"What should we do now? Begin your ridiculous Sherlock Holmes plan? Lei Ting asked coldly beside her.

"Of course, it's still the old way, and it's a bit more high-profile." Li Xiaole turned his head and asked Charlie, "Charlie, do you have any friends with The Times and The Sun?" ”

"There are some, all the reporters from the Conservative Party are my friends~" Charlie smiled and nodded.

"Okay, then please help me contact the reporters of these two newspapers, and we will make a special report first, and release the news of our filming of Sherlock Holmes with great fanfare, and we will let all the British people know." Li Xiaole calmly ordered, anyway, if you want to be scolded, let those media scold them happily, and let them do propaganda by the way.

In the following week, Li Xiaole and Lei Ting began to establish the British branch of Black Pearl, they first sorted out the theaters under the Century Cinema Line, and then recruited a group of managers to reintegrate the theater chain for unified management, and formally applied for the establishment of an independent department of Black Pearl England in London, with Charlie in charge of its organization for the time being.

"Li Xiaole wants to shoot Sherlock Holmes~~ Chinese director challenges the classic character of British literature!!"

"Madman lands in England and vows to break ratings records, and the BBC claims to have received a formal contract from Black Pearl for the broadcast of the series." At the same time as The Times, the Sun reported the news that shocked the British Isles.

The article stated: "According to Chinese director Li Xiaole, they have obtained the right to change Sherlock Holmes from the Drama Council, and the script is already in the process of being completed, and they plan to participate in the BBC time slot competition in the form of 90-minute episodes per episode......

Soon after this issue of the newspaper was launched, this interview report appeared on the Internet, and then it was quickly reprinted everywhere, and the forums of major British fans were hotly discussed, after all, when it came to the Chinese boy who beat their pride Nolan at the Oscars, everyone was unconvinced and hated, Li Xiaole's current popularity in the Oscars has not yet dispersed, and there are still many British fans who know him.

Anyway, everyone who is paying attention to Li Xiaole now knows the news, and it is not surprising that he wants to shoot a TV series to be released in the UK, after all, "The Walking Dead" was also a sensation when it was screened in the UK a few months ago, but he actually wanted to shoot Sherlock Holmes!? This is shocking!!

And he made a deal with the Drama Board and invested in the dying old-school organization......

Of course, the media doesn't pay much attention to the affairs of the Drama Council, the media pays attention to the series itself, Li Xiaole's first work in the UK, Sherlock Holmes?! Li Xiaole's filming of detective themes has made people feel that he has challenged himself, but what is the market for British detective themes now? Malaise. Everyone knows this very well.

This is not to say that the detective theme is not popular, but there are two classics in the past, the two oldest and most rated detective dramas in the UK, "Detective Polo" and "Sherlock Holmes", have all the classic detective cases that can be filmed, and the space for other detective dramas has been compressed to almost nothing by these two dramas, almost one dead one.

In particular, ITV's "Detective Polo" has been broadcast for 18 years since it began in 89, and the "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection", which has been broadcast for 7 years at the same time, has also suppressed the dismal ratings, and finally ended hastily, resulting in no other detective series that can compete with it at all.

Li Xiaole wants to remake Sherlock Holmes and compete with "Detective Polo"? He also said that he had high expectations for the series? What is the definition of very high? Is it axed to shoot an episode that airs for 90 minutes?

Of course, everyone has no doubt about the dismal ending of Li Xiaole's Sherlock Holmes, and the real problem is that Li Xiaole's high-profile promotion of his intention to shoot Sherlock Holmes dramas is simply a huge insult to all drama-loving Britons!!

Who is Sherlock Holmes? In England's mind, this fictional character is not just a vague concept that exists on paper, but a real person who exists in everyone's mind.

Pick a passer-by on the streets of London and ask British Prime Minister Tony Blair about his life, maybe they won't be able to answer, but for Sherlock Holmes, they will be like a treasure~

"This man was born in 1854, loves chemistry and plays the violin, puts tobacco in Persian slippers, injects 7% cocaine solution when he is bored, is only loyal to justice and conscience and often flouts the law, and almost dies at Leichenbach Falls with his sworn enemy, Professor Moriart~~Returning in disguise scared Watson to faint~~This is Sherlock Holmes~"

For many British people, they are sincere and unwavering in their belief that Sherlock Holmes is a real person, and they even think that those novels were written by Watson, and the author Sir Conan Doyle is just a trick.

For this fictional character, Britain even set up a "Fuxue" club of the "Red School" organized by scholars who studied the Dream of the Red Chamber in China, and these hundreds of thousands of Fuxue fans write countless papers in various magazine columns every year to prove that Sherlock Holmes is related, including his life experience, his experience, the type of tobacco he likes and the type of roast beef he likes to eat......

