Scarlett Johansson Awaits Big Avengers 2 Payday
Well, it's certainly great to be cast in a hit franchise that producers are itching to see the good times roll on. Scarlett Johansson's portrayal as the Black Widow in Marvel's The Avengers was one component in a half-dozen super-heroes that has brought in over $1.45 billion since its release in late Spring. With money like that rolling in, no point in jiggering with a winning formula. And to keep the good times going, the producers have offered up a record-breaking paycheck for Johansson to reprise her super-hero role.
The Hollywood star has been offered a cool $20 million in order to lure her back in the skin-tight black suit for more flips, punches and acrobatics for future adoring audiences in the franchise's next installment, according to the New York Post. That is "slightly" more than the $19 million Angelina Jolie reportedly received for her turn in The Tourist
If that pans out, that will be quite a pay raise from the current film, which is the biggest of the summer tentpoles so far. According to The Hollywood Reporter in May she made between $4 - 6 million plus bonuses, similar to Samuel L. Jackson, but much less than Robert Downey, Jr.'s reported take (Chris Hemsworth, Chis Evans, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo made about half that).
Last month, Forbes magazine dubbed Kristen Stewart the highest paid actress in Hollywood between her Twilight and Snow White and the Huntsman gigs. The two made her a celestial $34.5 million between May 2011 and May 2012. If Johansson accepts the twenty mill. and adds in another pic for good measure, she could well be on her way in topping Stewart.
[Source: NY Post via The Huffington Post]
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The original source of this info is the UK tabloid The Sun, a sister publication of NY Post with a well-earned reputation for imaginative reporting. $20M for a minor role? Avengers 2's budget for cast salaries alone will have to be close to $200M at that rate.
probably her character is to be a bigger part in the next movie
Probably her agent feeding the Sun and Post stories in the hopes of getting Widow written into the sequel. As of now there are no plans for her to be in the sequel. I guess she gave up on pushing a Black Widow movie.
Your a idiot JOR,
the 20 mil is for a more major role, just watch her interview about it! And there are plans for her and hawkeye in the sequel it just will be 3-4 years before we get one (look at MARVELs plans idiot).
Thank you for that picture. Yowza!
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There is absolutely no way that Marvel, which has very publicly low balled Mickey Rourke and Samuel L Jacksok, driving both away from their roles in Marvel films for a time, is willing to give her 20 million in an ensemble piece. Movieline should try and do a little reporting on this one.
This rumor is bogus. They would never pay her $20 million for that role.