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** Creator/ValKilmer was going through a divorce and Creator/MarlonBrando was dealing with his daughter's suicide was making the production a hostile working place.

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** Creator/ValKilmer was going through a divorce and Creator/MarlonBrando was dealing with his daughter's suicide was suicide, making the production a hostile working place.
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-->'''James Sbardelatti''': [[Creator/JohnFrankenheimer John]] referred to Brando as a genius. After the movie, he didn't.
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-->--'''Creator/RichardStanley'''

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->''Knowing that the odds were stacked against me, I resorted to witchcraft.''
-->--'''Creator/RichardStanley'''
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** Everyone had to deal with the egos of Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer. Kilmer in particulardemanded 40% less work to try to have a personal life and the role of Douglas went to Creator/RobMorrow, but he only lasted two days due to how much HostilityOnTheSet, which led him to being replaced by Creator/DavidThewlis.

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** Everyone had to deal with the egos of Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer. Kilmer in particulardemanded particular demanded 40% less work to try to have a personal life and the role of Douglas went to Creator/RobMorrow, but he only lasted two days due to how much HostilityOnTheSet, which led him to being replaced by Creator/DavidThewlis.
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* BoringButPractical: Discussed in the context of having an assistant director, and especially one that's on the board with the whole production. That guy that rarely gets much credit, but is responsible for all the logistics and organising the set and how shots are being made. Without him, no vision, no matter how great, will ever materialise into a movie.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Even the pre-prodution of ''[[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' required to ''heavily'' cut down on explicit sexual and violent content that was originally intended as part of the movie. And it only went further and further down the line, until securing a PG-13 rating out of a project that was evisioned as an R-rated horror.
* BrokenPedestal: At least some of the cast members ended up disillusioned when confronted with Marlon Brando as a person, rather than an icon.

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* BoringButPractical: Discussed {{Discussed}} in the context of having an assistant director, and especially one that's on the board with the whole production. That guy that rarely gets much credit, but is responsible for all the logistics and organising the set and how shots are being made. Without him, no vision, no matter how great, will ever materialise into a movie.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Even the pre-prodution of ''[[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' required to ''heavily'' cut down on explicit sexual and violent content that was originally intended as part of the movie. And it only went further and further down the line, until securing a PG-13 rating out of a project that was evisioned as an R-rated horror.
* BrokenPedestal: At least some of the cast members ended up disillusioned when confronted with Marlon Brando Creator/MarlonBrando as a person, rather than an icon.



** Richard Stanley was increasingly feeling the pressure, had a nervous breakdown and was eventually fired from the project and replaced by Creator/JohnFrankenheimer.

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** Richard Stanley Creator/RichardStanley was increasingly feeling the pressure, had a nervous breakdown and was eventually fired from the project and replaced by Creator/JohnFrankenheimer.



* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Getting Marlon Brando to play in the movie, which seemed like a great way to add a big star to it and increase interest in the production by media. Plus the added splendor of having a chance to work with the man on set. Everyone ends up admitting this might be one of the worst ideas they had.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Creator/JohnFrankenheimer might be an obtuse, old-fashioned tyrant director, but he still managed to put ''both'' Kilmer and Brando in their places and force them to work with his harsh behaviour, something neither Stanley could do nor other crew members and actors stand.

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* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Getting Marlon Brando to play in the movie, Dr. Moreau, which seemed like a great way to add a big star to it and increase interest in the production by media. Plus the added splendor of having a chance to work with the man on set. Everyone ends up admitting this might be one of the worst ideas they had.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Creator/JohnFrankenheimer might be an obtuse, old-fashioned tyrant tyranical director, but he still managed to put ''both'' Kilmer and Brando in their places and force them to work with his harsh behaviour, something neither Stanley could do nor other crew members crewmembers and actors stand.actors.



** While it's not said openly, Richard Stanley himself admits he was in a pretty tight spot financially. So being an errand boy for a studio [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime seemed like a great way to bounce back from the red and make a dream project in the same time]].

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** While it's not said openly, Richard Stanley himself admits he was in a pretty tight spot financially. So being an errand boy for a studio [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime seemed like a great way to bounce back from the red and make a dream project in the same time]].time.



* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Creator/JohnFrankenheimer was dead for over a decade when the documentry was made. Still, ''everyone'' has nothing, but harsh words about him and the experience they went through under his direction. This is further contrasted with Creator/MarlonBrando being given more even portray and recalled by cast and crew members both in positives and negatives.

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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Creator/JohnFrankenheimer was dead for over a decade when the documentry was made. Still, ''everyone'' has nothing, but harsh words about him and the experience they went through under his direction. This is further contrasted with Creator/MarlonBrando being given more even portray leeway and recalled by cast and crew members crewmembers both in positives and negatives.



