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MF_Kitten t1_iqwuoeb wrote

Reply to comment by JohannesOliver in Bruce Willis denies selling deepfake rights to Deepcake | Willis' agent: "Bruce has no partnership or agreement with this Deepcake company." by chrisdh79

I thought he was just trying to cash in as much as possible with his name and reputation before retiring, doing these cheap conveyor belt movies to secure him and his family financially for the future?

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hitsujiTMO t1_iqwyuqh wrote

Yup, same thing Cage does. He does little work, only has to show up for a few days of filming, and gets paid a significant portion of the budget.

It has meant he had far more time to spend with his family.

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victorsueiro t1_iqx56gu wrote

Not the case with Cage, dude was in huge debt with the IRS plus he over spent for years.

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hitsujiTMO t1_iqx5mvo wrote

Sorry, meant the types of films he does. Bruce doesn't do the same volume as Cage as he doesn't need to.

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papapoohbear13 t1_iqxjw8l wrote

Actually Cage does it now because he enjoys it. IRS got paid off.

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benito_fusilloni t1_iqxuab6 wrote

If you read an interview with him, he swears up and down that he cherry picks roles because he wholeheartedly thinks they’re amazing. Even during the IRS shenanigans. He’s crazy enough that I believe him though.

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APeacefulWarrior t1_iqzdcbh wrote

Well, amazing or just interesting in some way. Like I saw an interview where he said he took the job on that bad FNAF ripoff movie specifically because he thought it would be fun to play a mute badass.

Although the one I was really disappointed in was "Prisoners of the Ghostland" which seriously should have been a lot better than it was.

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WiredEarp t1_iqzx7p0 wrote

Yeah that was terrible. All style nothing more.

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anonymous_4_custody t1_iqyx3wp wrote

I thought he was doing a good-guy thing and doing movies with less famous actors he liked, to help propel their careers.

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MF_Kitten t1_ir16blt wrote

I don't think he knew who any of those people were haha! Those movies are not even trying to be real movies. They're just "assemble a barely functional movie for just about no money, so you can sell it for stupid profit straight to streaming services and smaller TV channels without paying for any significant marketing" junk. Nobody is getting their careers propelled with those I think, other than literally having SOMETHING on a resume. He was either alone or with like one other actor for most of the shoots, and he was given almost no actual dialogue (for obvious reasons). Hell, they use body doubles for 90% of the shots where he has to do literally anything, and splice in the shots of his face.

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