"I'm completely finished on the horse, this is my conclusion after thinking about it again, it's over!"

"These six days, which were supposed to be the beginning of the most glorious six months of my life, turned out to be the prelude to a nightmare...... The rest of my teammates must have thought I was dead, and of course they couldn't be blamed. There's going to be a state funeral a while later, and my intro page says like this: Mark Watney is the only person to have died on Mars so far. ”

Martin carefully read the first two chapters of the beginning, and Matt Damon's honest face automatically popped up in front of him, and the name of the combination is not difficult to determine, this is the potato planted on Mars.

Then, he looked at Rachel on the other side and said to himself, what kind of planes are these FBIs doing?

Martin looked for it, but didn't find it in the publishing market, and as a result, several FBIs who wanted to fish privately used it as bait for their own fishing.

Or are these FBIs showing kindness to him?

Send the beauty first, and then send the project, what a good person who steps on the horse!

Although his mind is turning, Martin's acting skills are completely online, and his face is very calm, as if this work is mediocre.

Rachel had been observing Martin and found that the other party was just reading the manuscript calmly, and did not seem to be very interested.

It wasn't the FBI's action, but her boss found a few hardcore subordinates to give the man who was blocking her promotion a little color.

The resources that can be mobilized are limited.

Rachel's first thought was that a simple lure could lead to successful fishing, after all, the other party's playboy reputation was very loud.

Martin read two more chapters, made sure he couldn't make a mistake, closed the printed text, and said: "A literary work that is slightly biased towards hard science fiction, with average adaptation potential. ”

Rachel did some preparation and said, "Don't you think this looks like a Martian version of Robinson Crusoe?" It's so well written, and when I read it, I felt like it had a kind of dramatic thrust like a rocket taking off! ”

Martin asked, "Has this work been published?" Is there a readership audience? Is the author famous? ”

In the face of industry insiders, Rachel couldn't make it up, so she could only say: "It's not published, and the author is a nobody." ”

"You see, these are the problems." Martin spread his hands: "Even if I want to adapt it into a movie, there is still a long way to go. ”

Rachel said to herself that you just don't say no.

She didn't care if Martin adapted it in the end or not.

Rachel added, "We can agree on a plan to move it forward in the direction of adaptation. ”

Martin quickly flipped through the printed manuscript and saw that there was no ending at all, and asked, "Who is the author?" Not even an ending! Rachel, you're making it very difficult for me to do this. ”

Rachel's foot, which she had just wanted to stick out, retracted it.

Martin continued: "I need to meet the author, talk to him in person, make sure he can finish the work, make sure he can write a good finish, so I can move forward with the adaptation. ”

He looked at Rachel: "You're a veteran editor, you should know how Hollywood works, and a slightly larger film project will cost at least hundreds of thousands of dollars for every step forward." ”

Rachel thought about it for a moment and said, "Our publishing house is also communicating with the original author on these matters, and I can assure you that none of this is a problem with what you said." ”

Martin saw that the other party used what he was good at as a rhetoric, and simply said: "It's better to recommend in the early stage, we will jointly invest in the future, and when the film project is operated later, I can introduce your publishing house into the investment shareholders." ”

This was completely unexpected, it was not enough to push the other party to one, but also to pay to help run the project?

Is this fishing, or feeding the fish?

But she worked as a junior assistant in the FBI's Hollywood office and knew that this was a normal way of working in good faith in Hollywood.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars, of course Rachel can't come up, maybe her boss has it in the small coffers, but the boss will definitely not pay for it.

Bruce glanced at Martin and didn't say anything, because across the street was the individual actions of individual FBI individuals.

Replaced by the official behavior of the FBI, the two would have figured out a way to settle the incident a long time ago.

Things always go out of the way, Rachel is a little messy, looking at Martin opposite, full of sincerity.

"This ......" she had no choice but to say, "I need to ask my superiors." ”

Martin said: "There is no hurry. He picked up the printed manuscript and said, "I'll take it back and take a closer look." ”

It definitely won't work if you don't let someone take it back, Rachel nodded in response, "You can take it." “

Martin put the manuscript in the file bag, and lightly touched Lao Bu's foot.

Bruce remained silent as the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

He picked it up and said a couple of words to Martin: "A call from the White House, Mr. President invited you to watch the fireworks show in the evening." ”

Rachel's eyebrows skipped a beat, but she wasn't too worried, because her superior wasn't someone on the White House line.

Martin picked up the file bag and shook hands with Rachel, who got up: "If you are willing to invest, please let me know in time, I can let people prepare." ”

Rachel smiled and said, "I'll react to my superiors." ”

Martin and Bruce are gone.

