$20M Rejection: Is Emma Stone Too Pricey for Marvel?

Marvel is actively looking for actors to portray the next generation of Fantastic Four. Open page Deadline It was recently announced that Emma Stone had been approached by Idea House to play the role of The Invisible Woman (thus mentioning Jodie Comer, who was previously rumored for the role of Jane Storm). The studio really wants a famous actress to play the female lead.

But in 2017, the Oscar-winning actor for his role in Damien Chazelle’s La La Land would eventually turn it down.

according to Jeff Snyder, who will host the show The Hot Mic PodcastEmma Stone demanded a salary of $20 million, an amount that Marvel refused to pay.

The journalist says that the actor was open to the offer, but was not ready to take a pay cut. According to him, Marvel is not willing to pay such a price because the studio wants to make sure that there is enough money for the entire cast.

Thus, Jeff Snyder explains that Adam Driver, who is still being considered for the role of Mr. Fantastic, would have lower salary claims than Emma Stone, which confirms, according to the latter, the idea that Marvel is trying to distribute the salaries of the actors fairly.

There is still a significant difference in wages

Recall that in 2017, Emma Stone was the highest paid actress in the world with 26 million dollars according to the rating of the American magazine Forbes (with 2 films in theaters: La La Land and Battle of the Sexes).

It is much lower than the salary of Mark Wahlberg, who led the ranking of the highest paid actors with $68 million. In 2017, the actor appeared in Transformers: The Last Knight, Very Bad Dads 2 and All the Money in the World.

We don’t know Marvel’s planned budget for the new iteration of Fantastic Four, which will be directed by Matt Shakman, but let’s recall that Scarlett Johansson was paid $20 million for Black Widow.

The Fantastic 4 is already dated February 12, 2025. Emma Stone shows Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos, a re-reading of Frankenstein, from October 11.