What movie are you most looking forward to during this time?
For many sci-fi fans, their answer must be the upcoming Dune.
But I didn't expect that before "Dune", I waited for the filmization of another hardcore science fiction novel.
If "Dune" is the originator of many science fiction movies.
Then this sci-fi masterpiece, which was born 20 years earlier than it, will directly blow up your brain hole.
The one that Uncle wants to talk about today is known as a bright pearl in the history of human science fiction-
《Base》
Even if you haven't read the novel, you must have heard the name of its author, Asimov.
He is known as the Big Three in science fiction literature.
As early as 1942, the 22-year-old Asimov wrote the three laws of robotics.
All the works of later generations that use robots as the theme of science fiction can hardly avoid it.
"Big Liu" Liu Cixin won the Hugo Award in 2015, and the first selection was given to Asimov in 1966.
In addition to the "Base Series", "Galactic Empire Trilogy" and "Robot Series", three works that have been praised by the world as "science fiction bibles", he has also written a considerable number of popular science articles, even included in the human-taught version of junior high school textbooks.
The Base series, adapted this time, describes a long epic of galactic worlds spanning 20,000 years.
The story takes place more than 10,000 years after the present.
At that time, the entire galaxy was in the hands of the Galactic Empire.
In the capital, Chuantuo alone, 45 billion people were involved in the administration of the empire.
There are three emperors of the Galactic Empire, namely dawn, day, and dusk.
These three rulers of different ages were actually clones of the first emperor, Cleon I.
The aim was to maintain lasting control over this decadent empire.
In fact, the empire has long been disintegrated, and the control of the outer edge of the planet has gradually declined.
At this time, a doctor of mathematics named Harry Shelton pioneered a course of psychohistory.
Through sample analysis and extensive calculations, it is predicted that the empire will be destroyed in three hundred years.
Humanity will be plunged into a period of barbarism that lasts for 30,000 years and involves thousands of generations.
The arrogant emperor did not believe Sheldon's prediction, believing that he was trying to overthrow the government and prepare to execute him.
All the burden fell on a girl named Gail.
She comes from a remote fishing village called Nax, where the villagers are barbaric and ignorant, and the high priest of the village will execute people who study science as outliers.
Therefore, she has been obsessed with mathematics since she was a child, and she has to risk her life and explore alone.
Her talents were discovered by the Empire, and he sent someone to take her to the capital Chuantuo to meet Sheldon.
Sheldon shows her the meta-optical bodies that store the calculus process, and Gayle sees the future he predicts.
Unfortunately, the two will be arrested early tomorrow morning for endangering national security.
The Empire will hold a hearing, and Gayle will be executed if he proves sheldon's psychohistory wrong.
Someone in the middle tried to buy Gail and let her live as long as she was willing to give perjury.
Seeing Sheldon's love of science and her cry for truth at the hearing, she decided to stand by the truth she saw.
Sheldon said that although destruction is inevitable, it can minimize losses.
He plans to gather the power of the galaxy and compile a Galactic Encyclopedia, which he can use to rebuild civilization after the destruction of the empire.
The 30,000-year Dark Ages will be shortened to a thousand years.
The hearing was broadcast live throughout the galaxy, and all the people heard the prediction of the empire's demise.
How could the emperors tolerate such a spread of speech and immediately decided to kill Sheldon and Gayle.
At this time, there was a sudden noise in the sky, and a loud explosion was heard, and the Star Bridge that the Empire had spent generations of effort to build was destroyed.
Two people from the marginal galaxy buried their bombs in their bodies and came into a suicide terror attack.
The entire capital of Chuantuo was reduced to rubble, with nearly 100 million dead and wounded.
The corpses float in the atmosphere waiting to be processed, and the track repair work consumes a lot of manpower and material resources.
The greatest catastrophe in the history of the Galactic Empire heralded the beginning of the Empire's collapse.
After the disaster, the Emperor began to re-examine the predictions of both Sheldon and Gayle.
He came up with a way that Sheldon could carry out his plan.
But it will take two years to travel to the star at the very edge of the Milky Way galaxy in a slow spaceship.
It is desolate, and only a small number of interstellar settlers make a living by mining mineral resources.
Here the salvation plan can be completed and will not affect the stability of the empire.
Once the predictions are proven wrong, they will decay and die along with the base.
If it is true as predicted, then everything in the base will be expropriated by the Empire, killing two birds with one stone.
And this is already in Dr. Sheldon's prediction.
As a spacecraft landed on the End Star, the first base to save the future of humanity was born.
Judging from the first episode broadcast, the level of refinement of the costume is shocking, and the full screen is burning.
This work was previously considered impossible to be adapted into film and television.
In today's rapid development of technology, Apple uses its strong financial resources to turn the ideal into a reality.
Whether it is the disillusionment of the Galactic Empire, or the big scenes such as the jump of the spaceship and the explosion of the Star Bridge, it is a movie-level special effects level.
The screenwriters found the screenwriter of the "Batman" series, starring heavyweight actors like Lee Pace.
It can be seen that Apple is trying to make this series a top IP that has triggered a global boom like "Game of Thrones".
Unfortunately, the evaluation after the start of the broadcast did not meet expectations, and Douban and the extranet IMDB were crazy to drop points.
The point of the complaint focused on "excessive political correctness" and unreasonable changes to the original work.
The mathematical genius Gale originally wrote a male doctor of mathematics, and the end star mayor Sever Harle was also a male in the original work.
Two black actresses were chosen to perform in the play.
In fact, it is not impossible to adapt female characters to increase the viewability, but it will certainly be contrary to the sense of harmony to change the gender and race of a large number of characters familiar to readers, and even the functional characters that affect the plot.
At the same time, the original "Base" is more of a process of wisdom fighting, but in order to make the picture better and the plot more dramatic, the drama version has added a lot of elements that are not in the book.
For example, the timeline in the play is completely disrupted, and the big monsters common in science fiction movies appear in the endpoint star.
At the beginning of the film, a mysterious dome that no one can get close to is also set up.
In the second episode, the usual bed drama love scenes in american dramas are staged in turn, and there is even a plot of pregnancy.
The original weightless spiritual core and style have been lost a lot, the process of going to the end of the star has taken a full episode to perform a special performance, and at the end, Dr. Sheldon is inexplicably killed by his son, which is a completely different story, full of question marks.
Of course, "Al Qaeda" has only released two episodes so far, and the follow-up may be able to successfully flip.
However, since you chose to shoot such a work, it is not appropriate to use the traditional American drama set to attract the audience when adapting.
Science fiction fans have been looking forward to it for many years, but what awaits them is a work that is beyond recognition, and the disappointment is certain.
If you are attracted by the worldview and setting after watching the play, you may wish to find Asimov's original book to see.
I believe you will experience a wider and magnificent galactic universe.