Hollywood Reporter:

After a nearly year-long courting process that saw J.J. Abrams and his wife and Bad Robot partner Katie McGrath take meetings with tech giants and traditional studios, the duo ultimately opted to take less money than they could have earned to stay with WarnerMedia.

Sources say the tech powerhouse came close to paying more than $500 million for Abrams’ Bad Robot production company, which wound up taking less money from its eventual home.

I can’t even imagine being in a position where I could turn down half a billion dollars but given the details in the article, you can kind of understand why Abrams did it.