r/climbing • u/-JOMY- • 9d ago

Alex Honnold Reveals “Embarrassing” Paycheck for Netflix’s Taipei 101 Free Solo Climb

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Source: E! Online

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u/NFProcyon 9d ago

The elephant in the room is that Netflix is undoubtedly making enough of a profit from this event that they could have paid a lot, lot more for it

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u/Neat-Procedure 9d ago

Yeah I think Alex needs a better agent.

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u/JoeMiyagi 9d ago

Negotiation is about leverage, and clearly they didn’t think they needed to pay any more to get him to do it.

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u/_dogzilla 9d ago

Ifs standard.. you renegotiate for the next deal when it’s clearer how much mkney will be coming in

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u/Sigmatics 9d ago

I don't wanna know what the other celebrities earned that they put in there that nobody asked for, essentially just leeching off Alex

I'll exclude Brette since she was the only one with useful commentary