True legend Arnold Schwarzenegger is a bodybuilder, businessman, politician, and famous actor. Arnold was the highest-paid actor in movies like Terminator and Predator. One of the movies he did after becoming famous was Batman and Robin in 1997. Arnold played the role of a villain called ‘Mr.Freeze.’ But there is a lesser-known side of his casting in the movie unveiled by the actor who played Batman, George Clooney.

The movie Batman and Robin was based on DC comics, and Bill Finger and Bob Kane made the characters. It was the fourth and last installment of the Warner Bros. Batman film series.

How much was Arnold Schwarzenegger paid for Batman and Robin

Batman and Robin collected over $100 million at the box office, but it was still considered a flop. It was because the movie earned less than the other three movies of the franchise. But the movie had some great actors like Arnold and George Clooney.

Once during a podcast of The Hollywood Reporter’s Award Chatter, George revealed how he learned the important lesson with a review of the flopped movie. But the most important thing for him was his co-actor in the movie Arnold who played the villain, Mr. Freeze.

He said in the podcast, “Schwarzenegger was paid, I think, $25 million for that, which was like 20 times more than I was paid for it, and, you know, we never even worked together! We worked together one day. But I took all the heat.” Despite Clooney being the lead actor in the movie, Arnold was paid a whopping $25 million. For the movie, Arnold was the only source of attraction for viewers due to his roles in True Lies and Last Action Hero. Being the highest-paid actor in his era, Arnold has a net worth of around $500 Million.

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Clooney also added and justified his statement, “Now, fair deal; I was playing Batman, and I wasn’t good in it, and it wasn’t a good film, but what I learned from that failure was, I had to rethink how I was working. Because now I wasn’t just an actor getting a role, I was being held responsible for the film itself.”

Batman and Robin’s canceled sequel

When the shooting of the film was ongoing of the movie Batman and Robin, the production house was impressed with the raw footage and wanted to make one more sequel. However, as they proposed Akiva Goldsman to write the script for the sequel, he turned them down. Therefore, the directors also hired a new writer named Mark Protosevich to continue their fifth film.

In the new Batman Unchained script, the main villain was a scarecrow. As per the script, Harley Quinn was also there as the daughter of Joker. The directors reached all the old actors to continue their respective roles in the sequel. Arnold, a villain in the last movie, was also supposed to join this. But George said no to the directors after reviewing all the reviews and critiques of Batman and Robin.

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