American fame and fortune

In the hospital ward, Bruce was placed on the bed. Martin, who had changed his clothes, sat on a chair and looked at a bruise on his hand.

"When did you get injured?" Nicholson came out and changed a shirt and asked.

Martin shook his head: "I'm not sure." He added with emotion: "Fortunately, I came to the hospital quickly. The injury test showed that I was injured. If I had been slower, the scars would have disappeared."

Bruce raised his left hand and gave Martin a middle finger: "You bastard are laughing at me!"

Martin said plausibly: "I am stating a fact."

Bruce's injury was not serious. The bullet did not damage any bones. He only needed six stitches and will be fine after resting for a while.

Nicholson turned on the TV in the ward and switched to the CNN news channel.

Sure enough, CNN, known for its most timely reporting of news, has already brought its live TV truck to the Dolby Theater.

"...According to the latest information we have learned, a gunman pretended to be a movie fan, sneaked into the premiere, and suddenly opened fire at the end of the red carpet. From what we have seen so far, at least ten people died at the scene, and several Ten people were injured.”

The female reporter held the headset and listened for a while, then said: "Now for the latest news, there were three gunmen, two of them were killed, one was injured and then captured. A photographer captured the scene, and we are coordinating the broadcast. .”

While CNN, which is known for its speed and accuracy, was still urgently discussing related video news, the homepage of TMZ, the Internet's number one entertainment gossip website, had already posted more than a dozen live videos.

Without any editing, Jody directly posted the videos shot by his subordinates and purchased videos on the homepage of the website.

TMZ’s views exploded!

Martin didn't pay attention to these for the time being, because he heard the noise in the corridor, went over to check the situation, and saw Nolan and Emma Thomas.

He hurriedly opened the door and came out. When he saw Emma Thomas' arm dropped to her neck, he asked, "Emma, ​​are you injured?"

Emma Thomas forced a smile: "I fell down after running into the Dolby Theater and suffered some broken bones."

Martin nodded, looked at Nolan slightly, saw that he was not injured, and said, "This is a bad night."

"Yeah, the premiere was all messed up." Nolan's first thought was the movie: ""The Dark Knight Rises" will definitely be affected by this incident, and we don't know what will happen next..."

Martin expressed relief: "This is not an incident like 9/11. North American movie audiences have always been generous, so the movie will not be too much affected."

Nolan and Emma Thomas went in to visit Bruce.

After coming out, Nolan asked Emma to rest first and took Martin to talk alone: ​​"There may be some things you don't know yet. Christian Bale is also in this hospital. He was shot and had a big hole in his butt. He fell When he fell, he was hit on the steps and the bridge of his nose was comminutedly fractured, so he needed to recover for a long time."

His senses for Bell were already very poor, so he didn't have much sympathy. Instead, he said: "The Batman actor was injured at the premiere. Not only will he no longer be able to participate in promotions, but it will also bring a lot of negative news. Bell is in During the time this movie was released, it was almost equal to Batman!”

Martin understands what this means. The actor's reality affects the film, and the film affects the actor himself. Hollywood cannot avoid this.

Many big-name actors who play positive roles even have it written into their contracts that they can only receive a few punches in a film.

Nolan thought of some ways, but he was not sure: "Vin Diesel, who played Bane, died. I think the subsequent publicity can make more fuss about Vin Diesel, such as holding various memorial activities and hyping up For some news about him, such as how much he paid for the role of Bane, I also plan to add a special subtitle to pay tribute and condolence to Vin Diesel at the end of the film..."

Martin looked at Nolan and suddenly thought of "The Dark Knight" in his previous life. He was indeed a top movie marketing master.

He had no psychological burden on this and said: "After something like this happened, it would be abnormal if the crew did not mourn Vin Diesel. They would definitely be attacked by the media and public opinion. It is natural for the crew to publicly mourn Vin Diesel." "

Nolan immediately became confident in his idea: "You are absolutely right. The crew must mourn Vin Diesel and vigorously promote Vin Diesel so that fans all over the world know that Vin Diesel How much effort was put into this film!”

He suddenly felt that the dead Vin Diesel might be more useful to the film than the living Vin Diesel.

Nolan said something to Martin and left in a hurry. He called Daniel on the way and asked him for an interview as soon as possible.

Martin returned to the ward and found Lily, Elizabeth, Lorraine and Leonardo rushing over.

A few people chatted for a while about the incident that just happened, and then the LAPD came to the door.

Martin, Bruce and Nicholson each took notes.

