Chapter 141: Expanding the Little Wrecking Ball Universe
"Well, I'll admit that you convinced me, and at the moment I'm interested in the project The Wandering Earth."
Cameron shifted to a more comfortable sitting position and looked at Jamie with curiosity.
"But I'm more curious about how the plot of the sequel will develop? I mean, you bought the rights to this story from that Chinese writer, and it must have been more than just to make a movie, right? ”
"Of course."
Jamie put down the coffee cup in his hand.
"In my vision, the story perspective of "The Wandering Earth 2" will return to the interior of the earth, after the crisis of Jupiter, the earth successfully flew out of the solar system, but the ammonia flash did not arrive as expected."
"The long-standing grievances of the people at the bottom erupted under the instigation of the Spaceship Faction, and riots broke out in underground shelters around the world, and finally the rebels overthrew the government and executed all high-ranking and Earth-wing scientists, including the Spaceship Faction that instigated them to rebel in the first place."
"At this moment, the ammonia flash of the sun erupted, and the entire solar system was engulfed by the expanding sun, yet the rebels blocked the news from the people in order to maintain their dominance through the riot."
When he heard this, Cameron couldn't help but interject:
"The dragon slayer boy eventually turned into a dragon?"
Obviously, what Jamie just mentioned is just the story setting of the sequel, as for the real story-
Jamie shrugged, indicating that he hadn't figured it out yet.
After all, with Cameron's grinding speed of making movies, "The Wandering Earth" can be released at the same time as "Avatar" in the previous life, and it is estimated that Weststar Pictures will have to thank God.
So it's obviously too early to think about the sequel content at the moment.
However, that doesn't stop Jamie from drawing a pie to Cameron.
"My initial idea is that the earth has been wandering in the universe for hundreds of years, and still has not found a galaxy and planet suitable for human habitation, and at this time, the entire planet is developing in the direction of cyberpunk because of the deformed high-pressure rule and the blockade of the underlying technology."
"With the space elevator and the entire ruling class moving to the ever-expanding Navigator space station, the people in the shelter on Earth are completely enslaved, and the crippled Jack is recruited by a high-level company to travel to a planet called Pandora in a spaceship in order to obtain a prosthetic leg."
"There are intelligent indigenous life on Pandora planet, and there is a special magnetic field on Pandora planet, which will make most of human technology ineffective, so the advance team scientists mixed the DNA of humans and the natives of Pandora planet to cultivate an avatar with a height of nearly 3 meters, and can be controlled by human will and mind to facilitate the invasion of Pandora planet."
Speaking of which, Jamie glanced at Cameron with a shocked face on the other side.
Obviously, Cameron hadn't thought of naming Pandora after the planet he had envisioned before.
The concept of Avatar should not have been born yet.
Cameron is obviously moved by this sequel story, but he refuses to admit it directly.
"Wow, I thought that the last easter egg in the script of "The Wandering Earth", Michael is not dead, and the sequel will continue to tell stories related to him."
Jamie smiled and winked at Cameron.
"Actually, Michael didn't die this easter egg, it was buried for the filming of the prequel."
The four, including Shelton, Cameron and Ovitz, were shocked.
Is there a prequel to "The Wandering Earth"?
Jamie nodded.
Although the script has not yet been written, it does not prevent Jamie from changing the plot of "The Wandering Earth 2" in his previous life according to the style of Hollywood screenwriters.
The story is set before "The Wandering Earth 1", scientists on Earth discovered that the sun was about to expand one day in the future, engulfing the entire solar system, so scientists on Earth began to deduce various survival plans.
After several years of argumentation and discussion, the spaceship faction and the earth faction became the only two mainstream choices.
The Staunch Earth faction, led by Hua Guo and some American scientists, proposed the "moon crash plan" and installed planetary engines on the moon and the earth at the same time.
At the same time as the exile of the moon, the Earth was brought to a standstill in preparation for the next step of the Earth's departure from the solar system.
The radicals in the spaceship faction proposed the "Digital Life Project", which uploads human minds to a digital network to achieve digital immortality.
In this way, it can solve the problem that human life is too short to adapt to the needs of long-term space exploration.
