"Hey, Jan, Amazing Jan!", "I want your autograph! Thank you!"...... The main hall of the Toronto Convention Centre is bustling with young and middle-aged sci-fi fans, sitting on chairs, resting, standing, laughing and discussing, all waiting to enter the venue. The 61st World Science Fiction Convention is being held in the eastern Canadian city for five days, from August 28 to September 1, during which the 2003 Hugo Awards will be awarded, and science fiction films will be showcased.

From the sunny Bahamas, two days after returning to Los Angeles, Wang Yang came to cool Toronto again, and the T-shirt became a jacket. Seeing a few fans over there shouting enthusiastically, accompanied by two tall bodyguards, Wang Yang, who was about to enter the venue, came to several people, took out a signature pen and signed on the unopened treasured DVD of "District 9" handed by them.

Young fans smiled and blessed: "Congratulations on your successful marriage proposal." Another white girl with glasses smiled and said, "I wish you and Jessica a happy marriage." Wang Yang nodded his head while signing: "Thank you, we will." ”

There was a certain level of fanaticism among the sci-fi fans who came to this exclusive event, and Bliss, a young white man in a red hat jacket, was delighted to receive a DVD signed by Wonder Young, and it was a worthwhile trip to sign the first sci-fi Oscar for Best Director!

Garrison, another young white man with chubby body and curly blond hair, agreed, saying, "I bought the collector's edition of 'District 9' and watched it three times, but 'The Hangover' and 'MIT-21-TEAM' regular edition, once is enough for the time being." Of course, there are also fans who only watch "District 9" once, and several times else. However, Maggie, the glasses girl, also nodded and said, "I prefer shocking sci-fi, Amazing Young, do you have any new plans?"

Everyone naturally knows what kind of speed Miraculous Yang is, and he has already finished filming "The Demon Wears Prada" as early as June.

"Come on! I promise you'll find out soon. Wang Yang smiled, waiting for the next exhibition, he will announce the plan of "Firefly" with Joss Wheddon and officially start the promotion of this science fiction movie.

Bliss and the others suddenly looked excited, and hurriedly asked, "Are you saying that you are going to make a science fiction movie?" Garrison remembered some previous news and said in surprise: "Oh! I heard that you want to shoot science fiction in spaceships and interstellar odysses, right?" Bliss asked again: "Will it be like Star Wars or Star Trek?" Wang Yang laughed: "Yes, spaceships roam the universe...... I can't say too much. ”

"Wang Yang, the Hugo Award won't be given to you!" At this time, a middle-aged white man in front of him seemed to have just discovered Wang Yang and walked over very excitedly. Dressed in a black shirt and jeans, with a shaved head and a beard, he shouted "George Lucas deserves an Oscar!" Kubrick, Ridley Scott...... Spielberg, George Lucas, Oscar shouldn't give it to you, you're a child!"

The two bodyguards immediately stood in front of them, and if the fat man had any intention of attacking, they would take action, but this kind of fan scolding generally stops at scolding. Wang Yang whispered, "That-is-OK." He continued to meet the autograph requests of the fans who gathered around.

No matter what the award, it is just a kind of situation that creates a hero, and it can't be generalized about anything, and his winning the Oscar does not mean that he surpassed Stanley Kubrick and others, who did not get the same importance in the science fiction film industry;

"I suggest you go and talk to the judges!" Bliss, who had just gotten his autograph, was very disdainful and said to the fat man: "We don't care about the Oscars, "District 9" is a classic movie!" Maggie was also a little excited, and said loudly: "Sir, who are you?

"Woohoo——!" The fat man cocked his thumbs upside down a few times, glared at Wang Yang, who had not seen it, and mocked himself: "You are a toy compared to "Star Wars"! What kind of viral propaganda can you play! Can you make movies! Can you make science fiction movies!? You kid go back! Don't try to take away the Hugo Award!!"

"OK, it's all signed!" Wang Yang nodded with a smile to Maggie and other fans, put away the autograph pen, turned around and glanced at the fat man, knowing that there were many Star Wars fans and science fiction fans who were dissatisfied with his award, and he was not angry, only a confident firmness, and said with a smile: "That dude, I will make movies and do publicity." And I'm here to win the prize, haha goodbye!"

