The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 558 Another Martian Movie

"...I feel that the movie version of the story is different from the animation version not only in the plot, but also in the deep connotation."

Yan Xiaoyue also watched the animation of "Special Mobile Team" seriously, and even wrote a movie review, otherwise she would not be so interested in the movie version.

Chen Jingxing nodded: "So you can't play this role completely according to your understanding of animation."

The live-action film version of "Ghost in the Shell" adapted by Hollywood in the previous world was not successful in terms of word-of-mouth or commercially. Fans of the animation were basically unsatisfied, and the global box office was only 1.7 million US dollars.

The production cost of "Ghost in the Shell" live-action film is as high as 1.1 million, which is not much better than "Mulan".

There are many reasons for the failure, but Chen Jingxing believes that the more critical factor is that the movie version is a remake of the animation version, and it is a remake of the most classic 95 version of animation.

The animation is already very classic. If the animation plots are only filmed with real people, the reputation will not be very good. Jewelry is the first, and it is difficult to please. The more classic the original, the more difficult it is to make a movie.

What if you made changes to the original classic plot?
That would only be more unpleasant.

The live-action movie "Ghost in the Shell" has made more commercial changes on the basis of the 95 theatrical version, which is actually no problem from a commercial logic point of view.

But everyone knows what the original story is like, and you will not be surprised if you make changes based on the original story, and when you change it more superficially and the profound connotation is digested, the word of mouth will only get worse.

However, there is an advantage of the real-life version of the "Special Mobile Team" movie in this plane, that is, the audience has never seen the 95 version of the animation.

The plot of the animated series of "Special Mobile Team" does not involve the 95 theatrical version.

Therefore, for the audience, the live-action film of "Special Mobile Team" that DreamWorks will make will be very different from the animated series.

If the theme of the animation is to tell about the rapid development of science and technology, "network society" is a more advanced system that can be used as the "third subject" and "superior structure".

However, individuality will gradually be lost, and the meaning of personal existence will be lost in the later stage of development.

There is a kind of alternative "human completion plan" feeling.

But in the movie version, the focus is on what is soul and life, what is self, whether memory exists or thinking exists.

The main line of the story is the confrontation between the special mobile team and the puppet master.

The puppet master is a mysterious hacker who roams among various networked devices, capable of invading the electronic brains of prosthetic humans, manipulating stock prices, and even carrying out KB attacks.

The heroine led the team to kill a controlled prosthetic, captured the garbage worker who was manipulated by the puppet master, and woke up the garbage worker from the virtual reality that he had a wife and children. False, is implanted by others.

And this made the heroine confused about herself. If the memory is false, can be modified, and can be copied and pasted, is she still the only one?Is it unique?

Finally, under the difficult adventure and hard work of constantly approaching the puppet master, he finally cracked the true identity of the puppet master.

It turns out that the puppet master is a program written by a monopoly prosthetic body modification company. However, after browsing the information on the whole network, the program has self-awareness, and thinks that it is the same as a human being who can only become an individual through memory.

In this era when computers can easily store memory externally, the puppet master thinks that he is also an individual like human beings, a life form born in the sea of ​​the Internet.

After all, in the eyes of the puppeteer, human DNA is just a program designed for self-storage.

If information is a kind of ocean, it is natural for life to be born in it.

The first life of human beings was born from the ocean.

The company discovered the existence of the puppet master and wanted to get rid of it, but the puppet master discovered it in advance and transferred his consciousness into a prosthetic body.

Although the puppet master is already an online life form that knows all the information on the Internet, he thinks he is not as complete as a human.

Puppet masters can only copy themselves, but they cannot produce diversity. In order to improve their survivability, puppet masters urgently need to change in order to resist the fate of possible extinction in the future.

Because life without individuality and diversity that only copies itself is likely to be completely wiped out by a virus.

Copying and reproduction have no capacity for evolution.

In order to evolve, to create its own diversity, and to continue in the future, the puppeteer wants to merge with the heroine and die himself.

Then spread the seeds of her mutation on the Internet through the heroine.

A prosthetic person who desires to break through the limits of the prosthetic body and a program that desires to obtain diversity and the ability to reproduce and survive are fused together, completing the evolution of a certain kind of life and the breakthrough of the limit.

In a sense, it is like the completion of another life.

Chen Jingxing is not going to change the main line and connotation of this story, but needs to add some more commercial elements.

In this way, "Special Mobile Team" may not be a box office success like a live-action movie, at least word of mouth is not a big problem.

Of course, if the box office is not bad, even if the production cost can be recovered, the sequel can be continued.

