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

"When did you get hurt?" Nicholson asked as he changed into his shirt and came out.

Martin shook his head: "I don't know. He sighed again: "Fortunately, I came to the hospital quickly, and the injury test showed that I was injured, and if I slowed down, the scars would disappear." ”

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

Martin relented: "I'm stating a fact. ”

Bruce's injuries were fine, the warhead didn't hurt the bones, just six stitches, and a little rest.

Nicholson turned on the TV in his hospital room and switched to CNN.

Sure enough, CNN, which is known for reporting the news in the most timely manner, has already driven the live TV car to the Dolby Theater.

“…… According to what we have learned, a gunman disguised as a fan, infiltrated the premiere, and suddenly opened fire at the end of the red carpet, and so far we have seen at least ten people dead and dozens injured. ”

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

CNN, which is known for its speed and accuracy, was still urgently discussing related video news, and more than a dozen videos shot on the scene had been hung on the homepage of TMZ, the Internet's No. 1 entertainment gossip website.

Without any editing, Jody directly posted the videos shot by his subordinates, as well as the videos he bought, on the homepage of the website.

TMZ's page views exploded directly!

Martin didn't pay attention to this for a while, as he heard a jumble of voices in the hallway, went over to look at the situation, and saw Nolan and Emma Thomas.

He quickly opened the door and came out, saw Emma Thomas' arm falling in his neck, and asked, "Emma, are you hurt?" ”

Emma Thomas barely managed to squeeze out a laugh: "I fell after running into the Dolby Theater and had some bone cracks. ”

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

"yes, 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 I don't know what the situation will be later......"

Martin was relieved: "This is not an incident like 911, North American moviegoers have always had a big heart, and the movie will not be dragged down too much." ”

Nolan and Emma Thomas went in to see Bruce.

After coming out, Nolan asked Emma to go to rest first, and pulled Martin alone to speak: "There may be something you don't know that Christian Bale is also in this hospital, he was shot, a big hole in his buttocks, and when he fell, he hit the bridge of his nose on the steps and suffered a comminuted fracture, which will take a long time to recuperate." ”

His senses for Bell have long been very bad, so he doesn't have much sympathy or anything like that, but instead says: "The Batman actor was injured at the premiere, and not only can he no longer participate in the promotion, but it will also bring a lot of negative news because of it, and Bale is almost equivalent to Batman during the release of this movie!" ”

Martin understands what this means, the reality of the actor affects the film, and the film affects the actor himself, and Hollywood can't avoid it.

Many big-name actors who play positive roles will even write into their contracts that they can only be punched a few times in a film.

Nolan thought of some solutions, but he couldn't be sure: "Vin Diesel, who played Bane, died, I think the follow-up publicity can make more fuss about Vin Diesel, such as holding various mourning activities, hyping up some of his news, such as how much he paid for the role of Bane, etc., and I also plan to add a subtitle to pay tribute and mourn to Vin Diesel at the end of the film......"

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

He has no psychological burden on this, saying: "If such a thing happens, it is not normal for the crew to mourn Vin Diesel, and it will definitely be attacked by the media, and it is natural for the crew to publicly mourn Vin Diesel." ”

Nolan immediately had confidence in his thoughts: "You are very right, the crew must mourn Vin Diesel, and must vigorously promote Vin Diesel, so that fans all over the world know how much effort Vin Diesel has put into this film!" ”

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

Nolan said a word to Martin and left in a hurry, calling Daniel halfway through and asking him to meet as soon as possible.

Martin returns to the hospital room to find Lily, Elizabeth, Lorraine, and Leonardo all on their way.

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

Martin, Bruce, and Nicholson took notes.

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

What Martin had to say, he told what he saw and heard.

After taking the note, he came out of his separate room, and McClane was waiting outside.

Such a tragedy happened, shouldn't this leader of the LAPD stay at the scene?