With that, Wang Yang took the lead in walking into the hall of the venue, followed by two bodyguards. The fat man still pointed at his back, scolding and grinning: "You can't compare to "Star Wars" at all, and the Hugo Award won't give you ......" Bliss and the others were very amused; Maggie sighed and looked at his accomplices excitedly: "It's so cool!

In the venue, there were sporadic guests who had entered the venue in advance, and there were staff members on the stage in front of them, and the big screen was still dark.

"HEY! Wang Yang saw Joss Whedon in the seat over there, so he raised his hand to say hello. Joss Whedon, who was wearing a brown shirt and jeans, heard a glimpse of his voice and got up and walked over: "Jan!"

Joss Whedon's Season 3, Episode 13, "Waiting Wings," directed and produced by Joss Whedon, was nominated for Best Short Film, while his "Vampire Slayer Buffy," Season 7, Episode 7, "Conversations with the Dead," is also on the list, although the specific nominees are director Nick Masack and producers Jane Epanson and Drew Goddard. He came to this conference, except for the nomination, because of "Firefly".

Although the Hugo Awards are known as the "Oscars of science fiction", literature is the main character, video is the supporting role, and the media attention is not too high, and not all the nominees will be present if there is no publicity plan. Steven Spielberg, who received nominations for "Minority Report," Chris Columbus of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," and others were absent.

"Jan, congratulations to you and Jessica. Joss Whedon smiled and sent his blessings as soon as he came over, and Wang Yang nodded and smiled: "Thank you! Oh, I've been in a state of excitement these days, unprecedented." He thought about his feelings since the successful marriage proposal, and said: "You know that the whole world is different, as if it has given yourself a clear life signal that she is the most important person." ”

Joss Wheddon, who has been married for many years, naturally understood his mood and said with a smile: "If you have such thoughts, then I don't have to worry about you." Wang Yang couldn't help laughing a few times, shrugged his shoulders and said: "Of course, I just suddenly have a different understanding and feeling of many things, I think it should be deeper, before I mostly felt the family from the perspective of my children, and thought about other family roles from a rational perspective, but now I will soon be a husband." Luckily, it's not me who is acting......"

"Families can change a lot. Joss Whedon nodded, for directors and creators, the change in life stage brings a lot of new feelings and makes thinking go further. The two walked to the front seat as they spoke, and Wang Yang said again: "Jos, I have some new ideas about Marl these days......"

After the script of "Firefly" was negotiated, Wang Yang has been thinking about how to put it on the big screen, how to make the story and details more fascinating, the main line of the story is very clear, from the Ruiva brothers and sisters boarding the Tranquility, to Marr and others exposing the purification plan of the Star Alliance, the question is how to connect and choose. With less and less work at hand, Wang Yang wants to put its preparations on the agenda, and he has invited Wu Yanzu to gain weight to participate in the audition, and Wu Yanzu readily agreed.

Soon, science fiction fans and reporters entered one after another, and the auditorium, which can accommodate hundreds of people, suddenly gathered, and in a burst of applause, today's science fiction video products exhibition began. After playing some of the highlights of the nominated films, Wang Yang, the biggest name in the audience, took to the stage to introduce some of the special effects technology of "District 9", how the shrimp insect man became lifelike from a 3D model, motion capture technology, and so on...... Next is the most exciting part of science fiction fans and fans of "District 9", which is also the focus of the event promotion of the organizers of this year's conference, and the big screen shows some unreleased footage of "District 9" that did not appear in the theater version and was not included in the DVD. In addition to the demolition work of the protagonist Victrex and the MNU team in the ninth district, and the extermination experiment in the MNU secret laboratory, there is also a different ending.

These images were abandoned in post-editing, firstly, because they had to take care of the length of the theatrical version, and secondly, they were increased, and the review rating given by the MPAA was basically NC-17, so it was very cruel and disgusting, and it was creepy without a soundtrack, and the audience was dead silent.

"The next show, yes! Yes, very popular with everyone! He debuted for ten years, he is our superstar, a shrimp worm man who can magic......"

The big screen is a dazzling big stage, the host in a black suit holds a microphone, and shouts hysterically: "Christopher Forson!! who invites us" With his voice, a burst of thunderous applause rang out, the red curtain of the stage slowly rose, and all the brightly dressed and smiling audiences were applauding, which seemed to be very respectful, and seemed to be arrogant to watch a good show.

