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Update: Capcom just mailed this over: “We will not be commenting on the matter.”
Update 2: Mills has apparently confirmed the truth of the story on her Twitter, saying the large sum was to be for a charitable donation.
The ex-model lambasted Capcom as “stingy” in the process. Here are the tweets:
Got offered to promote an amputee bionic computer game, from a wealthy computer games company I said if you donate a large sum to charity
The stingy company came back saying they couldn’t, what happened to charitable businesses, seems they just want to exploit and give nothing
Update 3: Mills has responded, saying she’d appear for free in a game in which Sun journalists were attached to a lie detector by their genitals.
Original story:
This is awesome. The Sun’s claiming that Heather Mills, Paul McCartney’s one-legged ex, demanded a “six-figure sum” to appear in Bionic Commando, and wanted the game to revolve around a character based on her.
Capcom approached her about the game “because of her charity work with amputees,” according to that piece.
Said a source: “She was insistent she wouldn’t do it for a smaller fee and said the producers should make her the star.
“The request was way, way over budget and they certainly weren’t keen on basing the game on her.”
Just mailed Capcom. In between bouts of choking.
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anasui said:
funny thing will be if they say yes
Patrick Garratt said:
Just updated it.
Psychotext said:
That’s brilliant. lol
Cort said:
Fucking certifiable.
wholehole said:
The reason for asking her in the first place was a tad tenuous at best, but her response is just priceless. Basing a game on Heather Mills?? Pull the other one.
Ba dum tish.
SticKboy said:
Good ol’ Stumpy. Somehow I don’t think PROSTHETIC COMMANDO works quite as well.
I’d have loved to have been in the meting where they explained exactly *why* she couldn’t the protagonist. Her reaction being something along the lines of, “well do a bloody NES game of me as well, then!”
Johnny Cullen said:
Does anyone find the irony in this? XD
Michael O'Connor said:
“Does anyone find the irony in this? XD”
You mean the fact that someone who was approached because of their charity work was demanding a six figure cheque and a staring role in the game?
No, that irony wasn’t lost on my either.
SilentLoner said:
ol peg leg back at it, she is bonkers
Cue Dizzee Rascal!
Razor said:
That pic is what Jennifer Anniston is going to look like when she gets old.
Cort said:
^^ Yeah, if she stretches her face four inches.
Aimless said:
So what you’re saying is that her appearance in the game would have cost Capcom an arm and a leg? Those demands didn’t have a leg to stand on. They’d have to have been legless to accept such a deal. Etcetera.
mightyhokie said:
This bitch is a wack-job.
Cort said:
I think the woman has narcissistic personality disorder (NPD – haha). She needs help.
Retroid said:
This story strikes me as almost pure bullshit.
Patrick Garratt said:
She’s responded on Twitter. Updated.
Mike said:
Gutted Retroid.
Psychotext said:
Charity thing seems fair enough. Star of the game thing unconfirmed.
Retroid said:
The Sun were claiming she wanted a large fee and to be the star of the game.
So far the large fee was a charitable donation and I’m betting the “star of the game” bit was an invention based on the idea of the large fee
So: bullshit! \o/
Mike said:
We’ll split it.
Prof Power Glove said:
Lols.
She goes from strength to strength. I mean, some people just have ‘winner’ flashing on their foreheads don’t they?!?
Mike said:
This is the story of the year so far.
freedoms_stain said:
A game based on Heather Mills could be awesome- imagine a level based on that time she woke up being pissed on by a tramp during her homeless period – classic in the making. Can’t wait to see all the special leg attachments they think up.
Patrick Garratt said:
Top of site. You couldn’t make it up.
Captain Fruitloop said:
‘Bionic Gold-digger’.
mightyhokie said:
Yeah, in the game she could take advantage of broken hearted pop-star-beloved-icons. Then she could dump him and take a quarter of his wealth, making everyone hate her guts. Perhaps there would be a level where she could dance on a reality show…cementing forever he villainy.
Esha said:
@Retroid
I’m with you, and let’s be honest… what kind of tool believes anything in the sun, anyway? Bloody hell, it’s worse than being a conspiracy theorist or a cultist, at least they have some conviction, but The Sun?
Hell’s bells, what’s the World coming to if people are taking The Sun at face value?
Mike said:
hells bells indeed
Retroid said:
It’s The Sun wot spun it.