Posted on 12/22/2015 6:52:50 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Star Wars veteran Harrison Ford pulled in an astronomical paycheck for his reprisal role in The Force Awakens, which opened globally Friday. Fortune reported that Ford stands to make more than $34 million for his return as Han Solo. Disney reportedly wanted him back so badly that they offered him a base salary of nearly $25 million, plus 0.5% of the film's gross profit, according to the Guardian.
"Harrison is the key to making this movie work," an unnamed source from Disney said, according to the Guardian. "He's the link between the old generation and the new. Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher were good to get, but the film could have lived without them. You couldn't make it without Harrison Ford."
Maybe a half a percent sounds like small stakes, but consider this: After one weekend in theaters, The Force Awakens has surpassed the previous record holder for ticket sales - Jurassic World - at nearly $240 million in North America alone. The film has netted some $517 million worldwide, which puts Ford's share of the profits above $2.5 million after just three days, a number that the Guardian projects could rise to some $9 million.
Fisher, according to the Daily Mail, was paid some $1.5 million to return as Princess Leia, while Hamill's salary has not yet been made public.
The film's up-and-coming actors, though, received much less lucrative deals. Both Daisy Ridley and John Boyega were paid just under $450,000, plus they'll receive a "small cut" of box office revenue after ticket sales have hit $1 billion, the Daily Mail reported.
Still, Ridley and Boyega have a substantial leg up on the original actors when it comes to salaries for the first Star Wars film, according to Yahoo. Ford reportedly made something like $10,000 (in 1970s dollars) for Episode IV: A New Hope. (He leveraged this to $100,000 for The Empire Strikes Back and around $500,000 for The Return of the Jedi.)
Hamill fared better in salary negotiations for the first movie: He was allegedly paid something like $650,000 to play Luke Skywalker in A New Hope, plus .25% of profits and royalties. Fisher has never named her salary for the first installment, but has said she failed to secure royalties from the use of Princess Leia's likeness. She did receive the same percentage of the film's income as Hamill, though.
They only promised him another young R2D2.
Well, they did earn their respective salaries in this episode.
I could not care less . What vacuous trivia for the mindless children.
His Schwartz is smaller than mine
Thank Gawd! He can FINALLY buy his emaciated wife the sandwich she so desperately needs to eat!
*Rolleyes*
Gay robot? Is that a real thing?
That’s lots of dough for the Hillary campaign.
Merry Christmas
“Fisher, according to the Daily Mail, was paid some $1.5 million to return as Princess Leia, while Hamill’s salary has not yet been made public.”
Hamill’s agent could not be reached for comment; they’re busy splitting a bag of R2D2-brand oranges down at the Hy-Vee Supermarket, LOL!
His schlong is actually quite schwart.
Star Wars: Episode VIII (2017) has Harrison Ford Han solo listed in the cast ,did he land on a mattress ?
SCI-Fi...death is never permanent.....didn’t you see The Voyage Home?
Yet you read it, and felt compelled to comment. Are you one of said mindless children?
“The film has netted some $517 million worldwide, which puts Ford’s share of the profits above $2.5 million after just three days, a number that the Guardian projects could rise to some $9 million. “
The movie probably cost $200 million to make not counting advertising.
This puts the gross profits at about $300 million making his share about $1.5 million.
I think Luke and Leia got — what’s the expression? — SCHLONGED when it came to salaries of the original cast versus Han.
And the Liberals are upset, no doubt, over the outrageous compensation paid to Hollywood big shots. A true “one-percenter” travesty!
Hamill was in the film for less than a minute and had no lines. Whatever he was paid, it was probably too much.
Well Frankenstein has an enormous Schwanzstucker,
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