His team, led by Patrick Whitesell, already had negotiated what sources say was a $10 million fee, and they counseled their client to stay in the picture. Statham then turned to his agents at WME and said he wanted out. Sony executives resisted, insisting they wanted to make an all-audience, broadly appealing movie. After agreeing to be in the movie, Statham is said to have issued a last-minute demand: He wanted the project to include material that would guarantee an R rating, according to three sources with knowledge of the situation. However, in Statham’s case, the dispute was over Man From Toronto’s intended rating. Typically when an actor drops out of a movie, the cause is money.
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