Deadpool director Tim Miller reveals his shockingly low payday for helming the primary movie in a billion-dollar franchise.
When folks take into consideration the Deadpool movie franchise, they consider fast-talking banter, over-the-top violence, and cash—heaps and plenty of cash. In 2016, director Tim Miller introduced the Merc with a Mouth to cinemas for an unconventional superhero splatterfest starring Ryan Reynolds within the function he was born to play. The Murderer in Crimson Pajamas shortly grew to become an in a single day sensation, with the movie incomes $782 million worldwide. Certainly, Tim Miller obtained an enormous piece of that pie, proper? He’s the director, in spite of everything. He most likely made hundreds of thousands. Fallacious! Throughout a panel at CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil, for his Secret Stage animated collection, Miller revealed his wage for steering Deadpool. He made $225,000! I’m gonna let that sink in.
Whereas $225,000 is a good chunk of change for us, think about getting paid that pittance when the factor you made banked $782 million! That should sting worse than a Chimichanga coated in Fireplace Sauce popping out of your backend. When requested to react to pay hole, Miller informed Collider‘s Steve Weintraub that he’s thrilled to have performed a component in Deadpool’s silver-screen recognition.
“You know what I feel? Nothing but pride. I mean, I feel like every time I walk down the aisles out there on the floor of CCXP and I see all these Deadpool figurines, I think they wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t made that film. And I feel uniquely fortunate that I could be part of it. Then, my second thought is, I wish my director deals had a piece of the merchandising so that I could get some money from all of that.”
“You guys might not know, but it’s not really a profitable thing to be a first-time director in Hollywood, and I’ll tell you exactly,” Miller continued. “I got $225,000 to direct Deadpool. I know it sounds like a lot of money, but for two years of work, that’s not a ton of money. Not that I’m not grateful, I’m fucking grateful, that’s the way it is because you’re supposed to when you’re a first-time director. My agent said ‘Dude, you make more on an episode of The Walking Dead!’”
Wow! Miller has a implausible perspective about his compensation for steering Deadpool. I’d be furious if I noticed these numbers, realizing Marvel paid me in sofa change. Miller’s acquired some extent, although. Pioneering Deadpool’s resurgence is an honor. Deadpool makes many individuals pleased, and that, my buddies, is priceless.
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