thought it didn’t have to pay up, or 2) Warner Bros.
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(The film made $238 million worldwide, at a time when the romantic comedy was largely considered dead at the box office.) Normally, the sequel to a hit movie would bring a big pay bump for everybody involved, which either means that 1) studio Warner Bros. Chiarelli, meanwhile, has written on several hit movies, most notably the 2009 Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds rom-com The Proposal.īut still: The idea that Lim would make, at best, an eighth of what Chiarelli would make - and maybe as little as a 10th - is pretty remarkable, considering how huge Crazy Rich Asians was.
Your quote is usually based on your résumé - namely, prior work you’ve done in films - and Lim’s pre- Crazy Rich Asians work was all in television. Studios often rely on “quotes” to set price points for hiring writers. In and of itself, this pay gap isn’t that remarkable. The Hollywood Reporter cites unnamed sources saying that Chiarelli stood to make $800,000 to $1 million from the two movies, while Lim stood to make only “$110,000-plus.” (That “plus” is doing a lot of work, but it’s hard to imagine it means anything close to even $125,000.)
The Hollywood Reporter was first to report Lim’s departure. The sequels to the 2018 hit movie Crazy Rich Asians have hit a major snag on their way to the big screen: Adele Lim, co-writer of the film and a would-be writer of its two sequels (which are planned to film simultaneously), has stepped away from the project, citing a massive pay disparity between herself and the movies’ other credited writer, Peter Chiarelli.
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