England 1986

Chapter 206
Thinking of the school William was about to go to, the question went back to the matter of sealing up the destroyer.

This question is very systematic, and Allen didn't know what to say for a while.

Hearing about his going to school, William, who was eating, stopped his movements, tilted his head slightly, and listened attentively.

"Let's go to my study later, where is Patrice? Why haven't I seen him since I came back?"

Alan didn't want to talk about this with Huth at the dinner table, mainly because the person involved was still nearby, in front of William, even if he couldn't understand, some plans were hard to say.

"Okay, Patrice went on a business trip to the United States. He brought a rough cut version of the movie and said yes. Oh, oh, the review and rating went."

"Well, that's all right, I'll go clean up first, and you will come to the study to find me later."

Allen looked at William and Harry who were still eating, said hello, and went upstairs by himself.

This time I went to South Korea, and I have been there for more than half a month, and now I am finally free, and there are still many things to deal with at home.

First of all, the Blue Knight, which Allen cares most about, has been opened for more than a month.

More than 100 membership cards were sold around Cardiff.

Although this number looks a bit bleak, it can be regarded as on the right track.

The main reason is that those who currently buy memberships are concentrated in the office worker category.

Maybe a company has a card and can order a lot of takeaways at one go. Even if the colleagues around find this thing is very convenient, there is no need to repeat it.

Anyway, Allen is not in a hurry, take your time, the Welsh people have a slow pace of life.

Put down the report on the Blue Knight, and look at the report on Huaguo Industry below.

Allen ignored this. He already knew about it when he was in Korea. The production of radios there has already started, and the instant noodle production line is already being debugged. It is estimated that it will be produced by the beginning of next year, or in the second half of the year.

Then Ceylon is in charge of preparing for the TV drama project, the wilderness survival series, the main character is hard to find, Allen's idea is to choose one who is more handsome and has a better ability to survive in the wild.

For such a request, the best source of candidates is the veterans, but it is not the season of retiring, so we haven't found a good candidate for the time being.

As for another gourmet show, Allen looked at their plan and felt that this kind of thing could be replaced by him.

Anyway, if you find a few not-so-famous people, the publicity effect will not be as good as if he did it himself. It just so happens that he will go to Cardiff to go to university after the Chinese New Year. Go shopping, eat and shoot whatever you want.

After resting at home for two days, Allen took the initiative to call and invite Duke Angus to come to his house for dinner.

But the old guy actually said he didn't have time, and he didn't know what he was busy with.

Allen, who was idle and bored, called a few people to go to Cameron's set.

He is very curious about the shooting of sci-fi films, mainly because he wants to know how the junk computers of this era come up with special effects that look real.

The motorcade left home and drove to the set in the northern suburbs of Carmarthen Town. When passing through Carmarthen Town, Allen couldn't help being a little curious as he looked at the bustling crowd outside the window.

It was originally a small town with tens of thousands of people, and this is not a festival. Why did these unruly people have a party?
Seeing this, Allen subconsciously felt a little nervous. Could it be that these gangsters are planning to make trouble?
"Stop! Let someone see what's going on over there."

If Alan remembered correctly, there was a shopping street in that direction, and he hadn't been here for many years.

If you insist on understanding, this kind of shopping street is a bit like the farmer's wholesale market in a small county town in the previous life. Except that there are not so many vegetable sellers and less shouting, everything else is pretty much the same.

A few minutes later, the bodyguard who came back from inquiring about the news bent over to the rear window and reported: "Your Excellency, what kind of Merlin-themed event is going on over there, it's very lively!"

"Merlin? Oh."

Allen patted his head and almost forgot about this, Merlin, a famous "historical" figure in Great Carmarthenshire!
This fictitious legendary great magician is said to be King Arthur's best friend and mentor, guiding King Arthur to obtain the King's Sword and unify England.

Allen was curious before, but later went to see the famous Stone of Merlin.

It's just a big rock on a small hill in his family's fief, and then there is a small red dragon statue not far away, and nothing else!

It is said that the Stone of Merlin is the birthplace of Merlin. In the past, many foreign fans came here admiringly, wanting to find out the birthplace of this legendary great magician.

