Because of the lack of tidying, the study room is even more messy, with books, drafts, paper clips and other items piled up everywhere on several tables, and the entire wall to the west is also plastered with drafts

Walking down the spiral staircase, Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow are simultaneously captivated by the walls full of storyboards and various drafts.

"Eric, did you do all this?" the couple roughly looked at the contents of the manuscript paper from south to north, and Cameron asked in disbelief, because the content of these manuscripts was so surprising, although most of them were sketch storyboards, but there were also all aspects of film production, and Cameron even saw a large part of the special effects of the film.

Feeling the surprise of the Camerons, Eric was very satisfied, although he had decided to cooperate with the Camerons, but Eric could also see that although his film department was a big hit, Cameron still despised him, and even on "Terminator 2", he obviously regarded himself as a fool and a wealthy Kaizi.

Although Eric doesn't care too much about what others think of him, if he wants to maintain a long-term cooperation with an unruly person like Cameron, it is necessary to show enough strength to the other party.

"That's my film project for the next few years, and I actually started working on it occasionally when I was in New York, and you can see what I've been doing over the years. ”

Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow heard Eric and turned their gaze to the wall covered with paper, and it was only after a cursory glance that Cameron noticed the contents of the storyboards.

A terrifying tornado swept up the entire house. The massive T-Rex chases the off-road vehicle. A tsunami several hundred meters high rushed towards New York City. Washington, D.C. is shrouded in a huge shadow......

Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow were more and more surprised, because in this day and age, these images were usually only found in comics or novels, but now it seems that Eric clearly wanted to bring them to the big screen with the intention of a live-action movie.

Kathryn Bigelow was calm, but Cameron had an undisguised frenzy in his eyes, and he felt as if a new era was about to begin.

After looking at the storyboards again, Cameron asked, "Eric." How are you going to make a film about these ideas, I mean, do you have a detailed plan for what you can do?"

"Of course," Eric explains, "I'm going to spend the next decade or so working on two main series, the Jurassic Park series, which is based on the novel I published two years ago, and the disaster film series." ”

"Disaster film series?" Cameron once again turned his gaze to the sketches.

Eric walked up to Cameron, pointed to some of the drawings and explained in detail, "Yes, a disaster movie series with at least five films, you see. This part is a script called "Tornado", which mainly tells the story of a group of fanatical scientists chasing and studying tornadoes, and here is the idea of an alien invasion of Earth. Tentatively named "Independence Day", but it seems that this name involves another copyright, I don't know if I can get it along the way; and here is a comet hitting the earth and human beings are facing destruction, and the script is called "Heaven and Earth Collision"; Finally, here is a story about the global climate cooling sharply and most of the United States being frozen up, I call it "The Day After Tomorrow", which means that we never know what will happen after tomorrow. ”

Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow listened intently to Eric's explanation, and when Eric finished speaking, Cameron reached out and stroked the sketch on the wall and pondered for a long time before asking, "Eric, how do you plan to achieve this, can the current technology achieve it?"

"Of course, as long as you are willing to spend money," Eric said confidently, "Actually, these two series involve the two directions of development that I imagine the future of special effects films." I've talked to Stan and Ed a few times before, and I just came back from New York the other day, and I made a trip to San Francisco just for these things. ”

Even with Cameron's madness, imagining Eric's "Jurassic Park" series and disaster film series in his mind, it still feels a little incredible, as a director of technical flow, Cameron has a clear idea of what the current special effects technology can do, so he knows that although Eric's movies can definitely be produced if they are forced to shoot, each one must be sky-high.

Even Kathryn Bigelow couldn't help but think that this little guy seemed to be even crazier than her husband.

Cameron doesn't seem to be too interested in the Jurassic Park series, but instead discusses with Eric with great interest the possibility of making a disaster film series.

"Eric, you see, as you said, the relatively simple special effects of Tornado, how do you plan to show the tornado on the screen? As far as I know, it is difficult for the most advanced special effects of Industrial Light & Magic to show the tornado on the screen realistically. ”

Eric turned over and took out a copy of the text from the desk and handed it to James Cameron, Cameron looked at the cover of the article and felt a little surprised, these should be very important things for Eric, but since Eric gave it to him, Cameron was not pretentious, and directly opened it and read it, Catherine Bigelow also curiously leaned over to her husband to look at the content of the text.

The article in front of me is roughly a proposal to commission a research team led by a famous physicist at Stanford University to develop a set of fluid simulation software, the purpose of which is to realize special effects such as smoke, flowing water, and wind on the computer.

As Mr. and Mrs. Cameron read the text, Eric said, "Professor Ron Phidics from Stanford has confirmed the feasibility of this plan, and the research and development work has already begun, and it will take about half a year for this software to be put into use." When the time comes, scenes such as tornadoes, tsunamis, explosions, and smoke from the few disaster movies I have mentioned can be realized through this software. In addition, Ed Carmore is now preparing a research team in Los Angeles to develop a 3D modeling software that can realize scenes such as building collapse and city destruction, and Ed Carmore will also optimize Pixar's original rendering software Randerman so that it can be adapted to live-action film rendering. (To be continued......)