12 Actors Who Admitted Doing A Movie Purely For The Money
7. Eddie Murphy - T.M. Landry (Best Defense)
Back in the eighties if a movie featured Eddie Murphy it was guaranteed to rain money for the studio. So when Paramount got bad test screening results for their awful Dudley Moore comedy Best Defense, they decided to add a role for Murphy in the reshoots to make it marketable. Murphy is credited as a Strategic Guest Star for his role, which is bizarrely disconnected from the rest of the plot. He drives around in a badly designed tank in 1984, while Dudley Moore is the tanks designer whose storyline is set in 1982. Story issues aside Murphy isn't exactly given the best material to work with, so even he fails to get any laughs out of the concept. When asked why he decided to do such an obvious bomb, he claims the contract negotiation went like this: "What?! How dare you give me a script like this! Oh, THAT much money? Let's go!" Sadly this became a bad habit for Murphy, who started saying yes to just about anything that offered enough money For more details see The Adventures Of Plato Nash, Meet Dave, Norbit, Daddy Day Care..
