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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
Either of you care to elaborate?
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Basically, Disney created the Genie character with Robin Williams in mind and practically begged him to do it. He agreed and was only paid a base salary of $75,000 (as opposed to his going rate of $8 million). He stipulated though that the genie character could not take up more than 25% of advertising graphics and his voice couldn't be used to sell the movie (he had other movies coming out at the time and didn't want to take attention away from them). Disney went back on their word and it caused a big feud between the 2 (if you notice, the sequels used a different voice over actor).
I can't recall the whole story. I do know that they made up several years later, but then had another feud over something else.