{"id":637,"date":"2020-11-04T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=637"},"modified":"2026-03-29T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:19:49","slug":"connerys-concussive-contracts-shaken-not-stirred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Connery&#8217;s Concussive Contracts: Shaken, not Stirred"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"122\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/defiant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/seanconnery.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-645\" style=\"width:81px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.looper.com\/271088\/the-bizarre-clause-sean-connery-reportedly-demanded-in-his-contracts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Looper<\/a> reports that the late Sir <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seanconnery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Connery<\/a> &#8212; who will always be my James Bond &#8212; had an unusual clause in his movie employment contracts. According to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Moore\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Moore<\/a>, the award winning comic book writer and creator of <em>Watchmen<\/em>, <em>V for Vendetta<\/em>, <em>Batman: The Killing Joke<\/em> and <em>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/em>, among many others, the Connery contracts&#8217; rather special clause was that each film had to contain a bigger explosion than his previous film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Bond Explosions (You Only Live Twice, 78 explosions), sampled film, 2018.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nKWdnCnJcJw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/defiant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sean72.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4535\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The [<em>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/em>] film cost \u00a3100 million because Sean Connery wanted \u00a317 million of that \u2014 and a bigger explosion than the one he&#8217;d had in his last film,&#8221; Moore claimed. &#8220;It&#8217;s in his contract that he has to have a bigger explosion with every film he&#8217;s in. In <em>The Rock<\/em>, he&#8217;d blown up an island, and he was demanding for our film that he blow up Venice or something like that. It would have been the moon in his next movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been unable to verify this&#8230;but it is a good story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looper reports that the late Sir Sean Connery &#8212; who will always be my James Bond &#8212; had an unusual clause in his movie employment contracts. According to Alan Moore, the award winning comic book writer and creator of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Batman: The Killing Joke and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, among many &#8230; <a title=\"Connery&#8217;s Concussive Contracts: Shaken, not Stirred\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/?p=637\" aria-label=\"Read more about Connery&#8217;s Concussive Contracts: Shaken, not Stirred\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,238,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contracts","category-media","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltercounsel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}