Depends on what you're optimizing for in life.
The movie has generated 220 million, they had a budget of 60 million dollars.
This guy has been paid 250k. If he wrote a book and sold it he would've made much more than that.
Then of course you may argue that he should've asked for more, or capitalize on his fame better but that's another story.
Yes what's a better life is subjective but this doesn't make the whole thing less unfair
What makes you think that? Most books don’t net that much profit.
The movie did well because it has a compelling story, yes, but also because it involves Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
Even if he'd made 2 mil would've been better than 250k.
Sometimes books have been written after the movie that featured the story and have generally done well
You can’t patent or copyright a concept based on your life. At least I don’t think you can. They didn’t need him to come up with the story. “Man lives in airpot”. As I recall the film was quite different anyway in how the story evolved.
They point is that either the production or the stars that got featured could've provided a better result.
Even if only for charity. I don't think is hard to understand.
But ya, lets argue for the sake of arguing
He did.
> His autobiography has been published as a book and he may have been the basis for the movie The Terminal.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri.h...