Stan Lee in "Stan Lee: The Final Chapter."
Convrsly Productions
"How much money did I make?"It's a question that Jon Bolerjack never thought he'd hear the man sitting next to him ask. Comics legend Stan Lee's ideas and hustle birthed an empire. So how could he not know about all the money he'd just made doing a signing at a comic-book convention?That was the moment Bolerjack says he knew something awful was happening to the man behind some of Marvel Comics' most beloved characters.It was 2015, and Bolerjack, a long-haired, tattooed comic-book fanatic, had been chronicling Lee's every move as his personal videographer. He would stay in the legend's inner circle until Lee's death in November 2018 at age 95.Lee was at the height of his popularity in the last decade of his life, thanks to the smashing success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe at the box office. It made him a marquee name on the convention circuit, demanding top dollar to sit in a chair and sign whatever was put in front of him. After his appearances, his team would count the piles upon piles of cash he made.Bolerjack's 108-minute documentary, "Stan Lee: The Final Chapter," available now on Video on Demand, chronicles the dark side of Lee's final four years. The doc depicts an exhausted and seemingly unaware Lee on a nonstop convention schedule, dozing off between autograph signings and asking his bodyguard-turned-manager, Max Anderson, if he's made enough money to retire.The documentary's journey to the screen would be a long one: Anderson sued Bolerjack in 2019 for breach of contract, alleging that Bolerjack had broken an "oral agreement" between them that he would give Anderson all his footage of Lee.
