Director accuses Sir Sean Connery of explosion contract clause

Sir Sean Connery was contracted to have bigger explosions in each film he appeared in, reports STV.

The now retired actor demanded increasingly exorbitant pyrotechnics with every action film he starred in, according to director Stephen Norrington.

Alan - who made 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' starring Sean in 2003 - said: "The film cost £100 million because Sean Connery wanted £17 million of that - and a bigger explosion that the one he'd had in his last film. It's in his contract that he has to have a bigger explosion with every film he's in.

"In 'The Rock' he'd blown up an island, and he was demanding in 'The League...' that he blow up Venice or something like that. It would have been the moon in his next movie."

Other than voicing a character in short animated film 'Sir Billi the Vet' in 2006, Sean, 78, has not appeared in any films since 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'.

The former James Bond actor announced he was retiring from acting in June, 2006, when he collected a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

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