Bruce Willisis claimed to have departed from The Expendables 3 after demanding he be paid $1m per day.

The news of the veteran action movie star's exit from the production emerged earlier this week , with Sylvester Stallone branding him "greedy and lazy" on Twitter.

And now The Hollywood Reporter claims that the Die Hard star's pay demands were the key issue - because he was apparently unhappy with $3m for four days' shooting in Bulgaria.

"He said he'd drop out unless he got $4 million," a source told THR. "A million dollars a day. Stallone and everybody else involved said no."

Stallone then apparently got in touch with Harrison Ford - who was happy to be drafted in.

The mole continued: "I think [Willis] was pretty surprised he was replaced in 72 hours by Harrison Ford — a better actor, a much nicer person and a more interesting direction for the film."

Willis' representative refused to comment for THR.