"So goodbye tonight." Wang Yang and Jessica gave a goodbye kiss gently. Jessica walked towards the garage, and smiled and waved her hands: "By, Yang, come on!" Wang Yang nodded: "So too." After that, he walked back to the house and said to Danny who was following at his feet: "Man, Jessica is going to learn street dance, and I have to start working, so you can play by yourself."

Wang Yang came to the spacious and elegant study room, sat down at the desk, opened the movie and started writing the script of "The Ninth District". But after a while, he stopped feeling something was wrong, observing the surroundings left and right, with bookshelf and potted plants. The morning sunlight spread in from the opened floor-to-ceiling window. Danny was running happily on the lawn outside.

He frowned immediately. No wonder he didn't feel any depression in his heart. The working environment is so comfortable now, and the sun is shining! He thought about where the place can be "depressed" at home, the bathroom, garage, and under the bed in the bedroom? He laughed, then picked up a laptop, paper and pen, "Kafka Collection" and other books, left the study and came to the room of the room.

Although the two have lived together for more than half a year, the not-so-large debris room has been filled with various things in an orderly manner, and many of them are gifts given by fans of movie fans, such as the most common plush toys, including Disney's Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, etc., as well as superheroes such as Batman. God knows why movie fans think they are obsessed with plush toys? Anyway, if they are all placed in the bedroom, it will become a baby room, so many things that are not available can only be placed here.

Wang Yang pulled a table and chair to sit down. In the dim light, he looked at the crowded debris and dolls around him and said to himself: "Well, this is not bad, it would be better if it was a little more messy." He got up and wanted to mess up the debris room, and then sat down with a shake of his head: "Forget it, Jessica will be crazy when she sees it." He closed his eyes and felt the lonely and depressing feeling when he was in jail for a while, then looked at the laptop screen and started to typing on the keyboard.

Writing a script is not simply a copy of the big screen. That can't be done. First of all, a script is for people from all aspects to watch. The actors must be able to understand, the artistic directors must be able to understand, and the special effects engineers must be able to understand... It's not just him who understands it.

Secondly, a movie script has a length and content that is definitely not just the 90-minute or 120-minute things on the big screen. In fact, what the story of a movie will look like in the end is decided and born in the later editing room, rather than in the early script text. Therefore, the good scripts and bad scripts of the film company are piled up, and the screenwriters have always been unrespected and suffered unfair salary.

Often a script has many branches, several endings, and even contradictory content. Perhaps a thick script, the final version of the content will only use the 40 pages added up above, but it is as thick as 80 pages and 100 pages.

Because the editing work of a movie requires sufficient material, the more material the more elastic the material, the stronger the elasticity. There is no intuitive video material and just looking at the text, no one knows what the combination effect will be like in this way, whether it is good or bad; and with sufficient material, the editor and director can let go of the combination and seek the best way to tell stories.

However, the more materials, the higher the cost of the film. Therefore, a blockbuster can burn 200 hours of film and cut it into a 2-hour movie, and often there are 3 or 4-hour director editing versions; while a low-cost movie can only save films to shoot, and strictly control the storyboard scripts. However, his "Ninth District" does not have any funds.

He has a strong desire to shoot human transformation movies, and many of his own ideas, but when his thinking and future movie ideas collide, and even part of his brain is firmly occupied by them and lingering, what can he do? Sitting without doing anything? That's too stupid, that's his brain. He won't deliberately avoid it, absorb some places where future movies are successful, and tell a story he wants to tell, which is what he did.

In the sound of "papapapapapapapa", Wang Yang kept typing on the keyboard, and stopped from time to time to use a pen to draw a shot on A4 paper. The story of his "Ninth District" is as follows: In 1980, a huge alien ship suddenly flew to the earth and stayed above Los Angeles. At first, no one dared to touch it, for fear that it would bring unimaginable disasters to Los Angeles and the earth. However, after a period of waiting, humans still approached the spacecraft and forced themselves into the cabin.

As a result, what humans saw was that there were millions of aliens in the spacecraft. They were very ugly and their bodies were very weak at this time. It turned out that they were alien refugees. Humans rescued them all and temporarily placed them in an area "first area".

This will be the first part of "The Ninth District", and the audience's mentality will be the same as that of the people in that world, that is, "from welcome to hating aliens." At the beginning of the arrival of aliens, the whole of Los Angeles, the United States, and the whole world were excited and welcomed by them, and finally found friends in the universe! Although they are ugly, people are happy to help them. Busy volunteers can be seen everywhere in the First District, and they are full of enthusiasm and want to make friends with these aliens.

Wang Yang quickly drew on a4 paper with a pencil, a picture of a human feeding aliens with a smile on his face.

