"After going through a huge life change, my leg became lame and I was sent to the Veterans Administration Hospital..."
"For a while, I often dreamed that I was flying, the smell of freedom..."
"You won't dream at all when you're frozen. It doesn't feel as long as six years..."
"You have been frozen for 5 years, 9 months and 22 days. You will feel hungry and weak..."
"You and your brother have the same genes, so we want to cooperate with you so that you can start a new life in a new world..."
At home, the lights are bright.
Wang Shang sat in the study room, holding a desk lamp and a pencil, and wrote a sentence on the script.
Wang Shang relaxed his mind and immersed himself in endless fantasies...
This is a magical country...
Towering trees up to 300 meters high, dotted mountains floating in the sky, colorful and dense rainforests full of strange plants, various animals and plants that emit light at night...
The indigenous Navi people of the planet have always lived in harmony with other species on Pandora and lived a simple and natural life...
Each word takes shape under Wang Shang's pen, forming a different world full of fantasy and magic...
It wasn't until there was a knocking sound on the table that Wang Shang was awakened. Wang Shang looked up and saw a large, delicate bowl containing a bowl of sour plum soup. He could vaguely see a piece of ice floating in it, giving off a hint of coolness, bringing some relief from the scorching heat.
A little bit of coolness.
Liu Xi walked behind Wang Shang, put her hands on Wang Shang's shoulders and began to massage them gently. The scent of mint penetrated Wang Shang's nose, which shocked Wang Shang's mind and worked for four days.
The physical fatigue is relieved a little during the hour.
The two smiled gently.
"Take a rest first?"
"Yes." Wang Shang picked up the big bowl, scooped a large spoonful of sour plum soup and put it into his mouth. It was cold to the bone, refreshing to the heart, like nectar sprinkled on the heart, and a kind of cool and translucent joy was beyond words.
I have to say that Wang Shang is a typical big bowl lover. He feels awkward when using small bowls. He likes to eat and drink soup from large bowls. I don’t know if this is a sign of his heroic spirit. And this bowl
The sour plum soup was also quite filling, allowing Wang Shang to drink it thoroughly.
While Wang Shang was drinking heartily, Liu Xi picked up a stack of papers on the table. The top piece of paper was a cartoon, and in the cartoon, there was a man in a wheelchair.
Then I picked up a few more.
There are several people in one picture, a person in a wheelchair, three strong men in black suits, and a coffin containing a person.
One is an aerial view, below is a dense forest with towering trees...
One picture looks like a huge spaceship. It is thin and long, traveling in the starry sky...
One picture shows a person lying in something like a coffin, squinting...
One picture shows a starry sky, a green planet backed by a huge white planet...
"What's this??"
"This is Avatar! A world full of fantasy and magic." Wang Shang stroked the drawing, filled with the feeling of welcoming a new life.
Seeing Liu Xi's interest, Wang Shang briefly explained the world to her.
"Pandora. Its scientific name is "Alpha Centauri B-4". It is about the same size as the Earth and is a planet in the Alpha Centauri system. Pandora is not a planet. It is actually a satellite of a giant gas planet. This story is
It happened on this planet. There is a mineral element "Unobtanium" on this planet that is not found anywhere else. It is a rare normal-temperature superconductor and has a peculiar magnetic field. Under the influence of Pandora's magnetic field, it can produce a spectacular scene of floating boulders...
…”
Wang Shang kept introducing the world to Liu Xi.
The more Liu Xi listened, the more interested she became, and then she asked Wang Shang for advice.
But Wang Shang soon became sad.
"Why do animals have 6 legs? Don't all large creatures on earth have 4 legs or two legs?"
"this……"
"Why do we need tentacles? Why can we have sympathetic nerves?"
"this……"
"Why is it called Pandora?"
"this……"
Why?? Wang Shang doesn’t know the answers to these questions.
But Wang Shang is already prepared: "I will invite domestic and foreign experts to set the background, language, biosphere, customs and habits of this planet for this movie..."
"Let them set the background and support this magical world."
Because the preparations for "Now You See Me" have been basically completed, the crew has been confirmed, and the actors have been decided, the only thing that remains unfinished now is the magic design.
While Wang Shang was waiting for the script of "Now You See Me", he began to think about what he should make for his next movie. At this time, news came from the research center established by Wang Shang in Yanjing that it had
We have successfully developed a special 65mm film and its special camera for filming. And we have successfully printed the film captured by this camera into 70mm film. The photosensitive area of each frame is 10 times that of ordinary 35mm film.
3 times that of traditional 70mm film.
At the same time, another team at the research center has developed a higher-quality large-screen projection system that is different from Cinemascope and VistaVision.
When Wang Shang heard the news, he jumped up in surprise.
"IMAX!!"
"IMAX technology foundation has been successful!!"
In the previous time and space, IMAX technology had already appeared in 2002, and then was trial-screened in "Star Wars", "The Matrix", and "Spider-Man 3", and finally became officially famous all over the world through the global expansion of "Avatar".
In this time and space, imax technology was completely blank. Wang Shang searched for the three Canadian inventors of imax technology (Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr), but could not find them. It is estimated that they were harmed by the butterfly effect. At that time, Wang Shang’s first
The reaction is that I am overjoyed. Doesn’t this give myself a sunny and smooth road?
So in the days that followed, while developing 3D technology, Wang Shang also convened another team to develop iMAX technology at the same time.
The 3D technology was completed the year before last. Then Wang Shangzai retained some researchers to continue to develop 3D technology, and then added the rest to the iMAX technology team. Now more than a year later, I finally heard good news about iMAX technology.
information.
After the emergence of this technology, Wang Shang's first reaction was "Avatar"!!
Now that the plan for "Now You See Me" has been laid out, "Avatar" can only do the preliminary stage first, and complete all the computer special effects in the Avatar Planet, such as those monsters, plants, vipers, wolves, and spots.
Ox, hammer-headed thunder beast, death beast, etc...
Therefore, taking advantage of this period of time, Wang Shang finished the script and picture album first, and then asked the special effects king to mobilize a team to secretly produce "Avatar". After the filming of "Now You See Me" is completed, it will be 2011
, then you can start "Avatar" immediately. Just like "Transformers", do it in advance to speed up.
"But there is still another difficulty, which is the renovation of the IMAX theater."
Wang Shang thought of a scene: "Wang Shang went to the theater chain and asked them to destroy several theaters and transform them into iMAX big screens."
"I guess they will think they are crazy."
“What can we do to promote iMAX?”
"And it can't be too early. If it's too early, it will attract the attention of foreign countries. By then, if an iMAX movie is produced earlier than "Avatar", it will really be a wedding dress for others."
While Wang Shang was talking to Liu Xi about "Avatar", he was thinking about specific plans, and finally found a shortcut - build or acquire theaters by himself, and renovate IMAX theaters!!
More than a dozen yuan in China, more than a dozen yuan in Europe, and more than 20 yuan in North America...
"The cinema chain matter needs to be handled in advance."
On April 30, Wang Shang and Liu Xi took the manuscript of "Avatar" to secretly visit several senior professors from world-class universities who have cooperated with Tianwang Film and Television Company, including physicists, biologists, and linguistics.
There are also sociologists.
Why did Liu Xi also go? Because she wanted to participate in this project and she was very interested in the movie.