ATTENTION: you can add your comments below how the story should change or how the story should develop, e.g. what places in Tokyo or Japan you want to see within the movie. Preferable within Tokyo and surrounding prefectures.

Tagline: In the year 2021, preparations are in its final stage for the Olympic Games in Tokyo and for the Winter Games in China. A Bionic Hacker, Jack Key, is in Tokyo and working on top-secret developments to improve the physical strength of handicapped people. One day he receives a message that someone found out about his work and that he must leave his apartment immediately. From this moment onwards Jack is on the run through Tokyo, picking up his backups, chased by drones and other technological devices, while figuring out who is behind it and what they want to do with his development.

Objective of the movie: tell an interesting story based on real facts surround bionic-research and development, to increase the awareness of the challenges but also improvements in technology for disabled people, while in the same moment showing interesting places throughout Tokyo which should be on a must-visit list while visiting Tokyo. There is an option to develop the story further to also make China/Beijing part of it. This could be also the storyline for a sequel. In general the whole story shall be split into short movies, each around 4-5min long. As the movie is shot alone, serval limitations are evolving of it and therefore the script has certain ideas which are considering this fact. Further, each short movie will have underlying music to it and therefore it shall be a type of movie comparable to Interstella 5555 but with sound effects and certain dialogues (through text messages and/or voice).

Current open questions:

1) Does Jack knows from whom the message/warning was sent or is it better to keep this person anonymous for the whole story telling?

2) How can I integrate the Genki Sushi restaurant in a clever way into the first movie? Does it make sense that the USB stick is coming on a Sushi plate? How is Jack activating the USB stick transfer? By ordering a certain sequence via the tablet?

3) Does it make sense to distribute several backups throughout Tokyo which Jack has to pick up so that the story telling gets more easy?

4) As the movie is shot by myself, no characters, does it make sense to focus only/mainly on CGI e.g. having drones looking for Jack, Androids, Bionic machines and so on.

5) What is the ending of the story, the conclusion? And what is the midpoint of the story - the point of no return? And what happens at the point in time of a movie “What all is lost?”.

6) Does it make sense that Jack has special power, capabilities beyond “normal humans”?

7) Should I use a friendly robot who is with me and to whom I can talk and who responds to me, helping to drive the story, explaining background, make the movie more enjoyable? https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/sk37-58425893f23d4ee691014e43fa12980c

The following places are currently ideas where to shoot the movie and what is roughly the story line to it.

Episode 1 start.

Music is intense, electro, fast, hard beats, bass, with one slower section. Jack is on the run.

Most is shot with a 35mm lens. Close ups. Face of the character, details on what he does.

1) Jack’s apartment late evening. Jack wakes up on his desk and receives a warning message on his laptop to leave immediately.

2) In the subway. Jack receives another message on his phone to understand more what is it all about and what to do next.

3) Shibuya Station/crossing. Jack did some preparation in case such a situation becomes real one day. In a locker he places a hoodie, money, passports, (anything else makes sense?). He changes his look and gets lost in the masses of people in Shibuya crossing.

4) Genki Sushi. Jack sits down and orders through the tablet device in front of him several dishes, e.g. sushi (does it make sense to have him waiting for the person who has sent him the messages?). The sushi plates are delivered automatically via a moving “train system”. Beside one of them, a USB device is placed which Jack picks up.

Episode 1 finish.

Episode 2 start.

Music is still electro but more melancholically, dreamy, futuristic. Jack wanders through Tokyo, throughout the night.

Most is shot on a wide-angle lens. 16mm or 12mm or even 9mm. The skyscrapers of Tokyo, specifically Shinjuku.

1) Roppongi Prince Park Hotel. Night view of Tokyo and specifically Tokyo Tower.

2) Shinjuku - Golden Gai & Kabikucho.

Episode 3 start.

Music is rather intense as after the breakfast, a whale - half fish half machine - is following the boat in the water.

1) Daytime. Jack has some breakfast somewhere.

2) River Boat from Oidaba to Asakusa Temple. Jack is on the boat and sees in the water that a whale - half fish half android - is following the boat.

Overall story line.

In the year 2021, preparations are in its final stage for the Olympic Games in Tokyo and for the Winter Games in China. A Bionic Hacker, Jack Key, is in Tokyo and part of the team “Yoyo Robotics”. Jack was already part of the world’s first Bionic Olympics 2016 in Switzerland, so called Cybathlon. Athletes from around the world are coming together, supported by motorized, computer-enhanced prosthetics to make up for their physical setbacks, being it a missing hand or leg, or paralayzed from the neck down. Jack is working at the moment at the Toyota Mobility Foundation on top-secret next-generation enhancements chips. He receives one evening a message from a close friend that people are looking for him and it is related to his research and development. Jack leaves his apartment in a hurry. Jack makes it into the subway while drones and police are surrounding his compound. He receives another message on his phone that his research is his life insurance for now. Jack is on the way to the Genki Sushi restaurant to pick up a USB stick which he gave to another friend working in the kitchen. Through a and is on the way to pick up his research and a first prototype Throughout Tokyo and its surrounding areas Jack was hiding his research and a first prototype called in case one day this worst case scenario would happen. Jack is equipped with implants and other gadgets to fight the storm which is coming for him. But will it be enough and who wants his research, and even more important, what do they want to do with it? Is it related to the upcoming Olympic Games in Japan and China?