But this thing is like going to a certain beach to find a big rock, and then expecting it to be the one that Monkey King jumped out of, it's just a legend, a gimmick, don't take it seriously!

Anyway, over the years, if the Carmarthen people really knew magic, then their Hill family would have died [-] times.

According to the words of a certain Earl of Carmarthen, there is no magic that cannot be solved by a cavalry charge. If one charge is not enough, then reward him with a shot.

But now, Allen looked at the party in the distance, not to mention, some people were wearing cloaks and some were wearing masks, which looked quite similar.

Curious in my heart, Allen, who was planning to go to the set to see, planned to go to this so-called Merlin-themed party first.

He found a black mask strap in the armrest box and put it on. There was no way. If he went straight with his current image without concealing it, then this so-called Merlin-themed party would not be able to go on.

Just opened the car door and was about to get out of the car, standing on the back seat and looking around, Xiao Huang, who came out with Allen, saw that Allen was about to leave, but didn't take it with him, so he flapped his wings anxiously.

"All right, all right, I'll take you with me."

Allen grabbed Xiao Huang's bird head, pulled it to his side, bent his left arm, Xiao Huang jumped twice and stood firmly on Allen's left arm.

"Fuck."

Miscalculation, this thing has grown up now, and I still want to hang it on my arm like it was when I was a child. It's okay for a short time, but it won't work for a long time, it's too heavy!
With his left arm lowered slightly, Alan supported Xiao Huang half-armed and half-embraced, followed by a few bodyguards, and slowly approached the flow of people at the rally.

Among the crowd was a strong white man with a bald head, painted on his face in various colors, and holding a small torch in his hand. He was obviously very excited when he saw Allen and his group coming over. He raised the torch and took a sip of something. With a sound, a big fireball spit out into the sky.

Then he played a flower job in his hand, and the torch turned a few times in his hand and then put it down. The bald man looked at Allen expectantly.

Although Allen was wearing a mask, according to his eyesight, the young man was well-dressed, and there were a few strong men behind him, so he was not easy to mess with at first glance. This is obviously a big family, even the children of aristocrats ah!

As long as you behave well in front of this kind of master, what about tips and rewards?

Alan watched cheerfully as the bald man performed a few more fireball spit, holding Xiao Huang in his left arm, and touched his pocket with his right hand. He didn't usually carry much money with him, so he just put some [-]-pound notes for emergency use. , took out one and handed it to the bodyguard, signaling him to give it to the bald man.

Going forward, there are still people selling crystal balls and wizard hats on the side of the road.

This kind of crystal ball should have a small light installed on the base. When the switch is turned on, the corresponding pattern will light up in the crystal ball. It looks pretty, but the manufacturing level is a bit rough.

Allen stood in front of a stall and looked at the tattered pointed wizard hat on the stall, when a woman's voice suddenly came from beside him.

"boss?"

"Ok?"

I didn't expect to meet acquaintances in this kind of place. Allen turned his head and looked at the lady in front of him. She looked a little familiar. After thinking for a long time, he remembered that this was his screenwriter, who seemed to be called Joanna Rowling.

"Who are you? Rowling? How did you recognize me?"

"Haha, Boss, I only recognized you when you carried it."

There were too many people talking, so Rowling called out tentatively, mainly because Alan was wearing a mask and couldn't see clearly, but the big fat bird with a big head that was struggling and turning around under his arm was very Recognizable.

She may not see Alan every day, but she can always see Xiao Huang wandering around in the castle.

Seeing this bird now, with the identity of the person next to it, do you still need to guess?
"Haha, it turned out that Xiao Huang exposed me, why did you come here?"

Allen stepped aside a few steps, so as not to disturb others who set up street stalls for business.

Rowling tightened the outer jacket and said: "I heard that there is a Merlin-themed event here, and I came here to collect materials today. Boss, have you ever considered making a movie about Master Merlin?"

"Ok?"

Allen really never had this idea.

An n-stream director who has only made online movies before, what he knows about making movies is making money or being famous, and no matter how bad he is, he is planning to develop in the direction of science fiction movies. He really hadn't thought about magic movies.

