Iger, the president of Walt Disney, has been very troubled recently. As the president of Walt Disney, one of the six major companies in Hollywood, he can be said to be at the top of the Hollywood pyramid.

In the Hollywood film and television industry, let alone those who have a higher status than him, even those who can be compared with him will not exceed single digits.

He has been making waves in Hollywood over the years, and it's not a happy experience.

Logically speaking, for a person of his level, there should be nothing to worry about. After all, what you want in life is power and wealth!

And he has all these, and he is very top-notch, a lot.

Moreover, the Walt Disney under his control in recent years, although not prosperous, is still in a prosperous situation.

No matter in terms of strength or anything else, under his leadership, Walt Disney has always been one of the best among the six major Hollywood companies in every aspect!

Its animated films are even more outstanding, and now it can be said that they are invincible in the world, which means that the live-action films are a little less interesting.

However, although Walt Disney's live-action movies are indeed inferior to those of the other six major Hollywood companies, they are not too far apart.

On the one hand, Iger doesn't care about these differences. On the other hand, he also feels that every inch has its own strengths and weaknesses. No one is perfect.

Since Walt Disney is so successful in animated films, it is not a simple success, but a success achieved by investing a lot of manpower, material resources and energy. Whether it is a person or a company, its energy is limited.

Therefore, Iger feels that there is a certain gap between Warner Disney's live-action movies and the live-action movies of the other six major Hollywood companies at the same level. He thinks this is an acceptable thing.

But although Iger can accept that because of Walt Disney's investment in animated movies, there is a certain gap between it and other Hollywood movies in terms of live-action movies.

But this gap is not infinite, but within a certain range, that is, it cannot be too different, and it will become a shortcoming of Walt Disney.

In other words, he cannot accept the difference in level between Walt Disney's live-action movies and those of the other six major Hollywood companies.

Then the time came to 1993.

This year Universal Pictures and Spielberg collaborated on "Jurassic Park", which grossed over one billion US dollars worldwide. It was still a series, which made Universal Pictures famous and made Iger very envious!

Because Universal Pictures almost kicked off the blockbuster era with this movie "Jurassic Park" and led Hollywood into a new era.

But envy was envy, and he didn't care too much. Iger thought that Universal was lucky, and he didn't realize that there was a big gap between the live-action movies of Walt Disney under his control and those of Universal Pictures.

And the next year, in 1994, he released his trump card "The Lion King", which grossed 960 million U.S. dollars worldwide, allowing him and Walt Disney to show their faces, which can be regarded as earning some money.

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But what happened next was a bit more than Iger could bear.

In the following years, Warner Bros. produced "Forrest Gump" in 1994, and Paramount produced the "Mission: Impossible" series in 1996.

Then in 1997, 20th Century Fox teamed up with Cameron to create the box office giant - "Titanic". While the world was frantically harvesting tears and money, it also completely opened the curtain on the era of Hollywood blockbusters.

This made Egger feel that something was wrong with the form.

Three consecutive Hollywood six major film and television companies have produced hit live-action movies.

This made him feel that Walt Disney's live-action movies were already a level lower than the other six major Hollywood live-action movies of the same level.

Moreover, the development history of Hollywood seems to be to confirm his speculation.

In 1999, Warner Bros. released "The Matrix", in 2000 20th Century Fox released "X-Men", and Paramount also released "Mission: Impossible 2" in the same year.

If we count from 1993, this is just 8 years.

In the field of live-action movies, Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox can be said to have made live-action series of movies come alive.

It made Egger feel a little itchy, but not to the point of being furious.

But as 2001 passed.

Warner Bros. has added another $970 million to its blockbuster Harry Potter series.

In the past, he was very dissatisfied. Sony Columbia, which was acquired by RB, actually released a "Spider-Man", which grossed US$1.33 billion worldwide.

This made him a little unbearable, because he always felt that Sony Columbia was at the bottom of the Big Six in Hollywood.

But now it seems that if we only talk about the performance of live-action movies, Walt Disney, which has made no achievements now, is suddenly at the bottom.

He transferred to Sony Columbia, which he had previously looked down upon.

Iger couldn't bear this, and he immediately became furious and asked Walt Disney's film and television production department to quickly come up with a large-scale production plan.

Walt Disney is worthy of being one of the top six companies in Hollywood, and it still has some strength, so the plan was worked out quickly.

But it is true that Walt Disney invested too much in animated films and was a bit weak in live-action films. In addition, the schedule was tight and the tasks were heavy. In the end, the plan was finally worked out.

It's just that the subject matter is a bit niche and biased - the pirate type.

The subject matter is unflattering, and with Walt Disney’s influence in live-action movies, it really can’t compete with the other six major Hollywood movies.

Moreover, the other six Hollywood majors not only have great influence, but also have made reservations in advance for many directors and superstar actors with box office appeal.

For a while, Walt Disney really couldn't find any suitable candidates.

For a large-scale production with an investment of over 100 million US dollars, in the end the director could only find Gore Verbinski, who was even worse than [Spider-Man] director Sam Raimi.

The leading actors are even more bizarre. Let alone a Hollywood superstar with a salary of 20 million yuan, a Hollywood quasi-star with a salary of 10 million yuan, or even a movie star with a salary of 1 million yuan, none of them can be hired with some reputation.

Only Johnny Depp, who has an explosive personality, came.

After learning the news, Walt Disney President Iger was very depressed, and he was worried about whether to make a decision on the problematic producers of "Pirates of the Caribbean".

But just when Iger was depressed, a phone call came in.

Because of his depression, Egger said irritably: "Hey, what's going on?"
Chapter completed!