It didn't take long for Peter Ritchie and the manager of HarperCollins' UK bureau to deliver four large boxes of manuscripts. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Eric chatted with the two of them for a while, sent them away, and the girl walked around the four boxes of manuscripts, took out a simple bound manuscript from one of the cardboard boxes, opened it, and said, "Eric, there are at least a hundred of them, are you going to read them all?"

Eric shook the folder left by the manager of HarperCollins just now, and said, "How can I have so much time, here is the synopsis of the story they have put together, I'll see if I'm interested in it first, and then look at the whole manuscript." ”

"Oh, I'll read it too, maybe I'm interested in it," said the girl, and got up and walked over, forgetting to put the manuscript back in her hand.

Eric instructed the twins to move a few boxes of manuscripts to the study upstairs, and when he saw the girl coming to grab the folder in his hand, he let go of his hand, but he also took the manuscript that the girl stuffed in his hand, and glanced at the cover of the manuscript casually, and his expression suddenly became a little more surprised, as well as some inexplicable smiles.

There are two words clearly written on the cover of the manuscript in my hand: "Harry Potter", although it is different from the title of the first book in the series, but the signature of J.K. Rowling under the title is certainly not wrong.

In an instant, Eric almost pulled the girl's little hand over and kissed it, and dragged it into the game to open the box.

Seeing that the girl walked to the sofa and sat down with the folder in her hand, and couldn't wait to look through it, Eric also walked over, opened the manuscript in her hand and read it carefully. It wasn't until noon that Eric read the manuscript in his hand roughly, and after all he had been flying in the air for ten hours, the girl beside him had already fallen asleep on his lap.

Eric hadn't read the original Harry Potter novels in his previous life, but he did watch the movies.

The manuscript in his hand at this time, in Eric's opinion, should probably be a collection of two volumes, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets".

Since the movie certainly can't show the entire plot of the novel, Eric can't see any difference between the storyline of the manuscript in his hand and the version in his previous life, but what he values is only the film adaptation rights of the novel, as long as the novel is not fanned, and it is also a very simple thing for him to push the novel back to its original track.

The twins made lunch and came over, Eric handed the manuscript to one of them for her to put away, patted the sleeping girl, once the little girl fell asleep, she was very reluctant to wake up, hummed and chirped and stretched out two little arms to wrap around him, tossed for a while, before Eric was carried into the dining room, ate something in a daze, and then pulled Eric to rest with him.

In order to finish reading the manuscript of "Harry Potter", Eric sat all morning, and after lunch, he was also a little tired, and he was going to stay in England for a few days.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Eric and the girl got up together and began to prepare for the premiere in the evening. Barbara Brookley came in person to discuss some of the details of the premiere again. Although the residence is close to the Royal Albert Hall, the crew has specially prepared an extended courtesy car.

The red carpet ceremony of the premiere began at six o'clock, and according to the arrangement, Eric took the girl to set off from Garden Street at half past six in a car, and it took less than five minutes to arrive at the crowded premiere site.

It was the height of summer, and the sky had not yet completely darkened, and the long red carpet leading to the entrance of the concert hall was crowded with fans and reporters, and the courtesy car in which Eric and Drew were riding stopped at the end of the red carpet, and as soon as the two got out of the car, crazy screams rang out on both sides of the red carpet.

Eric walked slowly inside with the girl, and heard the sound of some girls in the crowd telling the girl to roll away from him, and lowered his head to the girl's ear and asked, "Will there be pressure?"

Drew shook his head with an unchanged smile: "No, people like to listen to those voices that are so envious and jealous that they want to go crazy." ”

Seeing that the two of them actually bit their ears on the red carpet, the screams and coaxing on both sides of the red carpet became even louder, and the security guards in charge of guarding had to brace themselves to prevent anyone from rushing onto the red carpet.

walked forward for more than ten meters, probably passing through ordinary fans, there were more reporters on both sides, and a few fans held all kinds of posters in their hands, and saw Eric and the girl coming over, shouting Eric's name, as if they wanted to get an autograph, maybe because there were fewer people, but they were not as crazy as those fans just now.

