10 Actors Who Lost Roles Because They Got Greedy
7. Hilary Duff - Lizzie McGuire
The Lizzie McGuire Movie was one of Disney's first jumps from small screen stars to big screen adventures and they were keen on a sequel following its success... but Hilary Duff left the negotiations due to a lack of a sufficient salary offer.
Duff's mum Susan was quick to talk to the media back in 2003 after Hilary had bowed out of Disney, stating: "Disney thought they’d be able to bully us into accepting whatever offer they wanted to make, and they couldn’t... We walked away from a sequel. They walked away from a franchise".
To take a closer look at the demands, Disney had pitched a sequel movie as well as a follow-up series aimed at an older audience. Duff was demanding $100,000 per-TV episode against the $15,000 she'd earned for the original Disney Channel series, and wanted $5 million for the sequel movie. Disney counter-offered $35,000 an episode and offered $4 million plus a $500,00 bonus depending on the success of the first film, which the Duffs refused and negotiations officially ended.
With the Lizzie McGuire sequel series currently in turmoil over at Disney+, it seems the phantoms of Lizzie's troubled past continue to plague production. Will we ever see that Lizzie sequel series for an older audience? Right now it's pretty unclear.