Chapter 687 "The Iron Curtain of Time and Space"

I have to marvel at the appeal of Futureman Technology. Within a week, a total of 17o281 manuscripts were received, which is almost equivalent to the amount of classified libraries of some websites.

Of course, this may not be due to the appeal of future people's technology, but the contribution of the one million dollar bonus.

With such a terrifying amount of text, it is absolutely impossible to complete manual review within two weeks. But at this time, Jiang Chen's "secretary" can only do it.

For Jane, there is no essential difference between 17o281 and 17281. Based on the computing power of quantum computers, it is only a moment for her to scan the text of tens of billions of words.

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, and it is impossible for her to give these works a score anyway. All she can do is to filter these works like a filter according to the settings given by Jiang Chen.

Works with less than 100,000 words will be rejected. It is too difficult to adapt short stories, and the content is not enough to support a film that is close to three hours.

Works with more than 100,000 words were also passed. What Jiang Chen planned to make was not a TV series, but a movie.

After taking grammatical errors 50 times, logical contradictions, bugs that cannot be ignored, and many other screening factors into consideration, there are only a few thousand works left in the end. 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 must be much higher.

The first round of selection only took 5 seconds, but the second round of selection took a full two weeks!

Led by Christopher Nolan, Warner Bros. staff conducted a manual selection of English-language entries. Works in the Chinese language will be selected by Future People Group.

In order to make the selection fair and open, Warner Bros. also invited the World Science Fiction Association, which is 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 directly affect the results of the selection of works.

After two weeks of selection.

Finally, under the eyes of everyone, Futureman Technology and Warner Bros. jointly announced the list of winners on the official website. All winners will be reimbursed by Future Technology, go to Koro Island to attend the grand award ceremony, and sign a contract with Future Technology on the spot.

After the awards ceremony, Jiang Chen found Christopher.

A total of 10 works have been selected, and they still need to exchange opinions on the issue of which one to finally adopt.

A total of 15 million US dollars was spent on the whole event, just to determine the script of the movie. Mr. Nolan couldn't help but feel a lot of pressure from such a large-scale move by Futureman Technology. So as soon as they met, he opened his mouth and said.

"If it's just to build momentum, isn't our investment too big?"

"But in terms of results, our harvest is gratifying, isn't it?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.

Christopher made a helpless expression, "Only this, I can't object."

Among all the contributions received by Future People Technology, there are not only the achievements of some emerging writers, but also some that have been popular for a long time and have always had a high demand for adaptation. Obviously not only fans of sci-fi films, authors in the sci-fi world are also very enthusiastic about this public call for contributions.

The discussion started from the top of the list, and Jiang Chen chose to exchange views with Christopher one by one.

"How about Ian M Banks' "Civilization"? The most famous space opera sci-fi in the 1980s."

"Series adaptation is too difficult." Christopher shook his head unceremoniously and rejected it.

"What about "A Mote in the Eye of God"? Larry Niven's book. The description of the first contact between humans and alien intelligent creatures is very interesting. The scientific expedition team composed of naval officers, businessmen and scientists The exploration is also very interesting. 'If you encounter a non-human intelligent creature, you must assume that the other party is hostile', this point of view proposed in the article is also very interesting."

"It's on the shortlist." Christopher laughed.

"Haha, can you tell me who are the lucky ones on your shortlist?"

"In addition to this book, there is also "Fire on the Abyss". My brother Jonathan and I have discussed the possibility of changing this sci-fi masterpiece before, but the final conclusion is that it cannot be filmed."

"Can't shoot it?"

"That's right. Because the scale of the universe in the book is too big. Three worlds, countless races, even if Light & Magic is invited, it is difficult to restore the essence of this work." Saying that, Christopher looked at Jiang Chen , and asked with some anticipation, "Can it be done with the virtual image company's vr video production technology?"

Hearing Christopher's question, the corners of Jiang Chen's mouth twitched.

"There is no problem in theory, but the three worlds... the production cycle may be quite long."

Christopher also found out that his proposal was a bit difficult, so he couldn't help but sighed.

"That's 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 one, I'm about to recommend this book to you." Jiang Chen said with a smile.

"The author...Li Ming?" Christopher frowned slightly, he had never heard of this name.

Although the selection of works is not limited to the author's pen name, but for this author who has never even heard of it, he still instinctively puts on colored glasses.

However, Jiang Chen didn't care, and introduced the plot of the book.

"This book is a little green in terms of my shortlist and character creation, but the depth of thought unexpectedly has the level of a master, and some of the viewpoints in the article are also very interesting. In terms of plot, the main talk is In 2o7o, the world is half-warmed, and the earth's climate is no longer suitable for human survival. The International Astronautical Organization launched a colony ship named "Frontier" into space, spreading the fire of civilization to Kepler, 600 light-years away. 22b."

"Because of the clock-slow effect of light travel, tens of thousands of years had passed before the frontier landed at Kepler 22b. But when they set foot on this strange land, they discovered aliens on this planet. The relics of the aliens and the civilization of the earth. Various evidences show that in a certain year after 2070, the International Astronautical Organization launched a second colony ship. I just don’t know why, they walked ahead in the time scale, and they have long since disappeared .”

"It's also unknown whether the alien civilization that is still in its infancy on this planet is the aborigines who were enlightened by the remains of the earth's civilization, or those compatriots from the earth's civilization themselves. What's more interesting is the following The story, the conflict and the suspense are all very well designed, I'm not going to spoil it, you'd better go and see for yourself."

"Just listening to your narration, this book is really interesting. But how did you choose this book from so many works?" Christopher Khan said.

"I didn't choose it, but my secretary recommended it to me." Jiang Chen replied.

This is where Jiang Chen is most confused.

Jane, who has no concept of emotion, aesthetics, etc., based on what kind of logic did she recommend this work to him? Jiang Chen once asked Jane, but Jane herself couldn't answer this question. She just used a very vague and very humane way to respond to the owner's question, "Because, it's interesting?"

Although the theme is eye-catching, it is not so outstanding. The brain hole about the concept of time is not a new concept in the sci-fi world. Although it has been raised to the level of civilization, this alone does not give him too many points.

But after reading this work, Jiang Chen had to admit that Jane didn't lie to him, this work is really interesting.

"It's too early to make a conclusion. I'll go back and read this book first, and I'll give you an answer tomorrow." After speaking, Christopher stood up, looked at Jiang Chen and said.

"I look forward to your good news." Jiang Chen smiled.

Christopher raised his eyebrows and teased.

"I've never been picky about scripts."

"Trust me, you're going to love it." (To be continued.) 8

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