The two posed side by side, allowing the reporters to take some photos, and then, Drew nudged Eric lightly and said, "Eric, I need to take a few more photos, you go and sign them." ”

Eric nodded, watched a few fans on the left side of the red carpet waving the poster in their hands hard, smiled and walked over, took the pen in each other's hands and wrote quickly, occasionally cooperated with each other to take photos, and walked forward along the edge of the red carpet while signing autographs, advancing five or six meters, Eric had just signed two girls with red faces because of excitement, his eyes glanced not far ahead, but he noticed an obviously strange figure of a woman sandwiched in the crowd.

Other fans were excitedly waving the poster photo in their hands, but the woman was standing outside empty-handed, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and white slacks, blonde hair, light makeup, and some couldn't tell her age, maybe thirty, maybe forty. She also had two attendants by her side, trying her best to separate the fans next to her from the woman, which made her stand in the crowd even more abrupt.

Noticing that Eric looked over, the woman who was staring at Eric in a daze was obviously a little flustered in her eyes, and her eyes wanted to dodge, but she was a little reluctant.

Eric quickly signed his name on a poster handed over by a fan, and after a few steps, he was already in front of the woman. He clearly felt that he seemed to have seen this woman somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while, the two looked at each other, and the woman's hand on the guardrail post subconsciously raised, but quickly put it down, there was a little more light in his eyes, and he smiled at Eric reluctantly.

For some reason, looking at the woman, Eric also had a little inexplicable emotion in his heart, raised the pen in his hand, Eric showed a smile, and said, "Madam, do you need me to sign for you?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, then nodded, reached into her pocket and fumbled a few times, but only took out a ten-pound bill, and her voice was so soft that Eric could only discern the general meaning from the shape of the other party's lips: "Then, sign here." ”

Eric smiled, saw the woman holding the banknote in the palm of her hand, reached over to support the back of the other's hand, and quickly wrote a string of letters on it.

Eric signed his name and walked forward, the woman stared at the bill in her hand for a moment, and said to an attendant beside her, "Mark, let's go back." ”

"Yes, Miss. ”

The attendant named Mark nodded hurriedly, and together with another attendant, he helped the woman push away the crowd, escorted her out of the scene, and came to the parking lot.

Looking through the rearview mirror at the young lady who has not been seen for more than 20 years, twenty-five years, or twenty-six years? At that time, he was still a stunned young man, and like many people, he inevitably had admiration for his own young lady, but like many people, he only dared to secretly look at each other a few more times. Now, after so many years, his daughter is about to get married, and she is already gray, but the young lady is the same as before, as if time has suddenly stopped in her.

With a little sigh in his heart, Mark pressed the speed of the car, drove the car onto the highway with the steering wheel, hesitated for a while, and then considered the sentence and said: "Little, Miss Williams likes Williams very much, I met him once, a very good young man." However, Madame said that the two of them were unlikely to be together, and Williams, it seems, was not a very dedicated person. ”

The woman didn't say anything, just looked out the car window, and after a moment suddenly asked, "My brother should know that I'm back, right?"

Mark looked a little embarrassed, but nodded and said, "I, I'm sorry, miss, I think I should tell the master." ”

"Then send me back. ”

Mark thought he had misheard: "Huh?"

"I said, I want to go back and see. ”

"Oh, of course," Mark finally realized that he had heard correctly, and nodded, "we will go back now, and the lord and lady will be pleased." ”

"Oh, I hope he doesn't beat me out. ”

Mark hurriedly shook his head: "No, definitely not, the master has actually been thinking about you all these years." ”

"You won't understand," the woman shook her head, and suddenly laughed again, "but if he dares to hit me, I will fight back." ”

"Ah," Mark was a little dumbfounded, but he could only shake his head and say, "No, no, no." ”

……

Walking through the red carpet, the girl noticed that Eric's expression was a little strange, and asked, "Eric, what are you thinking?"

