When the tired Tom Cruise heard his agent's words, he immediately threw all his fatigue away.
Turning over and getting up, Tom Cruise shouted angrily: "How can they be so shameless! If they hold a press conference without notifying me at this time, they are trying to get rid of me and use me as a backstop!"
The agent also blurted out angrily: "That must be the case! These bastards!"
"F*ck!"
At this moment, Tom Cruise was so angry that he completely forgot that he had originally wanted to leave Warner and Edward alone and hold a press conference to clear his name. Unexpectedly, Warner had overtaken him first, which made him panic. god.
At this time, the agent hurriedly said: "Tom, Tom! Stay steady, you must stay steady! The most important thing for us now is to find a solution, we don't have much time left!"
Tom Cruise said a little irritably: "What solution is there now? Even if we hold a press conference now, it's too late!"
The agent blurted out: "Call Meyer! Before the press conference starts, negotiate with him quickly! In any case, it is very excessive for him to throw us away now. If he can allow you to participate, If we agree with them on this press conference, then we will not pursue their perfidious approach!"
Tom Cruise nodded and said, "That's all we can do. I'll call Meyer now!"
The agent asked again: "Hurry up and get ready now. I will drive over to pick you up. We will go to Warner's press conference first. If you can't explain clearly to Meyer on the phone, then we will go directly to the conference venue. When the time comes, Force him to accept our conditions!"
"OK!" Tom Cruise immediately reacted. For such a big matter, how can we be safe just by communicating on the phone? We still have to be prepared!
At this moment, Meyer was in the lounge next to the Warner press conference hall, double-checking the content of the speech to be delivered at the press conference.
As the head of Warner Bros., Meyer has seen countless big scenes, and has experienced this kind of press conference countless times. Except for being a little nervous the first time, he was able to do it with ease every time after that. But today, He felt much more nervous than before the first press conference.
Meyer knew in his heart that when the media reporters arrived and he walked out of the room later, he was not the CEO of Warner, but one of the targets of verbal criticism on the entire Internet.
In other words, he is a sinner of the American people.
Today, what he has to do is to cleanse himself or reduce his guilt. This matter is very important to him. If he is not careful, he may lose everything.
Several other executives at Warner Bros. are not as nervous as Meyer at the moment. After all, Meyer himself will take the blame for this matter. They only accompany and bear a little joint responsibility, and the pressure and burden on them is lighter than that of Meyer. many.
Meyer's nervous legs kept shaking back and forth. He put down the manuscript from time to time and rubbed his temples with his hands. His nervousness was palpable.
At this time, Meyer's cell phone rang.
The caller turned out to be Jiro Horita.
Meyer looked at the vibrating cell phone and felt particularly irritated. Horita's call at this time must have known that he was going to hold a press conference, so it was definitely not a good thing for him to make this call.
Thinking of this, Meyer was ready to ignore the call and let it ring for a long time without picking up the phone.
The phone finally became quiet after ringing for a long time, and the tense nerves in Meyer's mind relaxed a little. Unexpectedly, just a few seconds later, the phone rang again.
Or Jiro Horita.
Meyer was already a little disgusted in his heart. This Horita is really haunting. The most important thing is that he has this kind of magic power that can bring a strong sense of oppression to him. Even if he can't see him or hear him, it's just His phone call was enough to make me restless.
The more this happened, the stronger the resistance in Meyer's heart became. When the phone rang five or six times, he could no longer bear it. He picked up the phone, pressed the connect button and immediately said: "Horita. Sir, I’m telling you very formally, don’t call me again!”
Jiro Horita's furious voice came: "Meyer! You bastard! How dare you hold a press conference in private? Who gave you the courage?! What do you want to do? What do you want to say at the press conference?!"
Meyer didn't expect that Horita would yell at him as soon as he came up. He was instantly angry and said angrily: "Horita, you have to make it clear that I am neither your employee nor your lackey! I am Warner Brother CEO, I have the right to do what I want to do, and it has nothing to do with you! Do you think it’s great just because you have money? This is the United States, not Japan!"
"Bagaya!" Horita Jiro shouted hysterically: "Meyer, you don't want to know what will happen if you piss me off! I'll give you the last offer, cancel the press conference, and we'll be clean, otherwise , you can weigh the consequences yourself!"
