Chapter 345 Two Series of Plans
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Due to the lack of cleaning, the study became more messy. Books, drafts, folders and other items were piled up on several tables, and the entire wall on the west side was also covered with drafts.
Walking down the spiral staircase, Cameron and Catherine Bigelow were simultaneously attracted by the wall-covered split-shot drawings and various drafts.
"Eric, are you doing all this?" Cameron asked in disbelief after reading the contents of these manuscripts from south to north, because the content of these manuscripts was too surprising Yes, although it is mostly a sketch of the split-shot script, but there are also all aspects of film production involved, Cameron even saw a large part of the film related to special effects.
Feeling the surprise of the Cameron couple, Eric was very satisfied. Although he had decided to cooperate with the Cameron couple, Eric could also see that although his film department was a big hit, Cameron still loved him. Some contempt, and even in "Terminator 2", he obviously regarded himself as a fool with a lot of money.
Although Eric generally doesn't care too much about what others think of him, he wants to maintain a long-term cooperation with a rebellious person like Cameron.
It is necessary to show enough strength to the opponent.
"This is my movie plan for the next few years. In fact, I started doing it occasionally when I was in New York. What you see is the result of my days."
Cameron and Catherine Bigelow heard Eric's words, and turned their eyes to the wall covered with manuscript paper again. The two of them just glanced at it roughly. At this time, Cameron noticed the content of the split-shot drafts. .
A terrifying tornado swept up an entire house, a giant Tyrannosaurus rex chased off-road vehicles, a tsunami hundreds of meters high rushed into New York City, and Washington, D.C. was shrouded in a huge shadow...
Cameron and Katherine Bigelow looked more and more surprised. Because of this age, these images usually only appear in comics or novels, but now it seems. Eric obviously wants to bring these pictures to the big screen with the mind of a live-action movie.
Katherine Bigelow was still calm, but Cameron's eyes revealed undisguised enthusiasm. He felt as if a new era was about to begin.
After reading these sub-shot drafts again, Cameron asked: "Eric, how do you plan to make these ideas into a movie, I mean, do you have a detailed feasibility plan?"
"Of course," Eric explained, "I'm going to spend the next ten years or so building two major series, in addition to the Jurassic Park series based on the novel I published two years ago. It's a disaster movie series."
"Disaster movie series?" Cameron turned his attention to the drawings again.
Eric walked to Cameron, pointed to the content of some drawings and explained in detail: "Yes, a disaster film series that includes at least five movies, you see, this piece is a script called "Tornado", It mainly describes the story of a group of fanatical scientists chasing and studying tornadoes; here is the idea of an alien invasion of the earth, tentatively named "Independence Day", but it seems that this name involves another copyright, I don't know if it can be obtained smoothly; also There is an idea that a comet hits the earth and humans face destruction. The script is called "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth"; finally here is a story about a dramatic cooling of the global climate, and most of the United States is frozen. I call it "The Day After Tomorrow". The moral is that we never know what will happen after tomorrow."
Cameron and Catherine Bigelow listened to Eric's explanation together attentively. After Eric finished speaking, Cameron stretched out his hand and stroked the drawing on the wall for a long time before asking, "Eric, How do you plan to achieve this, and can current technology achieve it?"
"Of course, as long as you're willing to spend the money," Eric said confidently. "Actually, these two series involve exactly what I imagined. Two directions for the future of special effects movies. I've talked to Stan and Ed before. Several times, I just came back from New York the other day. I also made a trip to San Francisco just for these things.”
Even with Cameron's madness. Imagining Eric's "Jurassic Park" series and disaster film series in his mind is still a bit incredible. As a technical director, Cameron is very clear about what the current special effects technology can do. Therefore, , He knew that although Eric's films could certainly be made if they were filmed forcibly, each of them would definitely be astronomical.
Even Catherine Bigelow couldn't help thinking that the little guy in front of him seemed even crazier than her husband.
Cameron did not seem to be too interested in the "Jurassic Park" series, but discussed the possibility of making a disaster film series with Eric enthusiastically.
"Eric, look, according to what you said, for this "Tornado" with relatively simple special effects, how do you plan to truly show the tornado on the screen? As far as I know, the most advanced industrial light and magic The special effects also made it difficult to bring the tornado to the screen believably."
Eric turned over and took out a document from the desk and handed it to James Cameron. Cameron looked at the document cover and felt a little surprised. These should be very important things to Eric, but , since Eric gave it to him, Cameron was not pretentious, he opened it and looked at it. Katherine Bigelow also curiously leaned over to her husband and looked at the contents of the document.
The document in front of me is roughly a proposal to entrust a scientific research team led by a famous physicist at Stanford University to develop a set of fluid simulation software. The purpose of this fluid simulation software is to realize smoke, flowing water, strong wind, etc. on the computer. special effects.
When the Camerons read the document in front of them, Eric said next to him: "Professor Ron Fidekes from Stanford has confirmed the feasibility of this plan, and preparations for the research and development work have already begun, which will take about half a year. This software is ready to use. At that time, about tornadoes, tsunamis, explosion smoke and other scenes in several disaster films that I said can be realized through this software. In addition, Ed Carmore is also now Los Angeles is preparing a research team that plans to develop a 3D modeling software that can realize scenes such as buildings collapsing and cities being destroyed. Also, Ed Carmore will also optimize Pixar's original rendering software, randerman. , so that the software can be adapted to the rendering of live-action movies." (To be continued)