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Chapter 558 Another Mars Movie

"...I feel that not only the plot of the movie version of the story is different from the animated version, but also the deeper connotations are different."

Yan Xiaoyue also watched the "Special Forces" animation seriously and even wrote a movie review, otherwise she wouldn't be so interested in the movie version.

Chen Jingxing nodded: "So you can't play this character completely according to your understanding of animation."

The live-action film version of "Ghost in the Shell" adapted from Hollywood in the past life was not a success in terms of reputation or business. Fans of the animation were basically unsatisfied, and the global box office was only 170 million US dollars.

The production cost of the live-action movie "Ghost in the Shell" was as high as 110 million, and its popularity was not much better than that of "Mulan".

There are many reasons for the failure, but Chen Jingxing believes that the key factor is that the movie version is a remake of the animated version, and it is also a remake of the most classic 1995 animation version.

Animation is already a classic. If you just film the animated plot intact with real people, the reputation will not be very good. You have to take the lead, and it will be difficult to please no matter how you film it. The more classic the original version, the more difficult it will be to turn it into a movie.

What if you made changes to the original classic plot?

That would only be more unpleasant.

The live-action "Ghost in the Shell" movie has made more commercial changes based on the 1995 theatrical version, which is actually no problem from a business logic point of view.

The story of "Death on Mars" combines elements from many science fiction works, including "The Martian", "Gravity" and the animated series "Battleship", which is in the process of producing a sequel after five years.

After all, in the puppet master's view, human DNA is just a program designed to store itself.

The main line of the story is the confrontation between the special mobile team and the puppet master.

The movie version of "Mobile" directly uses an original story. The original script is different from the animation to the greatest extent possible to avoid comparisons with remakes, and it can also allow fans of the animation to view the movie version more tolerantly.

But in the movie version, the focus is on what soul and life are, what is self, whether memory exists or thinking exists.

However, since the next group of team members to explore Mars were originally scheduled to arrive, the food at Kunlun Station was still sufficient, and they would not have to worry about food for more than ten years.

In this way, "Special Forces" may not necessarily be successful at the box office like a live-action movie, but at least it won't have much of a problem with its reputation.

The plot of the "Special Forces" anime series does not involve the 95 theatrical version.

The first human life was born from the ocean.

Just as he was about to return to the earth, the earth was gone and disappeared out of thin air, including the moon.

The only person accompanying him was an intelligent robot from Kunlun Station with a humorous language.

Individuality will gradually be lost, and in the later stages of development, the meaning of personal existence will be lost.

Of course, if the box office is good, even if the production costs can be recovered, you can continue to make sequels.

After all, animation comes first, and the focus of the movie is on mecha battles, downplaying the literary and ideological atmosphere of the animation. We are afraid that fans of the animation will be particularly dissatisfied, which will affect the reputation.

In the end, through difficult adventures and efforts to get closer to the puppet master, the true identity of the puppet master was finally revealed.

It turns out that the Puppet Master is a program written by a monopoly prosthetic modification company. However, the program became self-aware after browsing information on the entire Internet, and believed that it was the same as humans who can become individuals through memory.

The announcement of the movie version of "Special Forces" is the second piece of news for anime fans. After all, many people have believed that "Special Forces" will also be made into a movie since "Aquila Warrior" was made into a movie.

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Copying and duplication have no ability to evolve.

The background of the movie version of "Death on Mars" is set in 2050. The world's aerospace powers have combined technical funds to successfully land on Mars and established the Kunlun Station, a scientific research station on the surface of Mars.

The heroine led the team to kill a controlled prosthetic man, captured the garbage man who was controlled by the puppet master, and made the garbage man wake up from the virtual reality where he had a wife and children, and realized that his memories of having a wife and children were all

What is false is implanted by others.

A prosthetic body who desires to break through the limitations and limits of a prosthetic body and a program that desires to obtain diversity and the ability to reproduce and survive merge, completing a certain kind of evolution of life and breaking through the limits.

And just when the male protagonist thought that he was the last human being in the universe and was despairing of all hope and even wanted to commit suicide, he discovered that there was a girl left behind on the Mars space station in the orbit of Mars, which gave him the courage to continue living.

Chen Jingxing does not plan to change the main line and connotation of this story, but needs to add some more commercial elements.

But the reason why Chen Jingxing wanted to make "Death on Mars" into a movie is because the story is as hard-core as "The Martian", the style is more novel, and it is worthy of being put on the big screen.

And the smooth decision on the choice of hostess made many people feel that this was indeed the case.

