Gerard Butler has taken legal action against the production companies involved in his 2013 movie Olympus Has Fallen. Photo / Getty Images
Gerard Butler has filed a lawsuit against the producers of the film Olympus Has Fallen.
The 51-year-old actor has taken legal action against production companies Nu Image, Millennium Film and Padre Nuestro Productions in a dispute over profits for the 2013 action film, in which he played the role of
Secret Service agent Mike Banning.
Butler and his legal team filed the claim in Los Angeles Superior Court and claims that he is owed more than US$10 million ($14.3m) in profits after an independent audit found that the defendants "understated their own receipts and profits by over US$11m ($15.7m), including by failing to report approximately US$8m ($11.48m) in payments to producers' own senior executives."
The lawsuit alleges that the 300 actor is yet to see a penny of the profits and cites fraud, breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and intentional interference with contractual relations and accounting.
It reads: "Producers have earned tens of millions of dollars from Olympus, but refuse to pay Butler a penny of the profits promised to him in the parties' agreement.
