Chapter 1171 The Illusion of a Blessing in Disguise!

From northern New Zealand to Los Angeles, this is a journey that takes at least 20 hours.

At this time, Li Mu has been on hold, and now he just leaked the whole plot of "The Last Samurai", and the next step to escalate the situation is the real top priority, but Li Mu is not in a hurry at all.

To kill the enemy, it is fun to use a dull knife!

From 8 o'clock that evening Los Angeles time until 9 o'clock the next morning, the only hot spot on the Internet in the entire United States was the big news that the plot of the movie "The Last Samurai" was leaked.

At nine o'clock, YY listed this news on the front page of the North American news pop-up window. YY is the largest and strongest information delivery platform on the Internet today. YY's push officially pushes the influence of this leak to the peak.

YY's pop-up window was not inspired by Li Mu. After all, the YY English portal has already been launched, and its positioning itself is to be the largest, best and fastest news portal, so putting such news on the front page is their specialty. The things that must be done under the literacy, not only YY, basically all the morning newspapers and headlines today are related to this incident.

At this moment, Edward was still on a flight from New Zealand to Los Angeles.

And Warners CEO Mayer stayed up all night. If other films had such problems, Mayer would never be so nervous, but this time is different. For Warners, this movie is more than just a commercial movie. It's that simple. There are powerful Japanese chaebols behind it. If this movie is well made, has a high box office and has a great influence, then Warners will definitely have countless benefits in the future, but if the film is badly made, even if Warners does not Will suffer deliberate revenge, at least lose a perfect opportunity to take off.

So in this context, Mayer can't help but get nervous.

It has been boiled until now, and I don't know how many cups of coffee I have drunk, but Meyer's nervousness has not been relieved in any way.

Just before he called Edward last night, the Japanese management had scolded him fiercely, and asked him to solve this matter as soon as possible, so that he would do everything possible to minimize the impact of this matter, Then the other party rudely hung up the phone and never called again.

Just as Mayer was holding a cup of coffee again, his secretary hurriedly ran into the office and said in a panic, "Mr. Mayer, something is wrong!"

"What's wrong?" Mayer was startled, the coffee almost spilled on the white shirt.

The secretary was out of breath and said, "YY! YY has posted it! The leak of our script made the headlines!"

"Snapped……"

Mayer's coffee fell from his hands,

Smashing it on the table, the hot coffee splashed out, smearing his face.

The scorching pain made him cry out. The secretary hurried forward and pulled out a tissue to help him wipe it. Mayer's body was in unbearable pain from being scalded, but he didn't care about the management at all, just scolded angrily: "Damn YY Their reaction speed is too fast!"

While wiping, the secretary said, "Mr. Mayer, the Los Angeles Morning News is on the front page at 6 o'clock. YY's efficiency is not fast, because they have regular news at 9 o'clock every morning..."

"But that's YY!" Meyer scolded angrily: "If it was the Los Angeles Morning News, I wouldn't bother to pay attention to it, but YY covers users all over the world! Isn't this fucking adding fuel to Lao Tzu's fire?!"

Seeing that Mayer gritted his teeth with hatred, the secretary didn't dare to speak again.

Mayer sent her away and took off her dirty shirt. The whole person was about to die of worry. The damn Edward had not arrived yet. The trouble was so big, how should I explain to the Japanese management? ! In other words, how can I satisfy the Japanese management?

Just when he didn't know what to do, the phone on the desk rang.

After answering the call, the secretary's voice came: "Mr. Mayer, Mr. Horita's phone number is on Line 2..."

"Mr. Horita..." Meyer's scalp exploded, and he panicked instantly.

But after a while, Mayer still insisted and said: "OK, come in."

Switching to Line 2 to get on the phone, before waiting for the other party to attack first, Mayer hurriedly said in a low voice: "Mr. Horita, don't worry, I have asked the director to come back, I will investigate this matter thoroughly to the end. , and give you a satisfactory explanation!"

After saying this, Mayer waited for the angry roar of the other party. This Horita scolded people, his voice was sharp and piercing, like a hellhound, which made people want to die. Now the situation is escalating, Mayer It is expected that the other party must be even more angry at this moment.

But what Mayer never dreamed of was that this time the other party was not angry at all, but laughed a few times, and said in English with a very strong Japanese accent: "Mayer, my friend, don't worry so much, I'm not going to pursue this matter anymore, don't worry!"

