Chapter 133: The Scapegoat

After leaving Tom Hanks' house, Brian Nord returns to CAA whistling and happily to get Michael Ovitz back what he promised.

Top broker status, personal assistant, independent office, A-coffee clients, and an annual salary of one million are all things he dreams of and can have right away.

Not long after, Brian Nord came to Michael Ovitz's office, and after a report from his secretary, he met Michael Ovitz.

"Boss! I've done what you've told me!See when I'm going to change places!" said Brian Nord with a flattering smile and a subtle reminder of Michael Ovitz's promise to him.

"Change places!" Michael Ove snorted inwardly. "You'll be able to change it right away. ”

"Really!" Brian Nord didn't expect Michael Ovitz to be so cheerful. "Boss, thank you for the promotion! I will definitely work hard. ”

"No thanks! this is deserved!" Michael Ovitz picked up the phone and called his assistant.

After a while, Assistant Vidis Albert walked in. "Boss, are you looking for me?"

"Vidis! Take Mr. Nord to the accounting office to settle his salary, then watch him pack up his things, and finally gently send him out of the CAA. Michael Ovitz smiled harmoniously for the first time after saying that.

"Okay boss!" Vidis Albert nodded, making a gesture of invitation to Brian Nord beside him.

"No, no, no, I'm not leaving!" Brian Nord quickly waved his hand. "Boss, you promised me to be a top agent, you forgot. ”

Michael Ovitz smiled coldly, and his face, which was like a spring breeze just now, instantly turned into a stormy rain. "Top agent! You idiot deserves to be a babysitter in the San Fernando Valley. ”

"Boss! I did everything you asked! You can't break your word!" Brian Nord grabbed Michael Owitz's arm in a panic, Tom Hanks had abandoned him, if Michael Owitz was abandoning him, then his life would not be easy, you must know that an agent with a bad record can't get along in Hollywood.

And Michael Ovitz didn't care whether Brian Nord lived or died, he shook Brian Nord's hand away and patted the place where Brian Nord had just been caught in disgust. "Do as I ask! My request is to make John Cristen bleed, not for you to bleed him to death! You idiot, why don't you die!"

Michael Ovitz's original intention was to boil frogs in warm water, so that Brian Nord and Nancy's salary negotiation would require an extra two or three million dollars, so that the salary would not increase much, and John could only grit his teeth.

And he was able to achieve the goal of increasing John's production costs.

If an actor increases his salary by two or three million, then three CAA actors can increase John's production cost by tens of millions of dollars.

And more importantly, the tens of millions of dollars that have been added have all gone into the pockets of CAA's customers, who will have increased their loyalty to CAA due to increased revenue.

But what he didn't expect was that a perfect bird with one stone was messed up by Brian Nord's great joy.

So for this kind of stupidity, he absolutely cannot tolerate it.

What's more, Tom Hanks's lawyer called and asked to terminate the contract with CAA, so whether it was to calm Tom Hanks' anger or his disappointment in Brian Nord, Brian Nord had no choice but to get out of CAA.

After Brian Nord was kicked out of the CAA, Michael Ovitz called Will Smith and Winona Ryder's agents to the office and halted the plan to kill three birds with one stone.

The plan had failed, and if it hadn't stopped, it would have lost customers, and John hadn't calculated it by then, and it wouldn't be cost-effective to put himself in.

After all the things were done, Michael Ovitz sat in his office with a gloomy face, a perfect plan, because a fool died, which made him very depressed, but he would not give up his determination to deal with John.

"Since the conspiracy doesn't work, let's come to Yangmou. "Michael Ovitz decided to teach John how to be a man at the box office.

"Does Spielberg have any projects at the moment?" Michael Ovitz knew that John had hired two top directors, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, so if he wanted to compete with John, he had to hire a director at the same level in order to have a chance to win.

"Yes!"

Vidis Albert knew what his boss was going to do, so he explained it in detail. "Director Spielberg has a project called Schindler's List, which he exchanged with Director Martin Scorsese for "Cape Terror", which tells the true story of German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler and his wife Emily Schindler, who went bankrupt during World War II to protect more than 1,200 Jews from fascist murder!"

"Art film!" said Michael Ovitz, disappointed. If he wants to compete with John for the box office, it is best to choose a commercial blockbuster, so that he can have a big chance of winning.

"Boss!" Vidis Albert knew what was going on in Michael Ovitz's mind. "Forrest Gump is also an art film, and if we pack Schindler's List, we can not only compete with Forrest Gump for the box office, but also snipe John Criss Deng at the Oscars. ”

"Yes!" Michael Ovitz's eyes lit up, he had been thinking about beating John at the box office, forgetting that there was also an award.

An art film like "Forrest Gump" will definitely participate in the award, and he definitely doesn't want to see John get the Golden Man or the Golden Globe Award, so the best way is to use an art film to disrupt the situation.

"Vidis! Call Director Spielberg!" Michael Ovitz suddenly became excited.

He decided to use "Schindler's List" to compete with "Forrest Gump" for major awards, he wanted John to watch him win one award after another at the awards ceremony, and he wanted to step on "Forrest Gump" and John on the red carpet and never turn over.

"Okay boss, I'll arrange it!" said Vidis Albert, as he prepared to walk out of the room.

Michael Ovitz stopped him. "Vidis!

Michael Ovitz had in mind that he wanted to beat John not only in the awards, but also at the box office. So he also has to find a commercial film to fight with John at the box office. "Does James Cameron have a project?"

Vidis Albert thought for a moment and shook his head. "Director Cameron has no new projects at the moment!"

"What about Director George Lucas!"

"Nope!"

Michael Ovitz was a little disappointed, the two directors didn't have projects, and he didn't have so much confidence in the other people's projects, but he couldn't watch John go smoothly at the box office, and he had to add some blockages to John anyway. "Are there any good projects lately?"

Vidis Albert took out his notebook and flipped to the film project. ""The Mighty Mountains" and "Gannet Assassination Order", these two scripts are not bad. ”

"Then hurry up and set up the project, and then pack it up and send it to the film company. "Michael Ovitz doesn't have much interest in not having a top director, but it's good to give John some bets, and he doesn't have to pay for the filming anyway, he only provides the actors, the production team and the script.