This star is going to the moon

Chapter 351 Guo Fan: Sci-fi movies are outdated; I also want to go to space.

In fact, Lu Yun lied; not everyone in the "The Wandering Earth 2" crew was a real person.

After all, Lu Yun can't really build a space elevator right now.

However, there are indeed quite a few genuine ones.

Like the robotic dog "Benben," although it is not as intelligent or capable as the one in the movie, such as building a planetary engine on the moon, its obedience and mobility are sufficient for filming.

Yes, it's about obedience, not intelligence. After all, Blue Star Tiangong only manufactured it according to movie prop specifications, so it can only respond precisely to precise lines. Other reactions are similar to open-source mechanical dog programs on the market.

As for other actions required in the movie, such as precisely running across obstacles to Tu Hengyu's hibernation pod so that he can pet and interact with him, those would need to be remotely controlled by an operator.

The devices that actually function the same as those in the movie are military-grade powered exoskeletons and engineered powered exoskeletons.

After all, that was something Lu Yun participated in developing after receiving the request, and now quite a few companies and departments are using it in small batches.

The largest users are Blue Star Aerospace and military logistics departments.

Fire departments, for example, are also using it in small batches; they are waiting for the second generation.

Because Lu Yun had calculated that the price would decrease once the second-generation technology was more mature.

The other real weapons are small military drones and anti-drone guns, which are unrelated to the "Tu Hengyu" storyline and are used in the "Liu Peiqiang" astronaut training storyline.

The military's small drones are not the large, 8-meter-wingspan rebel drones with missiles mounted in the story, but rather small rotary-wing drones with a wingspan of less than 1 meter, which only have a rifle mounted underneath.

In the previous movie, "Liu Peiqiang" and others used it for anti-drone training, but the movie props team, who claimed to be developing the film industry, did not understand the progress of the country's industrial and technological development.

Therefore, the images of swarms of drones flying in the sky and drones being shot down by anti-drone guns were all special effects, which cost a lot of money.

In this life, after taking over Blue Star Tiangong, he directly purchased drone parts online and then 3D printed white shells that matched the movie design to assemble more than a dozen small drones.

Then, disassemble the prop gun from the first "The Wandering Earth" movie, keep only the empty shell, repaint it, and hang it under the drone. That's it!

(Image from the internet; the actual drone is equipped with a Type 95 assault rifle.)
During filming, they directly controlled the planes to take off, and the scene was quite impressive.

When you need to film a crash, you can simply control one drone to crash. You only need to add some virtual electrical sparks to the crashing drone in post-production.

It's both efficient and cost-effective!

Even after the movie footage is shot, it won't go to waste. The prop gun can be taken apart and the camera equipment can be hung on it, turning it into a camera drone for the film crew.

Similarly, the anti-drone gun in the previous movie was also a prop made by the props team and had no practical use.

Because of the tight schedule, there was no time to reduce the weight, so each anti-drone weapon prop was like a lump of iron, weighing dozens of kilograms.

During the interview, Wu Jing complained many times: "It's a good thing I've trained, otherwise I wouldn't be able to lift these tens of kilograms."

In this life, Lu Yun directly instructed Guo Fan to find manufacturers of anti-drone firearms and buy finished products from them.

The finished anti-drone gun weighs only about ten kilograms; all you need to do is buy it and change the black paint to white.

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Then, when the manufacturer heard that it was going to be "The Wandering Earth 2", Guo Fan came in person.

"Why bother buying anything? I'll just give it to you for free!"

"Don't worry about white paint either, our factory can do it ourselves!"

"Director Guo, we also want to contribute to the development of domestic sci-fi blockbusters!"

Well, "Guo the Succubus" has struck again, and a similar sponsorship deal for construction machinery, similar to XCMG, has been reached.

Bluestar Aerospace was involved in the entire process of setting up and propping up things like pressurized lunar rovers, lunar bases, and lunar spacesuits.

After all, Blue Star Aerospace does have research and plans in this area. However, these things can't be taken seriously. Not only does Blue Star Aerospace not have any finished products yet, but even if they did, the film crew couldn't afford to use them.

