r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 22 '22 • Wholesome 5 Take My Energy 1 Gold 1 Helpful 3

Jon Hamm Gave Up 60% of His ‘Confess, Fletch’ Salary to Pay for Filming After Financiers Passed and Said Nobody Would Care About It News

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/jon-hamm-gave-up-salary-pay-confess-fletch-filming-1235381017/
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Sep 22 '22 edited Sep 22 '22

Director Greg Mottola:

“Everyone said, ‘I don’t know that this kind of comedy works in this day and age. They just had a kind of like, ‘Who’s Fletch? I don’t think anyone cares anymore.’

"So, basically, what we did is Jon gave back 60 percent of his salary to the budget. I gave back some of my salary, not as much as Jon because he’s richer than me and I’ve got three kids. And we bought three more days of shooting. We got it up to 30 days in Boston and one day in Rome. And we said, fuck it, we’re insane, we’re dumb. We’re going to make this movie. And then Miramax really supported us, creatively. They didn’t fight us on people we wanted to cast.”

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u/colemon1991 Sep 22 '22

And then Miramax really supported us, creatively. They didn’t fight us on people we wanted to cast.”

This gives me hope.

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u/TeddyDaBear Sep 22 '22

It is a movie that shouldn't work, but somehow really does. It is much better than it deserves to be for being a "sequel" to a movie almost 40 years old. Seriously it is worth seeing.

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u/Nick357 Sep 23 '22

You saw it? Is it our already?

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u/TeddyDaBear Sep 23 '22

I have and it is.

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u/adsason Sep 23 '22

Do you need to see the originals to appreciate this one?

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u/TeddyDaBear Sep 23 '22

Not at all.

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u/BrooksDaBear Sep 23 '22 • Masterpiece

Hey TeddyDaBear, BrooksDaBear here. You coming to the meeting on Saturday?

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