For the first time, Alex's abilities failed.

To be precise, it is the ability to copy souls that fails, which is the most complex and the most problematic.

He had encountered a similar problem before, unable to copy other people's soul information, but that was before he mastered the ability to copy dolls.

Ever since he figured out the rules for copying abilities, he hadn't encountered such a problem.

But judging from today's encounter, it seems that there is still any way to stop Alex from stealing the soul information, at least Director Hoover did not let him copy it successfully.

"Could it be that Director Hoover had a plastic surgery?"

Alex thought to himself, but it doesn't feel likely, even if it's plastic surgery, if the target himself is used to the appearance after plastic surgery, and changes his inner self-image to what he looks like after plastic surgery, then there will be no problem.

In addition to the speculation of plastic surgery, Alex also thought of another answer, which is "witchcraft"!

Yes, since Alex got the knowledge of witchcraft from the master of witchcraft, he understood that there are many mysterious exercises in this world, and these exercises can have a great impact on the human soul, and witchcraft is only one of them.

When it comes to things that can affect souls, Alex's replica puppet abilities are greatly disrupted. After all, his ability is not brute-force cracking, but like checking the USB connection to the computer slot, it is easy for various things to happen that affect the transmission of computer data.

Alex doubts if he meets strong-willed. And a person who consciously seals his mental fluctuations is estimated to have no effect on his ability to copy.

Maybe Director Hoover himself is such a person, he not only has a strong aura, but also can block his mental fluctuations through his will, just like a brain glency.

Anyway, after he thought it through, he stopped worrying about it, and now regretting and annoying it was useless.

"I hope the other party didn't notice his little moves!" Alex is still a little worried about his ability being exposed, so many people will be wary of him, at least Rockefeller and Hughes will easily appear in front of him.

After putting this thing aside. Alex didn't pay any more attention to the FBI's movements. He had already planned to get out of the struggle of those top bosses, and he didn't want to get involved. When he saw Director Hoover take out the Tesla manuscript, his heart kept drumming, and he realized that he was involuntarily involved again.

The quick-witted Alex immediately came up with a way to get away with it. It's a nonsense question about what kind of artist and the soul of the work. Actually, it's not nonsense. It's just that he wanted to fool Hoover's words. You can't just find a reason that's too obvious.

With Alex's memory, of course, he had memorized all the contents of the manuscript, and he had studied the manuscript carefully when he returned. As for what password the other party wants to find, something like that. Alex didn't find it, and he wasn't very interested.

He was interested in Tesla's thinking and logic, and the manuscript only revealed a small part of it, which was a bit helpful to Alex. If the complete manuscript material is available, there may be a big discovery, Alex thinks.

Putting this little episode aside, Alex focused on the filming of Planet of the Apes. DreamWorks employees were so efficient that they quickly built the ape-man city they needed for the film, located in southern Nevada, USA.

It's a desolate desert hinterland, sparsely populated, and it's hard to see flora and fauna. It is very suitable for shooting apocalyptic sci-fi films, and in order to be able to use the land here at will, DreamWorks bought it from the owner who owns the land.

"What? You're going to buy this land? The DreamWorks treasurer couldn't understand this, and he thought the land was worthless.

It's so desolate that there's no mineral resources and no crops to grow. Whoever buys it is a fool!

Not only the treasurer thinks so, but even the owner of the land thinks so. When DreamWorks contacted the landlord, it was suspected that it was a liar or a prank.

"Are you sure you want this land? You can't lie to me, right? After the landlord confirmed on the phone, he happily prepared all the documents for the land, and then ran to complete the formalities with the people at DreamWorks.

It didn't cost much money to get the ownership of a large piece of land. Although the land is large, but it is located in the middle of nowhere and has no valuable output, the transaction is considered a loss. Almost everyone thought so, but Alex soon learned that it was wrong.

There's a reason DreamWorks chose to set up its facilities here, as there's a national highway nearby, and it's easily accessible. In Alex's vision, many people will come here for vacation in the future, so the urban architecture is measured by practicality. In terms of appearance, you can see the style of the ape-man city, and it has the feeling of going to other planetary civilizations.

Once the land was in hand, DreamWorks immediately began to recruit people to build the ape city. These buildings were built in the style of drawings designed by Alex, and there were not many scenes needed for the initial shooting, so the construction of the ape-man city did not affect the progress of the filming work.