The Los Angeles police also collected enough videos and pictures, interviewed too many people who escaped from the scene, and have a very clear understanding of the entire incident.

Martin said exactly what he saw and heard.

After taking notes, he came out of a separate room, and McClain was waiting outside.

After such a tragedy happened, shouldn't the LAPD leader stay at the scene?

McClain shook hands with Martin, came to a deserted place, and said, "If you hadn't taken action in time, there might have been more casualties. Each of the three gunmen prepared four magazines."

Martin said: "I almost died. Lao Bu was also shot. You saw the Escalade, which was turned into a hornet's nest. If the car hadn't been bulletproof, I would have been lying on a hospital bed at best."

McClain said: "What happened today will put the LAPD under tremendous pressure. Can you cooperate with the LAPD?"

"We have been friends for many years, please tell me something." Martin said vaguely at first.

"Keep a low profile, try not to do interviews, don't sensationalize this in the media," McClain said.

"I won't do anything else except go to the scene to mourn tomorrow." Martin thought for a moment and said, "On condition that your public relations do not involve me as much as possible."

"Of course not." Too many people died in this incident. McClain already had a plan after receiving the following report on the gunman's situation: "The three gunmen are all madmen and typical antisocial personalities!"

Martin was surprised: "Have you learned about the situation?"

"According to the account of the captured gunman, there were three of them in total. The organizer was named James Holmes, a lunatic who worshiped clowns crazily and believed that society was declining..." McClain briefly explained the situation of the three people.

After hearing this, Martin felt that he didn't need to say anything, because so many reporters took videos and photos, so there was no need for him to stand up and hype it up.

There's no harm in keeping a low profile at this time.

MacLean added: "Where's Warner Bros.?"

Martin told the truth: "The relationship between me and Warner Bros. is very sensitive. If I speak rashly, it is difficult to say in which direction things will develop."

McClain nodded and said, "I'll contact you if anything happens. On behalf of the LAPD, thank you."

Martin said: "Old friend, you're welcome."

"I'm going back to the scene now, so I won't tell you more." McClain left in a hurry.

This incident put McClain under a lot of pressure.

The good news is that apart from Martin, only one of the three gunmen has been in Los Angeles for a long time, and the other two have all moved over from other states.

This news will soon be revealed to the media.

You can't shame Los Angeles alone. Of course you have to bring a few good friends together.

Bruce and Nicholson's notes were also completed, and the group met again in Bruce's ward.

Leonardo was scrolling through his mobile phone, watching the shooting video and patting his thigh: "I actually missed it! I actually missed such a dangerous thing!"

He looked at Martin: "I should go and load the gun for you!"

Before Martin could say anything, Elizabeth said first: "No, I hope you never have to hand Martin a gun to load bullets."

Nicholson said: "Who could have expected this to happen? Three sociopathic lunatics, shooting at a premiere."

Lily muttered: "Isn't it always like this in America? In recent years, shootings have increased wildly."

She grew up in the slums of Atlanta and saw too much: "I grew up surrounded by gunshots. People in the neighborhood died of gunshots or drug abuse every day."

Martin said: "Living in the United States, you can never avoid dealing with guns. Everyone should protect themselves."

Nicholson suddenly asked: "Do you know what area has the greatest impact after every mass shooting?"

Elizabeth then asked: "Calling for a ban on guns?"

"No!" Nicholson has experienced a lot of bad things in his life: "After every shooting that shocks the United States, gun sales will skyrocket! If someone else has a gun but you don't have one, do you panic? If you meet an unreliable person, Neighbor, he still has a gun, but you don’t have a gun, how can you sleep at night?”

Martin suddenly thought of a sentence he had read online in his previous life and said: "When faced with a social crisis, my neighbors stocked up on food and I stocked up on guns."

Lily rolled her eyes: "Charlize Theron and the Stewart family next door should be careful."

Leonardo said at this time: "Many people believe that the end of the world is coming soon. It seems that I have to stock up on guns."

Lily said: "Your marksmanship is terrible, and hoarding guns will give others an advantage."

Both she and Elizabeth were joking on purpose to remove as much of Martin's possible psychological burden as possible.

Of course, Martin didn't have any psychological burden. The gunman he killed shot at them with a submachine gun, and Lao Bu almost died. Empty the magazine was just a basic operation.

A few people chatted for a while, and then people from Warner Bros. and DC Films came again to communicate with Martin and Nicholson about follow-up public relations matters and so on.

This shooting caused heavy casualties.

At around 10 p.m., preliminary statistics came out, showing that the shooting resulted in 22 deaths and 97 injuries.