Eric shook his head and said, "I don't know, it's just that I just met an acquaintance and seems to have met there." ”

Drew said, "The woman in the black shirt?"

"yes, how do you know?"

"Hehe, it's rare to see a woman who likes to wear a black shirt, so conspicuous, and besides, I also noticed that you touched someone's hand, do you want me to ask for it." ”

"Stop messing around. ”

Eric shook his head, walked into the concert hall with the girl, left his name on the signature wall, and took a few photos with the reporters inside the concert hall. Seeing that Michael Wilson personally brought Prince Charles over, he put aside the little episode just now and concentrated on entertaining the guests who arrived today.

The main actors of "007: Casino Royale", except for the trio of Thunderbolt and another male supporting actor who stayed in the United States to be in charge of publicity, basically rushed to London. In addition, a large number of local British movie stars came to cheer, even the first 007 actor Sean Connery rushed over, plus celebrities from all walks of life in the UK, the premiere scene can be described as star-studded.

At seven o'clock, the 500 invited guests from all walks of life sat down in the concert hall, and the film officially began to be screened when the lights dimmed.

The prologue begins with an assassination attempt, and the plot follows the previous film, GoldenEye, where 006 mutinies, and Bond is sent to hunt down other moles who convicted Mi6. Coupled with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loss of its worst enemy, the role of MI6 in the British government was weakened, so Bond applied to Mrs. M for retirement.

Mrs. M was reluctant to leave her right-hand man, and simply sent Bond on vacation to the Bahamas.

In the concert hall, after the prologue, when the iconic opening credits of the 007 series appeared, Frank Lipton, a reporter from The Times, couldn't help but nod slightly.

Just a simple beginning, he keenly felt that Eric put aside the style of the previous 007 series of episodes to completely work alone, and began to coherent the series of stories, from the perspective of MGM's increasingly popular Agent Cinematic Universe, this change is undoubtedly very correct, the plot of the previous episodes is coherent, and the audience does not need to accept a new story for each episode, which can guarantee that part of the box office appeal of the previous series will be inherited.

However, Frank Lipton also knows that these plot details changes are certainly not enough. Considering that during the promotion process, MGM claimed that this was the first big movie in the Secret Agent Cinematic Universe to achieve a complete crossover of plots, and Frank Lipton couldn't help but worry that the interspersed elements of multiple spy movie series would inevitably lead to the plot of the whole movie becoming scattered, although before the Secret Agent Cinematic Universe, the plot of the 007 series has always had these shortcomings, but if this happened to Williams, it would definitely be even more disappointing.

The film ends quickly, a private jet lands at the airport in the Bahamas, and the well-dressed Bond gets off the plane, drives through the Bahamas Ring Road, stays in a hotel, and has a habitual flirtation that not only easily takes down Terry Hatcher's wife, Caterina, but also wins her husband's Aston Martin sports car at the gaming table.

The plot begins to separate here, Katerina's husband Alex is a gray trading middleman, while Bond and Catalina are entangled, Alex and the villain of this episode Cherifer meet on a cruise ship, Cherevor is the asset manager within the Phantom Party, an African warlord has just handed over $100 million to him to take care of, Cherevor heard that Sky Arrow Airlines' latest wide-body large aircraft has just been developed and is about to fly test, so he started the idea of sabotaging Sky Arrow Airlines' plane test flight and using the $100 million he just got to short the other party's stock。

Due to his suspicious nature, after hiring a bomber who sabotaged the test flight of the Sky Arrow Airlines plane under Alex's introduction, Cheriper casually ordered his subordinates to spy on Alex just in case, but unexpectedly found Bond's figure. With the powerful intelligence network of the Ghost Party, Bond's true identity was soon exposed to Cheryvor, and because he was worried that he had fallen into the trap of Mi6, Cherevor gave the order to kill him, Alex and Caterina were soon assassinated, and the unexpected and tragic death of his temporary girlfriend aroused Bond's anger, so that he began to take the initiative to track down the ins and outs of the matter. (To be continued.) )