I have to lament the appeal of Future People Technology. Within one week, a total of 170,281 manuscripts were received, which is almost equivalent to the classified library volume of some websites.
Of course, this may not be the appeal of Future People's technology, but the credit of the one million US dollar prize.
With such a terrifying amount of text, it is of course absolutely impossible to complete manual review within two weeks. At this time, Jiang Chen's "secretary" could only take action.
For Jane, there is no essential difference between 170281 and 1.7281. Based on the computing power of quantum computers, it only takes a moment for her to scan through the tens of billions of words of text.
The only trouble is that she is only an intermediate artificial intelligence. Although she can think, she does not have human emotions.
Without emotion, she naturally cannot understand the beauty of words. It is impossible for her to rate these works no matter what. All she could do was filter these works like a filter based on the settings given by Jiang Chen.
Works with less than 100,000 words will be passed. Short stories are too difficult to adapt and there is not enough content to support a nearly three-hour film.
Works with more than 1 million words will also be passed. Jiang Chen plans to make a movie instead of a TV series.
After taking into account many screening factors such as more than 50 grammatical errors, large logical contradictions, UG cannot be ignored, etc., only a few thousand works are left. It is inevitable that some gold will be mixed with the gravel and eliminated together, but among the thousands of works that remain, the gold content is definitely much higher.
The first round of selection only took 5 seconds, but the second round of selection took a full two weeks!
Under the leadership of Christopher Nolan, Warner Bros. staff conducted manual review and selection of English-language works. The Chinese-language works will be selected by the Future People Group.
In order to make the selection fair and open, Warner Bros. also invited the World Science Fiction Association, the organizer of the Hugo Awards, to participate in the selection process. Of course, the opinions of the Hugo Award judges are only for reference and do not have a direct impact on the results of the work selection.
After two weeks of selection.
Finally, under the spotlight, Futureman Technology and Warner Bros. jointly announced the winners on their official website. All winners will have their air tickets reimbursed by Futureman Technology, go to Coro Island to attend the grand award ceremony, and sign contracts with Futureman Technology on the spot.
After the award ceremony, Jiang Chen found Christopher.
A total of 10 works have been selected, and they still need to exchange opinions on determining which one will be finally adopted.
The entire event cost 15 million US dollars, just to finalize the movie script. Such a generous move by Futureman Technology made Mr. Nolan feel a lot of pressure. So as soon as they met, he opened his mouth.
“If it’s just to build momentum, wouldn’t our investment be too big?”
"But in terms of results, our results are gratifying, aren't we?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.
Christopher made a helpless expression, "Only on this point, I can't object."
Among all the contributions to Future People's Science and Technology Harvest, they include the achievements of some emerging writers, as well as some that have been popular for a long time and have been receiving high calls for adaptation. Obviously, not only fans of science fiction films, but also authors in the science fiction community are very enthusiastic about this open call for submissions.
The discussion started from the top of the list, and Jiang Chen chose to exchange views with Christopher one by one.
"How about Iain M. Banks' Civilization? The most famous space opera sci-fi of the 1980s."
"It's too difficult to adapt the series." Christopher shook his head and rejected it unceremoniously.
"What about "Motes in God's Eyes"? A book by Larry Niven. The description of the first contact between humans and extraterrestrial intelligence is very interesting. The scientific expedition team composed of naval officers, businessmen and scientists The adventure is also very interesting. 'If you encounter non-human intelligent creatures, you must assume that the other party is hostile', this point raised in the article is also quite interesting."
“This book is on my short list,” Christopher laughed.
"Haha, can you tell me who are the lucky ones on your candidate list?"
"In addition to this one, there is also "Fire on the Abyss". My brother Jonathan and I previously discussed the possibility of changing this science fiction masterpiece, but the final conclusion was that it could not be filmed."
"Can't take a picture?"
"That's right. Because the scale of the universe in the book is too big. There are three worlds and countless races. Even if we invite Light and Magic Industries, it will be difficult to restore the essence of this work." As he spoke, Christopher looked at Jiang Chen , asked with some anticipation, “Can it be done with Virtual Image Company’s VR image production technology?”
Hearing Christopher's question, Jiang Chen's mouth twitched.
"Theoretically there is no problem, but for the three worlds... the production cycle will probably be quite long."
Christopher also realized that his proposal was a bit too much, and he couldn't help but sigh.
"That's really a pity..."
But when he looked down the list, he found an unfamiliar name.
"The Iron Curtain of Time and Space, what is this?"
"Oh, this, I was about to recommend this book to you." Jiang Chen said with a smile.
"Author... Li Ming?" Christopher frowned slightly, he had never heard of this name.
Although the selection of works was not limited to the author's pen name, he still instinctively put on colored glasses for this author whom he had never even heard of.
However, Jiang Chen didn't pay attention and started introducing the plot of the book.
"This book is on my shortlist. Although the writing and character creation are a bit green, the depth of thought is unexpectedly at the level of a master, and some of the ideas in the article are also very interesting. In terms of plot, mainly It's about 2070, when the world is semi-warm and the Earth's climate is no longer suitable for human survival. The International Astronautical Organization launches a colony ship named 'Frontier' into space, spreading the fire of civilization 600 light-years away. Kepler 22b.”
"Due to the slow clock effect of light travel, tens of thousands of years had passed by the time Frontier arrived at Kepler 22b. But just when they set foot on this strange land, they discovered aliens on this planet. Aliens and the remains of earth civilization. Various evidences show that some year after 2070, the International Astronautical Organization launched a second colony ship. But I don’t know why, they were ahead on the time scale, and now they have long disappeared. "
"And it is still unknown whether the alien civilization that is still in its infancy on this planet is aboriginal creatures enlightened by the remains of the earth's civilization, or whether it is the compatriots from the earth's civilization themselves. What is more interesting is what follows. The story, conflict and suspense are all very well designed, I won’t spoil it anymore, it’s better for you to watch it yourself.”
"Just listening to your narration, this book is indeed interesting. But how did you choose this book from so many works?" Christopher Khan said.
"I didn't choose him, but my secretary recommended him to me." Jiang Chen replied.
This is also where Jiang Chen is most confused.
Jian, who has no concepts of emotion, aesthetics, etc., based on what logic did she recommend this work to him? Jiang Chen once asked Jian, but Jian couldn't answer this question herself. She just responded to the master's question in a very vague and humane way - "Because it's interesting?"
Although the subject matter is eye-catching, it is not that outstanding. The concept of time is not a novel concept in the science fiction world. Although it has been raised to the level of civilization, this alone cannot give him too many points.
After reading this work, Jiang Chen had to admit that Jane did not lie to him. This work was indeed very interesting.
"It's too early to draw a conclusion now. I'll go back and read this book first, and I'll give you an answer tomorrow." With that, Christopher stood up and looked at Jiang Chen.
"I look forward to good news from you." Jiang Chen smiled.
Christopher raised his eyebrows and teased.
"I've always been very picky about scripts."
"Trust me, you'll love it." (.)