8. Dougray Scott – X-Men (Wolverine) Franchise – $55 million
Dougary who? Exactly. The 50-year-old Scottish actor did not just pass on the role of a lifetime in 2000 when they were casting the reboot of X-Men, but the payday of a lifetime as well.
If only his agent knew how regular a job this would be, if only they knew the dollars and cents attached to the project, if only! Mr. Scott’s loss was the gain of Australian Hugh Jackman who embodies everything about Logan/Wolverine for the film franchise. The spin-off/stand alone Logan picture will hit screens next year in 2017 and will be the 9th installment of the character on the big screen following on from X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand,X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse.
The combined salary of all of those adds up to approximately $55 million but is clearly more when you factor in endorsement deals etc. But we’ll be conservative, for Dougary’s sake at least.
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