Sean Connery turned down $225million for Lord of the rings

Posted by: Stanch

While reading one of my buddies sites, I stumbled on something creepishly freaky. Ok so not really, but the word is that Sean Connery was offered the role of Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings and turned it down. He would have made $225million pounds. Thats like minimum 300million US. He would have gotten 10-25% of the take according to the Scotsman, via FilmStalker. Quote

Sir Sean turned the offer down as he did not understand the complicated plot of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy masterpiece... ...The three films in the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring (2000), The Two Towers (2001) and The Return of the King (2002), earned a total of Â£1.5 billion at the box office, which would have meant the former Bond actor would have earned between Â£150 million and Â£225 million. The fee would have dwarfed the Â£23 million earned by Jack Nicholson under a similar deal for his role as The Joker in Batman, released in 1989.

Man I would do a movie about the genome, and if I didnt get it I would use the $225million pounds to pay some science student to explain it to me. This is a prime example of an actor not knowing the material and REALLY missing out on some serious cash.

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