Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 144 Back-to-back shooting

Seeing Cameron take the bait, Jamie smiled and explained:

"So Weststar Pictures hasn't told you yet? They are planning to exchange the copyrights of "Guangdong" for the copyrights of "The Wandering Earth"."

Cameron reacted immediately.

"Are you going to add the story of "Guangmeng" to "The Wandering Earth"?"

Jamie nodded in recognition.

He still doesn't know which movie Cameron has been preparing for "Gunsma", so he just briefly talked about his plot concept for this sequel.

The story takes place before the male protagonist Jack in "Avatar 1" leaves the earth. Ide, a cyborg doctor who lives in the underground shelter Steel City, discovers the remains of a cyborg girl in the garbage dump and repairs and transforms her into a cyborg girl. A mechanical girl named Alita.

Alita has lost her past memory, but has amazing fighting power like muscle memory.

Robots and humans coexist in the Steel City, but there are also many contradictions. The law of the jungle is the only law of survival here.

The newborn Alita was ignorant. After sneaking out of the house against Dr. Ido's request, she met Jack, whose legs were still sound.

The two secretly fell in love while experiencing dangerous hardships together, but during an adventure, Jack injured his spine while saving Alita and lost the ability to move his lower limbs.

At this time, a mysterious man from the top of the space station found Jack and persuaded him to join the exploration of Pandora.

Jack's departure without saying goodbye made Alita very sad. With the patient encouragement and persuasion of Dr. Ide, Alita regained her strength. During this period, she gradually recovered her past memories.

It turns out that she was a combat weapon secretly manufactured by the Salvation Army, the underground resistance organization on earth. She was severely damaged during a secret assassination mission and was then discarded as an ordinary abandoned robot.

The predecessor of the Salvation Army can be traced back to the spaceship faction that was massacred by the rebel organization in power after the earth successfully flew out of the solar system.

At that time, the Earth Faction was massacred, but a small number of people from the Spaceship Faction, who were hiding in the dark and fanning the rebellion, survived.

They held the digital life technology invented by Will, the founder of digital life, and combined it with the mechanical prosthetic technology later developed on earth, and successfully created a living robot.

Alita is the most perfect of them all.

However, not long after Alita regained her memory, agent killers sent by the top management of the space station and the Salvation Army organization came to her door one after another.

In the end, Alita teamed up with the Salvation Army to destroy the space station and space elevator that oppressed and enslaved the people at the bottom of the earth. At the same time, she also learned about the existence of Pandora from the remaining high-level captives.

The New Earth Regime established by the Salvation Army decided to control the planetary engines on the Earth and head towards the planet Pandora.

At the same time, the new regime also sent an advance army headed by Alita to drive a spacecraft to the planet Pandora to establish an outpost.

Cameron listened with great interest, while Ovitz on the side became more and more horrified as he listened.

It was agreed that he would just write a space science fiction script for Weststar Films, but Jamie thought up the prequel and postquel stories in one go.

Is this to build "The Wandering Earth" into a national science fiction IP comparable to "Star Wars"?

If Jamie had said this to Ovitz before today, Ovitz would have thought Jamie was crazy.

And now, looking at Jamie who was telling the plot with great energy, and Cameron who was listening with great interest, Ovitz suddenly felt that it was really possible for all this to become a reality.

But in fact, Jamie didn't really think that far ahead. He just added all the elements of future movies that Cameron was interested in into the "Wandering Earth" series.

Anyway, once the big pie is drawn, Cameron must be firmly fooled first.

On the other hand, Cameron was really fascinated by the grand world view constructed by Jamie.

Originally, the villain Will in the prequel of "The Wandering Earth" shined with humanity at the last moment and sacrificed himself to save the earth, which already made Cameron feel very amazing.

But who would have thought that "The Wandering Earth 1 and 2" both appeared as a spaceship faction, but hundreds of years later they became the Salvation Army to save oppressed civilians.

However, after the Salvation Army seized power on Earth, the first decision they made was to immigrate to the planet Pandora.

