Chapter 898 - SUCCESSOR (2) (1/2)

Phil knew very well that the chances of failure were too high if he followed the path of ordinary people.

He had a lot of funds to use but it might not be an advantage for him to take the ordinary people’s path. In fact, it might have the opposite effect instead.

Previously, there had been a rich man who participated in a talent show for superheroes. He had added more scenes for himself by giving money to the production team, let his mentor give a higher evaluation, and let some contestants cooperate with his performance.

However, such behavior caused the audience to be repulsed and they boycotted. He managed to gain some popularity by burning money during the broadcast of the talent show, but did not make it to the second stage.

He had to admit that becoming a superhero not only required money, popularity, but also strength. At the very least, he had to make the people like him—no matter what type of liking.

After some consideration, Phil felt that if he participated in the Superhero Selection like the others, he would be walking down the same old path. Would the audience like him? There was a high probability that they would not.

That was because rich people would naturally lose points if they participated in the Superhero selection.

The audience preferred superheroes with tragic backgrounds and a strong sense of social responsibility.

Phil might have fans but in the eyes of the majority of the public, he was a playboy who did not do his job properly. He naturally gave people the feeling that he was ‘unreliable’.

What’s more, the motive of a rich man participating in a superhero talent show was obvious.

Thus, Phil decided to take another path: personally sponsor a superhero talent show.

At the moment, the exclusive title sponsorship fees for several popular Superhero talent shows had almost exceeded 100 million US dollars.

Of course, the production costs of these talent shows were also extremely high.

That was because Superheroes’ talent shows were different from ordinary talent shows. Apart from regular venues, these superheroes had to run a large number of outdoor scenes and arrange some special events.

In addition, they would also need to hire a superhero with enough fame and influence as a mentor if the talent show program wanted influence. These mentors’ appearance fees would be astronomical.

Thus, Phil had to spend at least two hundred million US dollars for the possibility of his plan succeeding.

The risk of doing this was extremely huge. This price could get the exclusive title sponsorship fee for many Superhero talent shows, and the exclusive title sponsorship fee could give the Simmons family’s real estate business a very good advertising effect.

In other words, he would not lose too much if he used this sum of money to buy the exclusive title sponsorship of other talent shows.

However, Phil could not take the title sponsorship, at the very least, he could not be the main sponsor. On one hand, this attitude was still very obvious. It would easily arouse the suspicion of the audience and affect the overall plan. On the other hand, it was because other large financial groups would definitely not participate without sufficient benefits.

Thus, Phil’s plan was to unite with the financial groups behind the two most popular superhero talent show variety shows at the moment and organize the ‘Successor’ talent show in the name of these two financial groups.

On the surface, the Simmons family would be completely cut off from the variety show ‘Successor’. People would not think that it was too much even if they felt that they had interest in it as long as they did not take the title sponsorship.

On the other hand, the two large financial groups had already fought so hard in the field of superheroes. The program would obtain extremely high popularity and attention before it was even broadcasted if they were to jointly be the title sponsors of the variety program ‘Successor’.

These two large financial groups could get the title sponsorship of a superhero talent show without having to fork out any money. It was worth at least tens of millions of US dollars. Why would they reject such a good offer?

The only thing Phil Simmons wanted was for the production team of this variety show to use their own people to ensure that the program would develop according to the script that they had designed.

Phil would be a mentor in the variety show ‘Successor’.

There were a total of four mentors in the program. Apart from Phil, there was a superhero, a star manager of superheroes and a marketing director of a company behind a superhero.