Film Finances Inc., which insures financial backers so that their movies will be completed, has reportedly forked out a whopping 1.5 million dollars for the additional shooting for Vin Diesel starrer science fiction film Babylon A. D. in Paris and Prague.
New York, July 23 : Film Finances Inc., which insures financial backers so that their movies will be completed, has reportedly forked out a whopping 1.5 million dollars for the additional shooting for Vin Diesel starrer science fiction film 'Babylon A. D.' in Paris and Prague.
The over-budgeted film, slated for a release in 2008, was so behind schedule that the company was forced to step in to salvage it.
A spokesman for Film Finances had confirmed that the company had to spend money for the film's production, but he did not divulge the exact amount shelled out. He also revealed that the firm insures about 250 films every year, of which only "about 10 or 15 percent" have to be bailed out.
The source partly blamed Diesel's ego clash with temperamental French director Mathieu Kassovitz for the trouble.
"These guys really didn't get along. I think they wouldn't mind if they never saw each other again," the New York Post quoted the source as saying.
"Vin is panicked. He turned down 'The Fast and the Furious' 2 and 3 because he was 'too big' for sequels, and he's now begging Universal to do a 'Fast and Furious 4,'" said another source.
The actor's representative Meredith O'Sullivan, however, insists that Vin should not be blamed for the late completion of the film
"The movie wrapped and everyone's really happy with it. Vin is not a diva," said the representative.
Based on a French novel, the film will star Diesel in the character of a war veteran-turned-mercenary who escorts a woman from Russia to Canada. Things get dangerous when it turns out the woman is carrying an organism that a bizarre cult wants to harvest to produce a genetically modified Messiah.
Michelle Yeoh, Gerard Depardieu and Charlotte Rampling are also starring in the flick.
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