The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 264 Changes to The Martian
The current script of "Suspect Tracker" has only been written to the second season, but the overall plot line has basically been determined, and it is a TV series with gradually upgraded science fiction concepts.

It should be said that the ambition and height of this drama should surpass "Signal". In the first season, the case part will not be weaker than "Signal". , describing the relationship between people.

But apart from this, the setting of the machine is easier to bring into the discussion of some serious propositions than the "walkie-talkie that can travel through time and space".

The setting of predicting crime is naturally an excellent topic for social science discussion. Can a person be regarded as a criminal if he has not committed a crime?When you foresee the crime and intervene, will there be a chain reaction, and even hurt people who were not injured in the "prediction"?These will all be reflected in the play.

Furthermore, can the ideal society of "the world is innocent" be realized through this "big data analysis and prediction of crime" machine?The police really intervene or even arrest in advance according to the machine's "will commit crimes list". What changes will this bring to the law, morality, human psychology and the operating mode of society?

This is just the setting of "predicting crime", and the machine or this kind of artificial intelligence itself has something to discuss.

In order to reduce accidents and crimes, artificial intelligence directly intervenes or even takes over the operation of human society. Can you accept it?

There is a saying that omniscience is omnipotence. In the Internet society, everyone will leave traces on the Internet, such as smartphones, smart home appliances, automatic driving and ubiquitous monitoring. When an artificial intelligence has mastered these information, it will It will become extremely close to omnipotence.

In the man-machine confrontation or machine-machine confrontation in the second and third seasons, it will gradually show how powerful artificial intelligence will be after mastering big data. The plot is also one of the cool points of the show.

As the highlight of DreamWorks, after all, the plan is to shoot several seasons and experience several years of TV dramas, because the world view is more advantageous. If the IP is well built, and even a movie version can be developed, it is likely to be a golden hen for DreamWorks.

So just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, "Suspect Tracker" still held a relatively grand launch conference.

Of course, except for the supporters of DreamWorks and fans of Chen Jingxing, most of the netizens did not pay much attention.

After all, unlike the TV series "Signal", it does not have the blessing of the movie version, and although the cast lineup is not low, Duan Yihong, Pan Yueming and Wu Yue are all well-known and powerful factions, but there is no traffic or more star-studded stars participating. Even if it is not an adaptation of a well-known IP original work, the media does not have much motivation to report it.

In addition to the filming of "Suspect Tracker", the third TV series that has been approved, which has attracted the attention of many media and audiences, is the hodgepodge version of the zombie doomsday TV series "The Walking Dead", but it has not started filming for a long time.

Of course, the crew is ready, even the cast has been confirmed, the only question is the director.

Although "The Walking Dead" has only 15 episodes in the first season, the cost per episode exceeds 1000 million. It can be said that DreamWorks has invested the most in TV drama projects with the most resources.

Previously, the crew couldn't make it together. "Matrix" and "Edge of Tomorrow" occupied the top resources of DreamWorks. "Suspect Tracker" is also in preparation. It is produced by a well-coordinated and polished team.

After the filming of Chen Jingxing's "Matrix" was completed years ago, the production team of "The Walking Dead" will have no problem.

As for the director, Chen Jingxing couldn't pick anyone he was satisfied with.

The director of "Black Mirror" is the assistant director of "Source Code". He has worked with Chen Jingxing for a long time, and his level and experience are almost experienced. "The production and filming of "The Difficulty is not very difficult. It is mainly literary and drama, and it is enough to shoot according to the script step by step.

"Suspect Tracker" is the newly signed director of DreamWorks. He has worked with Xu Wenshen before. He is a senior director of Tianrun Films. He has filmed several large-scale TV series. From the perspective of ability and achievements, he can be regarded as Tianrun's department. The best among directors.

A year ago, the personal studio was established. Of course, Tianrun also has shares in the studio. It is considered semi-freedom. Facing the poaching by DreamWorks, Tianrun was basically powerless to resist. He could only smile on his face and feel mmp in his heart.

The main reason is that the director himself readily accepted it, and even showed a relatively strong willingness. Tianrun Pictures didn't want to turn his face directly. Losing this hard-earned talent, he naturally had to compromise and accept it.

After all, what the director signed was not a contract of sale, but actually a filming contract. DreamWorks promised to provide several TV series or movie projects within a few years, and the contracted director would direct the filming. The director could not refuse, and the schedule had to make way for the DreamWorks project .

It's not that after signing a contract with DreamWorks, you can't take on jobs from other companies, but if DreamWorks wants to fill up the contracted director's schedule, Tianrun won't be able to get in, which is equivalent to losing a general in the next few years in disguise. These days, there is a shortage of good screenwriters, a shortage of good resources, but also a shortage of good directors. Even if the same project is filmed by directors of different levels, the gap between the finished products is huge.

However, "The Walking Dead" has never been able to find a director that Chen Jingxing and Xu Wenshen can rest assured. The talent of a director is very important. It is not possible to be an assistant director after a few years of experience in the crew, or to be able to do it but not to take over the level of "The Walking Dead". production.

