In the eyes of Edward Zwick, Meyer's only flaw lies in Jiro Horita!
Didn’t Meyer say that this movie was led by Warner? He is simply lying!
The investor behind this movie is actually Jiro Horita!
Meyer and Jiro Horita were also very aware of the insider trading. Jiro Horita provided all the funds, but only used a few shell companies to occupy 50%, and the remaining 50% share was given to Warner!
In return, on the one hand, Meyer will help Horita Jiro make this movie and make it a high-quality movie. On the other hand, he will also help Horita Jiro hide the truth!
Jiro Horita is not short of money at all. Giving Warner 50% of the profits as commission is nothing to him. All he wants is to achieve his goal.
Meyer deliberately concealed this information. In Edward Zwick's view, he was trying to make Warner's decision to make the film appear to be an accident and an unintentional mistake.
If the people know the truth, Meyer's lies will be self-defeating!
He took so many benefits from the Japanese to make this movie, and it is clear that he knew the intention of the Japanese in investing in this movie. He is basically a lackey who does things for money, and all this has been planned for a long time, and it is not at all It was not an honest mistake!
Edward Zwick was now blinded by anger, and he only thought of one thing: he must tear through Meyer's hypocritical face! The whole world must know what he is like! Otherwise, when this press conference is over, all the blame will have to be shouldered by yourself!
So, Edward Zwick pulled Tom Cruise aside and expressed his response plan: "Tom! We will wait here, wait for all the media to come out, and we will immediately appear in front of all the media reporters , let’s tell the truth about Warner taking Japanese money to make this movie. Only in this way can Meyer’s lies be broken, otherwise, you and I will definitely have our reputations ruined in the future!”
Tom Cruise was a little excited at this moment!
Edward Zwick is right. If these are revealed, all Meyer's lies will be shattered, and all the efforts he has made today will be in vain. More importantly, by then When his lies are exposed, the people will definitely be even more angry with him. When the time comes, the media and the people will definitely direct all their firepower at him, and the situation between himself and Edward Zwick will be greatly alleviated.
Almost at the moment when he was about to agree to him, Tom Cruise suddenly thought that if he exposed Jiro Horita, wouldn't he offend Jiro Horita to death
As the core force of Vanity Fair, celebrities have a much more sensitive sense of smell and nerves than directors, so you will always see a bunch of celebrities surrounding Boss Ma and making a lot of money, but it is rare to see directors showing hospitality around him. , this is the huge difference brought about by different roles.
Tom Cruise doesn’t want to offend Jiro Horita.
However, Tom Cruise didn't want to be manipulated by Meyer.
Then, an idea came to Tom Cruise's mind.
It would be great if Edward Zwick himself revealed the information about Jiro Horita! If he exposes Jiro Horita and exposes Meyer's lies, the pressure on himself will suddenly be relieved a lot. And as long as he doesn't expose Jiro Horita, he will naturally not offend him. In this way, there are really hundreds of ways. Beneficial and no harm.
However, Tom Cruise is also wondering, if Edward Zwick is allowed to break the news himself, will he agree? If he doesn't agree, wouldn't it all be in vain again
After much deliberation, Tom Cruise felt that he should handle this matter with technical content.
How to deal with it so that you can achieve your goals? He must find a way to make the anger in Edward's heart stronger and make him lose his mind even more.
After a while, Tom Cruise came up with a plan and said to Edward Zwick with a tired look: "Forget it Edward, there is no need to be as knowledgeable as Meyer. Whatever he says, I'm tired and don't want to continue." The entanglement continues.”
At this point, Tom Cruise sighed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'm leaving. You'd better be more open-minded and don't waste your time here."
Edward Zwick had regarded Tom Cruise as his only ally, but he didn't expect that he would slip up at the critical moment. He suddenly became anxious and blurted out: "Tom! How can you be so submissive?! You have to know, This is our last chance to turn around! If we don’t seize it, we will really be doomed!”
Tom Cruise laughed at himself: "It's over when it's over. I'm tired and want to rest. At worst, I won't be in this industry anymore. My current wealth is enough for me to live a carefree life for the rest of my life."
After saying that, Tom Cruise waved his hand at him and said, "You can leave or not, I'm leaving."
Seeing Tom Cruise turn around and leave, Edward hurriedly shouted: "Tom, don't leave Tom!"
Without looking back, Tom Cruise called his agent and assistant and left the scene without hesitation, leaving Edward Zwick alone.
