Chapter 72 71 The Biggest Problem of Transformers

Chapter 72 The Biggest Problem of Transformers

On February 4, the fourth week box office of Saw was released, with a North American box office of $12.5 million, and a total North American box office of $109 million. It will be closed in the last week.

Overseas, South Korea, Japan, India, Southeast Asia and other regions have also begun to premiere, but China is still not included. After all, it is difficult to import such R-rated movies, and even if they are imported, they will not sell much.

However, since it has been almost a month since the North American premiere, pirated copies have long been leaked, and the box office will definitely be affected.

This week, the overseas box office closed at $44.75 million, and the total overseas box office reached $99 million. The total global box office of Saw has accumulated less than $100 million, a good result.

It is expected that the global box office will collect another 30 to 40 million US dollars, and the total box office will reach 500 million, which can exceed the analyst's $200 million.

Today is a special day at the Hofta Military Base in Nevada.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, several vehicles of different sizes appeared outside the gate of the base. The only thing these vehicles have in common is that they are all printed with the logo of a lion head.

When the MGM convoy appeared, countless weapons were aimed at them from different angles, scaring the staff so much that they dared not breathe.

If any soldier accidentally fired, it might be the lives of the whole car.

On the co-pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Freeman made a phone call, and after a few minutes, the base gate opened and let Eric and his group in.

"Follow me!"

After getting off the car, Lieutenant Colonel Freeman took Eric to see the head of the base, another tough-looking man named John Defar Adams.

His rank was higher than Freeman's. Although he was a colonel, Freeman privately said that he was about to be promoted to brigadier general.

However, this situation was actually very good, because at the moment of promotion, the other party would not mess around.

Taking out the approval document from the Ministry of Defense, the two sides communicated for a while, and John Adams said that he would cooperate with the filming.

But when Eric gave the filming plan to the other party, the other party immediately frowned.

"Director Eric, do you know how outrageous the list you wrote is? Soldiers don't matter. We have as many as you want in the base. Carbines, Brownings, and any firearms are available to you."

"But 7 V22 Ospreys, no less than 5 Black Hawk attack helicopters, at least 5 Paveway IV helicopters, and a battalion of M60 and M1 Abrams tanks."

"Are you kidding me?"

Eric pointed: "There's more to come. You'd better read it all at once."

Hearing this, John Adams continued to flip through the pages, then widened his eyes: "A squadron of F22s? Are you really planning to make a movie?"

Seeing John Adams' reaction, Eric's heart was also beating. As a military adviser, Lieutenant Colonel Freeman had certainly seen his filming plan.

When he read it, he raised a question. The equipment Eric requested was a bit too rich. Even in the United States, there were not many military bases that could take out all of them at once.

Especially the F22s in that squadron, a full 26, put in Africa, can blow all countries to pieces.

But Eric also has his own ideas. Although the original Transformers is also very good, it always gives people a feeling that this group of iron lumps seems too weak.

Except for the base destroyed by Vertigo at the beginning of the movie, this section is quite eye-catching and gives the audience a feeling that the Decepticons are very powerful.

But then it was lame. Scorpion's shells flew everywhere, drilled the ground and danced wildly. It was quite fancy. The record was zero to five.

The villain Megatron was suppressed by several missiles and was bombarded by tanks.

Please, you are Megatron, the leader of the Cybertron Decepticons. A little human weapon can cause you so much trouble. Where is your face?

Not only is it shameless, where is the energy cannon? Where is the shock wave? Where is the death ray?

All the alien high-tech weapons are sealed, and the boss's combat power is not as good as his younger brother. The most powerful Decepticon is Vertigo. How embarrassing!

In Eric's opinion, this is the biggest failure of "Transformers". There is news that Michael Bay has embezzled a lot of money from it.

Because of his good relationship with the Department of Defense, Michael Bay used Paramount's funds to lobby the Department of Defense, and whatever was saved went into his own pocket.

So should he add more airplanes and cannons to the movie for effects? Or should he just keep it about the same, but still pocket tens of millions? This is a choice that any normal person would make.

"Colonel Adams, we are going to shoot Transformers. I think you must have seen it when you were a child. The opponents are aliens. If one or two planes and tanks can win, don't you think it's outrageous?"

"And the essence of this movie is a military propaganda film. MGM and the Department of Defense have already negotiated that they must try their best to show the strength of the US military. There are too few equipments. Not to mention that people in other countries don't believe it, our own people won't believe it either."

John Adams frowned: "No, the others are easy to say, but an M1 Abrams tank battalion and an F22 squadron are absolutely impossible. This is simply nonsense!"

"Colonel Adams, without these equipments, the movie can't be shot effectively, and I'm not deliberately making things difficult for you. You can see that there are also aircraft carrier formations and AC-130 Ghost air gunships listed in it. I know you don't have them, so I will think of another way in this regard."

John Adams glared at the young man in front of him, thinking, you still know I don't have them. This is an army base, where can I get an aircraft carrier!

"No, one squadron is too many. I can only send you 5 at most."

"Colonel, you are kidding. The Ministry of Defense has approved it. Let me make a concession and give you 22."

"10!"

"20!"

"13!"

"19, no less!"

"15 at most. This is the total number in the base, including those delivered last month. If you are not satisfied, I will explain to the Ministry of Defense. Please leave my base!"

Seeing that the other party was about to get angry, Eric hurriedly shook his hand. The local snake should not be provoked.

"Deal!"

"Director, we are here!"

Just as Eric and John Adams had reached an agreement, Ryan Reynolds, Tom Hardy, Ben Foster, and Michael Fassbender came from a distance.

After being arranged to train at the base for a month, I could feel an unusual atmosphere from a distance when I saw them again.

To be precise, they are more masculine and manly. With the stubble on their faces and the military uniforms on their bodies, strangers will definitely think they are soldiers.

Eric smiled as he watched the changes in the four people.

"Very good, now you have the aura of elite soldiers, how is the training result?"

Ryan Reynolds held an M16 in his hand, completed a one-handed magazine change in front of Eric, and performed several tactical actions.

Eric didn't know whether it was standard or not, but it was quite decent and could pass on the big screen.

He looked at the other three people again, the same actions, the same standards, it seems that they are all very attentive.

"Very good, then start on time at 2 pm!"

It's the weekend, today I want to fuck 8,000, I won't sleep until I fuck, I want to challenge myself.

Thanks to Lao Ma for the 500-coin reward, thank you boss!