Chen Jingxing's requirements were indeed a bit high. Famous directors did not lack resources, so it was difficult to convince DreamWorks to make TV dramas. Directors below the top of the pyramid flocked to DreamWorks, but Chen Jingxing's requirements were too high and he was unwilling to compromise.

It's really not easy to cultivate excellent director talents. Many directors are also fed by a large number of projects, bad movies and bad dramas. But DreamWorks is following a high-quality strategy, and what they want is overflowing talent like Guo Fantian Xinye Geniuses, or finished products trained by other companies, are reluctant to give good resources to semi-finished products for leveling.

In the end, Tian Xinye, who finished filming "The Mirage" before the end of the year, could only be the leader. Originally, Chen Jingxing's plan was to let Tian Xinye specialize in making movies in the future. Only in movies can his lens language talent be brought into full play.

It would definitely not be too comfortable for a director who has already made a movie to go back to make a TV series, but the script of "The Walking Dead" really satisfied Tian Xinye, and judging from the budget of tens of millions for a 50-minute episode, it is definitely It is a film-level production, so Tian Xinye has nothing to do with being ordered in the face of danger.

However, "Mirage" has already started the publicity and release work. It will be released on May [-]st, and there are only two months left, so after a meeting and discussion, it is decided to delay it again and again, and then start filming "The Walking Dead" after "Mirage" is released.

As the director of the phenomenal TV series "Signal", Tian Xinye's reputation has also spread. Even if he can cooperate with director Tian, ​​even if it is postponed, the actors do not have much opinion.

As for the delayed schedule, first of all, the cast of this drama is not first- and second-tier actors, and the biggest names are third-tier actors. For Dreamworks’ big production with an average cost of tens of millions, even a year’s delay is worth it Don't you see, Zhang Ruoyun, the hero of the "Signal" TV series, has risen from a third-tier star to the ranks of the popular niche by relying on this drama.

With the release of two films, plus the filming of a sci-fi blockbuster and a big-budget TV series, DreamWorks was very busy with the release and filming tasks, and Chen Jingxing was rather idle.

Apart from preparing for the wedding with Tang Xin, going around various studios, and keeping an eye on the release progress of "Gravity" overseas, especially in the North American market, all he was doing was contemplating the script.

The script that Chen Jingxing is perfecting is "The Martian", which is also a sci-fi space movie. The story is not complicated, so it didn't take him much effort.

Of course, "The Martian" itself still needs some changes, such as the role of the so-called Helios Probe in the original Chinese version. From the final function, it is completely a cannon to kill flies, which is a bit hard to make.

Of course, the original intentions of the author of the original work and the director of the film were good. The two countries put aside their competition and cooperated in the rescue.

In the original version, the male protagonist was landed on Mars, and then the male protagonist planted potatoes on Mars. According to the plan, it can last until the next NASA spacecraft reaches Mars.

But because of a storm, the "potato planting greenhouse" was destroyed, and the harvested potatoes could not last until the next spacecraft arrived. After all, there is a window period for exploring Mars, and the next launch of the spacecraft will have to wait until the next window period, so NASA It is to prepare to launch the material supply module to Mars, which is equivalent to a Mars probe. The launch is simple and fast. After obtaining the supplies, the hero can last until the next Mars spacecraft arrives.

However, due to the haste and inspection of the supply plan, there were small mistakes, which led to the failure of the launch of the supply module.

The most important thing to launch a supply module is the propeller, and it is a propeller that can reach Mars. NASA’s thruster that can reach Mars was built in more than 60 days under a compressed construction period. Building another one must be later than planned. When the supply module reaches Mars, The hero is already starving to death.

And Huaguo itself has a Mars exploration plan, called the Sun God Project, and has built a thruster.

Under the current situation, the thruster of Huaguo's Helios Project is the only thruster that can reach Mars and can be launched within the planned time.

Therefore, NASA can use the Helios thruster to load the supply module to quickly launch and reach Mars before the hero starves to death.

If there is no subsequent progress, the Helios thruster is indeed irreplaceable, and it is NASA's only life-saving straw.

But then an otaku genius came up with the idea that the Mars spaceship heading back to Earth would accelerate without slowing down after approaching the Earth, and use a gravitational slingshot in a circle to drive back to Mars at a faster speed before the hero’s potatoes run out, and directly connect to it. Go male lead.

The only problem is that the supplies of the Mars spacecraft need to be replenished. Otherwise, the astronauts of the spacecraft will starve to death on the way back to Mars before the hero starves to death. After all, the original supplies of the spacecraft are only enough for one round trip.

Then what is needed at this time is only a vehicle that can supplement the large mass load of the Mars spacecraft entering low-Earth orbit.

Using the thrusters of the Helios program to replenish the spacecraft in low-Earth orbit is a bit of a cannonball.

