 According to "Variety", Marlon Brando (qv) was paid $5 million for  his cameo as Torquemada. Over 10 years earlier, Brando had set an  industry record when producer "Christopher Columbus" producer  Ilya Salkind (qv) had paid him $3.7 million for 12 days work on  _Superman (1978)_ (qv) against a percentage of the gross. That deal  yielded Brando $14 million, though he had to sue the producer to get  it. It was widely suspected that Brando took the role to raise money  to pay for the defense of his son Christian Brando (qv), who had  been indicted on murder charges after shooting his sister Cheyennes  lover Dag Drollett" (qv).