See also: the postmodern piece of kino known as Hoodwinked!, which somehow managed to grab Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, Jim Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Xzibit on a microbudget without the help of any major studio.
They all worked with him before. So they knew it was Rodriguez’ passion project and did him a favor. Probably also a great director to work with.
Danny Trejo describes being on his films as a kind of family reunion for a lot of Latino actors and actresses
Music by Danny Elfman. Huh
With a name like that, he better be famous for Christmas soundtracks.
Well, he did The Nightmare Before Christmas as well as most of Tim Burton’s other films. Along with tons of other things.
I can’t imagine many more projects tondonjust for fun.
Thats a lot of Elijah woods horror roles, things that looked fun.
So I’m sure that’s why they did itYeah and even when actors get paid “low sums” it’s usually like six figures still, at least regarding projects like Spy Kids.
And even if it was “just” five figures, if its above 50k and last less than a year to film, it’s more than most people make and the actors who do these aren’t exactly broke to begin with.
Orlando Bloom “only” got 175k for the lotr trilogy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0nHeZgepNw
If someone paid me 175k to fuck about as an elf in New Zealand for 438 days, I’d be willing to suck their dick on the spot. And I don’t generally like sucking dick too much.
Sylvester Stallone? That’s like an instant -999 for me, idk about anyone else…
Edit: whoops I was thinking of Steven Seagal, Sylvester Stallone is great
When he’s not in a movie like Spy Kids sure