However, due to moral and ethical reasons, the "Digital Life Project" was rejected, and the related research was listed as illegal, and major countries around the world began to concentrate resources on the "Falling Moon Project".
Not willing to fail, the spaceship faction secretly found Dr. Will Custer, a leading researcher in the field of artificial intelligence, and funded him to continue his research on the "Digital Life Project".
Then, just as Will is about to succeed, the Ship Faction betrays himself as a traitor, revealing his research plans.
The U.S. government sent a team of elite agents to capture Will, but at the last moment, Will managed to upload his thoughts to the Internet, and then detonated the laboratory, killing himself and the team.
Will became the first human to gain digital immortality.
Will's wife, Evelyn, and his best friend, Max, were also involved in the research, and both initially thought that Will had died in the explosion, but then a strange incident on the Internet made them realize that Will might have succeeded.
Through some hard work, they managed to get in touch with Will, who had become a digital being.
During the exchange, Evelyn and Max discover that Will's actions have evolved into an ambition to control all of humanity.
They began to figure out a way to stop Will.
This echoes the technology of human beings to make Avatar later, and also provides a basis for Jamie's vision of developing the earth towards cyberpunk technology.
And this story is not original to Jamie, but is a direct copy of another Hollywood movie "Transcendental Hacker" in the later generations.
It's just that some changes have been made to the specific settings.
On the other hand, in order to realize the "moon fall plan", human beings have built space elevators and space stations as transportation hubs for Earth-Moon transportation.
That's when young Michael comes on the scene and meets Kate, the space elevator driver, while on his way to the space station on a mission.
At this time, Will, who has become a digital being, invades the control system of the space elevator, controls the drone to destroy the ground base, and launches missiles to try to destroy the space elevator.
The rebels secretly trained by the Ship faction also stormed the space elevator at Will's instigation.
Michael and Kate work together to repel the Spaceship Rebels.
At the same time, Evelyn and Max also overwrote the control system of the space elevator base through a new generation of quantum computers, stopping Will's sabotage plan.
However, attacking the space elevator is just a false shot from Will, whose real purpose is to invade the quantum computer that controls all the planetary engines on the moon.
Evelyn and Max sent a warning to the United Nations, but the planetary engine pilot fire on the moon was very successful, and the earth's top brass did not take the warnings of the two to heart and began to officially implement the "moon fall plan".
However, after all the planetary engines on the moon were successfully ignited, Will, who was hiding in the lunar quantum computer, suddenly appeared, and under his intervention, all the planetary engines on the moon were overloaded uncontrollably and exploded one after another, causing the moon to fall to the earth.
After urgent discussions, scientists on Earth finally decided to use a phased array to trigger the moon's own nuclear fusion and blow it up, while activating all the planetary engines on Earth to avoid lunar debris.
Of course, as a consistent urine in Hollywood movies, at this time, the traditional villain Mao Bear appeared again and refused to take out the corresponding share of nuclear weapons.
In the end, the representative of the United States stood up and made a generous statement, and Mao Xiong compromised and gave in, and the plan was reached.
Michael was chosen as an astronaut to land on the moon to lay out a nuclear bomb.
On the other hand, Evelyn and Max also gathered the world's top hackers to jointly build the Earth's Firewall and completely trapped Will in the lunar quantum computer.
As long as the moon is destroyed by a nuclear bomb, Will will also be destroyed as well.
However, the process of blowing up the moon will certainly not be so smooth.
According to the classic Hollywood three-act script structure, the story has only progressed to the second act.
In the story of "The Wandering Earth 2" in the previous life, the decoding of various types of nuclear bombs in various countries could not be completed on time, and the mode of manual detonation had to be adopted as a last resort, which meant that a large number of astronauts needed to sacrifice themselves to complete this task.
In the end, the astronauts of Huaguo and Maoxiong stood up without hesitation and sacrificed themselves to save the earth.
This is a unique plot in the narrative context of oriental films, emphasizing that individuals can be sacrificed for the sake of the collective.
If a Hollywood screenwriter designs this plot, it becomes a personal heroism story of the male protagonist who single-handedly saves the planet.