* WriterOnBoard: The big problem of the whole documentary is that David Gregory, who wrote and made it, is a big fan of Richard Stanley. As a result, he is trying to lionize Stanley into a role of a martyr for art - and at times it's not even very subtle about it. This creates a rather one-sided portray of the infamously problematic production and just as one-dimensional portray of Stanley himself.

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* WriterOnBoard: The big problem of the whole documentary is that David Gregory, who wrote and made it, is a big fan of Richard Stanley. As a result, he is trying to lionize Stanley into a role of a martyr for art - and at times it's not even very subtle about it. This creates a rather one-sided portray portrayal of the infamously problematic production and just as one-dimensional portray of Stanley himself.
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* BrokenPedestal: At least some of the cast members ended up disillusioned when confronted with Marlon Brando as a person, rather than an icon.

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* [[invoked]] MoneyDearBoy: While it's not said openly, Richard Stanley himself admits he was in a pretty tight spot financially. So being an errand boy for a studio [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime seemed like a great way to bounce back from the red and make a dream project in the same time]].

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While it's not said openly, Richard Stanley himself admits he was in a pretty tight spot financially. So being an errand boy for a studio [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime seemed like a great way to bounce back from the red and make a dream project in the same time]].time]].
** At least according to Creator/FairuzaBalk, this was why (and how) Marlon Brando ultimately arrived to the set and stayed in the production, not giving a single damn about it once he realised it's a sinking ship anyway.


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* UnreliableExpositor: While various situations are described by different people (and often from different perspective), some are presented just through the lense of a single person and with a single account, making them questionable every time those accounts get mixed with personal animosities.

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* [[invoked]] WagTheDirector: While Val Kilmer's attempts to direct Richard Stanley didn't went far and ultimately being one of the reasons why Stanley was fired early on, Marlon Brando used all his power to play notoriously dictatorial John Frankenheimer to do all his biddings and significantly rework the script to his whims.



* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Discussed and invoked. Since Stanley's original notes were destroyed by him, while his script thrown away once he was fired, the new script was written at the pace of filming, with new scenes written sometimes less than a day before filming.

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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Discussed and invoked. Since Stanley's original notes were destroyed by him, while his script thrown away once he was fired, the new script was written at the pace of filming, with new scenes written sometimes less than a day before filming. Further complications came from extensive case of WagTheDirector by Marlon Brando.
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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Creator/JohnFrankenheimer was dead for over a decade when the documentry was made. Still, ''everyone'' has nothing, but harsh words about him and the experience they went through under his direction. This is further contrasted with Creator/MarlonBrando being given more even portray and recalled by cast and crew members both in positives and negatives.
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* SarcasmMode: Various actors and crew members involved in making ''The Island...'' have nothing but the most sarcastic jabs toward the whole production, particularly when handling "praises".

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* BoringButPractical: Discussed in the context of having an assistant director, and especially one that's on the board with the whole production. That guy that rarely gets much credit, but is responsible for all the logistics and organising the set and how shots are being made. Without him, no vision, no matter how great, will ever materialise into a movie.



* PrimaDonnaDirector: Creator/JohnFrankenheimer comes off as this, with many describing him as blunt, temperamental and old-fashioned in contrast to the more easy-going Creator/RichardStanley.

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* PrimaDonnaDirector: OutsideContextProblem: The production and casting had their issues, but various cast and production members still considered them possible to overcome, as part of regular film-making process. Then Cheyenne Brando committed suicide, plunging Marlon Brando, her father, into depression and resulting in his general lack of cooperation from that moment on. And since Brando was the main reason why Stanley had enough clout to be the director at all...
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** The execs involved in the film paint Stanley himself as a case, where he was only doing things he found exciting or interesting - and not much else.
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Creator/JohnFrankenheimer comes off as this, with many describing him as blunt, temperamental and old-fashioned in contrast to the more easy-going Creator/RichardStanley.


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* SmokingIsCool: Invoked toward Val Kilmer's chain-smoking, which was apparently more done to look cool, rather than addiction or anything else.

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* SweetTooth: Robert Shaye, President of Creator/NewLineCinema, recalls Creator/RichardStanley taking four sugars in his coffee. Stanley denies this ever happening.



* SweetTooth: Robert Shaye, President of Creator/NewLineCinema, recalls Creator/RichardStanley taking four sugars in his coffee. Stanley denies this ever happening.

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* FixFic: Invoked and discussed as the initial vision Stanley had for the whole movie, trying to "fix" things from previous adaptations. Including adding elements that aren't in the book nor said adaptations, but were part of the marketing that left Stanley bitter as a child for never being on screen.



