Seeing Cameron take the bait, Jamie explained with a smile:

"So Westar Pictures hasn't told you yet? They are ready to exchange the copyright of "Gun Dream" for the copyright of "The Wandering Earth". ”

Cameron reacted immediately.

"Are you going to add the story of "Gunmon" to "The Wandering Earth" as well?"

Jamie nodded in acknowledgement.

He still doesn't know which part Cameron has been preparing for "Gun Dream" before, so he just talked about his plot ideas for this sequel.

The story takes place in "Avatar 1" before the male protagonist Jack leaves the earth, the reformer doctor Ide, who lives in the underground shelter Steel City, finds the remains of a cyborg girl in the garbage dump, repairs and transforms it into a mechanical girl, named Alita.

Alita has lost her past memories, but she has an amazing fighting power like muscle memory.

Robots and humans coexist in Steel City, but there are also many contradictions, and the only rule of survival here is the law of the jungle.

The newborn Alita is ignorant and runs out of the house against Dr. Ed's request, when she meets Jack, who is still in good shape.

The two secretly fell in love during the dangerous ordeal together, but during an adventure, Jack injured his spinal in order to save Alita and lost the ability to move his lower limbs.

That's when a mysterious person from the station's upper echelons approached Jack and convinced him to join the exploration of Pandora.

Alita was very sad about Jack's farewell, and with Dr. Ed's patient encouragement and persuasion, Alita regained her strength, during which she gradually regained her memories.

It turns out that she is a combat weapon secretly made by the Salvation Army, an underground resistance group on Earth, and was severely damaged during a secret assassination mission, and then discarded as a normal abandoned robot.

The predecessor of the Salvation Army can be traced back to the Spaceship faction that was slaughtered by the rebel groups in power after the Earth successfully flew out of the solar system.

At that time, the Earth faction was slaughtered, but a small number of people from the spaceship faction who hid in the shadows and fanned the rebellion survived.

They have in their hands the digital life technology invented by Will, the founder of digital life, combined with the mechanical prosthetic technology developed on the earth later, and successfully create a living robot.

Alita is one of the most perfect pieces of the art.

However, not long after Alita regained her memory, the agent killers sent by the space station's higher-ups and the Salvation Army organization came to her door.

Eventually, Alita joined forces with the Salvation Army to destroy the space station and space elevator that oppressed and enslaved the people at the bottom of the planet, and also learned of the existence of Pandora from the remaining high-level captives.

The New Earth Regime, formed by the Salvation Army, decided to take control of the planetary engines on Earth and march towards the planet Pandora.

At the same time, the new regime also sent an advance force led by Alita to set up an outpost on the planet Pandora.

Cameron listened with relish, while Ovitz on the side became more and more shocked the more he listened.

said that he would just help Weststar Pictures write a space sci-fi script, but Jamie thought about the story of the prequel and the sequel in one go.

Is this to make "The Wandering Earth" a national sci-fi IP comparable to "Star Wars"?

If Jamie had said such things to Ovitz before today, Ovitz would have thought Jamie was crazy.

And now, looking at Jamie, who is energetically telling the plot, and Cameron, who is listening to it with great interest, Ovitz suddenly feels that it is really possible for all this to become a reality.

But in fact, Jamie really didn't think that far, he just added all the movie elements that Cameron was interested in in the future to the "The Wandering Earth" series.

Anyway, the pie is drawn, and Cameron will be fooled firmly first.

Cameron, on the other hand, was indeed fascinated by the grand worldview constructed by Jamie.

Originally, the villain Will in the prequel to "The Wandering Earth" shone with the brilliance of humanity at the last moment, and the reversal of sacrificing himself to save the earth already made Cameron feel very amazing.

But who would have thought that "The Wandering Earth 1 and 2" were all spaceship factions that appeared in the image of aspects, but hundreds of years later, they became the Salvation Army to save oppressed civilians.

However, the first decision the Salvation Army made after seizing power on Earth was to migrate to the planet Pandora.

