Monumental Movie

February of 1975. Its very first day was just right after Alexander's birthday.

The boy now had a renewed outlook in life or maybe a strengthened version of the previous one: To make money and churn out whatever extent his capabilities would allow of himself.

For this entire month of love, the Westernized Inuyashiki was being written and drawn. As usual, it was in the formulaic format that Alexander optimized from all of the best that high-earning movies of the future could offer.

The source material from the future was obviously rehashed and made to fit the era in which it is planned to be shown. Of course, the cyborg grandpa premise along with the psychopathic counterpart was kept.

It was at this period that balance was being considered.

Since he was exposed to an entire production cycle, Alexander himself can now mostly pinpoint what was possible, not possible, easy, difficult, over-the-top, necessary, and what it should not be.

If Kid Psychic was a project born from an entire finished product as a template, then the succeeding projects would learn from the inadequacies of that first method.

Young Alex went for projects that have an optimized template that can fit well with the production it is about to undergo... hence, the balance.

Previously, Mark was there to help him with these deliberations but now he can mostly do it by himself.

Balancing the over-the-top with filming capabilities was essential in filmmaking.

This is also the reason as to why most live-action remakes fail to capture the source material.

Given that the source material is incredibly well-grounded and established, downgrading a character's ability just so it could fit the budget would be killing off its chance to hook the original fanbase.

Noted examples are Dragonball: Evolution, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and a whole lot of game-based adaptations.

Characters from its original franchises are a bit overpowered and their abilities are registered to people. Due to balancing, those overpowered abilities become milder and the visuals of their abilities would become subpar.

At this earlier stage in time, the audience now has no baseline to critic and judge from, the Mob Psycho/Kid Psychic franchise and the upcoming Inuyashiki movies would be a perfect balance without the downside compromise.

It lessened the burden of the filming crew and lowered the filming budget as well whilst making the impression that it is original, well-established, and grounded.

He made a fitting storyline that should be enough to make it a feature-length movie with those criteria in mind.

He storyboarded the whole thing after the script was made and only the production is needed for it to be on its way to completion.

The straining sensation was still there as he was making the script but he was less anxious as it is still a concept on paper and not yet the actual thing.

By March 1975, Alexander approached his grandfather for advice on how to proceed with this project.

Before he could get his tiny bearings, his old grandfather was already making the necessary preparations.

When Sullivan read that the cast for the old cyborg's grandson was none other than young Alex himself, he volunteered himself to be the main character.

It was also a bit fitting to his style, an underestimated old man who was hiding terrifying cards up his sleeve or more literally, under his skin.

Pre-production commenced and it also helped that those mannequin designs were already being researched.

To also fit the requirements of the mechanized robot in the movie at a more convenient tactic. Their surface and the moving partitions would be green items of clothing, so that layering the actor's true complexions are only a matter of the Indian expert's meticulousness.

Mark, who had been far overseas, was quick to return and dove into the new project. Leftover post-production was left to be deliberated by the confidentiality-signed assistant director and junior producer.

While in this Inuyashiki project, he only needed to hire other people to fill his gap.

He was at a terrifying worker's high that Alexander even thought his father was essentially in the Creed zone.

"Alex! Keep it coming!" Mark wasn't in that workaholic frenzy as suspected but the passionate look he was directing toward his son was enough to tell that the man was having the time of his life.

Alexander was then left to second guess in which the daily yoga sessions might have something to do with his father's overwhelming reserve of energy.

In April of 1975, Mark and a select few of his competent production crew were already familiar with the ridiculously detailed storyboards.

As such, the pre-production, location-lobbying, actor-hiring, equipment modification, prop-making, and set designing were done at a relatively brisk pace.

By May 1975, production was already in its initial phase. Actor training and conditioning were underway and the schedules were already in place.

The people who would bear the brunt of most of the work were the villain cyborg as he has a bit more action to his role. A surprise actor to play the part is Christopher Lloyd.

He is still performing in theatres during these years and not yet the Doc Brown he would be known as in the future.

Sullivan was not far behind but he was focused more on being able to keep his beer belly. Thus, he had to hold off on his miraculous yoga for a while.

His cybernetic beer belly had a lot of important points in the story after all.

At this point, the full-body toy was already finished and set to be deployed while the ones in the waiting line are the separate limbs and mechanical extensions that are to be used.

This would be another lengthy filming, so there are minimalized props and sets that would be useful for the extensive cybernetization that would be prominent on it.

This movie would fully divert itself from the source material and only kept the premise. So, this was where Alexander hoped that his writing skills are enough to supplement the story.

The fated June finally came in with the seasons. The influx of weddings and a lot of June brides. The summer heat has come and the beaches are about to welcome visitors from afar.

June of 1975 would change most of those summer norms as a classic and monumental movie is about to be screened in theatres.

Of course, it isn't the long-hyped Kid Psychic but something else entirely... it is a movie about a shark!