainment a direct payment of 15 million U.S. dollars as copyright fees. Each subsequent film is reduced by three million dollars, until the fifth film is finished, there will be no more copyright fees.

At the same time, during the entire post-production period, the first Blizzard will enjoy a profit equivalent to 1% of the world’s total box office. After that, each shot will increase by 0.5% until the fifth part, which will finally reach 3%.

This intensity is much higher than the cooperation between Penguin and Dimension Entertainment on “League of Legends”. When Blizzard Entertainment just paid a copyright, the benefits it enjoyed were also quite high.

You know, the share they get is calculated based on the total global box office, meaning that it is divided with the theater party, divided with the issuer, and taxed. Blizzard Entertainment does not care about it, and directly divides the money according to the box office.

But to get such a high return, Blizzard does not need to pay a price.

Penguins get relatively low copyright income, but they have the right to invest in movies, even up to 50%, which is the same as Dimension Entertainment.

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

Moreover, when Dimension Entertainment announced that they would make the first film with Alsace as the main character, they even gave up the investment and prepared to only take the proceeds of copyright.

In this regard, Fan Zhe does 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 determine the start-up of the project.

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

In Fan Zhe’s plan, the plot planning for the “Lich King” series of movies is basically based on the battle plots in the two expansion films of “Warcraft 3”: Reign of Chaos and the Frozen Throne. .

The first part of the movie will tell the story of a young prince who joins the knights on the front line, accepts the teachings of Uther, the paladin leader, and fights the chaotic orcs.

In the process, he will perceive the surging undercurrents within the kingdom, and begin to lead his men to track down the sects of curses that can turn people into zombies and undead creatures, and kill them in Andorhal. The leader of the cursed sect, the leader Kel’Thuzad.

From Kel’Thuzad’s mouth, Arthas learned that the man behind all this was the dreadlord Malganis, and there was already a large amount of contaminated grains that had been sent to a large city in the Kingdom of Lordaeron, Stan. Som.

Then, he led the army to Stratholme and met his teacher, Uther, Hand of Light, and his lover, 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-killing all the citizens who have eaten contaminated grains and are about to become zombies. .

Paladin Uther rejected the order angrily, and was relieved of the leader of the Knights by Arthas as the crown prince. He hoped that his lover, or former lover, Lady Jaina would stay and fight with him, but Jaina also refused.

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

Alsace was here, killing all the residents of the city. Later, in order to pursue what he thought was the dark-handed Dreadlord Malganis, he led an army on a Shanghai ship and expedition to the Northrend continent covered in snow and ice.

Here, he drew the famous magic sword, Frostmourne, and killed Mal’Ganis here, but also completed the last scene of his fall.

This magic sword belongs to the Lich King Ner’zhul. When Arthas drew this sword, he was already swallowed by the magic sword – or in other words, he had been swallowed by the obsession in his own heart.

Killing Mal’Ganis, his men reveled for victory, but he could not feel any joy of victory. He left everyone behind, and his lonely figure disappeared into the wind and snow in Northrend.

These are about the story of Arthas in “Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos”.

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

Fan Zhe felt that this movie, tentatively named “The Lich King: Purification”, would have been longer than five hours if it were all done.

The content is a bit too much, and the key is that none of the parts are very good to be abridged.

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

After being 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 he learned the way of the holy light from the legendary hero Uther, the Lightbringer. He officially became a Paladin at the age of nineteen and joined the Knights of the Silver Hand.

Then, about the defense of Steinbrad, the young prince joined the frontline battlefield to suppress the riots in the southern orc tribe. Among them, it was Arthas who destroyed the black dragon Sirinox and used its blood to forge weapons. , And suppressed the Blackstone tribe and killed the Blackstone Sword Saint.

Then, it is to track down the cursed sect and kill Kel’Thuzad, who should be the second one here.

And the final movie big show, it will be put in Stratholme’s massacre.

So far, it should be the end of the upper part of “The Lich King: Purification”.

The next part will probably talk about Alsace’s northern expedition to Northrend, pull out Frostmourne, kill Malganis, and finally fall, return home and assassinate his father, King Terenas .

It will also be a very classic scene.

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

Related scripts were written long before Dimension Entertainment and Blizzard reached an agreement, and now they have produced several editions.

Related art design is also being done.

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

Wang Zhixin has been with Fan Zhe for some time. He was the producer when he filmed the “Hell Apartment” series. Later, “Budo Master: Fire of War” was also a producer of him.

Fan Zhe trusted him very much.