Chapter 135: Comic Con (2)
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Regal's objective for the next few days couldn't have been more focused.
He stood backstage, acutely aware of the crowd beyond the curtains.
...and no his objective isn't to win over everyone in the room - most weren't even ready to be won over anyway.
Beyond the curtains there were reporters scribbling more out of habit than curiosity, industry skeptics attending just to say they had seen it before it fell apart, and influencers waiting with their cameras half-raised, hoping to catch something that looked off.
Regal didn't blame them.
Anticipation & Doubt - often arrived holding the same ticket price.
But the moment the screen lit up on the sixth day of the event, everything would shift.
Because the teaser that he is going to launch that day isn't going to be like a normal teaser - not in the traditional sense.
It didn't exist to generate polite interest or spark a trending topic.
Every frame of the footage, every cut, every swell of music, and flicker of light will serve a singular agenda - to make an imprint so bold, so undeniable, that people would stop calling this an adaptation - and start calling it a turning point.
But for all the power he poured into the preview, Regal had come to acknowledge an inconvenient truth.