Sif's words sent Jamie deep in thought.

As a time-traveler, the easiest way to write a script that can conquer Cameron is, of course, to copy the "correct answer".

The script of "Avatar" was thrown in front of Cameron, and then the other party was amazed after reading it, isn't this the dream book he was looking for?

But the reality is that Cameron wrote the script of "Avatar" six years ago, and at this time, he went to the other party with a script with a similar plot structure, and it was completely Jerry licking Tom's ass - looking for shit!

If Jamie is really stupid to do this, not only will he not be able to win Cameron's "heart", but he will be saddled with a plagiarism lawsuit.

Although the current "Avatar" has not yet been officially named, there is only one project codenamed "880".

Westar Pictures obviously didn't know about the project, otherwise they wouldn't have come to Jamie to help write the script.

It's not that Westar Pictures is closed, but that Cameron is now bent on heaven, and for the time being, he is still trying to take care of the story he came up with on a whim.

In fact, when Cameron came up with the story of Project 880, he didn't want to make it into a movie.

At the time, Cameron was very optimistic about the future of CG technology, and he owned a special effects company in the digital field.

Cameron was not very satisfied with the speed of development of CG technology in the digital field, which reminded him of the filming of "Terminator 2", when he proposed to set the second Terminator as a robot that could smoothly transform between metal and liquid states.

Under the technical conditions of the early 90s, this idea made many Hollywood special effects companies stunned, and no one dared to take over.

In the end, it was the veteran special effects studio Industrial Light & Magic that took over the project, but they were not sure.

Forced by Cameron's creativity, ILM enlisted scientists to help with the geometry of the characters and study the form of liquid metal.

Eventually, an ILM employee named John Knoll and his brother who was a graduate student at the University of Michigan invented a new piece of software that helped ILM create the film's epoch-making liquid metal man shot.

This software is the famous Photoshop that became one of the four major evil arts in Asia.

And it was through the practice in "Terminator 2" that Industrial Light & Magic took on a bigger project.

Jurassic Park.

This film, which opened the clarion call for Hollywood blockbusters to conquer the global film market, made the combination of CG and film a mainstream trend in Hollywood blockbusters.

Cameron also decided to invest heavily in CG technology after seeing the success of "Jurassic Park".

So he started painting flatbread for his employees.

He deliberately wrote an alien story script that could only be shot and processed with CG technology, claiming that after filming "Titanic", he would start shooting the film immediately.

Developers in the digital field believed Cameron's nonsense and began to work CG technology.

As a result, "Titanic" was a great success after its release, and Cameron, who had won a lot, turned around and sold his shares in the digital field at a high price, and took the money to explore the world by himself.

The technical nerds in the digital field are confused, but unfortunately they can't get off the thief ship at this time.

I can only continue to study CG special effects technology.

Fortunately, the one who took over the digital field from Cameron is also a Hollywood director, the famous explosion maniac Michael Bay.

In a few years, this guy will bring the childhood memories of a generation of Americans, "Transformers," to the big screen.

CG technology, which has been painstakingly researched in the digital field for many years, also shines on the deformed Autobots.

But that's all for another time.

Cameron wrote "Avatar" six years ago, which also cut off the possibility of Jamie copying the "right answer".

The most pitiful thing is that "Avatar" is actually not the right answer.

At least not for now.

Before the 3D shooting technology is fully mature, Cameron will not have the idea of making "Avatar".

In fact, Cameron is planning another film project at the moment, and Westar Pictures is definitely aware of it.

But in the conversation just now, Siv never mentioned it.

To confirm his suspicions, Jamie turned around and asked Serena to help bring the laptop.

Then, in front of Sif, Jamie opened his browser and typed in a line of URLs.

When he was done, he turned the computer screen to Sif on the other side.

Seeing the web page displayed on the computer screen, Sif suddenly changed his face.

She looked at Jamie with a shocked face and was about to open her mouth to question, but Jamie took the lead.

"You must be asking, why did I know this?"