From the party representing justice, he immediately turned into an intruder.

Such a story with constant twists and surprises has given Cameron the urge to film it.

Of course, Cameron also knows that none of this can happen in a hurry.

At least not until he has completed the feat of heaven first.

Now Cameron wants to know what will happen when Alita and Jack reunite on the planet Pandora.

Although Cameron also knew that this request was a bit greedy, he still wanted to see if Jamie could give him more surprises.

In order to completely trap Cameron, Jamie had no choice but to braid it down.

The main reason is that the plot of the previous life "Avatar: The Way of Water" is indeed a bit stretched, and the difficulty of changing the magic has doubled.

After Alita arrived on the planet Pandora with Earth's reinforcements, the human race, which had been at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the indigenous Na'vi, immediately increased in strength.

The special magnetic field of Pandora can only weaken part of human technology, but it does not have much impact on robots like Alita.

After Alita learned that Jack not only betrayed humans, but also had offspring with the indigenous Na'vi people, she went completely dark in despair and formed an offensive force composed of robots.

She paranoidly believes that as long as all the Na'vi are killed, Jack will return to the embrace of the human camp.

After Alita and her robot army join in, the battle begins to turn one-sided in favor of humans.

Even if Jack unites all the Na'vi tribes in the jungle, he still cannot resist the attack of Alita's robot army.

Most of the Na'vi people were slaughtered. Only Jack escaped with his wife, children and a small number of tribesmen, and was eventually taken in by the Na'vi people living in the ocean.

The two sides fought several more battles in the sea, and Jack and Alita, the former lovers, finally came face to face.

In the end, under the cover of the Sea Tribe's sacrifice, Jack severely wounded Alita, and the war came to an end with the Na'vi's tragic victory.

Humans and the Na'vi signed an armistice agreement with the ocean as the boundary.

Obviously Jamie's plot design is based on World War I, when French Marshal Foch made a divine prophecy.

"This is not an armistice, but a twenty-year truce."

The same goes for the truce between humans and the Na'vi in ​​the story.

Even though Jamie said that this was all he had planned for the time being, Cameron still felt it was not enough.

The same goes for the Sheldon Four. The five of them begged Jamie to continue telling the story, even if it meant telling them the ending of Alita and Jack.

In the end, Jamie couldn't stand everyone's pleas and had to continue making up.

But this time he vaccinated everyone in advance.

"What I am going to say next does not mean that the story will actually develop like this later. If I were to continue writing this story, I would consider making Alita completely dark."

"After the war, Alita was rehabilitated by Dr. Ide, but her heart was already dead. She believed that Jack would rather be an alien than return to the human camp because he discriminated against robots like her from the bottom of his heart."

"Alita came up with a crazy idea. She wanted to turn all humans into robots so that discrimination would no longer exist."

"The war between humans and robots broke out on the earth. Humanity was retreating steadily, and finally retreated to the planet Pandora."

"At the moment of life and death, Jack persuaded the Sea Tribe to form an alliance with humans and jointly defeated the robot army led by Alita. Alita also died completely in Jack's arms."

"The robots retreated to the earth and continued to wander in the universe, while humans stayed on Pandora to start a new era of civilization."

After saying that, without giving Cameron and others any time to think, Jamie stated on the spot that he really had "not a drop left" this time.

Cameron was still immersed in the story and did not immediately comment.

Upon seeing this, Leonard immediately joked:

"I really wish the time machine was real so we could go to the future and watch movies right away."

Howard and Rajesh both nodded in agreement, but Sheldon looked disapproving.

"If time travel really exists, how do you solve the grandmother paradox?"

Leonard replied without thinking:

"I just traveled to the future to watch a movie. As long as I don't interact with myself in the future, don't ask me why I know this, because that's how it was explained in the movie "Back to the Future."

Obviously, Leonard didn't want to argue with Sheldon on this issue, but Sheldon didn't agree.