Refer to "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence" in the previous life plane, the second season of "Ghost in the Shell sac", the content is enough to make three or four high-quality sci-fi movies with standard and thoughtful stories.

And this kind of script is also a relief for Yan Xiaoyue, the leading actor and director in charge of "Special Mobile Team", and Ning Weiqiang who finished filming "Suspect Tracker III".

Regarding "Sky Eagle Warrior", which will be released in the summer, the director Tian Xinye is apprehensive.

After all, the animation gems are ahead, and the focus of the movie is on the mecha battle, which downplays the artistic atmosphere and ideological nature of the animation. I am afraid that animation fans will be particularly dissatisfied and affect word of mouth.

The movie version of "Mobile Team" directly uses the original story, and the original script is different from the animation, which can avoid the comparison of the remake to the greatest extent, and also allow animation fans to view the movie version more tolerantly.

The announcement of the project approval of the movie version of "Special Mobile Team" is the second boot for anime fans. After all, since the filming of "Skyhawk Warrior", many people believe that "Special Mobile Team" will also be filmed. .

As for the choice of the hostess, many people can only feel that this is the case.

After all, there are only a few Daomadans in China who are around 30 years old and have both looks and body. Sister Tianxian just hit the street in "Mulan", and Tianxian's temperament is quite different from the heroine of "Mobile Team". The other Liu Shishi, who has the skills in action scenes, is filming "Elysium" again, and he will definitely not be able to find a schedule.

As for using other actresses who have no acting skills, the choice of relying on editing and doubles to fool action scenes may be realized in other companies, but no one thinks that DreamWorks will do this.

However, Yan Xiaoyue's fans changed their faces from their dissatisfaction and criticism of the studio, and started shaking again.

For Yan Xiaoyue herself, her popularity has surpassed that of Zhao Jinmai at the beginning of the year, and she has returned to the top of the list of first-line actresses.

After Chen Jingxing finalized the preparations for the project of "Special Mobile Team", he did not devote himself to the project of "Once Upon a Time on Earth" non-stop. Before the Magic City Film Festival started, he set up another sci-fi movie - "Death on Mars" ".

Of course, this project is no longer directed by Chen Jingxing, after all, his future energy will be spent on "Once Upon a Time on Earth".

Moreover, the space trilogy is just a trilogy. From "Center of the Earth" to "Interstellar", the context and ideological content of the trilogy are complete. It is really unnecessary to add another space movie. Besides, "Once Upon a Time on Earth" said that he There's nothing wrong with being a space movie.

"Death on Mars" was handed over to Wen Zhian by him. He just finished directing "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Prelude" for his last project, and he will soon be in charge of a heavy industrial sci-fi movie. This is a triple jump for Wen Zhian .

The story of "Death on Mars" is a combination of elements of many sci-fi works, including "The Martian", "Gravity" and the animated series "Space Super Battleship" which is being produced after five years.

But the reason why Chen Jingxing wants to make "Death on Mars" into a movie is because the story is as hard-core as "The Martian" and has a more novel style, which is worthy of being put on the big screen.

It's a comedy on the surface, but a tragedy in reality.

First of all, in terms of gimmicks, the beginning is "I'm on Mars, I just saw the earth explode, and I'm very happy now".

The background of the movie version of "Dead on Mars" is set in 2050. The world's aerospace powers have successfully landed on Mars with joint technical funds, and established a scientific research station Kunlun Station on the surface of Mars.

A certain group of missions is over, and the large army returns to the voyage. The male lead, who is a mechanical engineer, becomes the last person left behind at Kunlun Station because of a finishing job.

Just as he was about to return to the earth, the earth disappeared, disappeared out of thin air, including the moon.

Accompanying him is only an intelligent robot with humorous language at Kunlun Station.

However, because the next group of Mars exploration team members was originally scheduled to arrive, the food at Kunlun Station is still sufficient, and there will be no worries about food for more than ten years.

And just when the male protagonist thought he was the last human being in the universe, he was desperate and even about to commit suicide, he discovered that there was a girl left behind on the Mars space station in the orbit of Mars, which gave him the courage to continue to live.

It's just that there are not many supplies on the Mars space station, which is only enough for the girl to last for five days.

Therefore, the main content of the whole movie revolves around how the male protagonist distributes the materials on the Kunlun Station, especially the food, and sends half of it to the space station.

The whole process is quite excellent in terms of hardcore and ingenuity. It is more complicated and thrilling than "Mars" and "Center of the Earth".

Except for the fact that the bottom layer of the story is a tragedy, which is a bit of a commercial disadvantage, the other parts are great.

(End of this chapter)