Edward Zwick is even more angry now! After finally finding a way to break the situation, he waited for Tom Cruise to cooperate with him. Unexpectedly, he escaped and became a deserter! Being abandoned by his comrades at a critical moment, Edward Zwick was naturally extremely unhappy.
"Damn, you coward!" Edward Zwick looked in the direction where Tom Cruise was leaving, cursed angrily, and then said to himself: "You want to be a dog with its tail between its legs, but I don't want to." !”
Thinking of this, Edward Zwick has decided that even if you, Tom Cruise, give up, I will fight to the end with Meyer!
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Twenty minutes later, the press conference ended.
Meyer and other Warner executives left the venue and went directly back to the lounge, while the media reporters began to pack up their equipment and leave the venue in an orderly manner.
What they didn't expect was that Edward Zwick had been waiting outside the main entrance of the venue for a long time.
When a large number of media reporters began to pour out, Edward Zwick appeared in time and immediately attracted the attention of countless media reporters.
At this time, Meyer has already expressed his attitude and is very sincere, so the hot news that everyone wants to catch next is about Edward Zwick and Tom Cruise. It just so happens that I have just finished interviewing Meyer at the press conference. Edward Zwick was seen just outside the conference venue.
The angry Edward Zwick called all the media reporters to him, and then said angrily: "Everyone, you must not be deceived by that liar Meyer! He is full of lies, and not a single word is true. !”
He ripped Meyer apart from the very beginning. Edward Zwick's rhythm was driven to an extreme by his anger.
What the media likes most is celebrity quarrels. When Edward Zwick came up and accused Meyer, all media reporters realized that a major news was about to be released, so everyone asked why.
Edward Zwick’s second sentence is earth-shattering.
""The Last Samurai" is not as simple as a script that Warner chose unintentionally, as Meyer said. The US$140 million investment in this movie was all funded by a Japanese consortium, and Warner did not invest at all. Share the money! Not only that, Meyer and Warner also have an agreement with the Japanese consortium. They will help the Japanese consortium make this movie, and the Japanese consortium will transfer 50% of the share to Warner!"
Nippon Foundation? ! This sentence completely detonated all the media reporters!
This is itself a movie that promotes the spirit of Japanese Bushido. If it is really funded by a Japanese consortium, then this news would be too explosive!
At this time, all Edward Zwick could think about was exposing Meyer's lies. Under questioning from the media, he revealed Jiro Horita almost without thinking. After talking about Jiro Horita, he was still afraid that the media reporters would not believe it. He continued to break the news: "Actually, just before the script was leaked, Jiro Horita wanted to increase the budget by another US$60 million. If it hadn't been for the leak of the script, the movie would have been raised to US$200 million by now. The budget is super high, and his purpose is very simple, just to promote the spirit of Japanese Bushido through this movie!"
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Edward Zwick's revelations were like detonating a nuclear bomb, which not only brought more attention to the incident, but also revealed all the shady stories behind the scenes.
All Meyer's efforts were ruined.
Jiro Horita, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, almost smashed his office to pieces!
The assistant who was about to assassinate Meyer and put the blame on the Chinese people was called back urgently. The situation Horita Jiro feared most happened. Now he suddenly became a living target of hundreds of millions of people. If he happens again at this time, To kill Meyer, no one would believe that it was done by the Chinese, and he must be the prime suspect.
Meyer also hated Edward Zwick so much that he wanted to rush out and kill him immediately. All his efforts were in vain because of him. Not only that, because he lied in front of the people all over the world, he was completely Ruined!
However, Meyer would not have thought that just because Edward Zwick exposed Jiro Horita, his own life was temporarily saved.
For a time, Jiro Horita became the subject of reports from all media, and countless information about him began to be unearthed bit by bit.
Although Li Mu had guessed before that there must be Japanese capital behind this movie, he didn't expect that the other party would be such a powerful force. Even though he seems to be worth more than 10 billion US dollars now, he really wants to follow the rise. Compared with Tianjiro and the strength behind him, he was still far behind. He was not at the same level as them.
This felt to Li Mu as if he was trying to poke a hornet's nest and accidentally poked a pack of wolves. No beast in the pack could compete with him head-on.
Fortunately, he handled this matter very cleanly, and the wolves did not notice his potential enemy.
Li Mu was not afraid when he learned that he had stabbed a pack of wolves. On the contrary, it gave him a greater incentive and made Li Mu clearly realize that his current success was far from being called real success, because his current success I am no match against the real wolves. Only when I can confront the wolves head-on and completely defeat the wolves can it be considered a real success!
(End of chapter)