{"id":15417,"date":"2017-06-21T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15417"},"modified":"2017-06-21T08:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T12:15:04","slug":"the-economics-of-being-a-superhero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-economics-of-being-a-superhero\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Playing A Superhero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mainImage accessible nofocus aligncenter\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"View source image\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmicbooknews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/wonder-woman-2-gal-gadot-patty-jenkins.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for gadot wonder woman\" width=\"642\" height=\"337\" data-bm=\"62\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A controversy over how much Gal Gadot was paid to be Wonder Woman sparked research into superhero pay scales:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are so many comic book\u00a0superhero movies now that there&#8217;s an established pay structure for\u00a0their\u00a0stars.<\/li>\n<li>Studios hire a relatively unknown name, and make them sign a multi-film contract for &#8220;just&#8221; a few hundred thousand dollars\u00a0before they even audition.<\/li>\n<li>Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Henry Cavill as Superman, Chris Evans as Captain America, and Chris Hemsworth as Thor all reportedly made less than $500,000 in their first costumed forays.<\/li>\n<li>Gadot would have had an especially difficult time at the negotiating table since she was just a supporting character in Batman v Superman &#8211; her first appearance in the gauntlets.<\/li>\n<li>Once the initial contract expires stars of franchises\u00a0of\u00a0can hope for a real payday. Robert Downey Jr. is said to have made $50 million for appearing in The Avengers.<\/li>\n<li>Given Gadot&#8217;s Wonder Woman has been so much better received than Affleck&#8217;s Batman or Cavill&#8217;s Superman, it wouldn&#8217;t be surprising if after her initial contract is up, Gadot becomes the highest paid of the trinity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2017\/06\/gal-gadot-wonder-woman-salary\">Vanity Fair<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2017\/06\/gal-gadot-wonder-woman-salary-why-it-was-so-low.html\">Vulture<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/jezebel.com\/gal-godots-wonder-woman-pay-gap-is-a-viral-misunderstan-1796264920?null\">Jezebel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversy over how much Gal Gadot was paid to be Wonder Woman sparked research into superhero pay scales: There are so many comic book\u00a0superhero movies now that there&#8217;s an established pay structure for\u00a0their\u00a0stars. Studios hire a relatively unknown name, and make them sign a multi-film contract for &#8220;just&#8221; a few hundred thousand dollars\u00a0before they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/wonder-woman-2-gal-gadot-patty-jenkins1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15422,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15417\/revisions\/15422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}