Was Miles Teller's Top Gun: Maverick Salary The Biggest Payday Of His Career?
Modern Hollywood has had a huge problem with its obsession with remakes and sequels. Most fans have been begging for more original IP's and movies. 2022's Top Gun: Maverick has seemingly solved a lot of fans' problems, however, in many ways.
For one, while it is a sequel to 1986's Top Gun, it has a pretty original plot and the cast of characters. The cast consisted of A-list stars such as Tom as well as a male model who was essentially picked up off the street. However, at the end of the day, Top Gun: Maverick is a great, great film that has fans of all types. General audiences as well as Hollywood legends such as Quentin Tarantino love the movie.
One of the best things about the movie was Miles Teller's performance as Bradley Bradshaw a.k.a 'Rooster'. Miles's young and slightly inexperienced Rooster complemented Tom Cruise's Maverick. Many fans have wondered how much money Miles was paid for his Rooster role. According to Business Insider, Tom Cruise made out with around $100 million from the film, which has to be one of the biggest paydays an actor has ever made from a film. How much did Miles make, and how does that compare to his other salaries?
Everything To Know About Top Gun: Maverick
Aside from the terrific acting that the movie consisted of, Top Gun: Maverick had an amazing plot that most movies nowadays completely lack.
The movie takes place around 30 years after the original Top Gun. While it doesn't bring back the entire original Top Gun cast, it does bring back Tom's lead role of Maverick, as well as Val Kilmer's iconic sidekick role of Iceman. Tom and Val had an absolute blast filming Top Gun: Maverick, which undoubtedly resulted in a large amount of the film's critical success. The two lead a ragtag group of pilots, including Miles's Rooster, to perform a top-level mission revolving around a uranium plant in an unknown location.
It doesn't hurt that the movie also had amazing visual effects consisting of both practical and computer effects.
To say the movie is a critical success is an understatement. Rotten Tomatoes has claimed Top Gun: Maverick to be the best 2022 movie during its end-of-year awards. It currently holds an astounding 96% rating on the site. The action movie was so good that some people think Top Gun: Maverick may end up pulling an upset for Best Picture at the 2023 Oscar awards. Yeah, it's really that good. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely give it a try.
How Much Money Did Miles Teller Make From Top Gun: Maverick?
Top Gun: Maverick paid its cast a fortune, but exactly did Miles make out?
According to The Healthy Journal, Miles made a nice paycheck of $3.5 million. It was in fact the second-highest salary in the film, doing pretty well compared to the rest of the ensemble cast.
It seems that the other actors with similar roles also made around the same as Miles, but none of them made quite as much as him. For instance, Jennifer Connelly's important role as Penny Benjamin netted her $3 million according to Hindi Fact. According to The Healthy Journal, Jon Hamm made over a million for his minor role as Vice Admiral Cyclone. According to that same source, Glen Powell also made a million as well for his role as Hangman.
Interestingly enough, Val Kilmer only made $400,000 for his return as Iceman. Sure, his role was pretty small in the film, but an important legend like him should have definitely made more for his key role and return.
In the end, the big boy of the cast definitely made out the best. Tom Cruise started off with a salary of $12 million, but as mentioned earlier, that number shot up all the way to $100 million due to his investments in the film.
Considering Tom's importance in the movie, it's fair he was paid that much more than the other actors. The $100 million might be extremely over the top and outrageously wealthy, but the $12 million is far from outrageous, so to speak. While Miles may have had the second most important role in the film, it's not that hard to see why he was initially paid a quarter of the amount Tom got. But how does that $3.5 million compare to Mile's other hit movie salaries?
How Much Money Has Miles Teller Made From His Other Movies?
So far in his young career, Miles has starred in quite a lot of blockbuster movies, as well as some critical darlings. Miles currently has a net worth of $10 million, according to Wealthy Gorilla, but that net worth is certainly expected to rise as he continues his appearances in hit movies.
Miles got his start in acting with key performances in movies such as Project X and The Spectacular Now, but none of those early movies paid Miles too spectacularly. However, his initial breakout role as Peter in the Divergent series did pay Miles pretty handsomely. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Miles averaged $700,000 for each appearance as Peter in that teen sci-fi series.
Mile's other breakout role was in the drama film Whiplash. His Oscar-winning role in that movie paid him only $8,000 per Cinema Blend. Sure, that was a very small salary. However, Miles was still an unproven actor in a small-budget indie film.
Mile's next big role was as Reed Richards in 2015's Fan4stic. The movie was extremely forgettable, but it did give Miles quite the paycheck. According to Yahoo, Miles made around $3 million for that role. Years later, he'd essentially make the same for Top Gun: Maverick.
Miles still has more movies to star in. His upcoming films include Skydance's The Gorge as well as The Ark and The Aardvark. Miles has also secretly been filming a commercial for the 2023 Super Bowl. It makes complete sense as Miles is a devout Philadelphia Eagle fan, one of the two teams to feature in the major sporting event.
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