"Death on Mars" was handed over to Wen Zhian. He had just finished directing "Once Upon a Time on Earth: Overture" on his last project, and was about to be responsible for a heavy industry science fiction film. This was also a triple jump for Wen Zhian.

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Although the puppet master is already a network life form that knows all the information on the network, he thinks that he is not as complete as a human being.

And this makes the heroine confused about herself. If the memory is false, can be modified, and can be copied and pasted, then is she still the only one? Is she unique?

Therefore, for the audience, the live-action "Special Forces" film to be produced by DreamWorks will be hugely different from the animated series.

But there is an advantage in the live-action version of the "Special Forces" movie in this dimension, that is, the audience has not seen the 1995 version of the animation.

The Puppet Master is a mysterious hacker who moves among various networked devices. He can invade the electronic brain of artificial humans, manipulate stock prices, and even carry out KB attacks.

If information is a kind of ocean, it is natural for life to be born in it.

If the theme of the animation is to tell that with the rapid development of science and technology, "network society" is a more advanced system that can serve as the "third subject" and "superstructure".

Director Tian Xinye is worried about "Sky Eagle Warrior", which is about to be released in the summer.

After all, there are only a few Daomadans in China who are around 30 years old and have good looks and figure. The fairy sister just hit the streets in "Mulan", and the temperament of the fairy is quite different from the heroine of "Mobile Team". Another one

Liu Shishi, who is good at action dramas, is currently filming "Elysium" and will definitely not be able to find a schedule.

Referring to "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence" and "Ghost in the Shell SAC" Season 2 from previous life planes, the content is enough to make three or four high-quality science fiction movies with high standards and thoughtfulness in story.

After Chen Jingxing finalized the preparations for the "Special Mobile Team" project, he did not devote himself non-stop to the "Once Upon a Time on Earth" project. Taking advantage of the Magic City Film Festival not yet starting, he planned another science fiction movie - "Death on Mars"

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After a certain mission ended and the troops returned, the male protagonist, a mechanical engineer, became the last remaining person at Kunlun Station due to a finishing job.

It is a story that appears to be a comedy but is actually a tragedy.

In this era where computers can easily store memories externally, the Puppet Master considers himself to be an individual like human beings, a living being born in the sea of ​​​​the Internet.

As for using other actresses who have no acting skills, the choice of relying on editing and stand-ins to fool the action scenes may be possible in other companies, but no one would think that DreamWorks would do this.

Because life without individuality and diversity that only copies itself is likely to be wiped out by a virus.

Such a script is also a relief for leading actors like Yan Xiaoyue and Ning Weiqiang, the director in charge of "Special Mobile Team" and who has finished filming "Person of Interest III".

But everyone knows what the original story is like, and if you make changes based on the original story, people will not be surprised. And when you make the changes more superficial and the profound connotation is eliminated, the reputation will only get worse.

However, Yan Xiaoyue's fans changed their faces from their dissatisfaction and criticism of the studio and started shaking again.

Of course, this project is no longer directed by Chen Jingxing, after all, his future energy will be spent on "Once Upon a Time on Earth".

In a sense, it is like the completion of another life.

First of all, in terms of gimmicks, the beginning is high-energy with "I'm on Mars, I just saw the earth explode, and I'm very square now."

It feels like an alternative "human completion plan".

The Puppet Master can only copy himself, but cannot produce diversity. In order to improve his survivability, the Puppet Master urgently needs changes to resist the fate of possible destruction in the future.

Then the heroine spreads her mutated seeds on the Internet.

In order to evolve, to create his own diversity, and to continue in the future, the puppet master wants to merge with the heroine and die himself.

Moreover, a space trilogy is a trilogy. From "The Center of the Earth" to "Interstellar", the context and ideological nature of the trilogy are complete. There is really no need to add another space movie. Besides, "Once Upon a Time on Earth" said that he

It’s a space movie, so there’s actually no big problem.

As for Yan Xiaoyue herself, her popularity has surpassed that of Zhao Jinmai at the beginning of the year, and she has returned to the top of the list of first-line actresses.

The company discovered the existence of the Puppet Master and wanted to get rid of him, but the Puppet Master discovered it in advance and transferred his consciousness into a prosthetic body.

It's just that the Mars space station doesn't have much supplies, and it's only enough for this girl to last for five days.

From this, the main content of the entire movie revolves around how the male protagonist divides half of the supplies on the Kunlun Station, especially the food, and sends them to the space station.

The whole process is quite excellent both in terms of hardcore and imaginative. It is more complex and more thrilling than "Mars" and "The Center of the Earth".

Except for the fact that the underlying story is a tragedy, which is a commercial disadvantage, the other parts are great.

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