Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 154 Mom and Dad’s Multiverse

Li Yu immediately cheered up.

He knew that Ron Meyer had information that perhaps even Carl didn't know yet.

Of course Carl may never know.

In the phone call just now, Ron Meyer didn't even mention Karl once. What this means in Hollywood, which follows the law of the jungle, Li Yu knows better than anyone else.

Carl messed up the "Hulk" project. No matter how innocent he is, no matter whether he is Ron Meyer's nephew or not, CAA will definitely take the blame.

In other words, Karl's journey as an agent has come to an end.

This is Hollywood, let alone a nephew, even a biological son can be sacrificed if necessary.

Before Li Yu had time to mourn for Karl, Ron Meyer's voice came clearly from the other end of the phone.

"As far as I know, Ovitz did not go to meet with Universal executives alone. He was also accompanied by Marvel's executive chairman Perlmutter."

Palmater himself is not well-known in Hollywood, so Ron also thoughtfully gave Li a background introduction.

A stingy and profit-seeking Jew.

A real-life version of The Merchant of Venice.

Ron's voice continued to ring on the phone.

"You may be wondering how these two people got together. The story starts with David Messer, a former Disney executive."

"Actually, I was quite surprised before. Messer had been doing well at Disney and had a good relationship with the board of directors, and then he suddenly announced his resignation."

"Now it seems that he must have reached some kind of 'expanding territory' agreement with Disney's senior management. He left Disney to find some potential companies to join, and after initially exploring the value of the company, he persuaded the directors. They sold the company to Disney.”

"Messer's joining Marvel seems to be very far-sighted now. He formulated a grand plan and convinced the Marvel board of directors to make his own superhero movie, but Messer made a fatal mistake. "

"He should not have gone to Ovitz and revealed his plans for a superhero movie."

"My old friend is a man of great vision and ambition. The most important thing is that he holds a grudge very much."

Li Yu, who was holding the mobile phone, nodded subconsciously. He had already experienced this personally.

"Messer comes from Disney, and Disney gave my old friend the biggest defeat in his career. How could he miss this opportunity to take revenge on Dinis?"

"Messer exposed his ambitions and plans, but forgot that the resources to execute the plan were all in the hands of others, and he was out."

"My old friend laughed unceremoniously at Messer's plan and persuaded Parmat to join him."

"The specific agreement between the two is unknown, but I can probably guess that poor Messer must have been prostituted for nothing by the two of them."

At the end, Ron did not forget to conclude:

"So this time we really didn't lose unfairly, and it's time to make adjustments."

Ron didn't say how to adjust it, but it was not difficult to guess the person on the other end of the phone.

Pushing Karl out to take the blame is only the first step. The second step is probably to shake hands with Ovitz and make peace.

It sounds ugly to say surrender, but there is really no need for CAA to fight Ovitz to the end.

Especially now, Ovitz is holding multiple film projects such as "The Adventures of Cheng Long", "The Wandering Earth", Marvel, etc. Even if he is asked to come back and continue to be in charge of CAA, he may have looked down upon it.

This completely eliminates the possibility of Ovitz returning to CAA to compete with Ron Meyer.

Without this most basic contradiction, Ron Meyer would naturally have to continue fighting Ovitz.

Even if Ron Meyer wanted to do this, CAA's large group of partners who sympathized with or supported Ovitz would not agree.

So reconciliation is an option that benefits both parties.

What Ron Meyer didn't tell Li Yu was that Ovitz had a phone call with him just half an hour ago.

The two former friends had a very candid exchange and finally shook hands and made peace.

Ron Meyer agreed to transfer some high-quality client resources on hand to CAA's partner agents who support Ovitz.

Ovitz promised that he would not target CAA again in the future and was even willing to strengthen cooperation with CAA.

This was not just a verbal check, Liovitz gave Ron Meyer two big gifts over the phone.

Ovitz has convinced Universal executives to continue using Jennifer Connelly as the heroine of "The Incredible Hulk."

The other one is for Li Yu.

Ovitz persuaded Jamie to help Li Yu write a new script.

The story focuses on the Chinese immigrants to the United States. The theme is to explore the relationship between parents/children. At the same time, the film also adds some imaginative settings, which can well satisfy the director's exploration and application of new technologies. .

