Eva Green Wins $1 Million Lawsuit Over Failed Film 'A Patriot'

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Eva Green was awarded $1 million by a British court on Friday (April 28) for a movie that was never produced.

The court ruled that the 42-year-old Casino Royale actress was entitled to her $1 million fee, and dismissed White Lantern Film’s counterclaim, per the BBC. Eva argued that under her “pay or play” contract for the movie A Patriot, she was was still owed her fee, even though the movie had fallen apart due to lack of financing. Keep reading to find out more… “There is no doubt that Ms.

Green did not make any conclusive decision or statement that she would not comply with her obligations under the artist agreement,” the British judge wrote. “Nor could anyone have reasonably understood her to have made such a decision.” Eva had her private WhatsApp messages read out in court, which she described as “humiliating.” In them she called called a producer “evil” and the “devil” and said employees at his production facility Black Hanger Studios as “sh—- peasants.” “I have nothing against peasants,” Eva explained. “I didn’t want to work with a sub-standard crew.

I wanted to work with a high-quality crew who just wanted to be paid standard industry rates.” Despite the outcome of the lawsuit, the judge did not find her explanations of messages satisfactory. “She said it was ‘humiliating’ but some of her explanations for the language she used and the feelings she expressed – such as they were down to her ‘Frenchness’ – were not credible or adequate,” he said. “I do think allowances need to be made for the heightened emotions that were clearly present when some of the messages were written and for the fact that these were assumed to be personal correspondence between friends that would never have been imagined to be seen by