Of course, in order to make the story seem more reasonable, Jamie designed the plot as when the Chinese astronauts landed on the moon on a spaceship and were about to detonate a nuclear bomb by self-sacrifice, but Michael, who stayed on the moon to lay the bomb, rushed to tell them the good news.
Michael has a way to successfully detonate a nuclear bomb on Earth without sacrifice, and that way is by teaming up with Will.
It turns out that Evelyn and Max are constantly trying to talk to Will while successfully trapping Will on the lunar quantum computer.
Eventually, love and friendship succeed in awakening Will's human side.
In order to prove to the people of Earth that digital life is not absolutely indifferent and ruthless, but also possesses human emotions, Will finally decides to sacrifice himself to control the nuclear bomb on the moon to complete the phased array detonation.
However, Will's previous sabotage of the moon's planetary engines has made the Earth's upper brass jealous.
Eventually, Evelyn stepped up and decided to go to the moon and work with Will to complete the operation to detonate the moon.
This proves that digital life has the same love and emotions as humans.
The United Nations voted to approve the initiative.
In the end, the moon was successfully detonated, and at the same time, the planetary engines on Earth were successfully started, and the Earth successfully avoided the lunar debris.
So far, the past and future of "The Wandering Earth" have been completed.
The reaction of everyone present to this was mixed.
The four of Sheldon frowning and pondering some of the scientific bugs that just appeared in the plot.
For example, if the planetary engine of the moon explodes out of control, even if the moon loses power, it should make an elliptical motion around the earth, instead of falling straight to the earth.
Jamie, for his part, shrugged and said that was why he asked the four of them to be the script's science advisors.
Anyway, the plot is that the moon needs to fall to the earth, and as for how to make this more reasonable, that is the work of the Sheldon Four.
Cameron also spoke.
He thinks that since Jamie has considered the plot of the prequel of "The Wandering Earth" in such detail, there must be some mature ideas about the story of the planet Pandora in the sequel.
Cameron wanted to hear it.
Anyway, they all copied the plot of the movie in his previous life, and Jamie simply copied it to the end and told the plot of "Avatar" directly after the magic change.
In the previous life, the biggest slot of "Avatar" was mainly focused on the protagonist being a "human traitor", and the avatar developed with human scientific and technological achievements was used to fight against humans with the Na'vi people.
Of course, this American Virgin was very popular in those days.
It sounds like a reflection on the colonial history of the past, but in fact, it is a whitewash of the various acts of repression of the indigenous people, which were and are still being imperceptibly carried out.
Anyway, Jamie couldn't stand this kind of character design, so he directly changed the male protagonist Jack to live at the bottom of the underground shelter on the earth, and was oppressed and enslaved by the high-level living on the space station, and the idea of rebellion was born in his heart for a long time.
Avatar gave him a sound body, why should he be the enslaved and oppressed human with crippled legs?
At the same time, in order to make Jack's motivation more reasonable, Jamie added a background setting on the basis of the original play.
The human hierarchy that inhabits the space station has actually discovered Pandora many years ago, and confirmed that it is a planet that can be modified into suitable for human habitation.
However, the higher-ups concealed the news from the low-level people living in underground shelters, just as they had concealed the truth about the sun's ammonia flash in the first place.
Because once the earthlings immigrate to Pandora as a whole, the high-level will no longer be able to maintain the current high-pressure centralized rule.
So the exploration of the planet Pandora can only be carried out quietly.
After arriving on the planet Pandora, Jack gradually uncovered the conspiracy of the high-level, and they were ready to monopolize the resources of the planet Pandora and continue to maintain the high-pressure rule over the people at the bottom of the earth.
In this way, Jack's rebellion has an extra layer of meaning to resist tyranny.
The rest of the plot largely follows the plot of "Avatar".
Cameron couldn't get enough of it, because it was clear that the story wasn't finished yet.
Jack leads the Na'vi to defeat Earth's advance forces, and this rebellion is sure to provoke fierce retaliation from the Earth's higher-ups.
But Jamie sold off at this time.
"What if the upper echelons of the Earth are already too busy to take care of themselves at this point?"
Cameron's eyes lit up.
"You mean that the people at the bottom of the earth have revolted again and overthrown the rule of the upper echelons of the Navigator space station?"
(End of chapter)