Bryan Cranston issued a statement on Friday evening, addressing the financial situation surrounding his (hypothetically) upcoming new indie film\u00a0Lone Wolf. The movie (which co-stars Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone) reportedly ran into financial troubles a few weeks back, and while Cranston notes in his new comments that\u00a0he was paid for his work on the film, upon learning that its co-stars and crew weren\u2019t, he\u2019s given an ultimatum to producers: Pay everybody, or he won\u2019t return to finish filming the movie.<\/p>\n
Helmed by\u00a0Arlington Road\u00a0director Mark Pellington,\u00a0Lone Wolf\u00a0stars Cranston as a shadowy type who recruits Gladstone\u2019s character to engineer the death of a public official. The film reportedly had about $2 million in funding fall through, causing several people working on it to not get paid. \u201cMan, what a mess,\u201d Cranston wrote in a statement he gave to\u00a0Deadline\u00a0this week<\/a>, noting that, although not a producer on the film, he was \u201cdistressed\u201d that the situation has \u201ccaused so much grief and distrust, and so sorry that this crew (which was fantastic) were not treated with the respect they deserved.\u201d He also stated, bluntly, that \u201cI (and I think I speak for Lily as well) will not do anything to promote the film until every cast and crew member is paid back in full, and we will not appear on screen again (ie return to filming) for this movie until that happens.\u201d\u00a0Lone Wolf\u00a0reportedly requires at least a few more days of shooting with both Cranston and Gladstone in order to be completed.<\/p>\n Deadline\u00a0notes that, while funding hiccups aren\u2019t that rare in indie movie-making, having it happen on a movie with several big-name stars, and a director with a long pedigree in Hollywood film, is much more rare. Co-stars on the movie include O\u2019Shea Jackson Jr., Jennifer Ehle, Chet Hanks, and Spencer Garrett.\u00a0 The film has reportedly been facing financial problems from the jump; its original production company, Yale Productions, recently filed for bankruptcy<\/a>, and the movie faced a multi-day Do Not Work order from SAG-AFTRA after an earlier failure to make payments.<\/p>\n Allison Janney and Bryan Cranston get dramatic in the Everything’s Going To Be Great trailer<\/a>Frankie Muniz says Bryan Cranston still checks in on him every few weeks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryan Cranston issued a statement on Friday evening, addressing the financial situation surrounding his (hypothetically) upcoming new indie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}