The city is no problem, but the special effects makeup artist is a bit difficult to do, because there are too many special effects makeup artists needed, and the level requirements are too high, and the special effects makeup artists in Hollywood have almost been recruited by DreamWorks, but they still haven't been able to reach the number needed by the crew.

"What to do? We're overwhelmed! ”

The crew's special effects supervisor asked with a little headache. He had tried his best, but he couldn't complete the task on time, and the bonus was probably a bit hanging.

Alex looked at the other party, and then at Morris, and there was nothing good to do in his heart, but he still insisted on his request: "I don't care what method you use, anyway, I can't delay the shooting." It doesn't detract from the special effects makeup effect I've set! ”

Being a boss has this advantage, no matter what kind of problem, as long as it is not a problem of money, you can leave it to the people below to solve it. He doesn't care how difficult it is or how many people will be unable to sleep because of it.

Eventually, Morris and the special effects lead went to the side to figure out a solution, and they managed to do their best to meet the requirements of the shoot.

During that year, almost all of Hollywood's special effects makeup artists were concentrated in DreamWorks, and other studios always needed to borrow some special effects makeup artists from DreamWorks when shooting films. Otherwise, their films won't be able to be made.

Alex's side of the work can already begin. He first filmed the scene where the spaceship was lost in space.

Naturally, this scene could not be filmed in Nevada, but came to SCC's side. At his request, SCC created a mock-up of a spaceship, based entirely on Alex's design. It's very futuristic and technological.

The spacecraft was built to real scale. And the material used is solid. It was used in several films in succession, and eventually the ship became the treasure of DreamWorks and was stored in the Museum of Film History.

Besides. There is also the requisitioning of the rocket launch control center of the SCC company, where he wants to film. Once the space station was set up as the hub, it was not long before the filming was completed.

After the film came out, it not only attracted the curiosity of ordinary viewers about the SCC rocket launch headquarters, but also allowed the Soviet Union to organize a group of people from the space agency to observe and study it.

"Planet of the Apes" is a huge film that has created many firsts.

It's the most expensive sci-fi film, but it's also the most realistic and grandiose set and the most used for makeup effects.

In Alex's script, all the astronauts are very young, which is more in line with people's opinions: "Astronauts must be young and strong enough to be competent." ”

Because in this film, Alex wears many hats, not only as a director, screenwriter but also as the leading actor. In order to make the filming go a little smoother, he asked Morris to help as an assistant director. Now in the position of director, it is Morris, the boss of DreamWorks.

"Ready!"

Under Morris's order, Alex was seen wearing a white spacesuit, and the protagonist Taylor stood in front of the camera. His costume looks just like the real thing, and even real astronauts are very hot to look at when they wear it.

"Hey! Sir, when will we be able to wear spacesuits like this? ”

There were not only members of the DreamWorks crew on the set, but also people from SCC and astronauts from NASA training who were invited over. Alex is, after all, the owner of SCC, and he and Hughes have the same control over NASA, and now all Americans know that NASA is under the management of SCC.

Under the dispatch of the SCC company, the development level of US aerospace technology has been continuously improved, and many satellites have been launched into space for the government and military in succession. In the field of rockets and satellites, the United States and the Soviet Union have caught up with each other, and great progress has been made in related technologies.

Alex's influence in the development of rocket satellites is no weaker than that of von Bryan and Korolev. His every move was closely watched.

When he offered to shoot a space scene and needed some professionals to come and help, NASA and the government immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to get the word out. So they half-forced, half-tempted to use their own people, especially when they learned about Alex's ambitions and the effect the film wanted to achieve, and this demand became even stronger.

"Our lad is the most professional astronaut, you actors can't!" NASA officials were so hard selling.

"But ......"

Alex was a little hesitant, he also knew that the other party's words were good, but he always felt that if this continued, the film would become a NASA promotional film.

"No matter how many people are needed, we at NASA can help!"

"Okay!"

In the end, Alex decided to replace those extras, and in the movie, they just appeared as sets, and these actors were played by NASA people, and they were able to build a good relationship between the two parties. Crucially, there is also a cost savings.

Inside the space station. The staff came and went.

Looking out of the transparent window, it was the brilliant Milky Way, starry in the dark universe. Alex plays Taylor, a black astronaut played by Chuck, and another white astronaut of a man and a woman appear in the scene.

"Commander! We were signaled by UFOs! The specific position is in the alpha region, and from the analysis of the obtained signals, the object is flying at a medium speed! The staff of the space station shouted.

"Launch the probe and get the ship ready!" The commander replied.