But these aliens are not so friendly. Their social organization is like a hive, controlled and ordered a huge number of workers by a few elites. The queen of this mining ship is dead. Most of the remaining aliens are workers. They have low IQ and irritable temperament, and enjoy killing people. So when they recovered, they immediately messed up Los Angeles, killing, setting fires and robbing...

Humans naturally took a sharp turn and had no favoritism towards these aliens. Aliens were never allowed to enter parks, subways, etc., and soon they were not allowed to leave the first area. They were officially forced to isolate them. The huge resettlement costs and frequent conflicts all annoyed humans. They demanded to drive the aliens out of Los Angeles and even wiped out them all. Of course, this proposal was opposed by organizations such as the *** elements.

However, in any case, the aliens received less and less aid funds and their living environment was getting worse and worse, but their population was increasing. After 20 years, they also changed from District 1 to District 9, a slum with high walls and no management status.

For 20 years, the government has naturally been doing research on aliens secretly; but due to fiscal budget issues, the government contracted the management of aliens to a company called "Multi-National Joint Organization (MNU), which is one of the world's top weapons manufacturers. The public's complaints are getting higher and higher, and in order to save management costs, the government and MNU decided to drive aliens to the farther and poorer tenth district.

The male protagonist Wiggs is a senior manager of Mnu's 9th District, and his father-in-law is even the president of Mnu, so the "fat" who informed the aliens to relocate fell on him.

This also enters the second part of "The Ninth Zone", and the audience will find that "humans are not good things either." Wang Yang's goal is to excavate the ugly and cold side of human beings. On the one hand, it is the attitude of the entire society towards aliens. Humans use aliens to tease aliens and lock them in cages in zoos to show money, because the Ninth Zone is too dangerous, and there are too many people in the world who want to see the aliens with their own eyes.

These can all be expressed through quick pseudo-documentary shots... Thinking of this, he painted on paper with a pen, an alien grasped the cage, and surrounded by a circle of humans taking pictures with a camera.

On the other hand, the story of Wiggs entering the ninth district. This funny and humorous man who loves his wife and his colleagues do bad things that humans take for granted in the ninth district, deceiving, beating and scolding, and cruelly killing their fetus. Everything is without any scruples.

When Wiggs searched a suspicious house and was sprayed by a bottle of energy liquid collected by alien Christo Foson and his friend for 20 years, Wiggs began to embark on the path of transformation.

"The Ninth District" has also entered the third part. The audience's position will quietly change. They will find that "It turns out that aliens also have good people, they also have family affection, friendship... and human nature! Humans have become inhuman things. They are so greedy, selfish, and ruthless." In order to study alien weapons, humans can ***, kill aliens, and tear them open; in order to study, they arrested Vigs in the early stage of deformation in the hospital, and wanted to break him alive in the research room of the mnu headquarters. His father-in-law was indifferent to his request for help and actually agreed. Vigs' beloved wife did not trust him, and even betrayed him...

But Wiggs is not a good person. When he escaped from Mnu headquarters and hid in the ninth district at will, he was rescued by Christo Forsen and his son. He also knew that he had the opportunity to become a human, that is, to snatch back energy and liquids and help Christo Forsen and his son return to the spaceship in the sky, where there is a healing device. So he was thinking about turning back to humans. He did not care whether Christo Forsen and his son could go home, regardless of their life or death, nor the survival of the entire alien race.

Wang Yang thought this part would be the most depressing. The loneliness and pain of Wiggs after transformation and the disgust of humans would be so depressed that it would make people crazy! What he wanted to do was that the audience had become aliens, and they empathized with the experience of Wiggs and aliens, and wanted to kill all humans!

So next we came to the fourth part of "The Ninth District". In the Ninth District, facing the choice of saving Christo Fossen or not, Wiggs finally broke out. He no longer had cowardice and the idea of ​​"I am a human". *** went to a war with the alien mecha and the huge army, killing all the soldiers! The audience would be excited and applauded, and cheered for Christo Fossen and his son to return to their mother ship. They could finally go home!

But this is not the purpose. The purpose of the whole movie is to make you feel more depressed and a sadness that penetrates your heart, because they are humans. Why is there such a story? What is human nature like? Ugly and ruthless? But the movie will also have a beautiful side at the end. Wiggs's wife did not give up on him and still missed him every day.

In the end, Wiggs completely became an alien. He lived alone in the tenth district, missing his wife, waiting for Christo Foxen, who had made a promise, to return after three years.

Three years later, will it be the end of mankind? A battle in Los Angeles broke out? There are also questions about human nature? All of these are left for the audience to think about themselves.

