Sean Connery settles $17m law suit with Mandalay - could spy again in `End Game`

31-Oct-2003 • Actor News

Sean Connery has agreed to an "amicable resolution" of a $17-million lawsuit he brought against the producers of his movie "End Game," both sides said according to the Hindustan Times.

The 73-year-old Scot actor withdrew his suit against Mandalay Pictures and its chairman, Hollywood mogul Peter Guber, both sides have announced.

According to a joint statement, the settlement includes a dismissal of Connery`s lawsuit, as well as Mandalay`s countersuit and "withdrawal of all allegations of fraud."

The actor sued a year ago, alleging that Mandalay fraudulently purported to be in a position to finance the action thriller which he had agreed to star in for a 17-million-dollar fee.

He accused Mandalay of stringing him along for two years "in an attempt to hold themselves out to the entertainment industry as a viable production company," and claimed that Guber cut off all communication with him as production was due to begin, leaving him in the dark.

Mandalay "was nothing more than a house of cards," he alleged in his suit.

He sought punitive damages based the firm`s alleged "fraudulent representations and intentional and malicious efforts to conceal the truth about both the abysmal financial condition of Mandalay and the true status" of the film.

In the joint statement, the two companies said that Connery, along with producing partner Rhonda Tollefson, would themselves take over the development of "End Game" - which could once again return the onetime James Bond to the role of a secret agent.

Thanks to YOLT for the alert.