Confess, Fletch

Director Greg Mottola said he also gave back some of his salary, though not as much as the "Mad Men" star: "He's richer than me."

“Jon and I were like, I think there’s an audience for this,” Mottola told Uproxx. “And then we were told no, we don’t think so. Mottola told Uproxx he wanted to make a “comedy of manners — very talky, verbal comedy” as opposed to slapstick. “So, basically, what we did is Jon gave back 60 percent of his salary to the budget,” Mottola told Uproxx. They didn’t fight us on people we wanted to cast.” “I gave back some of my salary, not as much as Jon because he’s richer than me and I’ve got three kids.

Confess, Fletch director Greg Mottola revealed that star Jon Hamm gave up sixty percent of his salary for the film to complete shooting.

While Confess, Fletch may not be making huge waves at the box office, the film is a big critical success, currently holding a certified fresh rating of 85 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Mottola opened up about what happened when he set out to direct a film based on one of Gregory Mcdonald's mystery novels, saying that star Hamm pitched in to help complete shooting on the film when the budget wouldn't allow for the time needed to finish. Mottola directed the film from a script by himself and Zev Borow.

Jon Hamm is talked about how genuine a person he is, and recently, the actor gave up a huge chunk of his salary to finish a film he's in.

Hamm is a great teammate, and this reminds me how cool it is to watch a legend put skin in the game.” [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/news/jon-hamm-gave-up-salary-pay-confess-fletch-filming-1235381017/) reports that the film was in need of three extra filming days, and the studio, a now-Weinstein-less Miramax, would not budge on their original scheduled budget for the indie movie and would be refused by every financier they had approached. The comedy is based on another book in the series of novels written by Gregory McDonald and finds Fletch having to prove his innocence after he is suspected of murder while working on a case of stolen paintings.

Star Jon Hamm and director Greg Mottola kicked in their own money to buy a few more days of production on their talky comedy 'Confess, Fletch.'

“There wasn’t a great role for him,” the director said. Hamm, fresh off the success of “Top Gun: Maverick,” plays the title character, smartass investigative reporter Irwin M. And that’s how “Confess, Fletch” went into production, filming in 2021 with a budget of $20 million. We got it up to 30 days in Boston and one day in Rome.” But folks might not have noticed that the movie is already in theaters, as there has been little marketing support for its Sept. Mottola and Hamm, who thought the movie needed more time, decided to break open their piggy banks.

Confess, Fletch may not have been made if not for the dedication of star Jon Hamm, who donated a huge part of his fee to the production.

Whether or not we see that movie make it to the end of the line will probably depend greatly on That long hiatus meant that financing the movie proved a little tricky. [Fletch ](https://movieweb.com/fletch-1985-funny-movie/) [premiered back in 1985](https://movieweb.com/fletch-1985-funny-movie/) and was a hit with both critics and at the box office, and Chevy Chase reprised his role as the LA Times reporter who gets himself involved in some comedic murder mystery plot lines four years later, but with much less success. Everyone said, 'I don't know that this kind of comedy works in this day and age.' They just had a kind of like, 'Who's Fletch? I don't blame anything about the release of this movie on him. Based on the books by Gregory Mcdonald, the Fletch series is now coming back to the big screen with

A low-key winner offers a good time with Jon Hamm and a killer ensemble.

In that regard “Confess, Fletch” can’t help but come off like the slacker cousin of sharper recent comedic mysteries including “Knives Out” and “Only Murders in the Building.” But sometimes you just want a good time, and with “Fletch,” Hamm, Mottola and company know exactly how to deliver. As a pair of detectives working on the same case Fletch is trying to crack, Roy Wood Jr. As it turns out, the sneaky comedic mystery “Confess, Fletch” has managed to make noise of its own — through word-of-mouth and social media buzz — as viewers discover the simple, but ample, joys of an unheralded movie quietly dropped into theaters and on demand just last week. And let’s hope they make it soon. When an actor already has a character as signature as “Mad Men’s” Don Draper on his résumé, it can be hard to slip so comfortably into someone new. In theory, “Fletch,” which shares a main character and source material with the cult favorite 1985 Chevy Chase comedy, could fit neatly into the reboot and nostalgia craze of today’s Hollywood. Helping Hamm shine, Mottola surrounds his leading man with a murderer’s row of scene-stealing supporting players. Let’s just hope they don’t feel like they have to raise the stakes, at least too much, for the inevitable sequel. But Hamm’s performance here as freelance journalist and investigative whiz Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher is a master class in effortless charm, a comedic turn that never sacrifices the character’s intelligence for a punchline yet steers clear of the smugness and smarminess so prevalent in contemporary comedy. [COVID-19 pandemic](https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fcalifornia%2Fcoronavirus-everything-to-know-right-now&data=04%7C01%7Ckevin.crust%40latimes.com%7C52633c0a516544dd252a08d9e81168f0%7Ca42080b34dd948b4bf44d70d3bbaf5d2%7C0%7C0%7C637795983749169191%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=EARyZgH1vGMtlQdur%2F61n5fLiwKXExOWtv3guJOFSn8%3D&reserved=0). But as directed by Greg Mottola (who shares screenplay credit with Zev Borow) and produced by and starring Jon Hamm, this incarnation of author Gregory Mcdonald‘s roguish, witty detective isn’t interested in connecting dots to the past. And solve a mystery.

Jon Hamm contributed 60% of his salary back to the budget of Confess, Fletch, so it could be the movie they wanted.

[John Slattery](https://people.com/tv/mad-men-john-slattery-not-comfortable-being-called-a-sex-symbol/), Hamm's former Mad Men costar is also in the film in a similar dynamic to the one they shared in the AMC drama: as Hamm's boss. "I'd met John over the years, and I really, really enjoy him as an actor, so I loved the idea," he explained. "This is essentially the same character who was Fletch's editor in the first Fletch movie, played by Richard Libertini," he said. "I wanted it to feel a little more adult and a little more character-dialogue-driven, which is just something I love. Plus, there wasn't a great role for him," the director explained. Fletch, replies, "I was an investigative reporter. "We got a lot of, 'Yeah, in a different time, a couple of years ago, we would've bought this, but we're making our own stuff and we don't need it.' " And I see a lot of things that make me laugh, but often take place purely in comedy worlds." And when they were finished, there was no money left to market it. A shoplifter." We got it up to 30 days in Boston and one day in Rome. "And we bought three more days of shooting.