Mexican Officials Offered Millions in Incentives to Rewrite New James Bond Film Rafa Fernandez de Castro - Fusion
go to original March 13, 2015

Question: How much is the new Bond girl worth to Mexico? Answer: $14 million in tax incentives.

That’s according to emails from the Sony Pictures hack. Leaked documents cited by Mexican media and Tax Analysts reveal Mexico City officials purportedly gave millions in rebates and tax incentives to Sony Pictures and MGM Studios to rewrite the film’s storyline to show Mexico in a favorable light.

“We are currently facing a budget that is far beyond what we anticipated, and are under immense pressure to reduce the number to $250M net of rebates and incentives,” reads an alleged email attributed to MGM president Jonathan Glickman.

Mexican media also cites a memo titled “Elements needed to preserve Mexican deal,” which allegedly detailed how Mexican officials wanted their country portrayed in the film titled “Spectre.” Mexican officials reportedly asked Sony and MGM executives that a “known Mexican actress” be cast as the Bond girl, and stipulated that the villain named Lucia Sciarra “cannot be Mexican.”

Complex Magazine reported that Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman has been tapped to play a Bond girl known as “Estrella.” Several media outlets report the villain role went to Italian star Monica Bellucci.

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