Chapter 286: Interstellar Travel
In the conference room of DreamWorks.
"Star Trek" original creator Jean? Rodden Berry and the DreamWorks crew are listening carefully to the background of Alex's Star Wars. They listened so engrossively that they forgot the original purpose of the meeting.
The meeting was supposed to sign a contract with Jean for DreamWorks to buy the Star Trek script he had written.
Alex likes to refer to the story as Star Trek rather than Star Trek, and while the latter is a more apt translation, it was the animated film called Star Trek that he first came across when he came across it.
One of the things he wants to do now is to combine Star Trek and Star Wars under the same framework. Combine the stories of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and the Enterprise with Jedi, lightsabers, the Force, and the Dark Sith the Great to create a spectacular, eerie, and ever-changing future interstellar realm.
The first of these was the Vulcan greeting, and the classic gesture and greeting were quickly accepted by Jean and others. They also followed Alex's example and gesticulated, "Grow and prosper!" β
"It can be said that "Star Trek" written by Mr. Jean is the story of mankind's first entry into the interstellar stage, when the strength of human beings was still weak, and there were many races in the universe that were stronger than us. The story at this time should highlight the adventurous spirit of human beings as well as optimism! β
Alex's words were obviously agreed with by Jean, and he nodded his head again and again. Jean said: "Exactly. When I originally wrote this story, I only had a vague feeling that I wanted to write something different from other science fiction stories. Now that I've heard Alex's words, I've really grasped what I'm going to write! β
Morris was not so much concerned with that, he was more concerned with framing the story, he said, "So how do you bring in the Jedi and lightsabers that Alex you mentioned?" Could it be that all of a sudden, human beings have superhuman strength? β
Alex shook his head with a smile and said: "Of course not, we all know that the development of human society is actually divided into two major ways: material and spiritual. The technological development of human beings can be regarded as the development of material civilization, and the light and darkness, the Force, the lightsaber and so on in the Jedi story can be regarded as the result of the development of human spiritual civilization. β
As he spoke, he picked up the chalk and marked a node in the back third of the timeline: "The development of science and technology has naturally led to the development of spiritual civilization. Humanity has entered the interstellar arena thousands of years later. Finally, the spiritual civilization of mankind has also developed to a stage of qualitative change. Naturally, during this period, there were also those who drew the best from the civilizations of other alien races, learned and learned about the development of another path......"
The Force!
He wrote the word on the blackboard, in English. Originally, there was no such word. He explained: "The so-called Force. It is the mysterious power that exists in the universe. It is equivalent to what Chinese Taoism calls 'qi'. In the words of scientists, the Force is the spiritual energy of all life, and it is the dark matter of living beings. It cannot be observed with scientific instruments. It is only by feeling and discovering it with the mind, and then by learning it, you can drive it. β
The more Jean listened, the more excited he became, he originally just wanted to describe the story of mankind encountering various alien races on the road of technological development, telling the story of the protagonists exploring the galaxy, finding the new world and encountering new civilizations, while also helping to spread peace and understanding.
But after listening to Alex's new content, he suddenly felt that he lacked another line in his story, that is, the spiritual development of human beings, when a person's strength can match the strength of a country, what kind of social civilization is at this time. The national society originally built on the material foundation and scientific and technological civilization is bound to be destroyed and rebuilt by this huge force.
Confusion!
Yes, human civilization has developed from chaos to order in the early stage, and then from order to chaos. Cycle after cycle, never stop!
"Thisβthis is the law of the development of the universe!" Jean jumped up from his seat excitedly, feeling as if he had groped for the edge of truth.
Alex shrugged his shoulders and didn't care what the other person was thinking, but instead wrote down the chronological history of Star Wars that he remembered, and marked some key settings. "What I'm asking you to do is find a way to bring these two somewhat different stories together and become one," he said. As for manpower, I'll arrange it! If you don't understand anything and need to ask me, just give me a call or just come in! β
With that, he handed over the meeting to Morris to host, and left DreamWorks! His time is too precious to be wasted on such trivial matters. Although putting Star Trek and Star Wars together was something he wanted to do for a long time, it was just a bad taste for him.
These two sci-fi films, which were praised by later generations, have their own grand views of the universe and the world, and it should not be difficult to adapt and integrate them before filming starts.
What Alex wants is to build a real and credible future world, and if you want to shoot an interstellar sci-fi film, you only need to find some historical events, story backgrounds, and character settings. After the rigorous setting of Jean and the writers of DreamWorks, this framework will definitely be able to withstand repeated tosses.
In the following months, or even a year and a half, Jean led more than a dozen of his subordinates to repeatedly revise and set up. Set up a complete framework for Alex's desired background in the world, and then they kept adding content to it. During this work, the filming of the first TV series of Star Trek has been completed.
The filming location was still chosen in the desert of Nevada, where there is a DreamWorks studio, that is, the ape city where the ape series of movies was filmed.
Today, it has become a tourist attraction for many ape fans. Despite its remote location, it has an interstate highway nearby. For Americans, where most people own cars, it's just a matter of spending some gas money.
Many hippies and Dharma wanderers like to visit this ape city, and they like to go to a place that looks like another planetary civilization. When Alex was designing, he built the city from a practical point of view. It is not a one-off set, but a building facility that can be used for many years.