When they went out and disappeared, Kate sat back in her chair and said, "You're too troublesome, you could have solved it by taking off your pants." ”

Rachel was a little upset when she heard this, and asked rhetorically: "The last time Martin came to Washington, you wanted to take off your pants, did you succeed?" ”

Kate sells rotten: "I'm not charismatic enough, but you're different, you just split your legs and tell him to look down, you will find surprises, once he uses it, he will always crave it!" ”

Rachel was angry, stared at Kate, and finally didn't say anything, picked up her briefcase and left the café.

Martin and Bruce enter the hotel lobby and go to the lounge first.

Bruce double-checked the file bag to make sure there was no problem, and the two went upstairs.

"Finished talking so soon?" Elizabeth hadn't packed her bags yet.

Martin nodded and said to Bruce, "Call Thomas." ”

Elizabeth knew he had something important to do, and pointed to the next bedroom: "I'll go see if Lily has cleaned up." ”

A few minutes later, Thomas came in from outside, and Martin called him into the suite's study with him.

Bruce handed the file bag to Thomas: "Inside is a manuscript. ”

Thomas took it out and asked, "Buy the rights?" ”

Martin nodded slightly: "This manuscript has not yet been listed, and the copyright should still be in the hands of the author himself, but I don't know who the author is." ”

He specifically asked, but Rachel didn't say: "Find out the author and talk to him about film and television adaptation copyright as soon as possible." ”

"Okay." Thomas flipped through the manuscript.

Martin's mind flashed Matt Damon's honest face again, remembering that the other party was a member of the Foot Gang, and secretly sighed that it was not only fate, but even the FBI wanted him to stand on the opposite side of the Foot Gang.

Thomas looked at the manuscript for a while, turned on the computer in the study, logged on to Google, typed in a piece of text, used Google search, and opened a personal blog.

He looked at it carefully and said, "I've found the author." ”

Martin replied, "Who is it?" ”

"A man named Andy Weir, because he didn't have the support of a publisher, updated the Martian through his personal blog, and it is currently updated to the last chapter of the manuscript," Thomas said. “

There is a bio of the author on it, and he said as he watched it: "This person graduated from the University of California and is currently working at Blizzard Entertainment. ”

Martin asked, "Out of Warcraft Games Blizzard Entertainment?" “

"Yes." Thomas confirms this: "He's a game programmer at Blizzard. ”

Martin thought for a moment: "You go back to California right away, go to this guy, get him, buy the rights." ”

Thomas put away the papers: "I'm going to book a plane ticket." ”

Martin remembered one more thing: "By the way, confirm Ridley Scott's future work schedule." ”

Thomas nodded and left the room.

Martin thought back again and made sure he was not mistaken, Ridley Scott was the director.

Lao Lei, the director, is known for his unstable performance in the circle, and the movies he directs are always good and bad, resulting in great fame, but he can't get the final editing right.

However, one thing is clear, Lao Lei's defeated films are basically epic masterpieces, especially ancient costumes, as if "Gladiator" has achieved great commercial success.

On the contrary, in science fiction films, Lao Lei rarely misses.

Martin remembers that Lao Lei is a very aspiring director, and every time he succeeds in science fiction films, he jumps into the pit of epic films without hesitation.

"Heavenly Dynasty", "Robin Hood", "Pharaoh and the Gods", "The Last Duel", ......

It's all box office tragedies with production costs of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Martin took out the trio's mobile phone and dialed Neves again, and after chatting for a while, he was relieved.

Thomas took a flight back to Los Angeles that afternoon.

Martin and his entourage had dinner in advance, and then came to the White House again to enjoy the Independence Day fireworks show with Guanhai and others.

Elizabeth also communicated with Michelle in person, and Maria will go to Los Angeles in mid-July to join the "Inception" crew for summer practice.

Nolan, Martin and several senior Warner Bros. executives all signed the record of her practice.

It is conceivable that she will inevitably enter an Ivy League school in the future.

The next morning, Martin saw off Lily and Elizabeth before taking a flight out of North America and returning to Morocco to continue filming "Inception".

Halfway through Rabat, he received a call from Neves.

The fishermen, who failed in the competition among the fishermen, were sent to Korea as liaison officers and would not return to North America for a long time.

The hook is gone, and of course the bait Martin has to take it.

Thomas reached out to Andy Weir, who is still writing part-time, and it's hard to see hope in serialization, and the conversation goes relatively well.

(End of chapter)