Sif's head was still there, the surprise in her eyes lingering.

The project is highly classified within Weststar Pictures.

Even if Sif is the daughter of Logan Roy, she didn't know the company still had this project until she was sent by her father as a lobbyist.

Jamie shrugged and explained:

"Actually, the answer you just said, I'm a fanatic comic book fan like James Cameron, in fact, I not only like American comics, but also dabbled in Japanese comics, just like "Iron Man", I'm also trying to buy some Japanese comic movie rights, and guess what happened?"

Sif pursed her lips and didn't speak.

Jamie continued:

"One of my favorite Japanese comics has been bought by Hollywood studios, and after many inquiries, I learned that it was Westar Pictures that bought the copyright."

"During this period, I also heard an additional grapevine that the original author was willing to sell the film rights because it was Hollywood director James Cameron who fell in love with the story."

This Japanese comic is called "Gun Dream".

In his previous life, he was adapted into the Hollywood movie "Battle Angel: Alita", although he still used Cameron's banner, but in fact, the director has been replaced by someone else.

At present, Cameron's reputation in Xiaori can be said to be in full swing, after all, the highest local box office record of 26.2 billion yen created by "Titanic" was only broken by "Spirited Away", which was just released this year.

Under the banner of Cameron, Westar Pictures easily won the copyright of "Gun Dream".

But at this time, Cameron changed his mind.

He told Weststar Pictures that he planned to start filming "Gun Dream" after the space documentary was filmed in the sky.

By the way, he also applied for a $20 million fund from Weststar Pictures, and although he was successfully bargained to $15 million in the end, it still made the top management of Weststar Pictures want to vomit blood.

In order to prevent the $15 million from drifting, Weststar Pictures made an agreement with Cameron.

It's okay not to shoot "Gun Dream", so let's make a space-themed movie first.

Cameron agreed, and that's when Sif came to Jamie to help write the script.

Subjectively, Sif didn't want to hide the project "Gun Dream", but he didn't expect it to be so coincidental that Jamie also happened to fall in love with "Gun Dream".

Immediately, a plan took shape in Sif Shif's mind.

"Are you really interested in Gunmon?"

As soon as Sif spoke, Jamie guessed what she was thinking.

"What, you want to use the copyright of "Gun Dream" to exchange it with me?"

"The premise is that you can deliver a script that will impress Cameron, but also be valuable enough that I can convince WestarPictures and my father."

Sif had apparently learned the lesson of the previous time this time, and immediately added another one.

If Jamie invests in the filming of "Gun Dream" and the director is still Cameron, Weststar Pictures will have the right of first refusal.

Instead of saying yes right away, Jamie decided to think about it for a while before giving Siv an answer.

Shortly after Sif left, another guest visited the Hampshire House penthouse.

It's Michael Ovitz.

He came to discuss with Jamie about the global audition for "The Adventures of Cheng Long", but after entering the study room with hand-made models on three walls, Jamie first told him about helping Weststar Pictures write the script.

The first thing Ovitz said was:

"Are you bound to get the copyright to Gunmon?"

Thinking of the word-of-mouth and box office of "Battle Angel: Alita" in his previous life, Jamie immediately shook his head.

"I'm actually more interested in helping Cameron write the script than the copyright of 'Gun Dream'."

Ovitz immediately asked.

"So you already have the right story?"

Jamie nodded.

"Sort of."

Ovitz frowned, apparently thinking the answer was too ambiguous.

Jamie didn't intend to reveal any more information, but asked about something else.

"How much do you know about the Hugo Awards?"

Ovitz's first reaction was whether Jamie had a crush on a certain Hugo Award-winning film, but Jamie immediately denied it.

"I mean, is there any way to PR awards?"

Ovitz was stunned for a moment, and then replied without hesitation:

"Of course, when I was at CAA, I helped a client win an award, and I can't tell you their name, but I did."

Ovitz told Jamie that there was a big loophole in the Hugo Award selection system.