These three items, without exception, are tailor-made for Li Yu.

Needless to say, the first two are the areas in which Li Eucalyptus is best at.

The last one can satisfy Li Yu’s desire to “control technology”.

Anyway, Ron Meyer couldn't think of any reason to help Li Yu reject the movie.

Li Yu on the other end of the phone hesitated again and again, and finally told him that Ovitz had contacted him privately through Jiang Zhiqiang.

Ron Meyer was not surprised by this, and even said that this is indeed Ovitz's style of doing things.

It is foreseeable that if Ron Meyer does not agree to the settlement, then Ovitz will definitely use the movie script as a bargaining chip to force Li Yu to "change careers."

It's okay now, no one needs to be embarrassed.

The only unlucky person is Karl, who has been regarded as an abandoned son. The poor guy is probably still kept in the dark at this moment.

After ending the call with Ron, Li Yu thought for a few minutes and dialed Jiang Zhiqiang's number again.

Jiang Zhiqiang didn't expect that in less than an hour, Li Yu's situation had changed drastically, so much so that now he didn't know whether to congratulate or comfort Li Yu.

Before Jiang Zhiqiang could fully digest the breaking news from Hollywood, Li Eucalyptus asked about the script.

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhiqiang was also helpless.

Cheng Long had promised to send him the script at the beginning, but later he called and said that after careful consideration, he had decided not to play the leading actor in the film.

The reason is that Cheng Long will focus on the filming of "The Adventures of Cheng Long" for a long time to come.

At the same time as he resigned, the script was also returned to Ovitz by Cheng Long.

Although it was a pity that he had not seen the script, Jiang Zhiqiang judged that since Ovitz had made peace with CAA, he would probably visit Li Eucalyptus in person with the script.

The only thing Li Yu can do now is to wait patiently.

Time blinked and came three days later.

Just as Jiang Zhiqiang said, Ovitz called one day in advance through Li Yu's new agent at CAA and made an appointment to visit him this afternoon.

It happened that Li Yu's wife had a day off today, and the couple had been waiting at the door of their home to greet the guests.

At the same time, a Maybach 62 was also driving along the road towards Li Yu's house. In the back seat of the car, Jamie leaned on the comfortable leather sofa seat and looked sideways at the rural scenery passing by outside the car window.

It must be said that Li Yu is very good at choosing places. Even Jamie didn't know before that there was such a quiet and beautiful community in the suburbs of New York.

Ovitz, who was standing aside, confirmed from the driver that it was still about ten minutes to reach the destination, then turned his head and said:

"Is it true that Jack Cheng isn't going to be in this movie?"

Jamie asked curiously:

"Didn't you go and talk to him personally about this matter?"

From the beginning to the end of the whole thing, Jamie only wrote one script, which he only "reluctantly" agreed to under Ovitz's persuasion.

Ovitz's idea was to tailor a script for Lee to compensate for the loss of the "Hulk" project from the other party.

Jamie was complaining in his mind at that time.

If Lee Eucalyptus had the ability to predict the future, he would never consider the loss of directing "The Incredible Hulk" to be a loss to his career as a director.

On the contrary, Li Eucalyptus would be glad that he did not make this disappointing film.

Of course, in reality, Li Eucalyptus definitely does not have such ability, so Jamie thought of helping Yang Ziqiong win the first Asian Oscar-winning movie "The World" in the future.

In her previous life, after winning the award, Yang Ziqiong emphatically thanked Cheng Long in a TV interview, saying that the producer initially wanted to find Cheng Long to play the male lead. Later, Cheng Long did not agree, but at the same time he also thought the script was good, so he recommended it to she.

Without Cheng Long's magnanimity and humility, she would not have won the award.

Yang Ziqiong is very close to Cheng Long, so she actually said this with a lot of joking in it.

However, a wave of keyboard warriors on the Internet took this as a basis. Cheng Long is ignorant. If he played the leading role, he might even win an Oscar.

But Jamie has always believed that Cheng Long's decision not to make this movie was the most correct choice.

The reason why "The Instant Universe" won the award was not because of how good the movie itself was, but because it happened to be at that time.

With the multiple BUFFs of ethnic minorities, women's rights, and homosexuality stacked up, and the fact that she was obsessed with Oscar for ZZ's correctness, she won the unprecedented Asian Best Actress.

