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$10,000,000 budget?!

posted 14 years ago by HolyShackles
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Well, that obviously isn't true and was entered on the main page as either a typo or joke, but does anyone know of a more accurate estimate? I'd be surprised if it was even $100,000 but I suppose that could be likely if all salaries would have added up to that, but really, this could've been made for $10k, the only absolute necessary funding (if most involved were willing to take paycuts to work with Gallo as either a favor or for status and inside shooting locations being free which is completely possible) would have been the camera, gas money, food and maybe some for the hookers, too ;)

[–] rooprect 14 years ago

According to every source on the internet, yup, $10 millipedes.

In an interview, Gallo said something like "This movie cost me my house, 4 years of my life and half my hair". If it really took 4 years, I can see how the price tag could rack up.

[–] HolyShackles 14 years ago

Wow, just wow, I would love to know what the hell all that money was put into for it if this is really true.

[–] rooprect 14 years ago

I think you said it above... hookers ;)

Actually I just did some more googling, and although a bunch of websites back up the $10 mil claim, I found an article in the NY Post where Gallo says it was an 'ultra low budget film' where they couldn't afford a prosthetic penis even if they wanted one (lol)

Gallo ranted in an e-mail: "'The Brown Bunny' is an ultra-low-budget film. With that in mind, the expense to create a prosthetic that could pass on film would be well out of the film's budget, and so far no one has come close to making such a thing pass as real . . . For example, Mark Wahlberg's rubber [organ in 'Boogie Nights'] was far from realistic and was only seen for a few seconds. If one wasn't blinded by jealousy, it would be easy to tell [my] scene was real...

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/item_gOspOWXT4ohGLghbxR5yGO

So maybe you were right to begin with. It could be a typo that's spread across the internet? If they couldn't even afford a fake schlonger, the budget couldn't have been that much. Or the hookers must've been really expensive...