First, this kind of movie is more troublesome to shoot. The small scenes do not look up to grade, but the big scenes are not easy to shoot.

Moreover, this kind of theme requires a lot of special effects. In the past two years, he has not figured out how ordinary special effects movies in this era are shot, and how could he consider such things.

"Isn't this... special effects too much? It's not easy to shoot."

When Alan was thinking, Rowling looked at Alan wearing a mask. In October, Wales had already cooled down a bit. Alan was wearing a long black windbreaker with a satin-like jacket inside. A black shirt with a small dark red bow tie tied at the collar.

The lower body is slightly slimmer pants and long riding boots, plus the white owl he is holding.

It can be said that even if Alan didn't dress up specially, with his current image and the surrounding environment today, he really looks like a young mysterious wizard.

Looking at Allen, Rowling suddenly had an inspiration!

Mysterious young wizards, handsome ones, and white owls, can you write a story for your boss to shoot?
"What do you think?"

Allen watched Rowling in a daze, and raised his voice slightly to remind her.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Ge...er, boss, I just had a sudden inspiration."

Rowling looked around, leaned closer to Allen, and whispered, "Boss, I want to write a story about a young wizard in the Middle Ages."

Allen listened to Rowling's suppressed voice, happily telling him about his inspiration.

Why does this story become more and more familiar the more I hear it?
Are you really planning to come up with a Harry Potter?

"and many more."

Hearing Rowling kept telling him about the Middle Ages, Allen interrupted Rowling slightly and said, "What about you? If you just want to write a book, then I have no problem, but if you want to write a movie, it can be a movie." If the story is filmed, then you have to think about more things!"

Looking at Rowling's puzzled eyes, Allen looked at the side of the road, pointed to a bench under a big tree and motioned Rowling to sit down and said.

"Think about it, it's not the first time you've written a script. Did you follow us to watch the movie when we were filming it?"

Rowling nodded, of course she had seen it, it was filmed not far from home, and she had seen the crew shoot live more than once.

"Since you have seen it, have you ever thought about how many props we need to prepare if you put the background of the story in the Middle Ages? Okay. Even if the budget is sufficient and the props can be made, what about the buildings?"

Rowling looked around subconsciously. Wales is full of ancient castles and ancient buildings. What's the problem?
"tsk"

Allen comforted Xiao Huang, who had been under his control all the time, and said, "You see this kind of town now, yes... Wales is everywhere, but this is a living area, so we can't let the crew come to shoot every day, by the side of the road Streetlights, billboards and other modern elements, have you thought about these things? If you really want to shoot, it is very difficult to find a place to shoot in this era background."

After hearing what Allen said, Rowling couldn't help being stunned, which made sense.
Living in the Middle Ages, you can't build a large medieval town just to make a movie, right?

I took it for granted.

Seeing Rowling who was a little frustrated, Allen was afraid that she was going to shrink back again, so he pulled his mask and said, "You can do this, for example, if your protagonist is a modern person, then he can go to some wizarding school to study, The location of this school could be a different dimension, or some mysterious place far away from the city."

"In this way, at the beginning, we can shoot in ordinary studios. The props and buildings are easy to arrange. If we want to shoot medieval buildings, we can also pack up an old castle and shoot alone. You have to shoot for movies. Consider the degree of difficulty."

With Allen's explanation, Rowling's eyes lit up, this is fine.

Setting the background of the time piece to modern times can easily solve many problems in shooting. Of course, it can also solve some other problems for her.

That is, she doesn't need to search a lot of medieval materials, but only needs to substitute the modern background into it.

As for learning witchcraft, magic, etc., directly arrange a school in a different space, which is already a different space. Of course, the castle came about because of its weirdness, so there is no need to pay attention to the historical background.

"Thank you, boss. I have broadened my mind a lot. I can organize the outline first when I go back today. After my novel is written, I will give it to you!"

"Haha, let's talk about it after you write it out. If you need to look up some historical materials, you can ask Butler Huth to browse the materials in the library at home."

(End of this chapter)