Toronto-David Goyer, the filmmaker whose credits de Blade Trilogy, The Dark Knight and the Foundation series of Apple TV include, said on Friday that he is building a new blockchain-based science fiction universe called Emergence.
The world of rise, according to Goyer, has spaceships, relic yacht and white holes-science fiction niets that will serve as a basis for a vast transmedia project built in Incention, Goyer’s new blockchain platform.
In a panel discussion at the Coindesk consensus conference in Toronto, Goyer appeared alongside Sy Lee of Story Protocol, the intellectual ownership -oriented blockchain on which structure and turnout are based. There, Goyer explained his vision of an agreement and said that the platform will enable fans to create the emergency universe together with professional storytellers.
“The idea is that we involve the community, and they will have the opportunity to make characters participating in the podcast, participate in the animation, etc.,” he said.
Goyer criticized Hollywood’s approach to IP building and called it “very top” and slow to adjust. “Franchises are built in the film and television industry [on] Models that are a century old, “he said.” It is very difficult to innovate. It is very difficult to break into Hollywood if you are a newcomer. “Web3, he added, could help to change that.
Story Protocol, launched in 2023, has collected more than $ 80 million from Backers, including A16Z, Hashed and Endeavour. The platform offers tools for registering, following and making money of intellectual property on the blockchain.
“Every intellectual property has its own program, licenses and rights for sharing royalties,” Lee explained on Friday. “Without an intermediary, someone can remix, license and actually build on someone else’s IP,” he added. “According to the rules established by the IP owner […] They could share the upside down. ‘
Goyer said he wrote a Story Bible of 2500 pages to anchor the turnout universe. “We hired a number of real talented concept artists who had worked on the Harry Potter and Star Wars franchises, and a number of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction authors to write stories in the universe with the help of the Bible I made,” he said.
That material also served as the training data for an AI agent, called “Atlas”, of which Goyer said that it will help contributors to co-create in a predefined narrative framework.
“This is what I would say is a kind of sanctioned use of AI, where we not only scrape information,” he said.
Being able to read visitors to the turnout platform about his characters and institutions or generating their own institutions. The community can then increase stories and visuals generated by the user. An editorial board – chaired by Goyer – will determine which submissions will become part of the official Canon.
“We have our community combined the characters that the community has created,” he said. “Then the editors – that I and a few other people are – will decide which of these characters best fits the general franchise.”
“Ai, web3, blockchain – nothing of this stuff goes away, right? The whole world is token,” said Goyer. “So, for me, I just thought this is something I have to learn about and get to it.”
Although AI and Blockchain have evoked the fear of job losses and the commodification of creative work, Goyer said he is hopeful to use the technology in ways that artists enable.
“It’s really about deciding whether I will put my head in the sand, whether I sit down at the table and see, in my own way, whether or not I can help this in a way that is beneficial for creative types like me,” he said.