Bond girl Eva Green begins High Court legal battle with producers ... trends now

Bond girl Eva Green begins High Court legal battle with producers ... trends now
Bond girl Eva Green begins High Court legal battle with Hollywood producers ... trends now

Bond girl Eva Green begins High Court legal battle with Hollywood producers ... trends now

Bond girl Eva Green accuses Hollywood producers of trying to 'paint her as a diva' over doomed sci-fi film - after High Court heard actress branded financial backers 'a***holes' before £4m movie fell apart

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Hollywood star Eva Green today claimed a bitter High Court war over a doomed £4 million sci-fi film is 'designed to blacken her name' as her texts revealed she called herself 'Cruella' but considered one of its producers a 'f***ing moron' and its financial backers 'a***holes'.

The Casino Royale actress, 42, had been due to appear in A Patriot before production was shut down in October 2019.

She is now suing production company White Lantern Films, claiming she is entitled to her $1million (£810,000) fee for the project, despite its cancellation.

Ms Green, who was both an actress and executive producer on the project, has claimed she is entitled to be paid her fee in the event that the production was cancelled under a so-called 'pay or play' provision.

She is asking the court to rule that she is entitled to the money and that White Lantern should also pay her legal costs.

Bond girl Eva Green, pictured in Casino Royale with Daniel Craig, is at the High Court in a legal battle over the demise of a £4 million film project

Bond girl Eva Green, pictured in Casino Royale with Daniel Craig, is at the High Court in a legal battle over the demise of a £4 million film project

In an opening statement, Green's legal team led by Edmund Cullen KC, said the case 'seems to be designed to blacken the name of an actor who has not breached a contract or missed a day's shooting in a career spanning 20 years.

He said the executive producers Jake Seal and Terry Bird 'have sought to lay every failure of the production at Eva Green's door' in 'an attempt to reconstruct a false factual narrative'.

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