* FixFic: Invoked and discussed as the initial vision Stanley had for the whole movie, trying to "fix" things from previous adaptations. Including adding elements that aren't in the book nor said adaptations, but were part of the marketing that left Stanley bitter as a child for never being on screen.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Even the pre-prodution of ''[[Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' required to ''heavily'' cut down on explicit sexual and violent content that was originally intended as part of the movie. And it only went further and further down the line, until securing a PG-13 rating out of a project that was evisioned as an R-rated horror.


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* FixFic: Invoked and discussed as the initial vision Stanley had for the whole movie, trying to "fix" things from previous adaptations. Including adding elements that aren't in the book nor said adaptations, but were part of the marketing that left Stanley bitter as a child for never being on screen.
* ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime: Getting Marlon Brando to play in the movie, which seemed like a great way to add a big star to it and increase interest in the production by media. Plus the added splendor of having a chance to work with the man on set. Everyone ends up admitting this might be one of the worst ideas they had.


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* [[invoked]] MoneyDearBoy: While it's not said openly, Richard Stanley himself admits he was in a pretty tight spot financially. So being an errand boy for a studio [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime seemed like a great way to bounce back from the red and make a dream project in the same time]].
* OnlySaneMan: Robert Shaye comes off as the only voice of cold, calculating reason, foreseeing various problems before they even happened. It's hard to tell how much of it is him presenting himself as such and how much of simply being a seasoned producer - or maybe even both.


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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Invoked part of the premise. First act of the film is list of various design, casting and plot choices as evisioned by Stanley, with not so subtle implication that the finished product is worse. There is also execs input, who also saw it a different movie than the bloated final production ended up being.
* WriterOnBoard: The big problem of the whole documentary is that David Gregory, who wrote and made it, is a big fan of Richard Stanley. As a result, he is trying to lionize Stanley into a role of a martyr for art - and at times it's not even very subtle about it. This creates a rather one-sided portray of the infamously problematic production and just as one-dimensional portray of Stanley himself.
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* MisBlamed: Invoked as the core premise. The documentary tries to present Stanley from the first minute as this great artistic visionary that has been wronged by the heartless studio execs and cast out on drummed up charges. This contrasts with the mundane reality of him being unable to control his own crew or contain Val Kilmer's ego in any way whatsoever and thus being fired for failing to do his job - direct.
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Val Kilmer was butting heads with pretty much everyone else: Stanlney, Brando, Thewlis, various other actors and of course the film crew. His obnoxious behaviour was enough to first get Rob Morrow hired and then Morrow ''left on his own'' in just two days, simply to not have to deal with Kilmer anymore.

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* [[invoked]] HostilityOnTheSet: Probably the chief reason why the production was such a disaster and pain to finish. Val Kilmer was butting heads with pretty much everyone else: Stanlney, Brando, Thewlis, various other actors and of course the film crew.crew - to the point where discussing his antics take almost half of the documentary. His obnoxious behaviour was enough to first get Rob Morrow hired and then Morrow ''left on his own'' in just two days, simply to not have to deal with Kilmer anymore.

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* HostilityOnTheSet: Val Kilmer was butting heads with pretty much everyone else: Stanlney, Brando, Thewlis, various other actors and of course the film crew. His obnoxious behaviour was enough to first get Rob Morrow hired and then Morrow ''left on his own'' in just two days, simply to not have to deal with Kilmer anymore.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Creator/JohnFrankenheimer might be an obtuse, old-fashioned tyrant director, but he still managed to put ''both'' Kilmer and Brando in their places and force them to work with his harsh behaviour, something neither Stanley could do nor other crew members and actors stand.



** Everyone had to deal with the egos of Brando and Kilmer, who demanded 40% less work to try to have a personal life and the role of Douglas went to Creator/RobMorrow, but he only lasted two days due to how much HostilityOnTheSet, which led him to being replaced by Creator/DavidThewlis.

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** Everyone had to deal with the egos of Marlon Brando and Kilmer, who demanded Val Kilmer. Kilmer in particulardemanded 40% less work to try to have a personal life and the role of Douglas went to Creator/RobMorrow, but he only lasted two days due to how much HostilityOnTheSet, which led him to being replaced by Creator/DavidThewlis.


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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Discussed and invoked. Since Stanley's original notes were destroyed by him, while his script thrown away once he was fired, the new script was written at the pace of filming, with new scenes written sometimes less than a day before filming.
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* SweetTooth: Robert Shaye, President of Creator/NewLineCinema, recalls Creator/RichardStanley taking four sugars in his coffee. Stanley denies this ever happening.
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* PrimaDonnaDirector: Creator/JohnFrankenheimer comes off as this, with many describing him as blunt, temperamental and old-fashioned in contrast to the more easy-going Creator/RichardStanley.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Creator/RobMorrow found himself unable to bear the tension and hostility on set any longer, so he telephoned Creator/NewLineCinema chairman Rob Shaye in Hollywood and tearfully begged to be let go. Shaye agreed.
** Creator/FairuzaBalk attempted to do this in protest at Creator/RichardStanley's firing. She stormed off the set after a heated exchange with New Line executives and then had a production assistant drive her all the way from Cairns to Sydney - a distance of some 2,500 km - in a rented limousine. However, by her own account, Balk's agent then warned her in blunt terms that the studio would ruin her and that she would never work in films again if she broke her contract, so she was soon forced to return to the set.


