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The white Dwayne Johnson?


I'm surprised they hadn't made a movie together yet.

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Who would have TOP billing?

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Maybe it'll be like The Towering Inferno with McQueen and Newman. "Staggered but equal".

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"McQueen and Newman
McQueen, Newman, and William Holden all wanted top billing. Holden was refused, his long-term standing as a box office draw having been eclipsed by both McQueen and Newman. To provide dual top billing, the credits were arranged diagonally, with McQueen lower left and Newman upper right. Thus, each appeared to have "first" billing depending on whether the credit was read left-to-right or top-to-bottom.[22] This was the first time this "staggered but equal" billing was used in a movie although it had been considered earlier for the same two actors regarding Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid until McQueen turned the Sundance Kid role down. McQueen is mentioned first in the film's trailers. In the cast list rolling from top to bottom at the film's end, however, McQueen and Newman's names were arranged diagonally as at the beginning; as a consequence, Newman's name is fully visible first there.

Both Newman and McQueen were paid $1 million.
From Wikipedia

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Very interesting information. I always wondered about that because Newman carries the first half, and McQueen carries most of the second half of the film.

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