"%##*?!" a shrimp man in a funny clown costume dragged the long chains on his feet to the front of the stage, and he bowed to the humans in the audience, his eyes looking full of smiles, and his tentacles moving around in funny ways.

"Hahahaha——!" In the roaring laughter of the human being, the camera focused on the eyes of the shrimp insect man and gradually zoomed in, the bigger the laughter, the more the laughter seemed to disappear, and finally it was as indifferent as a dead person, and a loud whistle suddenly sounded, and the image ended.

"Oh my God......" In the venue, there was a low buzz in the audience, and the fans of "District 9" felt an unspeakable feeling, Bliss and others also adjusted their sitting postures unnaturally, Maggie, who had cried when she watched the theatrical version last year, sighed, and her heart tugged again, needless to say, the shrimp man must be Vickers! She shook her head and said: "This ending makes people see no hope at all." ”

Bliss grabbed the DVD in his hand, looked at the shrimp insect man on the cover, and sighed with a smile: "Fortunately, Magical Young chose the ending of the theatrical version, otherwise it would be too terrifying." Garrison said, "This is the end that torments us, right?"

The film critics present also had mixed feelings, and the moral of the story was completely different in this way, ten years later, Viggers did not wait for Christopher Forson to come back in three years, but he walked out of the tenth district, and he chose to become a human clown, so as to get a little bit of pathetic freedom. Is this a compromise or a struggle? Is it to be isolated in the filthy Tenth District and live with the "kind" shrimp and insect people, or to put on the shackles and go on a beautiful and gorgeous stage and return to the "other" human society?

They thought maybe this was what "District 9 2" was about? not the common imagination that Christopher Foson had arrived with a fleet and humanity was on the verge of disaster, but Christopher Foson had missed the contract, and like in "Metamorphosis", Victrex died in despair in the midst of his struggle.

However, many things cannot be said to be absolute, the public always has a bottom line of affordability, "District 9" is already very non-Hollywood-style ending, if this ending is put in the theatrical version, desperate and angry audiences will smash it, film critics and reporters know that this is the reason why Magic Young made the choice he made today.

Accompanied by a burst of thunderous applause from the audience, Wang Yang and Joss Whedon walked onto the stage, and everyone who applauded was suddenly a little puzzled, what did Joeway Stern do with Magic Young?

"You just saw one of the endings of "District 9". The two came to the middle of the stage, Wang Yang took the microphone handed by the staff, looked at the many faces in the audience, and said with a smile: "Yes, we filmed a lot of endings, in addition to the theatrical version, the second one of the ordinary DVD, the third one of the collector's DVD, and the one just now, there are many more." We experimented with a lot of results...... Well, it's actually to increase the gimmick of DVD and attract everyone to buy it. ”

The audience burst into a chuckle, Joss Whedon glanced at him with a smile, Wang Yang shrugged his shoulders and said, "Am I like the Victrex just now? Hey Humans!" The laughter from the audience rang out again, and he continued to say seriously: "The fourth ending just now was originally intended to be included in the 'Super Collector's Edition', but now that you have seen it, you don't need to buy it." But no problem, OK, because if you want to see the fifth ending, please buy the 'Ultimate Collector's Edition'. ”

In the midst of everyone's chuckles, Wang Yang looked back at the big screen and said with a smile: "But the theatrical version of the ending is still the best, brightest and coolest, and I like it the most, even if you are in the darkest situation, you have to keep hope, right!?"

"Yes!" Maggie and the others all applauded and shouted, only to see Wang Yang on the stage nodding and saying thank you, and said: "The filming of "District 9" is already in the past, 1 year, 2 years. During that time, I was often in a rather pessimistic and depressed mood, and sometimes I was so annoyed that I wanted to hit someone, but fortunately I survived to this point, and I am standing here without chains. ”

There were a few loud whistles of applause, just like the image just now, and a fat man's voice: "You're talking too much, go down!" But he didn't dare to shout too loudly so as not to be taken out by the security guards.

