I know what you're saying, but he did pay Adam $100K for the movie, a fair price for a movie lead at the time.Dr. Shimel wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:01 am Simple Batman math: A-Listers cost serious $$ + Dozier was cheap = Absolutely no chance of happening.
The combined salary of the villains, including the horrible lowball price of $5500 for Lee, was about $65K. Combine that with whatever 'walking-away' money they paid Julie, and they probably paid about $70K for villains. Granted, using that money and then prying another $30K from Dough-zier to make it an even $100K for an A-lister wouldn't have been easy, but WD might have more than made it up at the box office. Clearly, mainstream audiences weren't forking over money to see a bunch of what they considered TV performers.