Board 8 > James Earl Jones was paid $7000 to be the voice of Darth Vader

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He probably got paid alot more for the next movies.

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7000 bucks seriously?


wow

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Whoa he got shafted.

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But at least he truly enjoyed it.

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New Hope didn't have a large budget, and I'm sure no one thought beforehand that the voice of Darth Vader would become such a huge deal.

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That was also a lot more money back then.

I mean it's still not great or anything, but still.

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That was more money back then and I bet acting wasn't as lucrative a trade relatively speaking back then either.

But yeah that's still pretty amazing considering. Sure he got more in the later movies though yeah.

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That was more money back then and I bet acting wasn't as lucrative a trade relatively speaking back then either.

voice acting certainly wasn't, at least.

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Think about how much he has received in royalties or whatever they call it when they show re-runs on TV or for every DVD/Blue-Ray sold.

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I'd have done it for free just to tell people I was Darth Vader...

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that was like 20k or so

so yeah

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$7000 in 1977 (when the movie was released) is about $24888.79 in 2010 according to an inflation calculator. Although, he probably did the work and got paid in 1976 or 1975, but it's close enough.

Still, pretty interesting.

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