On the snow-white A4 paper, a camera slowly appeared as the pencil was slashing. Wiggs drove the mecha and fired a shell, bombing an armored vehicle that came to reinforce. Wang Yang looked at this casual storyboard script, stretched his waist, and continued to draw.

The future "Ninth District" has many worth learning shots, such as some techniques of pseudo-documentary, news interviews, TV reports, monitor records, etc. One purpose of pseudo-documentary is to add authenticity and audience sense of substitution. As early as when the "Ghost Records", Wang Yang had carefully studied the shooting techniques of pseudo-documentary, but that was a DV movie, while "Ninth District" is a film movie, which is naturally a lot different, so he recently picked up this research again, including movies such as "Coloft Archives".

However, the camera scenes of the future "Ninth District" are not perfect. Of course, it is very impressive compared to the cost of 30 million. This is exactly the investment level issue. The scenes and props inside all seem a bit rough and playful, such as the respective weapons and equipment of humans and aliens, the scale and defense of the Mnu headquarters, the number of troops chasing Vigs, combat power, etc.

If a movie is measured from the rationality, it will be full of mistakes and misses. Wiggs was not locked when he was about to be unraveled and easily escaped from the Mnu headquarters. He and Christo Forsen easily broke through the Mnu... Of course, the movie cannot be watched like this, otherwise there will be no fun or thinking. But the reality is that as long as there is enough investment, no matter the scene, props, scale, process... these problems will not be problems.

Fortunately, Wang Yang does not have the concern of capital costs. He can design the scenes and pictures he wants at will, and everything is based on the best movie effect as the standard, and create his first science fiction movie.

As for how much it will cost? Since he does not have production experience in this area, Wang Yang doesn’t know how to make a budget. However, he asked Robert Zemegis a few days ago and Will Smith, who is preparing to star in "Men in Black 2", the cost will be about 80 million to 100 million, but this cost includes his pay.

Because the current Flame Movie does not belong to him 100%, the income of a movie will be shared. Although the money is basically exchanged for the right hand, the accounts must be clearly distinguished. Therefore, he charges a certain amount of money at a lower price than the market price. The total number of directors and editors of "The Ninth District" is 15 million, which is already very cheap.

Before he was imprisoned, Paramount had invited him to make and direct a movie for 25 million yuan. There was no clear script, either he wrote it himself or chose them at hand. Paramount's total investment would not exceed 70 million yuan, but the Flame Movie was allowed to enter the game with up to 30 million yuan. This was undoubtedly an opportunity with a very generous reward and very low risk, but Wang Yang "considered" it, but he still refused.

If the budget for "The Ninth District" is 80 million, he accounts for 15 million, and the initially decided star Robert Downey Jr.'s pay is 1 million, then there is only 64 million left, and the other members of the crew have to pay for filming and film equipment... How much does it cost to shoot and make special effects?

Moreover, one of the main scenes of the movie is Los Angeles. He is planning to take real scenes all, which will inevitably increase a lot of costs; the other most important scene, "Zone Ninth", can be filmed by miniature models and partial scenes; but he does not intend to do this, which will greatly weaken the authenticity of the movie. In his plan, in addition to the necessary interior scenes, the outdoor scenes of the "Zone Ninth" are all shot in slums in Africa.

"Yang, I'm back, where are you?" Jessica saw that there was no one in the study and searched around the room for a while but couldn't see the figure. She couldn't help but murmured with some confusion: "Aren't you at home?" At this time, Danny wagged her tail and ran forward. She followed Danny curiously to the front of the room. She vaguely heard a sound inside, so she opened the door and saw him drawing something on the paper intently.

She laughed in surprise and asked while walking in, "Yang, what are you doing here?"

"Hey!" Wang Yang, who came to his senses, looked up at her and explained, "It's nothing, it's more atmosphere than the study." He picked up a few pieces of paper on the table with great enthusiasm and showed it to her, and said, "Jessica, how about you look at the conceptual maps of these aliens?"

Although the final shape of the alien in "The Ninth District" is to be designed with a special effects company, as a director, he certainly has the right to "point fingers" about the shape, such as putting forward the initial concept. He smiled and looked at the rows of shapes on the paper, feeling very satisfied, and introduced to her: "There are beetle people, lobster people, bee people...sweethearts, which one do you like?"

"Um..." Jessica looked at the aliens on the paper seriously, with tentacles and two hands... She looked at it for a long time and suddenly asked with her head tilted, "Which one is a lobster, which one is a beetle?" Wang Yang was stunned for a moment, and Jessica hurriedly smiled, "No, I recognized it, this is a beetle man! I like beetles."
Chapter completed!