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Joaquin Phoenix’s sudden exit from film sparks ‘huge outrage’ in Hollywood
(www.independent.co.uk)
"The actors role cannot be recast" the fuck you mean lol
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
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It’s related to financing. The funding was contractually tied to having Phoenix in the role. So if they can find another actor with enough pull, maybe they can recast?
Phoenix was also a co-writer, so who knows what happens next.
You have to wonder what really went down. Also this dude is always pulling stunts for publicity so who knows.
means: they plan on making more money suing him than they would with the film.
and he'll settle for whatever it cost, he's got the cash, he knows he left them in the lurch
He's probably not poor, but I doubt he has entire movie budgets worth of money lying around in cash.
it's not the entire movie budget, as they didn't even start filming, it's set up costs, and it'll probably cost him about ~5 million in the end
My guess is they used his involvement to sell it to distributors. It says they have already made deals for international markets, likely getting more than they would have with a different actor.
I kinda get that. If they have no big name actor the movie is already dead, which is the unfortunate reality for a lot of movies these days.
Sounds like he was the guy pushing for the movie to be made in the first place as well, so maybe there’s no interest from other names to replace him.
Too bad he didn't do that for Napoleon.
@Emperor It's hard to make this fit into any sort of narrative.
Is he "homophobic" and intentionally trying to screw people over? Or, did he try to push the boundaries of what he could do and realized too late that he wouldn't be comfortable doing this and decided to just bail?
Will the left praise him for not putting himself in a sexually vulnerable position he wasn't willing to be in?
I don't think it'll easily fit into a conventional narrative. As you can see from other replies I've made here, he has done this before and, while it could previously have been chalked up to a power move for greater control, this is his project. It seems far more likely that this is pre-filming nerves combined with his not getting into the right head-space for the character. I imagine his team might talk him round as this would be a reputational disaster but we'll see.
Will the left praise him for not putting himself in a sexually vulnerable position he wasn't willing to be in?
That seems unlikely. They'll probably chastise him for not being comfortable with it. I'll gladly eat my hat if I'm wrong.