Is Mark Wahlberg only in Transformers 4+5 to pad his box office numbers?
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McQueen1980 — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 06:42 PM)
nonsense trevor know it all aclea which is dublin ireland clearly
they cast mark wahlberg in the last transformers movie becoz of the huge success of Ted in the States and overseas where it made even more money.
they needed a likeable centric actor amongst the robots just like a likeable centric actor to play off a puppet called ted
it wasnt a good movie(transformers 2014) but it made big money and wahlberg is back again for a second helping -
SophieSlut — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 12:28 AM)
The characters and actors have always been the centerpoint of the F&F series (Tokyo Drift aside). Probably a better connection would be Jurassic Park.
He probably does it for the money and to get himself out their to a wider audience. Think of how popular Transformers is in China. What actor wouldn't want to have the opportunity to maybe gain a Chinese following?
It will at least get your name into more people's mouths. Like, Shia LeBuff was never a draw, but he at least became pretty well known after doing the Transformers movies. Same as Megan Fox.
I don't think anyone cares about random stats like 2 billion dollar movies other than box office people like us. -
cornnetto — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 11:31 AM)
I don't think anyone cares about random stats like 2 billion dollar movies other than box office people like us.
This is probably true, we refer to an actor box office historic because you don't have any other metric, to grossly evaluate how well known they are and so on.
But studio exec have constantly updated audience pool of most market about that, and know close enough how well known and liked an actor is, they don't need to guesstimate stuff like that or use rule of thumb like the number of billion dollar movies.
A large number of people in the Lords of the rings/Hobbit franchise or Potter's has those kind of giant track record of long list of multiple over 800 million WW movies, they cannot greenlight the movie they want with that. -
Fusion72 — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 02:06 PM)
Maybe he wants to self-fund his return to music?
I one hundred percent agree with your theory; he's boosting his box-office total to get more of those high-end, big box-office roles. After all, when was the last time Wahlberg was in a tentpole movie (with exception to the recent Transformers, of course)? -
TheBayHarborButcher — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 05:34 PM)
I think he's mainly apart of Transformers for the pay check. He also supposedly became good friends with Michael Bay while shooting Pain and Gain. I think he was the main person who convinced Wahlberg to direct T4. I also think that Wahlberg is the reason why Bay chose to return to direct T5. Padding his box office numbers probably plays a role in his reasons for joining the franchise too.
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jakesully2016-229-999272 — 9 years ago(October 12, 2016 01:36 PM)
Haven't read the entire thread/other responses but Marky Mark has had a great working relationship with Bay even before filming Transformers for him. They did Pain & Gain together in 2013 (which was surprisingly entertaining).