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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Creator/JohnFrankenheimer's gruff, dictatorial approach was radically different from Creator/RichardStanley's and he soon alienated many of the cast and crew.
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** Everyone had to deal with the egos of Brando and Kilmer, who demanded 40% less work to try to have a personal life and the role of Douglas went to Creator/RobMorrow, but he only lasted two days due to how much hostility on the set, which led him to being replaced by Creator/DavidThewlis.

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** Everyone had to deal with the egos of Brando and Kilmer, who demanded 40% less work to try to have a personal life and the role of Douglas went to Creator/RobMorrow, but he only lasted two days due to how much hostility on the set, HostilityOnTheSet, which led him to being replaced by Creator/DavidThewlis.
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* GroinAttack: Nelson de la Rosa, the 2'4" actor who Brando promoted to his sidekick over Marco Hofschneider, ''punched Marco Hofschneider in the balls'' to taunt him over losing his role to him.

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* GroinAttack: Nelson de la Rosa, the 2'4" actor who Brando promoted to his sidekick over Marco Hofschneider, ''punched Marco Hofschneider in the balls'' to taunt him over losing his role to him.
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* GroinAttack: Nelson de la Rosa, the 2'4" actor who Brando promoted to his sidekick over Daniel Rigney, ''punched Rigney in the balls'' to taunt him over losing his role to him.

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* GroinAttack: Nelson de la Rosa, the 2'4" actor who Brando promoted to his sidekick over Daniel Rigney, Marco Hofschneider, ''punched Rigney Marco Hofschneider in the balls'' to taunt him over losing his role to him.
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The movie was directed by Creatora/DavidGregory and it featured Creator/FairuzaBalk, Creator/MichaelGingold, Creator/MacroHofschneider, & Creator/RobMorrow.

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The movie was directed by Creatora/DavidGregory and it featured Creator/FairuzaBalk, Creator/MichaelGingold, Creator/MacroHofschneider, & and Creator/RobMorrow.


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!Tropes for the film:
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** Frankenheimer himself did not have anything good to say about Kilmer and vowed to never work with him again.

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** Frankenheimer himself did not have anything good to say about Kilmer and vowed to never work with him again.again.
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The movie was directed by David Gregory and it featured Creator/FairuzaBalk, Creator/MichaelGingold, Creator/MacroHofschneider, & Creator/RobMorrow.

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The movie was directed by David Gregory Creatora/DavidGregory and it featured Creator/FairuzaBalk, Creator/MichaelGingold, Creator/MacroHofschneider, & Creator/RobMorrow.
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** Everyone had to deal with the egos of Brando and Kilmer, who demanded 40% less work to try to have a personal life and the role of Douglas went to Creator/RobMorrow, but he only lasted two days due to how much hostility on the set, which led him to being replaced by Creator/DavidThewlis.

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** Everyone had to deal with the egos of Brando and Kilmer, who demanded 40% less work to try to have a personal life and the role of Douglas went to Creator/RobMorrow, but he only lasted two days due to how much hostility on the set, which led him to being replaced by Creator/DavidThewlis.Creator/DavidThewlis.
** Frankenheimer himself did not have anything good to say about Kilmer and vowed to never work with him again.
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''Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau'' deals with the TroubledProduction of ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996'' as Creator/RichardStanley tries to bring his vision of HG Well's story to the screen and the forces that went against him.

The movie was directed by David Gregory and it featured Creator/FairuzaBalk, Creator/MichaelGingold, Creator/MacroHofschneider, & Creator/RobMorrow.

The film premiered on August 24, 2014 at the London [=FrightFest=] Film Festival and was released on February 27, 2015 in the United States.

!Tropes for the film:
* CreatorBreakdown:
** Richard Stanley was increasingly feeling the pressure, had a nervous breakdown and was eventually fired from the project and replaced by Creator/JohnFrankenheimer.
** Creator/ValKilmer was going through a divorce and Creator/MarlonBrando was dealing with his daughter's suicide was making the production a hostile working place.
* TroubledProduction:
** Everyone had to deal with the egos of Brando and Kilmer, who demanded 40% less work to try to have a personal life and the role of Douglas went to Creator/RobMorrow, but he only lasted two days due to how much hostility on the set, which led him to being replaced by Creator/DavidThewlis.

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