A Genius Director Who Dominates OTT Platforms - Chapter 109

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The Genius Director Who Dominates OTT

Episode 109

At Dohyeon-u’s words, the temperature of the air surrounding CL 3 Team dropped several degrees.

It was such an aggressive attitude.

“Damn, shit. He’s crazy.”

“He must be really pissed off.”

“That’s understandable. It’s the second time.”

Like someone’s whisper, there had been a similar incident last time.

Ju Yeong-hun had a history of stealing the casting for Handtip Crawl that Dohyeon-u was setting up.

Back then too, Dohyeon-u had come directly to 3 Team to give a warning.

But strictly speaking, the situation then and now were quite different.

Casting is a matter that actors and agencies make the final decision on.

While there could be moral issues between CL teams, it could end with an excuse like ‘I just lightly presented conditions. The actor made the choice.’

If the one who stole had a higher position, it could be smoothed over even more easily.

Wasn’t it the same with Oxygen Warning?

Looking at the results alone, Ju Yeong-hun brought over Jeong Gi-jun, Choi Ha-il, and Lee Min-seon without receiving any reprimand.

It was Dohyeon-u’s remarkable insight that filled the broken casting with Kang Min-sik, Luhan, and Jeon So-ra.

Moreover, he finished his revenge by recruiting Jo Tae-seok, the art director who was key personnel of 3 Team, and taking away a large number of staff.

But stealing a script is a completely different story from casting.

Scripts are the fundamental material for the alchemy that is CL teams, no, the drama industry.

You can tell from the fact that all it takes to decide on investments of tens or hundreds of billions is just a few sheets of paper.

Moreover, if someone with a high rank steals scripts from other teams, who would want to work at CL teams?

Especially now when there’s barely any difference in rank between the two.

It was definitely an issue that Dohyeon-u could charge at.

But…

‘Is there evidence?’

‘Senior Ju Yeong-hun wouldn’t have moved so carelessly, would he?’

‘Is he trusting the Audit Team?’

In the end, what mattered was evidence.

While the onlookers were thinking such thoughts, Ju Yeong-hun opened his mouth with a deeply furrowed brow.

“Are you crazy? Where did you hear such nonsense and come barging into the meeting room?”

“Nonsense?”

“Don’t tell me you’re here to confront me about stealing the 4th Team Writer? Did you ask the Author? Why they left Team 4?”

At Ju Yeong-hun’s words, Dohyeon-u’s gaze turned to the historical drama writer.

The writer stood confidently as if they had something to believe in, but avoiding Dohyeon-u’s eyes didn’t look very confident.

“Author. I really have a lot I want to say to you? Really a lot, but…”

People wouldn’t know, but Dohyeon-u, who had held back his words worried that Chae Seo-hui might get unnecessary rumors, opened his mouth.

“If you do that with the 3 Team leader, it’ll fail. For sure.”

This time it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say the air froze.

Dohyeon-u’s words were a declaration that the 3 Team leader lacked ability and would ruin your script.

And this wasn’t even the end.

“There’s a problem with the script. I think if we just fix that problem, it could be a huge hit… I don’t think Senior Ju Yeong-hun can fix it?”

“…!”

“I don’t know what Senior Ju Yeong-hun sweet-talked you with, but come back to your original position before you regret it.”

“This crazy bastard…”

Ju Yeong-hun growled, but there was certainty on Dohyeon-u’s face.

That certainty that had made Ju Yeong-hun anxious several times so far.

Finally, Ju Yeong-hun burst out shouting.

“You manage your subordinates like shit and come to me to complain?! How frustrated must the Author have been to want to change teams! Huh?!”

“Senior Ju Yeong-hun. I don’t want to let this matter escalate to President Yun or the Manager. It’s embarrassing. Running to tattle when the two of us can’t resolve it.”

“What are you talking about right now?!”

“You stole one script from our team, so give us one script from 3 Team too. That would be fair, wouldn’t it?”

“What?”

“Anyway, the work Senior Ju Yeong-hun took is obviously going to fail, so I should save one thing that’s going to fail so the company doesn’t lose money, shouldn’t I?”

At Dohyeon-u’s words, Ju Yeong-hun grinned as if he got the gist.

“Why? Is there a script you’re eyeing? Are you putting on a show to steal 3 Team’s insight right now?”

It was the moment when the scripts that 3 Team CEs were holding flashed through the shouting Ju Yeong-hun’s mind.

“Do I look like someone like you, Senior? Would I steal scripts that CEs are properly holding?”

“…What?”

“I told you. I’m saving something that’s going to fail.”

Dohyeon-u took a step closer.

“I’ll take from what 3 Team dropped. I worked at 3 Team briefly too, didn’t I? You threw away everything useful because you have no eye for it.”

“…!”

It was excessive bravado.

Everyone thought so.

Just because Dohyeon-u had been successful for the past 3 years didn’t mean the works Ju Yeong-hun made had failed.

Oxygen Warning was also a sufficient hit, just overshadowed by Handtip Crawl, and most other works exceeded break-even.

