# Brokeback Mountain lawsuit dropped
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 3, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319 "2006-05-03T22:58:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319/1 "2006-05-03T22:58:03Z")
Randy Quaid sued the makers of BBM for $10 million, claiming they misrepresented the film’s market potential to manipulate him into dropping his price. I’m only posting the story so I can snigger over Quaid’s lawyers saying he’s [dropping the suit](http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/fs/20060503/114669281900.html) after having reached “a backdoor agreement.”
Because I’m 12.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319/2 "2006-05-03T23:21:34Z")
> [@Otto](#):
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> Randy Quaid sued the makers of BBM for $10 million, claiming they misrepresented the film’s market potential to manipulate him into dropping his price. I’m only posting the story so I can snigger over Quaid’s lawyers saying he’s [dropping the suit](http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/fs/20060503/114669281900.html) after having reached “a backdoor agreement.”
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> Because I’m 12.
His original understanding was he’d take a small free up front but then get a rear-end deal. I’ve heard that he’s not the only one who had a problem- that Jake Gyllenhaal got screwed while filming the movie, but on the other hand it seems neither one of the actresses playing Ledger & Gyllenhaal’s wives in the movie seems to have gotten the shaft.
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### Author:  [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319/3 "2006-05-03T23:28:32Z")
Would you all stop dicking around and get back to business?
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319/4 "2006-05-03T23:47:57Z")
Quaid said he started to walk off of the movie as he hated Ang Lee, but Lee’s young nephew and assistant Yu Tai bonded with Quaid and looked at him as a second father and begged him not to leave. Quaid said that as much as he despised Ang Lee, he just did not know how to quit Yu.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319/5 "2006-05-04T00:04:20Z")
All of you are going to hell.
And I mean all of you.
😛
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### Author:  [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319/6 "2006-05-04T00:21:05Z")
Three good reasons for Randy Quaid to settle out of court:
1. Settlements grease the wheels of justice
2. If it went to trial, he might have gotten a judge who’s a real hardass
3. Career-wise, a lawsuit might have wrecked him.
Save my place in hell! 😛
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319/7 "2006-05-04T00:47:58Z")
Quaid knew he would have lost the lawsuit, and just didn’t want to come in number two.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319/8 "2006-05-04T00:59:05Z")
Quaid had to declare bankruptcy a few years ago and ended up doing some pretty low budget projects, but now on imdb it seems he has a bunch of work lined up. Not surprising to see his career go from bottom to top because he’s so versatile.
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### Author:  [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brokeback-mountain-lawsuit-dropped/355319/9 "2006-05-04T01:06:22Z")
This lawsuit is a diamond studded dick in the ass.