"Actually, I am leaning toward parallel universes. The so-called time travel is just to go to another parallel universe. In that universe, it is very likely that the four of us do not know each other at all, and we have not formed a team together to participate in CS e-sports. Competition, naturally I will not become the scientific consultant of "The Wandering Earth"."

Leonard looked at Sheldon speechlessly.

"So what is your conclusion?"

Sheldon replied seriously:

"In the parallel universe, maybe there is no movie "The Wandering Earth" at all, or there is, but it turns out to be something else. For example, if this movie is shot by China in the parallel universe, the plot will be like this It’s definitely different.”

Leonard was about to retort when Penny stood up.

"Okay, it's getting late. The four of you should go back to the hotel and change clothes. Sheldon, don't you still want to listen to Professor Hawking's speech? You definitely don't want to go see your idol wearing what you are wearing now, right? "

Seeing the four Sheldons successfully coaxed away by Penny, Ovitz couldn't help but admire them.

Ovitz had always felt that Jamie hired two assistants just to do Betty when he had something to do, and Penny when he had nothing to do.

Many big people play this way.

But what just happened made Ovitz realize that Penny was more than just a vase.

It just so happened that Ovitz was also preparing to talk about business with Jamie and Cameron.

"I admit that the follow-up story proposition of "The Wandering Earth" is ambitious and the story is very attractive, but based on my experience in dealing with Weststar Pictures executives when I was an agent, and my understanding of Logan Roy, if We throw out all the stories of "The Wandering Earth" at once, but it will easily scare the other party."

"The wisest thing to do is to throw out the creative plans for the first two movies and finalize the cooperation with Weststar Pictures. After the movie is released, if it can achieve the expected results, Weststar Pictures will take the initiative to come to us to discuss the sequel. matters."

Ovitz's words brought Cameron, who was still immersed in the story, back to reality.

From a plot perspective, the story of the robot Alita and Pandora really has little to do with the theme of "The Wandering Earth".

Therefore, Cameron agreed with Ovitz's suggestion.

Even if he only shoots the story of "The Wandering Earth 1 and 2" first, Cameron is worried that Weststar Pictures will be deterred by the high cost of the film.

After hearing Cameron's concerns, Jamie and Ovitz looked at each other.

In fact, they deliberately proposed to shoot the two movies "The Wandering Earth 1 and 2" back to back, which would increase the film production cost to an unprecedented sky-high price.

Based on Jamie’s knowledge of Vestar Films, the other party would definitely back down.

After all, when Cameron planned to shoot "Avatar" in his previous life, 20th Century Fox was deterred by the huge shooting budget.

In the end, Cameron brought Disney on board to participate in the investment, and Fox changed its mind and called Cameron back to the negotiating table with priority investment rights.

If nothing else goes wrong, Vestar Pictures will still follow the old path of 20th Century Fox in its previous life. As long as they back down, Jamie can take advantage of the situation and firmly hold the control of the film in his hands.

Ovitz has the same idea, and he is currently ambitiously preparing to package "The Wandering Earth" and sell it to Weststar Films.

By taking control of the investment, he will have more confidence to implement the plan.

"James, you don't have to worry about movie investment. The most important thing we should do now is to determine the main actors of the first two movies. In this regard, as the director, you have absolute say, no matter which actor you like. Tell me and I will be responsible for talking to the other party."

In order to further win over Cameron, Ovitz threw out another tempting condition.

In Hollywood, the casting of a movie is usually made by the producer, and of course most producers will respect the director's opinion.

Even for a great director like Cameron, although the casting decisions are guided by his opinions, he does not have the final say alone.

Now that Jamie and Ovitz have given up this right, Cameron is indeed a little moved.

Originally, Cameron was planning to wait until he completed his dream of going to heaven before considering this matter, but in front of him, Jamie and Ovitz obviously couldn't wait.

Cameron had an idea and looked up at Jamie.

"As a screenwriter, no one is more familiar with the story of "The Wandering Earth" than you, so I first want to hear your opinion on the selection of characters."

(End of this chapter)