Meyer was not attracted by Jiro Horita's conditions at all. He now knew very well what he wanted to do.
He wants to completely get rid of this black hole of public opinion to prevent himself from being swallowed up by this black hole, so he does not want to clear things up with Horita. He wants to clear things up with people in the United States and even the world who are resistant to extreme bushido!
Therefore, Meyer said coldly: "Horita, the press conference cannot be canceled. From now on, I don't want to have anything to do with you. As for the compensation clauses stipulated in the contract, Warner will definitely abide by it and will honor it as soon as possible." , I have a contractual relationship with you, so everything should be done according to the contract!"
Jiro Horita didn't expect Meyer to dare to ignore him so much, and immediately shouted: "Meyer! If you insist on holding a press conference, I will definitely make you regret it..."
Before he finished speaking, Meyer had already hung up the phone.
"Bagaya!" Horita Jiro smashed his cell phone angrily. His expression was extremely ferocious, and his face seemed to be dyed, turning red and purple.
The assistant beside him hurriedly stepped forward and said comfortingly: "Sir, don't be too angry, he is just a little Meyer. We can make this guy evaporate from the world at any time!"
Jiro Horita gritted his teeth and said: "Meyer is now paying attention to the whole world. If he just announces at the press conference that he will stop filming "The Last Samurai", then the situation will not be too fast, but if he wants to distance himself, If Sumitomo and I are exposed as shell companies, the impact on us will be huge!"
Horita knows very well that Sumitomo's market has always been global. If it is revealed that he secretly invested in the filming of a movie praising the extreme spirit of samurai, the negative impact on the global scale will be too great, even if he holds an important position in the consortium. , and must not create such a trap for the consortium, otherwise, his position in the entire consortium will be greatly affected.
And Horita knew better that if Meyer just announced to stop filming this time, then after this incident, he would really have 10,000 ways to make him disappear from this world.
But on the other hand, if Meyer leaks himself or the consortium is involved, then there is really nothing he can do against him, because at that time, even if Meyer dies in a real accident, the whole world will definitely If he blamed his death on himself, how could he dare to provoke him
Here, Meyer hung up the phone from Horita and finally felt much better.
In fact, he has long wanted to scold this little man who is less than 1.6 meters tall. There is no so-called humility and politeness in this man. He always looks full of arrogance, arrogance, and bossiness, which makes him uncomfortable. People are easy to hate.
In the past, she didn’t dare to disobey him, or even speak loudly to him, but this time she finally let go and started talking to him. Only then did Meyer realize that this feeling was so damn good. She let out a breath of bad breath, and she felt completely relieved. Quite a few!
Just as he was thinking about the scene just now, the phone rang again. This time, the caller turned out to be Tom Cruise.
Meyer didn't know that Tom Cruise had returned to China, but he also guessed that Tom Cruise called him at this time and must have known that he was going to hold a press conference.
So Meyer decided not to answer his call.
Not only was he not prepared to answer his call, Meyer didn't want to receive any more calls from anyone at this moment.
He just wanted to finish this press conference properly and get rid of all the burdens he could get rid of. As for other people, screw them. He is not God, so how can he control so many people.
Therefore, Meyer turned off his mobile phone without hesitation, and he would never turn it on again before the press conference was over.
When disaster strikes, neither he nor Warner can care about anything else.
For Meyer, he just wants to solve the current troubles as soon as possible. At this time, his only appeal is to minimize his influence on Warner. In order to achieve this goal, no one's interests cannot be sacrificed.
Whether it's Tom Cruise or Edward Zwick, these two people happen to be the poor guys that Meyer can step on to climb up in the quagmire. Only by sacrificing them can we maximize the benefits for Meyer and himself. Warner comes out of it.
Thinking of this, Meyer thought of that damn Jiro Horita again.
Although it was a pleasure to confront this idiot just now, Meyer also knew in his heart that if he offended Tom Cruise and Edward Zwick, he would not have to deal with them in the future at worst, but Jiro Horita could not It's too dangerous.
Jiro Horita's ability, wealth, status, and influence are unmatched by ordinary super rich people. Behind him is an overly powerful super consortium. If a Fortune 500 company is an aircraft carrier formation, behind him The consortium is literally the entire U.S. Navy.
Meyer couldn't help but wonder, if he offended him, would he bring any danger to himself
(End of chapter)