SYFY WIRE covers everything you need to know about sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comics. Written and directed by Saverio Costanzo, the film stars Driver opposite Alba Rohrwacher as a young married couple in New York City who engage in a fateful struggle over the life of their newborn child. As the mother’s increasingly nightmarish child rearing practices take center stage, the husband is forced into an emotional ringer as the film evokes the classic slow-burn thrillers of Roman Polanski and Alfred Hitchcock. Get the latest news and updates on Star Wars The Force Awakens Cast. It's also pretty likely that the cast will negotiate for higher salaries for future Star Wars movies, with one (spoiler alert!) exception: Ford, whose character dies at the end of The Force Awakens.Adam Driver has been one of the indie scene’s most promising stars ever since he decided to begin moving away from his Emmy-nominated turn on HBO’s “Girls.” He gave some effective support in films “While We’re Young” and “Inside Llewyn Davis,” but in the twisted psychodrama “Hungry Hearts,” he got the chance to play the lead and he absolutely delivered, winning the Coppa Volpi Award (Best Actor) at the Venice Film Festival. Variety reports that the cast won't get a cut of the back-end box office until the gross reaches $1 billion, but that milestone seems pretty likely. But the actual stars of the movie, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, only made around $100,000-$300,000, since they were relative newcomers and had less negotiating power, Variety notes. Here's a taste: Harrison Ford made 50 times as much as some of his costars.Īccording to Variety, Ford made anywhere from $10 to $20 million, while Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill made a fraction of that, but still in the 'low seven figure range.' Disney reportedly decided to create two different pay scales: one for the original cast members who were returning, and a lower one for the new characters.Īdam Driver and Oscar Isaac, who played Kylo Ren and Poe Dameron, respectively, reportedly earned in the mid-to-high six figures since they had experience in bigger movies and TV shows. New reports allegedly reveal how much the cast of Episode VII made for the film. And it's a good thing, because those actors didn't come cheap. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is shattering box office records, making a whopping $529 million globally in its opening weekend alone.

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