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[Everyday V13]
[Date: March 27, 2021]
-10:00 p.m. [NEW. Jung Yoo-Jin]
<Entertainment Everywhere> "Is Jung Yoo-Jin's New Movie a Plagiarized Work?"
[Entertainment All TImes] "Jung Yoo-Jin's First Film Production Falls Through."
[Industry Daily] "A Blow to Hoop Entertainment's Rising Star as IPO Faces Unexpected Crisis."
(Emergency Meeting: More than 80% overlap confirmed between Director Go Gi-Dong's script and the original script.)
'Plagiarism?'
Although it was a warning from Everyday, every headline was hard to believe.
Before the regression, Director Go Gi-Dong had repeatedly stated in interviews that he personally wrote the script for She Was Beautiful. He had never once been caught up in a plagiarism scandal after that.
I had pushed the project forward believing it was clean, yet it hid a landmine like this.
Just then, Go Gi-Dong, having received the tablet with the script, asked with a buoyant voice which part needed revision. "Scene 8? What's wrong with it?"
We were originally going to talk about the script, but I couldn't critique a plagiarized script. I didn't know what had gone wrong, but first, I had to get out of there.
"Oh, it's nothing," I said.
"Huh? It's fine, really. Go ahead and say it. What is it?"
"No, I mean, it's just... it feels like a huge discourtesy to nitpick your script when we've only just met."
"Hahaha, don't be so nervous. Chief Jung, don't worry. I've got open ears, I swear."
"That's exactly why I shouldn't speak up just yet. I'll think it through a bit more before saying anything."
Go Gi-Dong tilted his head, then closed the tablet. "Well then. Since you're here, how about an early dinner? There's a Chinese place on the second floor that's amazing."
He wanted to feed us before we even signed a contract, and...
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