Chapter 348

The original *Spider-Man 3* and *The Amazing Spider-Man 2*, with only two or three villains, were already enough to make the films somewhat collapse.

Let alone the fact that this time Xu Can has six villains and one anti-hero,

how to rationalize the screen time for an ensemble cast and create a work no worse than the first two,

this is also a tremendous challenge for Xu Can.

"So what do you plan to do? We still haven't seen the script."

Begging for flowers

Emma Stone, who plays Spider-Gwen, was a little flustered,

clearly filming was about to start, yet the actors didn't even have a script.

Thanks to Xu Can's reputation, other big stars were willing to come shoot.

"Don't worry, tomorrow at the script reading, you'll all see the script."

Xu Can smiled mysteriously.

Indeed, ensemble films are hard to shoot.

But there are also successful ensembles, like *The Avengers 1*3*4* and *Captain America 3: Civil War*,

Xu Can could completely draw lessons from successful works and flexibly apply them to his own film.

……

The next day, Xu Can arrived at the New York set holding Emma Stone's hand.

Since they often filmed in New York and couldn't keep borrowing Sony's soundstages,

Xu Can simply built the Star River Entertainment soundstage right next to Sony.

This became the base for the Star River Pictures branch office.

When Xu Can arrived, many well-known Hollywood male stars, Best Actor winners, and promising newcomers had already come to the scene.

Everyone stood up at the same time to come out and greet Xu Can.

In terms of experience, they added up to several times Xu Can's,

but in terms of honors, only Best Actor winner Jamie Foxx had the qualifications to come close to Xu Can; the others could only gaze at Xu Can's back from afar.

"Sit, sit, let's just get started."

He signaled the little assistant beside him to distribute the scripts to the actors on site.

Emma Stone, director Marc Webb, and many of the leads picked up the scripts with curiosity.

A moment later……

"Holy Hell!" Marc Webb was simply shocked, "Xu, are we really going to shoot this kind of movie?"

"Of course, my investment is already prepared."

"That'll be no small expense!"

Marc Webb was a bit flustered.

According to the various fight scenes Xu Can constructed in the script, the ensemble battles where multiple heroes appear together,

the amount of investment needed might exceed $200 million! Expected to be around $250-280 million!

It would need at least $800 million at the box office just to break even!

Over $1 billion to actually make money!

After the 2008 financial crisis, anyone who dared to invest and throw money around like this was simply a madman!

Not to mention he also had *The Avengers*, which was also a massive production costing $200 million!

"You forgot, I had several films released in a row before."

"There's also *Thor* currently in its hot run right now, I'm not short on cash!"

Indeed, just this summer slate—*Iron Man 2*, *Captain America*, *Thor*, *Interstellar*—these films alone brought Xu Can a bonus of $5 billion at the box office!

By the time it reached his hands, it was probably nearly $2 billion!

Investing $200 million to make a movie, what does that even count for!

Marc Webb found it funny when he thought about it—he had actually been worrying about money for this rich guy beside him, he really was overthinking it.

Even at worst, the guy still had a rich family's daughter.

So, within the week that *The Avengers* announced its start of filming,

Star River Pictures once again held a press conference, announcing that another of its blockbusters had begun filming!

*Spider-Man 3: The Sinister Six*!

"The handsomest Spider-Man returns!!! The Spider-Man and Gwen CP returns to the big screen!"

This news was like a flame in the dark night, quickly igniting the passion of movie fans worldwide!