"You are really being pessimistic here."
"Hope for the best but always expect the worst. This is for that. We can't hide forever. "
John took almost one and a half days to complete the other story. It was a huge story as it was about various characters and their story, even the story of the enemy was included in it in order to show why the enemies had chosen the path and why they have risen to be the prime antagonists.
After finishing and working for almost 2 days and destroying many of his brain cells and working. He had not worked hard for such a long time.
"From next time I will pay more to the screen writers. They deserve more credit than we provide them." John murmured as he went to sleep. After 2 days he was tired and wanted some rest. The next day, John went out of his home to go to Disney.
He had contacted Harvester to see if there was some progress. Since the coordinates of the crack was fixed he would always contact them, and if it was not enough Thor had sent some Ravens for proper contact. Since the Thor of their world was All-father Thor sending Ravens was the least he could do and have proper communication.
Communication was always important at war. In these 2 days there has been a slight change among the personnels in the Harvester. 616-Tony and John's universe Tony had come up with another project.
The 'Celestial Armor' project.
This project was something John had expected. In the comics after the death of Knull, Tony made himself a Celestial Armor by using the 3 dead bodies of the Celestials and the armor could be said as probably the most powerful armor if his persona of Iron God was not taken into account.
This was the newest armor he came up with when Hulk had gone into rampage. (the recent comics on Thor vs Hulk is really mind boggling. Hulk is the new Thor and Thor is the new Hulk. You should read it. Pure fan service.) But now Tony would be building it for his own personal use and for the unknown enemies they might be facing.
Even Tony of their own universe was supportive of this project. They could feel the tension around the Harvester and they knew that they needed more help in this regard. Closing up holes was never his forte anyways. He was known for destroying things, not rebuilding, so after keeping only one Tony in the harvester, they were back at 616-Earth with the help of Oblivion.
Oblivion had been on the Earth silently as a Guardian and since OAA had tasked him to listen to John till the threat was neutralised, he would have to remain as the Guardian of the Harvester and John's team.
As John entered the conference room, he was greeted by Kevin and other higher level people of the company. Disney had never been public and it remained as a private property of John. Though many have tried to interfere with their Studio but none got close to it. Umbrella was not the same case, that company had a board, though the majority of the shares was under John and Tony so they could be said to be the ultimate boss.
"Sir, it's nice to see you after such a long time. We thought you would never step foot in this room ever again." Kevin said as his eyes glowed with worship and fanaticism. He was one step away in labelling John as a God.
In fact John was pretty sure there was a church in his name somewhere, or maybe multiple churches. After earth changed and grew in size, people never looked at him the same way. Though his involvement was kept under wraps as much as possible, many people had already guessed it.
Though the inclusion of Pokemon had given rise to many churches and weird religions, John was definitely the forefront of it and Kevin looks like he was sure a member of one of those. John was amused by all of this but never stopped this indulgence as long as none were hurt.
People must have free speech and free thinking. If everyone thought the same, it would just be boring and innovation would stop.
"Did you go through the previous script I sent two days ago?" John asked as he took the prime seat at the conference.
"Yes Sir. The story looks groundbreaking. We didn't know that there were so many lanterns out there and even such a powerful White Lantern. Are there other kinds of lanterns?"
"There is another kind of Lantern but we can talk about this later." John said while his tone went down as he spoke those words. It was as if he was saying those words to himself. There really was another kind of Lantern but that power too was struck the Wall.
The Ultraviolet Lanterns
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"For now focus on this story. Can we have a series out of it?" John asked.
"A series is possible but at the start there would be a lot of exposition. Many people might not like it." a member spoke out his mind. He was one of the executive producers of all the major movies in Disney. He had been in this industry for quite a long time and he had a general idea of what people liked and what they didn't.
"I know but you forget Star Wars too started the same way and they still went on to become a sensation. I know the thought of using exposition is a little bad but here we can't portray the full story. I know that this is a little annoying but we can only bank on the hope that the people would love the story which I am pretty sure they would. People have enough knowledge of all the villains and other stories that are prominent from the series of Justice League and other short animated series." John gave his own opinion.
Exposition in a movie is never encouraged as it just takes away the immersion but in order to portray the story of 'The Blackest Night' they would have to do it, no matter what.
The other members in the room also agreed to this. Though exposition was the negative point of the story but the story in itself was a great one. Kevin and others could already imagine the profit and money they would be able to get from this. All the members and producers here were basically billionaires. The profit from Disney was huge and John normally never cared about the wealth much and hardly took a big portion out of it. So the people in the higher position had a huge amount of profit.
But that didn't mean that John never cared about the low level employees. He had given them huge benefits and a salary that was incredibly high than the market standards. Seeing that Disney would always need help from different studios for Vfx, sound and other partners, John had set up independent studios of these and appointed deserving people on the top. Now there were three Vfx studios attached to Disney namely Digital Domain, Scanline and ILM (These are the real Vfx studios Disney normally ask for CGI purposes. They are responsible for most of the CGI that we see today.)
And like Vfx there were other studios attached to it. These studios even get orders from other studios too and that too raises a huge profit from all of it.
"Sir, this whole project will take a lot of time and multiple characters. Do you want the past characters to reprise the role?"
"Definitely, bring them all in no matter the price. Nostalgia is a huge business and use it to your greatest advantage. Can we finish the project fast?" John asked as he was thinking of finishing it fast. There was another important series on the queue.
"We can sir, ILM has come up with a way of using a 360 degree screen, instead of having green screen for Vfx so we have original background light and thus helping us in cinematography, direction and Vfx. This reduces the time by almost 50% and is much cheaper." (This technology is actually present today. Mandalorian has used the same way and even Avatar - The way of water will use the same technology)
"Hmm, then it's good. If you need space to work you can use the land here on the Ring for shooting. I will ask Guilty Spark to listen to you on this. Just don't invade the private property of others." John said as he was really in a hurry. It was as if his ass was on fire.
Kevin was both delighted and confused. Once upon a time John was like this. When Disney was established and the helm of Justice League was taken he had made the people work hard for his project. They thought at that time that it was because of the visitors from the multiverse.
Now again it felt like John was again in that same zone and he intended for people to work again at that same pace.
"Sir, are the people in the stories arriving?" Kevin asked in a very low tone. John heard that could already understand what Kevin and others were thinking so he replied.
"No. This story is important for the people of the Earth, not because the people from the story will arrive from the multiverse but because these stories will happen or already happened in the multiverse and the people should have knowledge."
"Knowledge of the story? But why? Is it required?"
John just shook his head as he refused to answer them. He didn't want to put people in panic by opening mouth where he was not supposed to say.
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