‘Deadpool’ director Tim Miller reveals the shocking amount he was paid to direct the box office hit

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the first “Deadpool” movie has revealed the amount he was paid to helm the film — and the number may surprise you. Tim Miller, 60, spoke about directing the 2016 movie starring Ryan Reynolds, 48, during a recent panel at CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil, per Collider.

According to Miller, he was only paid $225,000 for the project. The movie grossed $782 million globally. “It’s not really a profitable thing to be a first-time director in Hollywood, and I’ll tell you exactly: I got $225,000 to direct Deadpool,” the filmmaker said.

Though Miller had only written and directed short films before making the superhero flick, he ended up spending two years making the movie.“I know it sounds like a lot of money, but for two years of work, that’s not a ton of money.

Not that I’m not grateful — I’m f–kng grateful,” he explained. “That’s the way it is.”Miller recalled his agent telling him at the time, “Dude, you make more on an episode of ‘The Walking Dead!'”“Deadpool” was a box office hit with a $782 million global gross on a $58 million budget, making it the highest-grossing “X-Men” and highest-grossing R-rated movie until that point.Reynolds — who both produced and starred in the 2016 smash — spent years getting the potty-mouthed Marvel character a stand-alone film after first playing him in 2009’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”That iteration of “Deadpool” was highly sanitized compared to how he appeared in Miller’s film.