From the side of justice, he immediately turned into an intruder.

Such a story of constant reversals and surprises has made Cameron have an urge to shoot it.

Of course, Cameron also knows that all this is not in a hurry.

At least wait until he has accomplished the feat of Heaven first.

For now, Cameron wants to know what will happen when Alita and Jack reunite on the planet Pandora.

Although Cameron also knew that this request was a bit greedy, he still wanted to see if Jamie could give him more surprises.

In order to completely trap Cameron, Jamie can only make it up.

The main reason is that the plot of "Avatar: The Way of Water" in the previous life is really a bit stretched, and the difficulty of changing the magic has also increased exponentially.

After Alita arrived on the planet Pandora with Earth reinforcements, the human race, which had been at a disadvantage in the confrontation with the indigenous Na'vi, immediately increased in strength.

The special magnetic field of Pandora can only weaken part of human technology, but it does not have much impact on robots like Alita.

After learning that Jack had not only betrayed humans, but also had offspring with the indigenous Na'vi, Alita turned black in despair and formed an offensive force composed of robots.

She was paranoid that if she killed all the Na'vi, Jack would return to the arms of the human camp.

When Alita and her mechs join, the tide of battle turns in a one-sided favor with humans.

Even if Jack united all the Na'vi tribes in the jungle, he still couldn't resist Alita's mech forces.

Most of the Na'vi were slaughtered, except for Jack, who fled with his wife and children and a few of his clansmen, and was eventually taken in by the Na'vi, who lived in the ocean.

The two sides fought several more battles in the sea, and the former lovers of Jack and Alita finally went head-to-head.

Eventually, under the cover of the Sea Clan's sacrifice, Jack inflicted heavy losses on Alita, and the war ended with a crushing victory for the Na'vi.

Humanity and the Na'vi were bounded by the sea and signed an armistice.

Obviously, Jamie's plot design is a reference to World War I, when French Marshal Foch said a divine prophecy.

"This is not a truce, but a truce of twenty years."

The same is true of the truce between humans and the Na'vi in the story.

Even if Jamie said that the plot he has in mind so far is so much for the time being, Cameron still doesn't find it enjoyable.

The same goes for the Sheldon Four.

The five of them beg Jamie to finish the story, even if it is to tell them how Alita and Jack will end up in the end.

In the end, Jamie couldn't stand everyone's begging, so he had to continue to make it up.

But this time, he gave everyone a vaccination in advance.

"What I'm going to say next doesn't mean that the story will really develop like this, if I were to continue writing this story, I would consider making Alita completely black."

"After the war, Alita was repaired by Dr. Ed, but her heart is dead, and she thinks that Jack would rather be an alien than return to the human camp because he discriminates against robots like her from the heart."

"Alita had the crazy idea that she was going to turn all humans into robots, so that discrimination would not exist."

"The war between humans and robots broke out on Earth, and humanity was defeated one after another, eventually retreating to the planet Pandora."

"At the moment of life and death, Jack persuaded the Sea Clan to form an alliance with humans and join forces to defeat the robot army led by Alita, and Alita also died completely in Jack's arms."

"The robots retreated to Earth and continued to wander the universe, while humans stayed on the planet Pandora and started a new era of civilization."

After saying that, he didn't give Cameron and the others any time to think, and Jamie said on the spot that he really had "not a drop left" this time.

Cameron was still immersed in the story and did not immediately express his opinion.

Seeing this, Leonard immediately joked:

"I wish the time machine was real, so we could go to the future and watch the movie right away."

Both Howard and Rajesh nodded in agreement, with only Sheldon looking disapproving.

"If time travel really exists, how do you solve the grandmother paradox?"

Leonard replied without even thinking about it:

"I'm just traveling to the future to watch a movie, as long as I don't intersect with my future me, don't ask me why I know this, because that's what the movie "Back to the Future" explains."

Obviously, Leonard didn't seem to be arguing with Sheldon on this issue, but Sheldon didn't agree.