Note: as the movie is mainly shot by one person, the storyline and some details of it will change and adapt in the progress due to limitations of resources being it people, camera, VFX or other skills.

side noteS.

Team Yoyo Robotics.

One of the athletes, David, also called “the pilot” of his exoskeleton, describes the atmosphere and the people who are doing Cybathlon as outgoing, energetic, optimistic and thrilled about the technology that let them compete. Talking to the athletes and their experience, Andy, from team Chiron, describes the last years’ journey, challenges, and set backs to reinvent the wheelchair, a smart wheelchair, as a series of up and downs. It is sad to know and difficult to understand that the wheelchair, the most important tool for a paralyzed person, the representation of the person which everyone sees first, did not change since the 1980s, a gigantic chrome device. Looking at the physics of a Yoyo, we understand that gravity pulls it down. As it drops, the Yoyo’s potential energy changes to kinetic energy, the energy of motion. A tug on the string, and the angular momentum, let the Yoyo climb back up. The “Yoyo” in the name is a metaphor for the energy, the continuous momentum, the “never give up” mindset of the the pilots and the engineers to work on the common goal: that in the near future paralyzed and disabled will be free again, through the possibility to move easily around. Therefore the “Yoyo” in the team name is a symbol for the present, the future, and the journey in between. Team “Yoyo Robotics”.

Team Chiron.

Chiron is a centaur who was gifted as a healer and a respected intellectual. Centaurs, originating from the mystical tales of Ancient Greece, are part man and part horse.

Various limp replacement models.

biomech, gene-spliced, cloned, or full mechanical.

Model Phoenix 3000: Reinforced titanium, mechanical substructure, covered in a neurachem-enhanced cloned human skin.

Seamless interface with the pilot’s nervous and musculoskeletal system.

Completely natural-looking.

Plot. Episode 1.

Jack enhanced the performance of his team beyond the prosthetic capabilities of each team member by up to 100%, through surgically inserted electrodes in their bodies. The results are stunning. The team smoked the competition in all disciplines. The implants stimulate the muscle fibers to grow. Increased muscle mass can improve metabolism, blood lipid profile, bone density - practically every physical function.

Jack Key stayed in Tokyo to keep working with some top-secret division of the Toyota Mobility Foundation to do top-notch development in the area of brain-computer interfaces. One late evening, he fall asleep on the table, a message wakes him up on his laptop saying

=> “<yoyo8 begin> They found you! Leave! Now! It’s about your Bionic Olympics Research! <yoyo8 end”>.

While Jack is fleeing his apartment, drones are scanning the building and police dispatch informs that the subject is on foot. Jack just made it and escaped through the subway system before they could catch him.

Relieved, full of adrenalin, and heart-beating, Jack receives another message on his mobile phone.

=> “Did you make it out?”

= “Yes, I did! What is going on? Who found me? Why?”

=> “Who, I am not sure yet. Military, Japanese or Chinese Syndicate, another nation’s team. Why? Your research. There is a lot of money involved for the Olympics in Japan and China and beyond.”

“I understand that you have many questions, but for now it is important to know if you have your research somewhere secured as this will be your only security to stay alive. Did you?”

= “Yes, I have a backup which I smuggled out from the Toyota Facilities. I am on the way to pick it up at Genki Sushi, getting lost through Shibuya Crossing.”

=> “Ok, I will meet you there. Eat something. A storm is coming. I can feel it!”

Jack continues with the subway and crosses Shibuya, the most famous crossing in the world, and arrives in Genki Sushi. He sits down and start to order something to eat, waiting for yoyo8, the code name for Mike, and who works since many years Jack.

Jack plugs in his mobile to the order screen and instead of plate with sushi, a plate with a USB stick arrives. Jack grabs the USB stick and put it in his pocked. He nervously checks time and if nobody is coming. In this moment he receives a new message from Mike.

=> “I can’t make it. They are also on to me now. Stay alive. We meet tomorrow Shibuya Sky, Helicopter Pad. I try to organize a helicopter for us.”

= “A helicopter??? For what?”

But no reply anymore, only <yoyo8 end>.

THATS THE SCRIPT FOR THE FIRST MOVIE.

PLOT. EPISODE 2.

Jack leaves the Restaurant with the secured USB stick. As he has nowhere to go, he walks through Tokyo, lost and full of thoughts what is happening.