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Deadpool was a box office hit, but the director Tim Miller he did not personally take advantage of his success.
Miller, 60, who made his directorial debut with the 2016 superhero film, revealed his surprising salary during an interview with Accelerator posted on Tuesday, December 24th.
“You may not know this, but being a first-time director in Hollywood is not exactly profitable, and I’ll tell you exactly that,” the filmmaker shared. “I was paid $225,000 to direct Deadpool. I know that sounds like a lot of money, but it’s not a lot of money for two years of work.”
Miller continued, “It’s not that I’m not grateful, I’m grateful, it’s because that’s what’s expected of you when you’re a first-time director. My agent said, ‘Dude, you’re going to make more per episode The Walking Dead!’”
Miller’s payment paled in comparison to the more than $782 million the film made at the box office. However, he feels “uniquely lucky” to be a part of it Deadpool franchise that continued in 2018 Deadpool 2 and 2024 Deadpool and Wolverinein directing David Leitch and Shawn Levyrespectively
“Then my second thought is, I wish my director deals had a merchandising part so I could get some money out of it all,” Miller said.
Deadpool star and co-producer Ryan Reynolds he didn’t even get rich on the 2016 film.
“No part of me wondered when. Deadpool it was finally illuminated that it was going to be a success,” Reynolds, 48, said. The New York Times in July. “I even went from being paid to make a film just to bring it back to the screen. They wouldn’t let my co-writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on set, so I took the little salary I had left and paid them to be on set with me so we could create a de facto script.”
Reynolds stands by his decision not to get paid and thinks Deadpool it turned out better.
“I think one of the great enemies of creativity is too much time and too much money, and that movie had neither time nor money,” he said of the film, which had a $58 million budget compared to a $200 million budget. Deadpool and Wolverine. “It really encouraged the focus on the character over the spectacle, which is a little harder to do in a comic book movie. I was so passionate about every micro detail of it and I hadn’t felt that way in a long, long time. I remembered that I wanted to feel it more—not just on Deadpoolbut on anything.”
After directing DeadpoolMiller went on to create an animated anthology series Love, death and robots. He also directed 2019 Terminator: Dark Fate.