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Look, the fact they put him under conservatorship rather than adopting him means I don’t give a shit what they say. That mere fact shows they didn’t see him as their son and they were in no hurry to correct that.
And given how much that movie made $138K is shockingly just a pittance. It’s his story, not theirs. And they had him use a family friend as his agent while they used an actual agent if I’m remembering correctly when it came to this movie.
The money is a pittance because getting a movie made about you is not lucrative. Michael Lewis sold the rights to this movie two times. The first time he sold it, they were paid a flat fee. That fee was $250K split among all of them. That’s the market rate for what a studio is willing to pay for a story like this. It’s very very low.
The first studio never made the movie, so then they sold it the second time. The second time, they instead got a variable fee based on how much the money made at the BO. This time they got $700K (of which, half went to Lewis). That’s almost triple what they got with their fixed deal. They ultimately got a good deal, for something that is not paid very highly