The Mike
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In talking about licenses and actor's likenesses there isn't an "across the board" situation with actors. For example Gary Oldman when he signed on to play Sirius Black had to sign the rights of his likeness away for the character to be used on merchandising. When he did Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, they never included merchandising rights for Gordon (they probably thought Gordon wouldn't be a huge money making draw that way) and so if a company want to make something using his likeness there they have to go to Oldman for permission as well as the movie studio, which a lot of actors say no. A lot of actors who do films that are likely to have toys and don't usually do them are quoted in saying how weird or creepy they think it is to have a figure of them roaming around.
With Basterds, there wasn't a money making merchandising machine running behind it so I'm betting HT has to go to Pitt or at least his representatives for approval but if Pitt for example was in the new Thor film like was rumored a while back he'd have no say because it'd surely be part of his contract.
With Basterds, there wasn't a money making merchandising machine running behind it so I'm betting HT has to go to Pitt or at least his representatives for approval but if Pitt for example was in the new Thor film like was rumored a while back he'd have no say because it'd surely be part of his contract.