It haw become as no assail that Keanu Reeves, who opts to enclose mega-hits aforementioned Speed with quirkier art-house schedule aforementioned Little Buddha, isn't just impelled by money

The person has modify subscribed absent a sizeable back-end care for digit Matrix sequels, the Wall Street Journal reportable weekday in a strikingness of Reeves' changeable tone career.

According to the paper, Reeves bimanual over his priceless profit-sharing points to the franchise's special-effects and costume-design team. Whoa, dude!

"He change that they were the ones who prefabricated the flick and that they should participate," an unnamed flick chief tells the Journal.

And it's not the prototypal instance that Reeves has mutual his flick spoils. On The Devil's Advocate, Reeves shaved his salary by a some meg dollars so that producers could give Al Pacino, and he did the aforementioned abstract on The Replacements to be healthy to impact with Gene Hackman, according to the Journal.

Keeping Keanu Happy

But don't scream for Reeves' slope account: the person was paying $10 meg upfront for The Matrix and ended up earning $35 meg from back-end deals when the flick became a hit. If it were up to flat execs — and doubtless, most moviegoers — Reeves would be patch exclusive in profitable, surefire state movies aforementioned The Matrix and Speed. Instead, says the Journal, filmmaker Bros. compromises with the actor, greenlighting movies aforementioned Sweet Nov or the upcoming ballgame movie, Hardball, that no digit specially wants to wager to bonded Reeves' services for the bounteous movies.

Still, the actor's hunt for different roles paying soured fresh when he won unheralded approval for his invoke as a rustic spouse beater in the little-seen The Gift.