Bonds pay day.
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Does anyone know how much each of the Bond actors were paid for their appearances? Either per film or as multi picture deal.
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Sean Connery
DN : $17,000
FRWL : $250,000
GF : $500,000
TB : $750,000
YOLT : $750,000 + 25% of net marchandise profits = $1,000,000
DAF : $1,200,000 + 12.5% of net US profits = $6,700,000
Connery's pay was peanuts at first but as the films got successful, they paid him much more. Desperate to get him back a 6th time, Connery was paid a record high salary. Connery felt undercompensated because James Bond would grow into a billion dollar franchise and he was given no stake in it.
George Lazenby
OHMSS : $80,500
Feels like he got robbed relative to other actors, but it was a higher starting point than Connery got, and had he stuck around, he would've been paid at least a million dollars per film.
Roger Moore
LALD : $1,000,000
TMWTGG : $1,000,000
TSWLM : $1,000,000
MR : $4,000,000
FYEO : $3,000,000 + 5% of net US profits = $4,607,500
OP : $4,000,000 + 5% of net US profits = $5,265,800
AVTAK : $5,000,000 + 5% of US gross = $7,515,000
This is where the profits piled up. It's largely what Lazenby might've got. Moore's films were financially successful and he had 7 of them so it accumulated.
Timothy Dalton
TLD : $3,000,000
LTK : $5,000,000
Pretty good starting salary, and his 2nd film got a nice boost. He could've gotten a lot more if he stuck around.
Pierce Brosnan
GE : $1,200,000
TND : $8,200,000
TWINE : $12,400,000
DAD : $16,500,000
Brosnan got paid relatively low for GE because Eon knew he wanted the role so badly, he'd do it practically for free. But when Goldeneye was a huge success, the money came rolling in future entries.
Daniel Craig
CR : $3,220,000
QOS : $7,245,000
SF: ~$15,000,000
#24-25: $47,000,000 for both.
Continuing in the trend of low starting salary, but he only got paid slightly more than Dalton did for LTK. With Skyfall being a massive hit, that allows Craig in his next movies to make a record high salary.
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I am really surprised at RMs pay & flabbergasted by DCs.
Perhaps EON learnt from their mistakes of the past.
I can only dream of what OHMSS (the best Fleming novel) would have been like with Sean still in the role.
I would imagine it would have been the greatest Bond of all.
Ah well back to 2015, I can't wait for Spectre to be released.
"Do you expect me to talk? "No Mister Bond I expect you to die"
Then it was a good decision for Eon to pay Connery low enough for him to quit because Lazenby did an excellent job in OHMSS whilst Connery did a lacklustre job in DAF.
That said, if I were Eon, I would have given Connery a lifetime 2% stake in the company for his stellar work in the first 3 films.
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Agreed. IMO Connery was looking rather bored by the whole thing in DAF. Whilst I could envisage him in OHMSS I believe Lazenby did a great job.
Did a great job on ohmss, and I couldn't see a disinterested Connery doing any
Better.
Could've gotten mo(o)re of the merchandize pie due to sci fi being red hot , Nicholson earned 50 mill for Batman '89 (salary + merch)
FYEO/OP/AVTAK = "best for business" (quote WWEs COO Triple H)....it'd be financially foolish to turn them down.
I cant imagine Connery pulling off the emotion of the murder finale or the ice skating scene (escape) as well as Lazenby did. Guess we will never know but thats my hunch