[tag]Randy Quaid[/tag] is suing the studio that made [tag]Brokeback Mountain[/tag] because he felt they screwed him on the price at which he did the movie. When I first saw this story, I had one question. Who the hell is Randy Quaid?

B-movie actor Quaid (that’s better) plays a rancher who hires Ennis ([tag]Heath Ledger[/tag]) and Jack ([tag]Jake Gyllenhaal[/tag]) in Brokeback Mountain. Hailing from Texas, I don’t see the need for him to demand seven figures. It’s not like he is doing much in the movie. Plus, you have to be a pretty crappy rancher to hire two cowboys who forget about the sheep in order to run off and make out in the barn.

Quaid felt he was led to believe that Brokeback was an art-house film that wasn’t going to make much money. When Quaid met with [tag]Ang Lee[/tag] in 2004, Lee supposedly told him (as mentioned in the lawsuit),

We can’t pay anything, we have very little money, everyone is making a sacrifice to make this film.

The lawsuit also discusses how Focus/Universal films created a small company to hide its involvement in the flm. It makes sense, why would a major film company stand behind something that has potential to flop miserably? The real question, is it healthy for Randy Quaid to be riding Brokeback Mountain so viciously?

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