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00:00No, no, no, no, no!
00:01Oh yeah!
00:01No, no, no, no!
00:04You cannot eat our only suspect.
00:06Hey, hello and welcome to WatchMojo Español.
00:09I'm G, and today we'll see cases where the stars were forced by contract to act in some movies,
00:16no matter if it was before or after they agreed to do it.
00:19Now, what are we hiding from?
00:23We'll also take into account those who were forced to work in a production
00:27to compensate for a breach of previous contract.
00:31Number 20, Bruce Willis, Armageddon.
00:34So, what's the verdict?
00:36They'll do it.
00:38They've made a few requests, though.
00:39Do you remember the 1997 romantic comedy Broadway Brawler,
00:44starring Bruce Willis and Mara Tierney?
00:47No? Well, you know why?
00:49Because it doesn't exist.
00:50In addition to starring, Willis was also a producer,
00:53and after three weeks of filming, he demanded the dismissal of most of the team,
00:58including the director.
01:00This led The Walt Disney Company to cancel everything.
01:03They could have sued Willis, but instead they reached an agreement
01:07for which he would make three movies for the company at a reduced price.
01:11The first was Armageddon.
01:13Willis charged only $3 million for the movie,
01:16in contrast to the $20 million he charged at that time.
01:20It's not a choice, it's a lack of options.
01:22Number 19, Pierce Brosnan, Remington Steele.
01:26Have we met before?
01:27I don't think so.
01:28Odd, you look vaguely familiar.
01:30Pierce Brosnan became a star thanks to the 80s television series,
01:35Remington Steele.
01:36Perhaps it was thanks to this series that he was chosen for the role of James Bond.
01:40However, it was also thanks to this show that he didn't get the role before.
01:45You see, it premiered in 1982 and was canceled in 1986,
01:50when Brosnan was offered the role of Bond in the movie The Living Daylights.
01:55But NBC revoked its cancellation decision,
01:59and Brosnan was forced, by contract, to return to the program.
02:03Not wanting to associate the character with an air series,
02:06the producers of the movie rejected their offer
02:09and gave the role to Timothy Dalton.
02:11It was 8 years before Brosnan finally became Bond.
02:17Number 18, Winona Ryder, Boys.
02:28The movie Boys, starring Winona Ryder and Lucas Haas,
02:32was a failure both with the audience and with the critics in 1996,
02:37which didn't surprise those who made it.
02:40Director Stacey Cochran stated that she and the studio had differences
02:45and that there was an extensive process of unwanted editing,
02:48which ruined the movie.
02:50As for Ryder, in her biography, Nigel Goodall makes it clear
02:54that the last minute changes in the script made her regret having participated.
02:59But the contract was already signed and it wasn't going to be released,
03:02even if she wanted to.
03:10Number 17, Alec Baldwin, Rock of Ages.
03:20At first, everything was great.
03:22Alec Baldwin signed to participate in Rock of Ages,
03:25excited to work with director Adam Shankman
03:28and some of the other stars like Tom Cruise.
03:31But the honeymoon ended soon.
03:33As Baldwin admitted in an interview in 2013,
03:36and I quote,
03:41What he did was try to get out.
03:43Although the reports of the time mention medical problems
03:46as a reason to leave the production,
03:48it seems that the truth is that he simply thought the movie was going to be disgusting.
03:52Obviously, the studio didn't allow it.
03:58Number 16, Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones.
04:06Mr. Harvey.
04:08Stanley Tucci didn't try to rescind his contract
04:11to star in this movie because he hated her,
04:13but because he hated his character.
04:16He plays George Harvey, a serial killer
04:18who has as a target the girls
04:20in the 2009 Peter Jackson movie.
04:23As he stated for Entertainment Weekly,
04:25it was a difficult experience to play such a horrible person.
04:28He even questioned Jackson why he had chosen him
04:31and actively tried to get rid of him before they started shooting.
04:36Not only did he not succeed,
04:38but he got an Oscar nomination for his performance.
04:45Number 15, Paul Kilmer, Top Gun.
05:00That's right.
05:02It may seem crazy, but basically
05:04he had to force Paul Kilmer
05:06to play Iceman in Top Gun.
05:09He had already given Paramount two movies
05:11in their three-year agreement
05:13and owed them one more.
05:15Thanks to this agreement, Kilmer went to meet
05:17with the director of the movie, Tony Scott.
05:19Although he still didn't want to do it
05:21because he thought the script was stupid,
05:23Scott and his contractual obligations
05:25convinced him to participate in the movie.
05:28Of course, he didn't need to be convinced
05:30for his role in the sequel to 2022,
05:32Top Gun Maverick.
05:34He even campaigned to promote it.
05:47Number 14, Brad Pitt, Troya.
05:55This 2004 epic of swords and sandals
05:57was the eighth most box office movie of the year
06:00and Brad Pitt received positive reviews
06:02about his performance.
06:04However, it was not a movie
06:06I would like to be in initially,
06:08although in this case the studio had to win.
06:10Indeed, Pitt had retired
06:12before another movie
06:14and as a result, he owed the studio.