The movie is just a shell of Asian identity, but it is essentially about American values.

To put it bluntly, this is the story of a banana man. Regardless of emotion or value, it is difficult to arouse the recognition of the Chinese people.

Among the many Chinese-speaking filmmakers who have entered Hollywood, Cheng Long is also the only actor who does not actively cater to American values ​​​​when filming in Hollywood.

Based on this alone, neither Yang Ziqiong, the first Asian Oscar-winning actress, nor Li Eucalyptus, who has won two Oscars for Best Director trophies, can compare to him.

Now that Cheng Long has resigned from the role of "The Instant Universe" due to lack of schedule, Jamie is very happy, but he will not be paranoid about the problem of starring in similar movies.

What a beautiful knife! Don’t complain!

We were almost at Li Yu's house when Ovitz suddenly brought up this issue. Even a fool could see that there was something wrong with it.

When Ovitz saw this, he stopped pretending, shrugged and admitted:

"I'm just a little regretful. Jack Cheng and Li Eucalyptus are currently the most famous Chinese-language filmmakers in Hollywood. If they can collaborate, it will definitely be a very exciting thing."

Jamie replied calmly.

"so what?"

Ovitz's interest did not diminish and he continued to talk:

"Sitting in the car today, I kept thinking about who would be the best replacement if Jack Cheng doesn't play."

"There is no doubt that this person must first be as good at kung fu as Jack Cheng, and at the same time have a certain reputation in Hollywood and overseas."

At this point Jamie couldn't listen anymore.

Just give Li Lianjie's name. Why go around in such a big circle?

After his intention was discovered, Ovitz was not embarrassed and asked Jamie:

"What do you think? Will Director Li Yu be willing to accept this casting plan? After all, when I first contacted him, I said that Jack Cheng would be the leading actor."

This openly involved Li Yu.

Jamie was left speechless.

Ovitz certainly didn't know that Li Yu and Jet Li had actually planned to collaborate a few years ago when they were preparing to film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". At that time, the character of Li Mubai was designed based on Jet Li's image.

As a result, when the filming of the movie was about to start, Jet Li's wife was about to give birth. Jet Li stopped work to accompany the childbirth, so the film producer Jiang Zhiqiang temporarily called Zhou Runfa to save the situation.

Ovitz asked Jet Li to play the male lead in "The Universe". Whether it was Jet Li himself or Li Yu, they would probably be happy to see the result.

A few minutes later, Maybach 62 stopped in front of Li Yu's house.

Ovitz pushed the door open and got out of the car, while the driver ran to the other side and opened the door for Jamie.

Li Yu and his wife who came forward to greet them were a little surprised when they saw this scene.

Thanks to their youngest son Li Chun being a loyal fan of the "Percy Jackson" series of novels, Li and his wife immediately recognized Jamie's identity.

After shaking hands with Ovitz, the two immediately walked towards Jamie.

Just as he was about to say hello, a sentence of fluent Chinese came out of Jamie's mouth.

"Mr. Li, Mrs. Li, good afternoon!"

These words seemed to have some kind of magic power, and they immediately stopped Li Yu and his wife in place.

The first person to react was Li Yu's wife. She immediately changed her language and greeted Jamie in Chinese.

Li Yu, who came to his senses, also quickly followed.

Upon seeing this, Ovitz immediately protested loudly:

"It's not fair. You all understand what I say, but I don't understand what you are saying."

Jamie shrugged and said, let's just talk about it.

Li Yu also explained to Ovitz that everyone in their family speaks their own language. He uses Chinese when talking to his wife and English when talking to his children.

Before he finished speaking, his wife gave him a stern look.

Li Yu finally realized that what he just said could easily lead to ambiguity.

At home, he speaks Chinese to his wife and English to his children.

Now I speak Chinese to Jamie and English to Ovitz.

Ovitz is a generation shorter for no reason.

Originally, Li Yu was lucky, thinking that Jamie could only understand English and was not so familiar with some of the allusions in the Chinese context. After all, most foreigners who can speak Chinese are like this.

Unfortunately it backfired.

From Jamie's secretly smiling eyes, Li Yu knew that the matter had been exposed.

(End of this chapter)