"In fact, I tend to be in parallel universes, and the so-called time travel is just going to another parallel universe, in which it is very likely that the four of us don't know each other at all, and we haven't teamed up together to participate in CS e-sports competitions, and naturally we won't become the scientific advisors of "The Wandering Earth".

Leonard looked at Sheldon a little speechlessly.

"So what is your conclusion?"

Sheldon replied solemnly:

"In the parallel universe, there may not be the movie "The Wandering Earth" at all, or there is, but it has become a different look. For example, if this movie is filmed by Hua Guo in a parallel universe, the plot will definitely be different. ”

Leonard was about to retort when Penny stepped forward.

"Alright, it's not too early, you four should go back to the hotel to change your clothes, Sheldon, don't you still have to listen to Professor Hawking's speech? You don't want to wear your current outfit to meet your idol, do you? ”

Watching the Sheldon four people successfully coaxed away by Penny, Ovitz couldn't help but be impressed by them.

Ovitz had always thought that Jamie was looking for two assistants for nothing more than to have something to do with Betty and nothing to do with Penny.

That's how a lot of big guys play.

But what had just happened made Ovitz realize that Penny was more than just a vase.

It just so happened that Ovitz was also going to talk to Jamie and Cameron about business.

"I admit that the follow-up story proposition of "The Wandering Earth" is very grand and the story is very attractive, but based on my experience of dealing with the senior management of Westar Films during my tenure as an agent, and what I know about Logan Roy, if we throw out all the stories of "The Wandering Earth" at once, it is easy to scare off the other party."

"The wisest thing to do is to throw out the creative plan for the first two films, finalize the cooperation with Westar Pictures, and after the film is released, if it can achieve the desired effect, Westar Pictures will take the initiative to come to us to discuss the sequel."

Ovitz's words brought Camme, who was still immersed in the story, back to reality.

In terms of plot alone, the story of the robot Alita and Pandora does not have much to do with the theme of "The Wandering Earth".

So Ovitz's suggestion, Cameron agreed.

Even if the story of "The Wandering Earth 1 and 2" was only filmed first, Cameron was worried that Westar Pictures would be deterred by the expensive cost of the film.

After listening to Cameron's concern, Jamie and Ovitz glanced at each other.

In fact, they deliberately proposed that the two movies "The Wandering Earth 1 and 2" be shot back-to-back, which would make the production cost of the film rise to an unprecedented sky-high price.

With Jamie's knowledge of Weststar Films, the other party will definitely back down.

After all, when Cameron planned to shoot "Avatar" in his previous life, Twentieth Century Fox was frightened off by the huge filming budget figures.

In the end, Cameron pulled Disney to participate in the investment, which made Fox change his mind and call Cameron back to the negotiating table with the right of first refusal.

If nothing else, Westar Pictures will still follow the old path of the twentieth century Fox in their previous life, and as long as they back down, Jamie can take advantage of the situation and firmly control the film.

Ovitz is thinking the same way, and he is now ambitious to package and sell "The Wandering Earth" to Westar Pictures.

With the investment in charge, he will have more confidence to implement this plan.

"James, you don't have to worry about film investment, the most important thing we should do now is to determine the main actors of the first two films first, you have the absolute right to speak as a director in this regard, no matter which actor you fancy you can tell me, I am responsible for talking to the other party."

In order to further woo Cameron, Ovitz threw out another tempting condition.

In Hollywood, the casting of a movie is usually decided by the producer, and of course the vast majority of producers will respect the director's opinion.

Even if he is a big director of Cameron's level, although the casting is dominated by his opinions, he is not alone in the final say.

Now that Jamie and Ovitz have ceded that right, Cameron is indeed a little tempted.

Originally, Cameron was going to wait for him to complete his dream of heaven before thinking about it, but in front of him, Jamie and Ovitz obviously couldn't wait.

Cameron had an idea and looked up at Jamie.

"As a screenwriter, no one is more familiar with the story of The Wandering Earth than you, so I want to hear what you think about the character selection."

(End of chapter)