06:16So, as he declared
06:18for The New York Times in 2019,
06:20they put him in Troya.
06:22We could say they found his Achilles heel.
06:30Number 13, Shia LaBeouf,
06:32Transformers, Dark of the Moon.
06:42It's hard to believe, but Michael Bay
06:44made a decent Transformers movie.
06:46The first one, released in 2007,
06:48has a score in Rotten Tomatoes
06:50of 57%, which is not great
06:52but not terrible either
06:54and raised more than 700 million dollars.
06:56Although the second one
06:58made even more money
07:00was criticized even by its star,
07:02Shia LaBeouf, who said
07:04I was not impressed with what we did.
07:06As he did not want to be part of a franchise
07:08in decline, at least in terms of quality,
07:10he made a real effort to leave
07:12before the third movie,
07:14but there was the small detail
07:16that he had signed for three productions.
07:18There was not much to do,
07:20although he was definitely not going to return
07:22for the fourth.
07:25Number 12, Bill Murray,
07:27Garfield, The Movie.
07:37Which actor would not want to work
07:39with Joel Coen?
07:41He is one of the greatest writers
07:43and directors of his generation
07:45and according to Bill Murray,
07:47when he saw that he had written Garfield,
07:49he did not miss the opportunity
07:51to be the voice of the protagonist.
07:53The truth is that it was co-written
07:55by Joel Coen with H,
07:57not that of the Coen brothers.
07:59When he realized his mistake,
08:01it was too late to go back.
08:03In addition, the other co-writer
08:05of the film, Alec Zuccolo,
08:07has said that Murray's story
08:09about confusion is false.
08:11Who do we believe?
08:19Number 11, Daniel Craig,
08:21James Bond.
08:27Although some actors would not hesitate
08:29to accept the opportunity to be James Bond,
08:31Daniel Craig was not one of them.
08:33When he was offered the role
08:35of 007 in 2005,
08:37it took a while to accept the offer.
08:39Although he received many praises,
08:41money and fame for his performance,
08:43he only made five films
08:45because he was forced by contract.
08:47His desire to leave the franchise
08:49came definitively after the disaster
08:51that was Quantum of Solace.
08:53However, according to him,
08:55he had started even before.
08:57He said, and I quote,
08:59I have tried to leave
09:01from the moment I got in.
09:07Number 10, Jennifer Garner, Elektra.
09:13After the failure with the criticism
09:15that Daredevil posed, Ben Affleck was lucky
09:17because there was no sequel for Matt Murdock.
09:19Jennifer Garner was contractually trapped
09:21in what was, frankly,
09:23a spin-off that no one needed.
09:25Elektra.
09:31For Ben, it meant a simple cameo
09:33that did not even reach the final editing.
09:35For Garner, it was a leading role
09:37in a film possibly even worse
09:39than the previous one.
09:41The spin-off earned a miserable
09:4356.7 million dollars
09:46and, along with Daredevil,
09:48it is believed that it permanently damaged
09:50the ability of the actress
09:52to be a star, which at that time
09:54was on the rise.
09:58Number 9, Edward Norton,
10:00The Talent Job.
10:04This actor of undeniable talent
10:06has earned a certain reputation
10:08for being difficult to work with.
10:10It turns out that this problem extends
10:12beyond his relationship with directors,
10:14protagonists and even to the heads
10:16of the studios.
10:18Like many of our entries today,
10:20it seems that Edward Norton, when he was young,
10:22signed a contract for several films
10:24that, in retrospect, he was not so willing
10:26to fulfill.
10:28It was a contractual dispute that lasted
10:30five years and that created
10:32problems between the two parties
10:34who, apparently, could not agree
10:36on a movie.
10:38In the end, Norton was forced to star
10:40in The Talent Job or reach
10:42the courts.
10:46Number 8, Keanu Reeves,
10:48The Watcher.
10:50Imagine that they told you that you were
10:52legally obliged to make a movie
10:54with which you do not remember
10:56having committed yourself.
10:58Although during the shoot there were reports
11:00that Reeves was not happy, the whole story
11:02did not come to light until 12 months
11:04after the release of the film,
11:06when the actor's silence, forced by contract,
11:08came to an end.
11:10Before speaking, he claimed that they had falsified
11:12his signature, but that he could not
11:14prove it. Immediately after
11:16the success of The Matrix,
11:18we understand why being the villain of a movie
11:20whose script Keanu supposedly
11:22did not find interesting, did not work
11:24for him. However, to avoid
11:26a long legal battle,
11:28he agreed to scold teeth.
11:35Number 7, Roy Scheider,
11:37Jaws 2.
11:40After the first movie
11:42brought to light the concept of
11:44summer super production,
11:46it could be said that all the members
11:48of the cast who survived the original Jaws
11:50would be desperate
11:52to participate again.
11:54It was not the case of the star Roy Scheider,
11:56who only returned as a punishment
11:58for having abandoned another movie.
12:03Let's say he chose wrong.
