Toronto-David Goyer, the filmmaker whose credits include the magazine trilogy, The Dark Knight and Apple TV’s Foundation Series, said Friday he is building a new blockchain-based science-fiction universe called emergence.

According to Goyer, according to Goyer, spaceships contain relic-hunting and white hole-science-fiction staples that will serve as the basis for a scattered transmedia project built inside Incention, Goyer’s new Blockchain platform.

In a panel discussion at Coindesk’s consensus conference in Toronto, Goyer, along with Sy Lee of Story Protocol, appeared the intellectual real estate -focused blockchain on which incents and emergence are based on. There, Goyer put his vision of the Incention and said that the platform will allow fans to create the emergence universe with professional storytellers.

“The idea is that we will involve society in all this, and they have an opportunity to create characters that will join the podcast, participate in the animation, etc.,” he said.

Goyer criticized Hollywood’s approach to IP-building, called it “very top down” and slowly to adapt. “Franchises are built in the film and the TV 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 change it.

History Protocol, launched by 2023, has collected more than $ 80 million from backers, including A16Z, Hashed and Endings. The platform offers tools to register, track and make money on intellectual property on blockchain.

“Each intellectual property has its own program, license and royalty division rights,” Lee explained Friday. “Without any intermediary, anyone can remix, licenses and basically build on someone else’s IP,” he added. “According to the rules laid down by the IP owner […] They could share the head together. “

Goyer said he wrote a 2,500-page history Bible to anchor the emergence universe. “We hired a lot of truly talented concept artists who had worked on Harry Potter and Star Wars franchises, and a number of Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction writers to write stories in the universe using the Bible that I created,” he said.

This material also served as a training data for an AI agent, called “Atlas”, which Goyer said will help help create within a predefined narrative frame.

“This is what I want to say is a kind of sanctioned use of AI, where we don’t just scrape information,” he said.

Visitors to the emergence platform can read about its characters and settings or generate their own. Society can then upvoter user -generated stories and visuals. An editorial board – led by Goyer – will determine which submissions will be part of the official canon.

“We let our society up-vote the figures that society has created itself,” he said. “Then the editorial – which is myself and a few other people – will decide which of these characters best suits the overall franchise.”

“AI, Web3, Blockchain – None of these things disappear, not the whole world is tokenized,” Goyer said. “So for my sake, I just thought this is something I need to learn about and get involved in.”

While AI and Blockchain have raised fears of job loss and commodification of Creative Labor, Gyer said his hope is to use the technology in ways that strengthen artists.

“It’s really about deciding whether I want to stick my head in the sand, or I want to have a place at the table and look in my own little way or not whether I can help guide this in a way that is beneficial to creative types like myself,” he said.