With 11 films, including spin-offs, the Fast & Furious franchise is among the most expensive sagas in film history, and Fast X, currently in theaters, tops it.
Directed by Louis Leterrier, the latest opus cost $340 million (not including marketing costs), $140 million more than the previous film, which cost “only” $200 million. Fast & Furious X is the most expensive film in the franchise.
Q: Inflation, multiple special effects and filming locations, as well as rising production costs related to health demands due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But especially the salaries of many of the film’s stars.
If we don’t know exactly how much Jason Momoa, Brie Larson, Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren, Michelle Rodriguez, John Cena or historical actors were paid, variety It was recently revealed that the salary of the film is 100 million dollars.
According to the American media, Vin Diesel, who at the same time is the producer of the franchise and as such receives more salary than his partners, would receive 20 million dollars to play the role of Dominic Toretto.
Added to that figure will be the earnings of Fast X, which has brought in $520 million to date at the international box office since its May 17 (French date) theatrical release.
If no Fast & Furious X Coming off one of the franchise’s worst starts in 20 years, the film allowed the saga to cross the $7 billion mark worldwide last weekend, ranking it as the fifth highest-grossing franchise.
Vin Diesel
Amazing salary
Open page ScreenRant Surprised by the salary of Diesel, who has been in the saga for more than 20 years. In comparison, Tom Hardy will earn $20 million for Venom 3, Joaquin Phoenix will also earn $20 million for Joker 2, and Chris Hemsworth will also earn $20 million for Tyler Rake 2.
As the 10th opus of the successful action saga, Salary Vin Diesel So not amazing compared to other actors.
ScreenRant explains that there is a large number of stars Fast & Furious X Perhaps the studio had a limited budget for Vin Diesel. And if Dwayne Johnson (the highest-paid actor in the world in 2019 and 2020) and Gal Gadot return for Fast 11, the budget should increase once again.
Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds on the poster of the 2021 Netflix action comedy Red Notice received impressive salaries: 23.5 million dollars for the former wrestler and 20 million green tickets for the performers of Wonder Woman and Deadpool.
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