Then came a dizzying array of commands, and the sound of sirens from inside the station.

They are all staff from NASA, and they have a very fast grasp of this seemingly powerful and professional set of lines, and they act very naturally and smoothly as soon as filming starts. There is not the slightest hint of jerkiness.

In this clip. There were a few shots that needed to be put up in post-production, but it didn't affect the atmosphere of the set.

According to the requirements of the script, the actors gave the beginning of the story background to the perfect performance.

Eventually, they discover that the flying object is actually a super-large nuclear warhead launched into space by the Soviet Union. It turned out that this was a new type of weapon. It was invented to attack a space station that stayed in space.

Maybe for a demonstration. Perhaps to verify the effect, the Soviets launched a nuclear warhead where the American space station could be observed. Huge explosions took place in the universe, blooming with light and heat that were thousands of times brighter than the sun.

"Nuke! This is a nuclear bomb for the Soviets! ”

"Enter Red Alert! All on Red Alert! ”

"Oh no!"

In the face of the new Soviet weapons. The entire space station staff became panicked, and even the commander couldn't sit still, standing up and staring at the scene on the screen. At the same time, the various data detected by the space station came like a tidal wave, and the voices of the staff were even more nervous.

Not only the actors, but also all the crew members present, as well as the crowd watching outside the camera, also felt the tension.

Although the Cuban Missile Crisis had not yet occurred at this time, the impact of the US-Soviet struggle for hegemony was gradually increasing, and people were very uneasy about the future direction. Some people have already preached the so-called "doomsday theory", and even scientists have come to join in the fun and make a "countdown to the end of the world"!

Alex in this script, at the beginning, introduces a similar era background. In the future, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States will become increasingly tense, and nuclear missile tests will continue one after another, not only on Earth, but also to outer space.

In other words, no matter where you hide, even those who fly into space will not be able to feel safe.

"Commander! We found that there were radio signals coming from the center of the explosion of the Soviets' nuclear missiles, which, according to analysis, were not from the Earth! The actor who played the space station crew continued to speak his lines.

"What?"

Not only was the commander surprised, but everyone else was surprised. Soon, the commander got in touch with the U.S. government on the ground, and at the request of the government, sent a four-man spacecraft to explore the area.

"You have to figure out what the Soviets are up to, get their weapons and come back secretly!"

When Taylor and his three companions arrived in the area, they quickly discovered various anomalies, such as the confusion of time and space, and the appearance of a white circular hole in the center of the explosion, from which radio signals were transmitted.

Of course, there are a lot of special shots used here, which are special effects that have never been seen in movies like this era. I can't shoot it now, so I need to go back and let the special effects team figure it out.

"The Ark! Please lean over and explore the white hole and see what you can discover! ”

The commander gave them orders, and at the same time, scientists on Earth analyzed and discussed the cosmic white hole that appeared after the explosion. It was soon suggested that this cave was actually a so-called wormhole, capable of traveling to other parts of the universe.

As for why a nuclear bomb exploded in the universe was able to create such a thing, scientists have different opinions and cannot reach a unified consensus. In order to further explore this strange phenomenon, they need Taylor and the others to continue to get closer to the cave entrance, and if they can, travel back in time to take a look.

Under the order of the commander, Taylor and others drove the "Ark" spaceship near the wormhole, but what they didn't expect was that they were accidentally sucked by the wormhole, and the spacecraft could not get rid of the traction of this force.

The four Taylors hurriedly sent a distress signal to the space station, and also took various emergency measures to avoid accidents.

After trying all kinds of methods, everyone helplessly watched as the Ark was sucked into the wormhole, and the signal disappeared after the eventually, and there was no sign that they still existed in this space.

"Cards!" Alex screamed at the last shot to stop shooting after the last shot was perfectly shot.

He didn't have many opportunities to appear in this scene, and in the last few scenes, Alex had already taken over the director's duties from Morris.

Just like filming "The Sound of Music", he found an assistant director to replace his job. However, he still decided to hold the director's power tightly in his hands and present the movie in his mind perfectly. Even the smallest details had to be double-checked before he could get it through.

"Very good! Great work, everyone! Alex was very satisfied with the footage taken by the photographer after seeing it, so this time the shot was over, and there was no need to reshoot.

With Alex's approval, the crew all relaxed, and they packed up the shooting equipment and props. The space station and spacecraft have been filmed completely, and the rest of the footage is basically going to be shot in Nevada. (To be continued......)