The director of the primary “Deadpool” film has revealed the quantity he was paid to helm the movie — and the quantity might shock you.
Tim Miller, 60, spoke about directing the 2016 film starring Ryan Reynolds, 48, throughout a current panel at CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil, per Collider.
In keeping with Miller, he was solely paid $225,000 for the mission. The film grossed $782 million globally.
“It’s not really a profitable thing to be a first-time director in Hollywood, and I’ll tell you exactly: I got $225,000 to direct Deadpool,” the filmmaker mentioned.
Although Miller had solely written and directed brief movies earlier than making the superhero flick, he ended up spending two years making the film.
“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 f–kng grateful,” he defined. “That’s the way it is.”
Miller recalled his agent telling him on the time, “Dude, you make more on an episode of ‘The Walking Dead!’”
“Deadpool” was a field workplace hit with a $782 million world gross on a $58 million price range, making it the highest-grossing “X-Men” and highest-grossing R-rated film till that time.
Reynolds — who each produced and starred within the 2016 smash — spent years getting the potty-mouthed Marvel character a stand-alone movie after first enjoying him in 2009’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
That iteration of “Deadpool” was extremely sanitized in comparison with how he appeared in Miller’s movie.
Miller additionally shared that he feels “nothing but pride” to have helped create the massively worthwhile “Deadpool” franchise.
Each follow-ups to the unique movie have been box-office successes —“Deadpool 2” (2018), directed by David Leitch, earned $785 million worldwide. This yr’s “Deadpool & Wolverine,” directed by Shawn Levy, took residence $1.338 billion worldwide, turning into the highest-grossing R-rated film ever made.
“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 [2016’s ‘Deadpool’],” Miller added.
“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.”
Reynolds has additionally opened up about his paycheck on the primary “Deadpool.”
Talking to the New York Instances in July, the star mentioned, “When I finally got to make [‘Deadpool’], it had been almost 10 years at that point.”
“No part of me was thinking when ‘Deadpool’ was finally greenlit that this would be a success.”‘
Reynolds “even let go of getting paid” simply to make sure the film bought made, saying that he used up a giant chunk of his paycheck to get his co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick allowed on set.
“I took the little salary I had left and paid them to be on set with me so we could form a de facto writers’ room,” he revealed.
Following the success of “Deadpool,” Miller directed 2019’s “Terminator: Dark Fate,” created the Prime Video animated anthology TV collection “Secret Level” and has been an govt producer on the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies. The third installment is in theaters now.