In the nomination process, you can ensure that a work is shortlisted by swiping votes.

But that's not all, the real operation is to directly control the entire shortlist by swiping votes.

The normal award is better than which work, but the Hugo Award can be made worse by swiping tickets.

Let a bunch of low-quality works be shortlisted, and finally rely on peers to set off the way, and achieve the purpose of controlling the award without a solution.

That's how CAA won an award for that client's work.

This has also led to the fact that although the Hugo Award is known as the Nobel Prize in the science fiction world, it is actually seriously lacking in international credibility.

In the previous life, this situation did not change much until Jamie crossed over, otherwise "Time and Space Painter", which did not even reach the passing mark of a certain petal, would have won the award.

"Last year, a friend recommended to me a novella serialized in a Chinese science fiction magazine, and I was immediately fascinated by the story, and his idea was very good, an idea that had not been mentioned in all previous science fiction."

Jamie briefly told Ovitz the story of "The Wandering Earth".

After hearing this, Ovitz was also shocked.

It's not just a brain-opening idea to use the entire Earth as a spaceship to drive out of the solar system.

More because of the dystopian ending.

In order to escape the solar system as quickly as possible, the coalition government can only use centralized dictatorship to promote the Wandering Earth project, which inevitably gives birth to problems such as abuse of privileges.

Eventually, after the Earth successfully escaped from the solar system, the sun still did not change abnormally, and the survivors began to doubt the claim that the solar helium flash destroyed the Earth, believing that it was a hoax created by the coalition government to carry out dictatorship.

Eventually, the rebels overthrew the coalition government and brutally executed all of the top brass and all the scientists who had supported the Wandering Earth project.

However, at this time, the solar helium flash erupted, and the entire space of the solar system was engulfed.

Humans who have escaped can only manipulate the earth and continue to wander in the universe.

Shocked, Ovitz immediately guessed Jamie's thoughts.

"Do you want to recommend this to James Cameron for his plan to shoot this wandering earth?"

Jamie asked rhetorically on the spot:

"Or who do you think Hollywood is better suited to make this movie than Cameron?"

Yes, of course, there is.

For example, George Lucas, the father of Star Wars.

But at the moment, Lucas is busy filming "Star Wars Prequel", and the reason why he can't spare his hands is on the one hand, and on the other hand, he probably won't take over space sci-fi movies outside of the "Star Wars" series.

One Star Wars series is enough for Lucas to eat for several lifetimes.

If you have that time and energy, you might as well use it to expand the world view and story of your own "Star Wars" series and enhance the value of the entire IP.

Looking at the whole of Hollywood, it seems that the only one who can shoot "The Wandering Earth" well is the truck driver.

The most important thing is that Cameron is now bent on heaven, and "The Wandering Earth" happens to be stuck on his point of interest.

It is not only the navigator mentioned in the International Space Station, but also closely related to the subject of the space documentary that Cameron is preparing to shoot on the space station.

There is also a space elevator, NASA began the research and development project of the space elevator in 99.

It is estimated that Cameron himself will be very depressed after seeing the script of "The Wandering Earth".

He just made up a reason to cheat Westar Pictures of the sponsorship funds to fulfill his dream of a space documentary, and it turned out that Jamie really gave him a whole movie that was brain-opening and super difficult to shoot.

Unless Cameron can come up with something more brainstorming than taking the earth to the sky.

The point is that he can't even find a reason to refuse.

Not to mention, Jamie also knows another key chip to convince Cameron.

3D Shooting Technology!

For a tech maniac like Cameron, CG special effects alone can't satisfy his appetite.

This is also why he sold the digital field directly after filming "Titanic".

It's not about crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, but Cameron's heart has already flown to more advanced 3D shooting technology.

Just as Cameron drew a pie for his employees in the digital field, Jamie can also draw a pie for Cameron in 3D movies.

But before that, he had to go back to China first and find Da Liu to win the copyright of "The Wandering Earth".

(End of chapter)