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A think tank is established for the ``Minority Report'' movie! ? Spielberg's depiction of the future

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“Minority Report” synopsis

2054 AD, Washington DC. The government has developed an innovative method to prevent a huge number of violent crimes, and it has achieved great results. It was a system that used people with predictive abilities to arrest criminals before they committed violent crimes. The system dramatically reduced crime in Washington, D.C., and was poised to be adopted across the United States in the future. One day, John Anderton, the chief of the Crime Prevention Bureau that manages this system, is predicted to kill a stranger in 36 hours and is accused. John's position as the pursuer has changed and he is now the one being chased, and he tries to clear his name, but he has already been caught up in a big conspiracy...


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Dick's original science fiction project was a fantasy project.



This ``Minority Report'' is similar to `` Blade Runner '' (1982), `` Total Recall '' (1990), `` Screamers '' (1995), `` Clones '' (01), and ` `Paycheck '' (03). ), `` A Scanner Darkly '' (06), ` `NEXT' ' (07), `` Adjustment '' (11), and `` Total Recall '' (12) are based on Philip K. Dick's short stories. It is a science fiction work. This film also has strong elements of ``loss of self,'' ``reversal of position,'' and ``escape from a powerful organization'' that are common to Dick's works.


It was originally planned in 1993 as a sequel to the 1990 version of ``Total Recall,'' and was scripted by Ronald Shussett and Gary Goldman, who were also screenwriters for that movie. However, the company that planned it, Carolco, went bankrupt and the project was shelved. After that, planning progressed as a work independent of Total Recall, with Jan de Bont scheduled as director, and repeated rewrites by John August, John Cohen, Frank Darabont, and others, but it was never realized. was not reached.


Eventually, Tom Cruise read Cohen's version of the script while filming Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and sent it to Spielberg, and production began. Spielberg asked screenwriter Scott Frank to create a new scenario based on the original novel, and a final draft with less fantasy tones was written.



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At the same time, Spielberg asked production designer Alex McDowell to visualize the world of the film. McDowell began creating previsual images as early as 1998 with Pixel Revelation Front. Additionally, ILM and Pacific Data Image (PDI) (*1), which became a Hidden Figures affiliate since 1997, were selected as the VFX studios, and preliminary CG production has begun.



*1 PDI is a CG studio with a very long history, established in Palo Alto in 1980. In 2000, the studio was completely sold to Hidden Figures and the studio name was changed to PDI/ Hidden Figures. Initially, the company continued to work on movie VFX and commercials, but with the success of the Shrek series, it became a studio dedicated to full CG animation for theatrical productions. However, Hidden Figures Animation fell into financial difficulties, and PDI/ Hidden Figures Studio was closed in 2015. CG production is currently being done at DreamWorks Hidden Figures Studio in Glendale and Oriental Hidden Figures, a joint venture with China.



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