Mayer was dumbfounded.

Not pursue it? Yesterday, he almost scolded himself over the phone to death, so he won't be held accountable today? Did you take the wrong medicine?

Mayer couldn't help but asked cautiously, "Mr. Horita, are you really not going to pursue it?"

"Don't pursue it." Horita laughed and said: "Mayer, things are starting to develop in a good direction now, and the Chinese people have helped us a lot. Since even YY has put this on the front page, then This means that our movie is now well known throughout North America, which is a good thing. Although it will lose a certain percentage of the box office, it has saved us a lot of publicity expenses. So many people know this movie. , even if the box office conversion ratio is reduced, with such a large base here, I believe that the box office will be higher than we expected in the future, and you know, my purpose is not the box office at all, but influence! Now we are It's half done! It's a big surprise!"

Mayer didn't expect that Horita would put so much importance on influence, but it seems that as long as Horita is satisfied, it will be better, and he can breathe a sigh of relief.

So, Mayer asked Horita: "Mr. Horita, shall we continue shooting?"

"Of course! Continue shooting! Tell everyone to shoot well without any psychological burden!"

Mayer asked again: "So how are we going to respond to this incident?"

Horita smiled and said, "This is the most important purpose of my calling you."

After speaking, Horita said again: "After Edward arrives in Los Angeles, you will immediately organize a press conference. At the press conference, you will generously admit that the plot disclosed on the Internet is true, and then tell the reporter that you will not be affected by this incident. I will definitely make this movie the best it can be, and I will let the major media behind the scenes to add fuel to the flames, and when the press conference is over, our movie is likely to be famous all over the world!"

Mayer was almost in tears of excitement.

Unexpectedly, because of YY's headlines, Horita would no longer pursue his own responsibilities and faults in this matter, which made him instantly feel a sense of rebirth, and the boulder in his heart instantly disappeared without a trace. After hanging up Horita's phone, he immediately got up and prepared to go home to rest. He didn't close his eyes all day and night, and now he just wanted to get a good night's sleep.

After going out, Mayer said to the secretary excitedly: "Susan, two things, one is to communicate with the PR department immediately and prepare to hold a press conference. Invite all the media that can be invited; also, if Edward arrives, tell him not to worry too much, let him rest first, wait for my call, and I will have an interview with him in the evening."

The secretary didn't know why Mayer was so happy all of a sudden, but he nodded very seriously and said, "Okay, Mr. Mayer, I'll make arrangements now."

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In the past ten hours, Li Mu has been burying his head in one thing.

He is developing a script non-stop, and he wants to fully develop the script in 24 hours.

At that time, I will pass the hundreds of pictures and texts I have written into this script to prepare, and then make the script ready to automatically hang on the proxy server in the United States in a traceless way. At that time, as long as he clicks to run, The script will automatically send these prepared contents to the specified website one after another.

At the same time, Li Mu was also very curious about what kind of crisis PR Warner would make.

In his view, there are only two ways:

The first is to jump out to deny the authenticity of the script, and then temporarily change the script of "The Last Samurai", but this possibility is basically minimal.

Because this movie has been filming for more than two months, and this kind of film with few special effects and grand scenes, a lot of time, energy and money have been spent on various preparations before shooting, and the $140 million The budget, maybe 80, 90,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or even 100,000,000 have already gone out. Now if you change the script, everything will have to be started from scratch. How to play?

The second is to admit the authenticity of the script, but not make any changes to the script, and continue shooting. This possibility is the greatest in Li Mu's view.

Acknowledging the authenticity of the script, although it will lose a part of the box office, it can save the trouble of changing the script and reshooting, and Li Mu has left them a lot of room for operation. Now the influence of the event is constantly increasing, as long as they seize this opportunity , to win the favor of the audience, even if the script is leaked, there is still a chance to be a blessing in disguise. After all, this matter has become an extremely hot topic, and this is really a good opportunity for publicity and promotion.

In Li Mu's plan, the best result is that Warners stand up and admit that the leaked plot is real, because as long as they admit that the plot is real, the series of nuclear attacks behind them can be targeted.

Otherwise, if they don't admit that the script is real, and they want to attack them with ideological and nationalist arguments, it will be really hard to stand up.

However, Li Mu firmly believes that Warner will definitely fall into the trap set by himself. He has personally planned so many overall situations, and he has never made a mistake!

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