Thu, May 21, 2009 | 16:48 BST
Paul McCartney’s ex demanded “six-figure sum” to appear in Bionic Commando [Update]
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.
29 comments
#1
anasui
21/05/09, 2:42 pm
funny thing will be if they say yes
#2
Patrick Garratt
21/05/09, 2:44 pm
Just updated it.
#3
Psychotext
21/05/09, 2:47 pm
That’s brilliant. lol
#4
Cort
21/05/09, 2:52 pm
Fucking certifiable.
#5
wholehole
21/05/09, 2:56 pm
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.
#6
SticKboy
21/05/09, 2:56 pm
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!”
#7
Johnny Cullen
21/05/09, 3:01 pm
Does anyone find the irony in this? XD
#8
Michael O'Connor
21/05/09, 3:06 pm
“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.
#9
SilentLoner
21/05/09, 3:06 pm
ol peg leg back at it, she is bonkers
Cue Dizzee Rascal!
#10
Razor
21/05/09, 3:18 pm
That pic is what Jennifer Anniston is going to look like when she gets old.
#11
Cort
21/05/09, 3:25 pm
^^ Yeah, if she stretches her face four inches.
#12
Aimless
21/05/09, 3:41 pm
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.
#13
mightyhokie
21/05/09, 3:57 pm
This bitch is a wack-job.
#14
Cort
21/05/09, 4:01 pm
I think the woman has narcissistic personality disorder (NPD – haha). She needs help.
#15
Retroid
21/05/09, 4:05 pm
This story strikes me as almost pure bullshit.
#16
Patrick Garratt
21/05/09, 4:05 pm
She’s responded on Twitter. Updated.
#17
Mike
21/05/09, 4:07 pm
Gutted Retroid.
#18
Psychotext
21/05/09, 4:08 pm
Charity thing seems fair enough. Star of the game thing unconfirmed.
#19
Retroid
21/05/09, 4:12 pm
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/
#20
Mike
21/05/09, 4:13 pm
We’ll split it.
#21
Prof Power Glove
21/05/09, 4:14 pm
Lols.
She goes from strength to strength. I mean, some people just have ‘winner’ flashing on their foreheads don’t they?!?
#22
Mike
21/05/09, 4:24 pm
This is the story of the year so far.
#23
freedoms_stain
21/05/09, 4:24 pm
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.
#24
Patrick Garratt
21/05/09, 4:48 pm
Top of site. You couldn’t make it up.
#25
Captain Fruitloop
21/05/09, 5:13 pm
‘Bionic Gold-digger’.
#26
mightyhokie
21/05/09, 6:54 pm
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.
#27
Esha
21/05/09, 7:16 pm
@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?
#28
Mike
21/05/09, 7:28 pm
hells bells indeed
#29
Retroid
21/05/09, 7:51 pm
It’s The Sun wot spun it.