In fact, a high-thrust vehicle that can replenish supplies to the space station is enough. Of course, that is the case. In fact, few countries in the world have such conditions.

Considering that when the film was filmed in the previous life, because of the decommissioning of the space shuttle, NASA did not have such a vehicle. If it had to ask for help from foreign countries, Da Mao’s Soyuz launch vehicle was the only one capable of transporting large-scale supplies at that time. There are more than enough vehicles for the International Space Station.

If you have to worry about the inappropriate docking of the system, then Huaguo's Helios thruster will also have this problem. Anyway, the Mars spacecraft has a robotic arm, so there is no need for docking. Just use the robotic arm to grab the supplies sent by the launch vehicle. It's also done in the movie.

The window period for Mars exploration is very short, and the Helios thruster is used to resupply materials in low-Earth orbit, which means that Huaguo will wait for the next window period.

However, considering that the original book was released and Huaguo’s Fat 2016 hadn’t been successfully launched at the time of filming, the Long March 2019, which can carry a large load and undertake the launch mission of the space station’s component module, was successfully launched for the first time in [-], and it failed after that. It was delayed for two years, and it was not until the end of [-] that Nirvana returned.

Therefore, from the point of view at that time, if Hua Guo insisted on showing his face in "The Martian", it seemed that only the Sun God could choose. So from this perspective, it was reasonable to use the Sun God cannon of the Mars Project to fight mosquitoes. It's an inevitable choice.

But the "The Martian" that Chen Jingxing wants to shoot is of course Huaguo's aerospace industry as the protagonist, so the vehicle that launches the Mars supply thruster can be set as Changzheng-[-], and Huaguo also has its own space station, so there must be a Long March A backup like No. [-], in case there is a problem with the personnel and facilities of the space station, the spacecraft can be launched at any time to pick up the astronauts on the space station or replenish supplies.

This paragraph of "The Martian" can be changed to say that the space agency plans to use the Long March [-] to launch a thruster that reaches Mars to replenish supplies for the hero. No. [-] has no way to build another one in a short time.

At this time, a young researcher suggested that the Mars exploration spacecraft returning to the earth could be accelerated after approaching the earth's orbit, and use the gravitational slingshot effect of the earth to return to Mars at a higher speed, so that it could reach Mars within the deadline , Take back the male lead.

The supplementary materials for the Mars spacecraft can be carried out with the ready-made backup rocket Shenzhou XX of the Huaguo Space Station.

In this way, there is no need to involve any international cooperation at all, and the whole process can be completely self-sufficient.

The original Chinese-American cooperation is mainly for the market for the film studio.

Of course, this version shot by Chen Jingxing also needs the North American market, who would think that the money is low?

But the national conditions are different, and the national psychology is different. Chen Jingxing insisted on arranging a trans-Pacific cooperation. For North American audiences, they may not appreciate it.

Due to the long period of lagging behind and catching up in modern times, Huaguo is also a chaser in space technology, not a leader. Hollywood blockbusters give Huaguo a positive role, whether it is the Tiangong space station in "Gravity" or "The Martian" The sun god, most of the Chinese audience will feel proud of it, there is nothing wrong with it.

But North American audiences do not have the mentality of lagging behind and catching up, nor the national psychology shaped by the history of modern humiliation. They are also the leaders of space technology hegemony. He is the chosen one, the strongest mentality in the world of America.

The Hua country you set in the movie is the first country where real people landed on Mars and also set up a scientific research base. People may still be upset. Maybe some people will think this is a pornographic blockbuster, just like what we saw It feels like Tianzhu or South Korea filming such a movie about landing on the moon and landing on Mars.

Then in the end, in order to rescue the Chinese astronauts, they ruined the Mars exploration plan that NASA was about to implement to catch up with the Chinese space pace?

Chen Jingxing didn't think that the audience of America would appreciate the role assigned to Nasa in the movie. To be precise, it was impossible to appreciate it, and it would not have the effect of flattering.

This is like South Korea filming "The Martian", South Korea landed on Mars, the astronauts fell on Mars, and finally South Korea and my country cooperated to rescue the Korean astronauts, and the United States filmed "The Martian" NASA landed on Mars, the NASA astronauts fell on Mars, and finally cooperated to rescue NASA Do astronauts feel the same in the minds of domestic audiences?
When South Korea or Tianzhu filmed "The Martian", "Gravity", or even "Space Force", Chinese audiences will feel flattered and catered to because of the Chinese spaceflight scenes in it?
The same is true for North American audiences. You are the first in Huaguo to land on Mars and establish a base. How else can you please and cater to them?Maybe what you think is flattering will make the audience of Amerika feel uncomfortable.

Since no matter how you shoot, you can't grasp the wealth code of North American audiences, why bother?
Just treat it as an ordinary space-themed sci-fi blockbuster and release it normally. As long as the quality of the movie passes the test, it will definitely still have a box office, but it is certain that it will be criticized or complained about.

　The second watch is at ten o'clock

　　
　
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