12:05Jaws 2 was a nightmare
12:07from pre-production to the end,
12:09with frequent rewrites,
12:11delays in production,
12:13and difficulties to find an adequate
12:15director. Apparently,
12:17Roy Scheider was very discontent
12:19throughout the process,
12:21but that meant that he would
12:23fulfill his contract, so he endured.
12:28Universal's movie
12:30he had given up was the popular
12:32Deer Hunter, and nothing less
12:34than the leading role.
12:39Number 6, Channing Tatum,
12:41G.I. Joe, The Rise of Cobra.
12:47For young and promising stars,
12:49it can be tempting to sign contracts
12:51for several movies. Guaranteed
12:53work? Why not? But a few
12:55years later you could be forced
12:57to play roles that you hate
12:59in movies that give you chills.
13:01It is a lesson that Channing Tatum
13:03learned from the bad after signing
13:05a three-production contract with Paramount.
13:09Maybe G.I. Joe
13:11would help him become more known,
13:13but after the shoot he has
13:15expressed his hatred and made it very
13:17clear that he only accepted the role
13:19of Duke for fear of the legal consequences.
13:23Number 5, Emily Blunt,
13:25The Voyages of Gulliver.
13:30Speaking of missed opportunities,
13:32in retrospect, Emily Blunt
13:34has said that she is glad not to have
13:36finished the role of Natasha Romanoff,
13:39the Black Widow, since women
13:41in superhero movies tend to occupy
13:43a background with respect to
13:45male protagonists. It is fair,
13:47but to think that The Voyages of Gulliver
13:49was the reason why she did not get
13:51the role, that is painful.
13:59As Variety reported in 2009,
14:01a contract signed with Trident Century Fox
14:03when Blunt played a role
14:05in The Devil Wears Prada
14:07gave her enough influence
14:09to force her participation
14:11and so Emily was left out
14:13of the MCU and had to play
14:15Princess Mary.
14:22Number 4, Mike Myers,
14:24The Cat in the Hat.
14:32For those who grew up adoring the cat
14:34and other stories of Dr. Seuss,
14:36this movie could have looked
14:38like a slap in the face.
14:40Although Mike Myers has taken
14:42quite questionable cinematographic
14:44lessons for years, it seems that
14:46his participation in this particular parody
14:48was not by his own will.
14:53When a script that brought to life
14:55his character from SNL, Jeter,
14:57turned out to be quite mediocre,
14:59Myers backed down
15:01and Universal responded with a lawsuit.
15:03In the end, an extrajudicial
15:05lawsuit was filed and the details
15:07are murky, but the consensus is
15:09that this movie was the commitment.
15:11According to co-star Amy Hill,
15:13Myers' annoyance was quite evident
15:15on set.
15:21Number 3, Geena Davis,
15:23Cuthroat Island.
15:28This romantic comedy of action
15:30and adventure is widely recognized
15:32as one of the biggest failures
15:34in the history of cinema, and the one
15:36that erased from the map the productions
15:38of pirates until Disney retook
15:40the genre years later.
15:42Geena Davis would not have participated
15:44in Cuthroat Island if she had
15:46gone out with her.
15:48When co-star Michael Douglas
15:50abandoned the film, she saw that
15:52the winds were changing and tried
15:54to abandon the ship too.
15:56Unfortunately, unlike Douglas,
15:58his participation was legally
16:00impossible to undo.
16:03The production of Carolco Pictures
16:05is also remembered as the movie
16:07that irreparably damaged Geena's career.
16:13Number 2,
16:15Marlon Brando, Desiree.
16:19Unlike so many other movies
16:21on our list, this 1954
16:23production of the
16:25Trinity Century Fox was reasonably
16:27well received by critics
16:29and won two Oscar nominations
16:31for the costume design
16:33and artistic direction.
16:35It is far from being a masterpiece
16:37and in terms of Brando's filmography
16:39it is little more than an insignificant
16:41note at the foot of the page.
16:43However, if she had gone out with her,
16:45she would not have had a place
16:47in her curriculum.
16:51However, after signing to act
16:53in The Egyptian for Trinity Century Fox,
16:55Fox sued him
16:57and Desiree served as redemption
16:59between the actor and the studio.
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17:15Now, let's go to the end.
17:17Number 1, Whoopi Goldberg,
17:19The Other Rex.
17:21Today's kids are not
17:23very familiar with Whoopi Goldberg,
17:25but the winner, Eggot,
17:27was once a very popular star.
17:29Although she continued to get important roles
17:31after this failure,
17:33it is difficult not to establish a correlation
17:35between the general decline of quality roles
17:37and her participation
17:39in The Other Rex.
17:41Get me down.
17:43Now!
17:45Goldberg verbally agreed to make
17:47the film in 1992
17:49and then tried to back out,
17:51but was affected by a $20 million
17:53lawsuit.
17:55Goldberg rejected the role,
17:57but continues to insist that it is
17:59one of her greatest regrets.
18:01After the terrible screening tests,
18:03the film was sent directly to video.
18:05Duh.
18:07Which of these legally obligatory roles
18:09do you think was worse for the actor involved?
18:11What do you expect, a bloody apology?
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18:15you've been playing it long enough.
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