March 22nd, 2002
The past few months went in like a storm for John. With all the running from school to the movie director and the music director, day in and day out was exhausting for a 11 year old kid. Even though he was mentally older, at the end of the day it was the body which had to do the physical work .
After months of hard work and some help, using the proper sound, background score, music and voice for the movie, the production finally ended on 22nd March 2002. John was excited for the movie to be released as he knew that after it's release he will finally gain some foothold in this world.
Even though that would only mean in terms of money, it was still good for John. Didn't Tony Stark always flex on the fact that he is handsomely rich? Didn't T'Challa king of Wakanda flex on the fact that he is outrageously rich in comics? Even though his money won't really matter in the grand scheme of events but it will still be a start and he had enough ideas of what to do with the money.
On June 1st the movie was finally released after going through lots of post production process. The director, Rob was very happy with all the work. He gave his 100% to the movie and John had helped a lot in this regard. At first when he used to join him to see the movie production, he was skeptical as he felt that a kid shouldn't indulge in works of elder people but pretty soon he was proven wrong.
He soon realized that his inputs were extremely helpful. Especially during the post production process when the final cut was being made, his input was almost equivalent to gold. At some point Rob even felt that John had already watched the movie before and was directing the work like a prophet but he knew this thought was hilarious.
John would be astonished if he could read Rob's thoughts. Jameson would join in the production process whenever he had time but never interfered in any process as he knew that movie making is for professionals and not an old cot like him.
As there were no proper internet and communication, the movie couldn't be publicized globally like the movies in the 2020s. Jameson still made sure that there was enough publicity in the States.
On the night of June 1st, all big wigs came to the premiere of the movie in LA as that is the home of the Hollywood. It was also John's first time outside the city of New York and Jameson made sure that prominent Hollywood people joined for the movie. Being a media tycoon he had a strong partnership with the people of the media company. John also invited his friends from school for the movie, even though he has had very less interactions with them he had not forgotten them.
Many people were surprised by the fact that the story and many other works had the hand of John. They looked at Jameson to confirm if this was really true. After knowing this fact many people had weird looks on their faces and were instantly skeptical about the movie but still didn't think much on it.
John knew instantly that not many people were positive about it but it didn't matter to him at that point. He just wanted to end it soon so that his plans could be set in motion.
In the movie theater there was a podium where he could speak out before the start of the movie.
"Hello everyone! At this point many of you know who I am. Thanks to my Dad!" John said with a laugh. Hearing him, the audience also gave out small laughter.
"But I want to leave my name in this world not by being the son of J Jonah Jameson. But as John Jameson. I know it sounds ambitious for my age but I still want to try my best to achieve success. And today being my birthday I would like to take my first step towards my dream. I have come this far with the help of many people and I hope you all will continue to help me and I will return your good will to you in many folds. Thanks to all for taking this journey with me and I look forward to cooperating with you all for many years to come. Now, Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you 'The Lion King'. John got a standing ovation for his speech as what he said was way too mature for a kid of 12 years old and he already had grand plans to set in motion.
Soon the movie started and unsurprisingly it moved everybody with it's storyline, music, sound and depiction. The animation was much better than the 1994 original version so the movie was more vivid and colorful.
Soon after the movie ended people started discussing among themselves about the movie and in a few weeks the movie exploded globally. The turnover was unprecedented!
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The initial budget of the movie was 45 million USD with his father investing almost 30 million USD in it. By the end of July, the global turnover reached almost 1.8 billion USD. This reaction from the general audience surprised even John.
As far as John remembered, the total turnover of the 1994 movie was little over 1.2 billion USD. But John forgot the fact that in 1994 there weren't many movie lovers as were in 2002. This helped him a lot.
After such global success many people started discussing on the fact that 'The Lion King' might get Oscar this year as the best animated movie and even awards for the best background music and other such related categories.
Now by the end of October Jameson realized he was sitting on a golden egg because he had already earned more than 1 billion USD and that too by not having done anything. It was also because of the fact that John gave him ideas to commercialize by using toys, merchandise and other stuffs and that helped him earn more money. Jameson really thanked the stars for such a wonderful son. His ideas were so impressive that it even shocked him. He was so happy that he even smiled when asleep.
The only person who wasn't happy at home was Valentina because she noticed that dealing with all this stuff had hampered the studies of John and his everyday life. He hardly went to school an he was able to sneak away from the authorities of school just because of the fact that he was the top student in his class and also because he had produced such an awesome movie that even the school felt proud. The school felt so proud of John that at their school gate they put up a huge banner saying, "The school which produced the lion king."
Although it was blatantly wrong as the school had nothing to do with his success but at least they gave him free reign of not attending school. John even told the principal that he would be producing more movies such as this and in future he would be constantly absent. The principal agreed upon as long as he achieved excellence in his studies and work hard to get into to a good high school.
Though he wasn't sure about how tough the exam would be but he was confident at his knowledge about science from his previous life as John in his previous life too was excellent in studies.
Furthermore, John in this life really didn't have any thirst for science as he would prefer magic over science. The science stuff could be left to Tony for research.
[Ding
"The fan value acquired by the host is 102 million.
Fan value required to bring the character Simba to life - 1 million
Fan value to change the host to Simba - 500,000
(This change will entirely depend on the wish of the host and can interchange between Simba and the main body)
Fan value required for the character Timon - 250,000
Fan value to change the host to Timon - 125,000
Fan value for the character Zazu - 400,000
Fan value to change the host to character Zazu- 200,000
.....
Urging the host to work hard]
"Wow so much fan value from a simple movie. Well I guess I should save the fan value as the movies I have in mind for the future aren't so good and the fan values would be required for future purposes. Well at least I can try this character Zazu and fulfill my wish to fly."
"System I would like to change myself to Zazu." John said in his heart.
[Ding
The command has been accepted.
Remaining fan value: 101,800,000]
As soon as the statement ended he soon realized that in his mind there is one small ball. It astonished him as before this he could never see inside his consciousness and it felt magical. The small ball had the markings of a horn-bill bird and as soon as he tried to touch the ball he realized that he had turned into a bird in real life. A majestic horn-bill with big wingspans appeared in his place and he could feel that he could fly.
After seeing this he couldn't stop himself. It had been almost a year that he had been in this world and finally got the fruits of the labor. He flew out from the open window in the room without any difficulty.
He flew out of the home which was in Manhattan and flew over the top of the buildings. Even though there was wind in the topmost part it didn't stop him as he felt free for the first time in his life. This freedom gave him joy and eagerness to make all his previous dreams come true. He even got to see the famous Stark tower from far but he didn't go too close as he wasn't sure if Jarvis is already online. If he was then it would be a headache. So he returned home after a few minutes.
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