McLean shook Martin's hand, walked over to the place where no one was, and said, "If you hadn't shot in time, there might have been more casualties, and the three gunmen had four magazines each." ”

Martin said: "I almost died, Lao Bu was also shot, you also saw the Escalade, it was beaten into a hornet's nest, if it wasn't for the bulletproof car I would be lying in a hospital bed at best." ”

McLean said: "Today's incident will put LAPD under a lot of pressure, can you cooperate with LAPD on your side?" ”

"We have been friends for many years, please tell me something." Martin was vague first.

"Keep a low profile, try not to give interviews, don't hype it up in the media," McLean said. ”

"I won't do anything other than go to the scene tomorrow to mourn." Martin pondered for a moment and said, "The premise is that your PR doesn't involve me as much as possible. ”

"Of course not." There were so many deaths in this incident that McLean already had a plan after getting the following report on the gunman's situation: "All three gunmen are crazy and all are typical sociopathic personalities!" ”

Martin was surprised: "Do you understand the situation? ”

"According to the confession of the captured gunman, there were three of them, and the organizer was named James Holmes, a crazy clown maniac who thought society was degenerating......" McLean briefly described the situation of the three men.

After listening to this, Martin felt that he didn't need to say anything, because so many reporters had taken videos and photos, and he didn't need to stand up and hype it up at all.

It doesn't hurt to keep a low profile at this time.

McLean said again: "Warner Bros. side? ”

"My relationship with Warner Bros. is very sensitive, and it's hard to say where things are going to go if you say it rashly," Martin said honestly. ”

McKellen nodded and said, "I'll contact you again if I have something I represent 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." McLean hurried away.

This incident has put a lot of pressure on McLean.

The good news is that, apart from Martin's side, only one of the three gunners is in Los Angeles for a long time, and the other two are all from other states.

This news will soon be stabbed to the media.

Shame can't just be a shame in Los Angeles, of course, you have to bring a few good friends together.

Bruce and Nicholson's transcription is done, and the group meets again in Bruce's hospital room.

Leonardo was swiping his phone, watching the video of the shooting, and slapped his thigh: "I actually missed it!" I missed such a dangerous thing! ”

He looked at Martin, "I should go and hand you the bullets!" ”

Before Martin could say anything, Elizabeth preemptively said, "No, I hope you never have to reload Martin's gun." ”

Nicholson said: "Who would have thought that would happen? Three sociopathic maniacs went so far as to shoot at the premiere. ”

Lily muttered, "Hasn't America always been like this?" In recent years, shootings have grown wildly. ”

Growing up in the slums of Atlanta, she saw too much: "I grew up surrounded by gunfire, and people died every day in the neighborhood from guns or drugs. ”

"Living in the United States, you can never avoid dealing with guns, and everyone protects themselves," Martin said. ”

Nicholson suddenly asked, "Do you know what has the biggest impact after every big shooting?" ”

Elizabeth continued: "Call for a gun ban? ”

"It's not!" Nicholson has experienced a lot of bad things in his life: "After every shooting that shocked the whole country, gun sales skyrocketed!" Someone else has a gun and you don't have a gun, are you panicking? Bump into an unreliable neighbor who still has a gun, you don't have a gun, can you sleep at night? ”

Martin suddenly thought of a sentence he had read on the Internet in his previous life, and said: "When I encounter a social crisis, my neighbors hoard food and I hoard guns." ”

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

Leonardo said at this time: "Many people think that the end of the world is coming soon, and it seems that I am going to stock up on a batch of guns. ”

Lily said, "Your marksmanship is terrible, and hoarding guns is cheaper for others." ”

Both she and Elizabeth were deliberately joking, trying to eliminate the possible psychological burden on Martin as much as possible.

Of course, Martin didn't have any psychological burden, the gunman he killed, fired at them with a submachine gun, Lao Bu almost hung up, emptying the magazine was just a basic operation.

After a few people chatted for a while, Warner Bros. and people from DC Pictures came back to talk to Martin and Nicholson about follow-up PR matters and so on.

The shooting caused heavy casualties.

At around 10 p.m., preliminary statistics came out that the shooting killed 22 people and injured 97 others.

(End of chapter)