Even if they didn’t exceed break-even, they were at a level where production costs could be recovered by running them for just 1-2 years.

So saying he’d take scripts that you with no eye threw away was excessive recklessness.

People thought Dohyeon-u was so angry he was spouting things without a filter.

But this statement soon meant that Ju Yeong-hun couldn’t refuse.

Coming out saying he couldn’t give scripts here would itself mean he was scared that Dohyeon-u might succeed.

“That fucking bastard really…”

Ju Yeong-hun, who spat out profanity that shouldn’t be used in the company, approached Dohyeon-u.

The moment people were startled by his appearance as if he might hit him.

Bang!

Ju Yeong-hun kicked the public cabinet behind Dohyeon-u and threw all the works.

Crash!

Works that 3 Team had dropped or were planning to drop soon.

They poured down at Dohyeon-u’s feet.

“Are you that confident? Then take them, you bastard!”

“Do you want to stay with me longer?”

“What?”

“If you give them nicely, I can review them quickly, can’t I?”

Dohyeon-u chuckled and began looking through the scripts at his feet.

But that appearance was strange.

He was roughly skimming at a speed that made you wonder if he was really reading, then started throwing them into the trash one by one.

Looking closely, he wasn’t even reading the scripts.

He was just skimming the proposals attached to the front of the scripts.

“What is he doing?”

“Is he really looking?”

“Isn’t he just showing that he’s angry?”

While people were murmuring, the scripts at Dohyeon-u’s feet were quickly exhausted.

There were over 20 works, but it seemed to take less than 3 minutes.

Ju Yeong-hun snorted.

Just as he was about to pour out words that in the end, it was just fancy talk and he just wanted to pick a fight.

Dohyeon-u suddenly headed toward the shredder.

Where scripts that had been dropped for a certain period and had no reason for storage, really about to be shredded, were placed.

There weren’t even many.

About 5?

However, Dohyeon-u picked up one of them and smiled slightly.

“This is good. This one.”

When the title 【Unknown】 briefly came into view, one of the 3 Team CEs made a stupid expression.

“That flop…?”

He was startled and shut his mouth.

Ju Yeong-hun and everyone else were looking at him.

“A flop?”

Dohyeon-u smiled.

“I don’t think so.”

* * *

After Dohyeon-u left.

What happened in CL 3 Team spread through the mouths of Research Team and Script Team employees.

It was really strange.

A senior from Team 4 barging into 3 Team and taking a dropped script that was about to be shredded.

In this situation, the Script Team became the center of everyone’s attention.

Excluding the CL teams, the Script Team was the only department that reviewed scripts.

“How’s the one Dohyeon-u took? If it went to shredding, the team feedback must have been bad, right?”

The reaction to this was.

“No, that’s really a flop…”

Lukewarm.

“A flop? Really?”

“I don’t remember exactly, but I think it got one star.”

“One? Even so, it’s a script that made it into SSK, how can it be one star?”

“The content was too predictable.”

“What was the content about?”

At the Management Support Team employee’s question, the Script Team employee chose his words and spoke.

“An utterly predictable superhuman agent story?”

“Agent story?”

“Yeah. You know those things. The National Intelligence Service creates superhumans through drug injection, but the superhuman escapes, and black agents chase after him to eliminate him.”

“Hmm…”

“While running away like that, he teams up with a genius hacker boy with a backstory, keyboard clacking away, player entry. You know?”

“…Player entry was made up, right?”

“Well yeah, but I think there was a similar line? Or not? The content was so predictable I’m confused.”

“So? What’s the main arc? Identity between superhuman and human. Something like that?”

“Nothing like that. They just fight. Keep fighting and eventually get help from the hacker boy, go find the National Intelligence Service Director and ask why did you do this to me, the end.”

“Don’t tell me other superhumans also appear and fight all over the place?”

“Yeah. The later generation superhumans have more stable abilities and are stronger, but the protagonist has uncontrollable explosive power, that kind of thing.”

The Management Support Team employee made an absurd expression.

“That’s really all there is?”

“Yeah.”

“No, how did such a script even make it into our company?”

“The fight scenes are fun. The superhumans fight using their abilities, and just looking at that makes it worth reviewing. The problem is they really just keep fighting, and the production cost is too high. To bring the script to life, the special effects and CG would… cost about 30 billion won?”

“Crazy.”

The conclusion the conversation would reach was predetermined.

“Why did he take something like that?”

“He didn’t look at it properly. From what I saw, he just roughly looked at the subject matter and chose it.”

“Dohyeon-u wouldn’t be that careless though?”

“He was furious. Or maybe he’s just trying to mess with Ju Yeong-hun? He really only looked at the proposal for like 10 seconds.”

“Or maybe he was overconfident? After hitting three home runs, his shoulders might be pumped up.”

“Maybe?”

After the evaluation of the script spread, people’s attention focused on two things.

Will Ju Yeong-hun’s historical drama really fail?

Will Dohyeon-u actually produce ‘Unknown’?

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