That night, Li Xiaole and Heath Ledger in the rehearsal hall were immersed in the excitement and pleasure of the performance all night, but they didn't notice that outside the window with drizzle, two old figures were standing silently watching everything happening inside.

"How about it, Fred, do you still think he is not qualified now?" Charlie, holding an umbrella, asked his old friend who was a little wet on his back with a smile on his face.

"He is still far from it. He hasn't figured it out yet, so he will talk endlessly about these theories... But it's better than I expected, at least as a director, he still knows how to **** the actors." Fred, with a serious expression, looked at Li Xiaole dancing inside and coughed heavily. Although he has never liked Li Xiaole, he has to admit at this moment that he can indeed be a top director who is comparable to Nolan.

"Haha, seeing these young people rehearse together, it makes people miss our past. At that time, we also rehearsed "King Lear" here all night." Thinking of those wonderful times when we were young, Charlie was inexplicably excited, and gently reached out to Fred to make an invitation, and smiled and said, "Come on, my dear Majesty~~"

Fred, who was always serious, seemed to be infected by the passion of the young man inside. He couldn't help but talk about the teenager crazy, striding in the rain, and recited the dialogues he recited countless times when he was young:

"If a proud person wants to see his own face clearly, he can only use other pride to serve as a mirror for him~~! If he bows down to him~~! But if he adds his arrogance, he will in vainly bring humiliation~~"

Just as King Fred, Lear, was chanting his lines with great affection, he suddenly saw a strong light flashlight coming from a distance. The security guard patrolling the corridor shouted sternly: "Who is there?? Why are you so late?!" When you came over and saw that it was President Fred. The black security guard was also startled, took off his hat with a strange expression and asked: "Mr. Fred... Why are you still here so late?"

"Hmm..." Fred quickly ended his hands and danced with panic, and his wrinkled face returned to his serious voice:

"It's nothing. I just saw that the rain was too heavy. Let's check if there was any leakage in the roof of the rehearsal hall... Well, it's not bad. It's worthy of being built during the Queen..." As he said that, he walked away with his hands behind his back, glaring at Charlie while walking, which meant, "It's all your fault for you... I'm making a fool of me."

Charlie tried hard to hold back his smile, pinched the security guard's hat and said goodbye, and followed.

"It's so much rain?" The black security guard stared blankly at the drizzle floating in the sky, and couldn't help but touch his head in confusion...

In this way, after Heath Ledger took the initiative to give up the role of Sherlock Holmes, the crew had completely coordinated and quickly entered the shooting schedule. In the next month and a half, the crew of "Detective Sherlock" began to enter high-intensity shooting. A 90-minute episode is no different from a movie. In addition, Li Xiaole's pursuit of perfection has raised requirements in every detail, and it is also very difficult to torture a group of British staff of the Council.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Heath Ledger, these three handsome actors are quite satisfying to play. They have staged a collision of Mars' acting skills on the set many times, which is extremely exciting. Emma Watson, the little beauty, pesters Lei Ting every day, imitating her every move every day, and even her tone and eyes begin to resemble Lei Ting, and her expression is becoming more and more mature.

While the actors' performance surprised everyone, another headache-inducing problem arose. Although Heath Ledger turned into a supporting role, Li Xiaole did not reduce his pay, while Benedict Cumberbatch turned to the protagonist, and his pay increased from 70,000 pounds per episode to 150,000 pounds per episode. In addition, Li Xiaole's pursuit of excellence in this series has greatly increased the costs of all aspects.

No matter how many crews are spending money, the cost of the first episode alone is far beyond the tone of £00,000, reaching £4.1 million...

On Wednesday, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Fred was in his office, watching the trailer of the first twenty minutes of the first episode of "Detective Sherlock" that Charlie had just received. Richard, who was sitting next to him, looked at the wonderful performances of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman on the LCD screen with a smile, and couldn't help but nod and said:

"The effect is indeed unexpected~~ I didn't expect that Benedict Cumberbatch was so young but played so well, and Martin Freeman was even more surprisingly outstanding. It's hard to imagine. Such a good actor was just under our noses, and we didn't find it~~"

"Well, these two young people have very good chemical reactions, and the performance was quite satisfactory." Fred, who has always been picky, rarely praised it.