For example, a domestically produced "Feitian" extravehicular spacesuit costs as much as 3000 million RMB per set, which is unaffordable for film crews.

Fortunately, Bluestar Aerospace has extensive experience in producing commercial spacesuits with a "professional spacesuit feel," so even if they are just making spacesuit props, they can still ensure that the "spacesuit feel" is complete.

Moreover, compared to the spacesuit props of the previous life that were not easy to put on and take off, the spacesuit props of this life, which were made by Blue Star Aerospace in cooperation with Blue Star Tiangong, are very easy to put on and take off, and can be put on in just a few minutes, just like real spacesuits.

The powered exoskeleton props produced by Weta Workshop in the previous era also had this problem; they were purely movie props, not practical industrial products.

It takes actors several tens of minutes to put it on, and some screws have to be screwed on directly with an electric screwdriver. It is very inconvenient to put on and take off, so they wear it all day long and cannot sit or lie down.

In addition, the interior of the helmet is closed, which makes it easy to fog up and lack oxygen. The lines spoken by the opponent actor are also intermittent and half of them have to be guessed.

Moreover, due to the unreasonable design and excessive weight, the limbs were restricted by 80% and could not move freely. The actors had to endure pain every time they stood up, and many actors vomited while filming.

Fortunately, the staff invented a life-saving device called a "gantry crane".

This means hanging the person up and distributing the weight of the exoskeleton onto a frame about one person's height.

Every time an actor in a powered exoskeleton was hung up, Uncle Da would joke, "The roast duck is on the shelf again."

Even so, they still had to be mindful of Weta Workshop's attitude; many reasonable requests were rejected, leaving them no choice but to continue filming despite their reluctance.

There's no way around it; if we want to develop the industrialization of domestic films, we have to pay some tuition fees.

With Rowoon's involvement in this production, when the crew clashed with Weta Workshop, they no longer tolerated it and instead adopted Rowoon's design directly after the conflict erupted.

Although the powered exoskeleton prop in the first movie was put together by Lu Yun and his classmates, Lu Yun fully considered the needs of the actors and technical considerations, so it was very easy to put on and take off, and could be done in just a few minutes.

Furthermore, the powered exoskeleton props do have some power, which can reduce some of the weight burden on the actors.

Now that they're filming the second installment, Rowoon has provided an industrially produced powered exoskeleton that not only relieves the burden of weight but also provides real assistance, allowing him to easily lift objects weighing tens of kilograms.

And then there's the engineering-grade powered exoskeleton.

So during meetings, Guo Fan often lamented, "Real-world technology is developing too fast; some plots in our science fiction films can't keep up with reality."

After Guo Fan finished speaking, everyone looked at Lu Yun.

Lu Yun waved his hand and said, "Hey, there's no such thing. Reality can never compare to science fiction."

"After all, current technology has only reached the stage of space shuttles, and is still far from space elevators."

“That’s quite impressive,” Guo Fan rubbed his hands together. “The footage shot by the crew’s cameras during the test flight of the Muyuan was excellent. However, the footage from the unmanned cameras was too rigid, so I still want to shoot footage in space with real people.”

"I wonder if I could join the Wooden Kite during its next test flight? I definitely won't take advantage of you; I'm willing to pay!"

Lu Yun believed this, after all, Guo Fan had received a lot of revenue sharing after "The Wandering Earth" became a box office hit, and he was very rich now.

Or perhaps the people at the meeting were all very wealthy; upon hearing Guo Fan's question, they all looked at Lu Yun.

Even Andy Lau, who had already been booked, was no exception.

After a period of intensive test flights by the Muyuan spacecraft, and with accounts from passengers who participated in the manned test flights, words like "magnificent," "vast," "splendid," and "life's reflections" have appeared one after another, and people's curiosity about space has grown stronger.

Ordinary people without money can only dream about it, but wealthy people whose curiosity is piqued simply can't resist.

Even if it's not for any other reason, just to show off in your mundane circle, you still have to go to space!

Therefore, Lu Yun is very optimistic about the future of commercial space tourism!

(End of this chapter)