Except for those areas that are being filmed, all other places can be rented out to tourists. People can live in the city in this movie and feel the atmosphere of a different environment. Even the permanent staff in the city are dressed as individual apes, and they look like they are in an ape movie.
The hippies also brought their own ape suits, some of which were gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees. There are also those dressed as captive primitives or even futuristic people.
As needed. DreamWorks is also next to the city, building the city of the future of mankind. It is also a city that is about to be used for residence, and several movies have already been filmed here. The "Star Trek" TV series was filmed here.
Unlike the shoddy work in history. DreamWorks' Star Trek series is better than some sci-fi movies made by small studios. As soon as it was launched. Immediately caused a ratings frenzy. The audience was deeply attracted by this interstellar sci-fi film.
In order to build momentum, Alex asked his two comic companies to transfer manpower and began to prepare some special comics. Even if they drew two different intergalactic sci-fi comics. But they are all strictly bound to Jean's setting of their story.
According to Alex's vision, it is like a tree, which can have various story branches, which do not interfere with each other but are connected to each other. Among them, there are the stories of "Enterprise" and the story of the space station "Babylon V", and various small stories are like branches branching apart, separating from the main trunk and growing alone.
Surprisingly, this genre of comics has achieved an astonishing success, and it has pioneered a different genre from American hero comics, which is intergalactic comics. Many interstellar comic fans have been cultivated, and while they are waiting for TV, they have run to buy comic books of the same type to read to enrich their understanding of the interstellar world.
Marvel Comics and DC Comics have asked to continue drawing, and they want to get permission to open up a new comic market outside of Hero Comics.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with this, they all belong to Alex's company, and they are easily authorized. Soon, in American comics, in addition to hero comics, there was another kind of interstellar science fiction comics.
This is something that has never happened before in Alex's history, he changed history and made history.
After the success of TV and comics, DreamWorks followed suit with the release of the Star Trek movie. Originally, Alex was planning to delay it a little longer, not wanting to release the movie so soon. In his opinion, the current animation special effects are too bad to meet his expectations.
If we can wait until the computer is developed, maybe in another six or seven years, we will have the level of computer special effects in the 80s. However, he thought about it and felt that the people of this era had not yet been baptized by the special effects of later generations, and some ordinary pictures could also make them excited.
DreamWorks' special effects team is already the most powerful special effects in Hollywood, and they are able to do special effects scenes that other studios can't do, and the film version of "Star Trek" was filmed quickly, leaving audiences stunned by this era on the day of its release.
They looked at the real and fake special effects in the movie, and they were all dumbfounded, although there are many special effects on the planet of the apes itself, it is actually very conservative, and it pays more attention to the discussion of humanistic rationality.
As for the movie "Star Trek", the future spaceship, various technological applications, and scenes of space warfare in it are all eye-opening.
It's like Alex was so shocked when he first saw the liquid metal robot that he forgot when the movie ended. When I got home, all I had left in my mind was the gorgeous special effects of the movie, and it was only when I went back and watched it again that I realized the true meaning of the movie.
Although "Star Trek" was not filmed by Alex himself, his influence is everywhere, and some of the small details in it, such as folding mobile phones, Bluetooth technology, and induction automatic doors, seem more real and credible under his description. Years later, when people used this kind of technology, they were surprised to find that the same thing was already available in Star Trek decades ago.
The predictions and impact of this series of films on technology will seem so accurate and huge to people decades later. And now, it was nothing more than a seed in Alex's hands, just planted in the ground, and growing a young sapling.
"It seems that something is missing, just TV, movies and comics." Alex thought to himself, he thought, "It has to be expanded in all aspects, such as the interstellar travel game......"
Speaking of games, Alex suddenly had an idea of integrating the StarCraft story into the framework he had made.
When you think about it, it seems like it can be done.
Let's just say that in the early days when human beings stepped on the interstellar stage, there was a colonial fleet that was lost in space, and as a result, they encountered the Zerg and the Protoss in a certain star field!
In order to survive, humanity must seize the mines of this star field and establish a defensive circle! Three different races, thus starting a fierce war!
When Alex shared his new ideas with Jean and the others, they were also intrigued by the small branches, especially the civilization styles of the three different races.
"In this way, we will be able to fill in part of the content of the early human space exploration!"
"It's awesome! Alex, where did you get this wonderful idea? Jean exclaimed that he found that with this timeline as the main line and events as the branching out, many interesting ideas could be added to the mix.
Morris was also interested in this small branch of story, which seemed more compact, more intense, and more suitable for a film or two. He asked, "Alex, have you considered making this story into a movie?" Write a script and come out! β
Alex shook his head, he vetoed the idea, "It's not time yet, Maurice!" If we really want to make this kind of cosmic war movie, our current level of special effects is far from reaching! β
In his opinion, it is necessary to have at least the special effects of the 80s to make this kind of film, otherwise it is better to let it go. However, drawing comics, writing novels, and producing toys can be done earlier.
These were trivial things, and Alex didn't want to waste his time in them. However, after he assisted Jean and others in getting some basic settings and story frameworks right, he completely threw them away.
Next, what he's going to finish is the animation part! He's going to take complete control of the Disney Company! (To be continued......)