"Fred, have you forgotten the credit of someone?" Charlie asked with a gentle smile, squinting his eyes.

"You mean Li Xiaole?" Fred snorted in a strong nasal voice: "He can only be considered as completing the work he should do. The real excellence is his screenwriter skills. I think he must know many people who have lived in Britain, otherwise every line would not be so rhymeful."

"That's right." Charlie nodded with sighing:

"Actually, I didn't expect that he had such a deep skill in screenwriter. I was always worried that this original adaptation would be disappointing, but I really didn't expect that he had transplanted the perfect story to modern times while retaining the original plot, and made so many exquisite small changes. His skills in character creation are probably much better than those old screenwriters in our board of directors..."

Not only is it said that a 24-year-old Chinese director has such a profound skill in writing scripts, but he can still understand British culture so thoroughly. This is really amazing.

"Don't praise him." Fred looked at Richard with dissatisfaction and reminded in a deep voice:

"He spent £4.1 million in this episode, which is much beyond our budget, so all our funds are enough to shoot two episodes. Even if it can be released on BBC, it is a problem whether you can recover the cost... You must keep a more secure budget in the future."

"Well, it's indeed a bit overspent..." Charlie also admitted that the existence of this problem. At this time, his cell phone suddenly rang. It was Li Xiaole called. After answering the phone, listening to what Li Xiaole said on the other end, Charlie frowned repeatedly, and finally sighed: "Wait, I have to discuss this with President Fred before I can decide, wait for my phone number."

Seeing Charlie appearing helplessly after answering the phone, he rarely showed a helpless expression. Fred couldn't help but ask him, "What's wrong?"

"It's Li Xiaole... He hopes that we will prepare for a media meeting with actors in the crew." Charlie said in a helpless tone.

"Well, this is what it should be. After all, it was a series he invested in to film. As partners, we should help him create some public opinion momentum. His provocative propaganda to the media was very effective." Fred nodded. The board of directors had strictly kept the list of actors and crew information strictly confidential, and claimed that the series would be postponed to the next month, in order to create a little news selling point at this time.

"But he wants to hold it at the Royal National Opera... it will cost at least £800,000..." Charlie looked at Fred with a bitter face.

"It costs another £800,000..." Fred was stunned when he heard it, and then fell into deep thought.

"I think the investment has exceeded the cost too much, so let's change to a smaller venue." Charlie sighed.

"No, just hold it at the Royal National Opera." Fred's mind came to his mind that night when he saw Li Xiaole and Heath Ledger rehearsing all night, and suddenly said firmly.

"You agree?" Charlie looked at him in surprise.

"Anyway, if the show cannot be recouped, the Council will be incorporated into the Film Association. We must at least leave a good work." Fred said in a deep voice. As the president of the Council, he didn't care about the millions of pounds. What he cared about was whether he could use the money to leave some real legacy.

The next day, a news suddenly appeared on the official website of the Drama Council, which had been silent on the news of "Sherlock Detective" and informed that on Saturday afternoon, the Drama Council would hold a media meeting of "Sherlock Detective" at the Royal State Opera. I hope that interested media and fans can come to participate.

At the same time, Fred, Charlie and Li Xiaole both invited their respective celebrity friends, hoping that they would come to this media meeting to support them.

The media is most interested in who is the actor of Sherlock Sherlock. They have previously listed a list of middle-aged British actors of the age, but after investigation, none of them received an invitation from Black Pearl Company.

In addition, although the crew filmed on the streets of London, the media focused on those quaint architectural scenic spots that were specifically filmed during the Industrial Revolution. They didn't even know that this time "Sherlock" was completely modern, so they never found any clues.

So the media are secretly speculating that according to Li Xiaole's tradition of liking superstars, are you planning to use American stars to play Sherlock Holmes this time? The Sun conducted a poll for this, and more than 120,000 movie fans in the UK participated in the survey.

Among them, 53.4 people believe that Li Xiaole will use Robert Downey Jr. who has taken over the movie version of "Detective Sherlock Holmes", 7 people think that it will be "Iron Man" Tom Cruise, and 11.9 people think that it will be the new Hulk George Clooney, and the rest choose other candidates...
Chapter completed!