Even the Royal Society of Chemistry awarded Sherlock Holmes an Honorary Fellowship on 16 October 2002, making him the first fictional character to receive this honour.

There was also a well-known member of "Sherlock Holmes" named Roosevelt, who wrote an article arguing that Sherlock Holmes was not only a real person but also an American, and firmly believed that he followed the example of Sherlock Holmes, and finally won World War II as the greatest president in American history.

A Chinese to shoot Sherlock Holmes!? Are you kidding!?

Almost overnight, the official forum of the Drama Council was laundered by angry "Fu fans".

"I can't imagine what Sherlock Holmes, with a pipe in his mouth and a cane, looks like being manipulated by stupid Chinese!? Are all British directors dead!? Such comments are already polite, and many comments even point the finger at Li Xiaole:

"This idiot has probably admired Sherlock Holmes since he was a child, and filming this series may be his dream, but he should be self-aware, Sherlock Holmes's IQ level is probably not something that a director like him who can only make commercial films can make."

"Damn Li Xiaole~! I hate him!! I bet! According to his character, he will definitely make Sherlock Holmes a Korean idol drama! If he turns Sherlock Holmes into a handsome young guy and Watson into a beautiful Chinese woman! I'm not surprised at all!! ”

I don't know if it was deliberately provoked by someone with a heart, or it seems that the English people love the character of Sherlock Holmes too much, this was originally a cultural event, but it has become a social event, and the "Fu fans" actually made a large number of signatures and submitted them to the BBC and the Drama Council, declaring: "Please replace Li Xiaole and replace it with Christopher Nolan as the director!" Only directed by Nolan is possible not to insult Sherlock Holmes~~! ”

After defeating the British gang at the Oscars, and arrogantly provoking the bottom line of the British audience, Li Xiaole naturally became the cultural enemy of the British people.

And Li Xiaole, the client, buried himself in writing the storyboard script at home during this time, although this series is his favorite detective theme, he remembers the details of every dialogue in it clearly, and the case is also adapted from the original novel, but after all, it is a logical detective theme, when he wants to describe the storyboard script, it is not a simple matter to ensure that no detail is missed, and it takes a lot of energy and time to check.

And the outside world is noisy against his voice, he is simply deaf, but he is not worried, it does not mean that the people around him are not worried, far away in China, Ha Zhiyuan saw a related news broadcast on Chu Zhejiang Satellite TV, was completely frightened, on the news program, the BBC reporter is interviewing the Minister of State of the Ministry of Culture Ed Watts.

"Sir Watts, what do you think of the upcoming filming of Sherlock Holmes by Chinese director Li Xiaole?"

The bespectacled secretary of state replied to the camera: "I am angry and dissatisfied, I think this is the shame of the British cultural industry~!" If the BBC airs this episode, then I will be disappointed! Could it be that the cheeky people of this world will succeed!? ”

Ha Ji Won didn't expect this time to be so serious, if the British Ministry of Culture banned it, then Black Pearl's British strategy would have completely failed, was Li Xiaole really self-defeating this time? So he immediately called Li Xiaole to inquire about the seriousness of the matter.

"Does Ed Watts' bastard need to make a fuss?" Li Xiaole couldn't help but laugh dumbly after hearing Ha Ji Won's worries on the phone, and smiled very easily:

"According to what he said, can you mix it up with thick skin, then all beggars should be developed, some bastards like to spray feces all over their mouths, the success of other women, he said that other people's families rely on ****, other people's salesmen succeeded, he said that people are shameless, in fact, this kind of little Wang Ba is cynical and hates everyone, even the Fuwa of the Beijing Olympics He hates ......"

"How dare you scold the Minister of State of the Ministry of Culture for being a little bastard......" Ha Ji Won, who was originally a little worried, couldn't help but laugh when he heard it.

"Why don't I dare to scold, our council is covered by the Conservative Party, and those who scold me are the grandsons of the Labour Party, what am I afraid of them doing?" Li Xiaole said with a smile, I have been messing with Fred for a long time during this time, and I have also figured out the context of British politics and the Ministry of Culture, they are the Conservative Party, the Ministry of Culture and the Royal Film Society are **** factions, and they are originally incompatible, and they don't scold each other every day.

However, no matter how many people are scolding them now, in short, everyone in the British Isles now knows that he is going to shoot "Sherlock", and now in the major evaluation companies in Hollywood, this series should have been rated as an A-level drama with global influence.

In other words, he can finally confidently invite the ace actor he has always liked, Heath Ledger......