"Maybe you know, maybe you don't know, I proposed to my girlfriend the other day and now she's my fiancée, and I'll be her husband soon. ”

"Congratulations!", "Good luck!" There was a burst of loud applause from the audience, and some vaguely heard blessings, completely covering up the troublemakers; Joss Whedon also turned his head to congratulate him, and Wang Yang smiled into the microphone: "Thank you! This means a lot to me, enough to change many, many things." But what hasn't changed is our love of science fiction movies. Friends, I'm going to work on a new sci-fi movie with Joss Wheddon. ”

A burst of exclamations suddenly rang out! Sci-fi fans all looked at each other excitedly, and Bliss and Garrison couldn't help but high-five each other, and then laughed happily, Miraculous Young is going to make a new sci-fi movie! The reporters' eyes lit up, and now they got the news, the second sci-fi film of Miraculous Young, who was the first to win the Oscar for Best Director for a sci-fi film!

"Young will direct, and we will co-produce and write the screenplay. Joss Whedon raised the microphone in his hand, with a smile on his face and excited anticipation, he finally made his way to the big screen and into the film industry! ”

"And on the camera, I looked at a few concept drawings that he drawn, and it was very, very good!"

Joss Whedon sighed and accentuated his tone, this is not compliment and propaganda, it is his sincere words, looking at those concept maps full of artistic conception, he has a kind of idea of understanding how to integrate the rough West and the East aesthetics;

Thinking of this, Whedon said affirmatively: "I'm very much looking forward to the beginning of this movie, it's crazy, it's unbelievable!"

Although there was a round of applause in the room, and the sci-fi fans were thrilled by Joss Wheddon's words, they inevitably had a slight suspicion, did they say it so well? Every movie likes to brag about itself, it's a convention, and no one starts by saying, "I'm going to make a bad movie!"

"Thank you, thank you Jos! I'm a little embarrassed to say it, is it that powerful?" Wang Yang laughed self-deprecatingly, and the audience who were exposed couldn't help but chuckle, Joss Weddon nodded and smiled: "Yes, I'm an honest person." Wang Yang answered with a smile: "Okay! This movie is called "Firefly", today we brought a concept map of it, please enjoy it, thank you!"

I saw a picture on the big screen behind the two of them, which is one of the concept drawings recently drawn by Wang Yang, after several years of study and hard practice, his painting work has long been different from what it used to be, plus the coloring of the team's art, it is so beautiful that it can enter the gallery.

The upper part of the picture is a vast blue sky, the lower part on the right is a barren and open cliff, looking down at the vast loess, a simple, dilapidated small spaceship parked on the cliff, it seems that several people are standing on the edge of the cliff, looking at the sky with a military salute, and the sky is full of small spaceships taking off, spewing blue-red flames, flying to the universe beyond the sky.

"Wow! Beautiful concept art, what is this doing!?" Bliss stared at him with excitement, just looking at this picture, he knew that the scene of this movie was so grand! He said anxiously: "It can't be a lie, can it?

Other sci-fi fans also felt a surge of blood and excitement! A lot of spaceships! A lot of crew members! It seems that this will not be the earth background of "District 9", and it will not be a one-man show of Victrex alone! Fantastic Jan is really going to run into the vast interstellar space to play! Garrison also looked at it intently, and said, "Wow! This scene is like the Loess Plateau, what style is this "Firefly"? What kind of story is it?!"

"I don't know!" Maggie lifted her glasses and said excitedly, "I think it will be exciting! Look at it, I don't know why, I think this picture is very desolate, maybe it will be as shocking as "District 9......"

Some people have already taken out their cameras to take pictures regardless of etiquette, but the reporters know that there is no need to worry, since the magic Yang announced this new work "Firefly", with his style of attaching importance to publicity, its official website will definitely come out soon, and it may be online tomorrow, this concept map can definitely be downloaded freely on it, and there will be screen wallpaper styles with different resolution ratios.

But they also hurriedly recorded the news, as if they were afraid to turn their heads and forget, this news is definitely a powerful bomb for the science fiction film industry! Explosive news! Look at the science fiction fans around here, their faces are so happy that their faces are distorted!

"Fantastic Jan and Joss Whedon have teamed up to launch a new sci-fi work, Firefly, beautiful concept art, ambitious big scenes......"

Reporters are moving like a fly, and new words are constantly being added to the book in their hands, "George Lucas of TV", and more importantly, the super monster of the film industry, and the Oscar for Best Director, what will happen when the two are combined?

(To be continued)