Actress fires agent, rethinking career strategy after “Elektra”
Hollywood —Jennifer Garner is starting to regret a three-shitty-picture deal worth $15 million she signed with Fox Filmed Entertainment last year, the actress is now admitting. The “Alias” star committed to making three low quality movies for Fox last year after she was hailed by many critics and fans as a fast rising star based on her performance in “Daredevil.” “People seemed to love me in that shitty movie, so I figured I should do more,” Garner stated. “But based on the initial reactions to ‘Elektra,’ I’m beginning to think shitty movies may not be the way to go.”
Garner’s agents negotiated the groundbreaking deal last winter to much acclaim in the Hollywood community. It was the first time a young actress had signed a multi-picture deal guaranteeing that all movies produced under the agreement would be high concept action movies with a poorly developed script and direction that focused on action and explosions, with little to no attention paid to storytelling. Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety said it could “redefine the way deals are done for rising talent in showbiz.”
First movie under the deal, “Elektra,” started development immediately and went into production during Garner’s hiatus from “Alias” last summer. While directors Curtis Hanson and Alexander Payne initially expressed interest in taking on the project, Garner’s contract mandated that Fox find a director with little or no film experience, and no work that had earned nominations from any awards group in categories except visual effects and sound. That led to TV veteran Rob Bowman, who assured Fox executives he lacked the capabilities to take Elektra above the mediocre script the studio had already approved.
“It was the same formula we used for ‘Daredevil,’ so it seemed like a natural to use it again,” Garner explained. “’Elektra is even shittier, so I don’t understand why people aren’t lining up around the block.”
Angered by the deal that forced her to pass up the lead role in “Million Dollar Baby” to star in “Elektra,” Garner recently fired her agent at Endeavor and moved to the William Morris Agency. Her new representative has pledged to extracate Garner from her three-shitty-picture contract, but executives at Fox have thus far proved unwilling to alter the deal.
“Jennifer will star in ‘The Day After Tomorrow 2’ and the film adaptation of ‘Wings’ for us per the terms of her contract, whether she thinks it’s a good idea or not,” stated an emphatic Fox co-chairman Tom Rothman.
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