History TroubledProduction / FilmOToZ

** The end result was critically panned (3% on Rotten Tomatoes), earned lead actress Creator/RebeccaRomijn a Razzie nod, and earned back just over a third of its $70 million budget. Creator/ChrisKlein's career stalled out and never recovered from the drubbing his performance received by critics. [=McTiernan=] would never produce another picture, and would only direct one more film in 2003's ''Film/{{Basic}}'' along with [[https://www.vulture.com/2017/01/john-mctiernan-made-his-first-film-in-14-years.html a commercial]] for ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' in 2017. William Harrison, who penned the short story on which both films were based, later said [[DisownedAdaptation he had neither seen the remake nor had any interest in doing so]].
** The drama didn't end there, as in 2006 [=McTiernan=] was charged with perjury as part of an investigation against private investigator and Hollywood "fixer" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pellicano Anthony Pellicano]]. [=McTiernan=] was found to have lied to the FBI about hiring Pellicano to wiretap the phone of producer Charles Roven, as [=McTiernan=] suspected that Roven was behind the fire that affected principal photography. After years of legal wrangling and detours, [=McTiernan=] was sentenced in 2013 to a year in federal prison and would also declare bankruptcy.

* The ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'' remake. Anyone who's seen the original script says it was very good--even superior to the original 1975 film, some thought--but Creator/JohnMcTiernan disliked it and ordered multiple rewrites. Principal photography took place in 2000, but after uniformly negative test screenings the studio ordered reshoots. The film was then heavily cut for a more family-friendly rating before its release in 2002. The end result was critically panned (3% on Rotten Tomatoes), earned lead actress Creator/RebeccaRomijn a Razzie nod, and earned back just over a third of its $70 million budget. [=McTiernan=] would never produce another picture, and would only direct one more film in 2003's ''Film/{{Basic}}'', which didn't do much better. William Harrison, who penned the short story on which both films were based, later said he had neither seen the remake nor had any interest in doing so.
** It later turned out that, in the middle of production, [=McTiernan=] had hired private investigator [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Pellicano Anthony Pellicano]] to wiretap the phone of another producer, a felony for which he would later serve several months in federal prison and declare bankruptcy, effectively ending his film career.

* ''Red One'', an upcoming [[AnAssKickingChristmas Christmas action movie]], was originally scheduled to be released on Creator/PrimeVideo during the 2023 holiday season before it was pushed back a year. While it was initially said that the [[MediaNotes/TVStrikes 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes]] had delayed production, [[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/red-one-down-dwayne-johnson-130000667.html later reporting]] revealed that the true cause was a grossly mismanaged shoot that saw its budget balloon to over $250 million, much of it stemming from its producer and lead actor Creator/DwayneJohnson.

* Leni Riefenstahl is best-remembered for her Nazi propaganda epics ''Film/TriumphOfTheWill'' and ''Olympia''. However, her longtime passion project was an adaptation of Eugen d'Albert's opera ''Tiefland''. The saga of the film's torturous production, rescue and release spans an astonishing ''twenty years'', to which the actual film (rarely listed among Riefenstahl's masterworks) seems almost a footnote.

** Unfortunately, Riefenstahl's ongoing rivalry with Joseph Goebbels complicated matters. Goebbels felt ''Tiefland'' a waste of time and wanted money and resources diverted to more prestigious projects like ''Film/{{Kolberg}}'' and ''Uncle Kruger''. Apparently out of spite, Goebbels ordered Riefenstahl's sets destroyed without informing her, and denied access to Berlin studios in favor of other productions. Riefenstahl went over Goebbels' head, asking Hitler's secretary Martin Bormann for assistance in procuring funds, but the Propaganda Minister continued meddling in the production as long as possible. This governmental interference helped ''Tiefland'' become the second most expensive German film up to that point.
** ''Tiefland'' generated a controversy that lasted decades after the war. Riefenstahl employed dozens of Roma extras for the movie. Unfortunately, these extras had been interned by the German government, and there are accusations Riefenstahl procured them from concentration camps with help from the [=SS=]. It didn't help that most of these Roma were later sent to Auschwitz. As late as 2002, [[NeverLiveItDown Riefenstahl was still being sued for complicity and Holocaust denial,]] charges for which she was legally cleared [[GuiltByAssociation but further damaged her already checkered reputation.]]

** After the mess that had been ''Film/RaiseTheTitanic'' 20 years earlier, Cussler had refused to sell the movie rights to ''any'' of his books, not just the Pitt ones. Until he was approached, just as he had been for that film, by a very rich outsider, in this case Philip Anschutz. A Denver billionaire who had parlayed his oil and gas fortune into a broad range of investments, he was also a strongly conservative Christian. One of his investments had been the Regal theater chain, the largest in the country, and like many successful film exhibitors he decided to put some of his money into productions. The Anschutz Film group sought to produce films that weren't R-rated and delivered [[AnAesop a strong moral message]]. Like Lew Grade in the 1970s, he saw the possibility for a film series in the Pitt books.

* ''Film/{{Warcraft}}'' was, in the words of director Creator/DuncanJones, [[https://www.gamespot.com/articles/warcraft-movie-director-explains-how-it-all-went-s/1100-6456981/ "a political minefield"]]. During production, Legendary Entertainment's deal with Warner Bros. expired and made another one with Universal Pictures. The company was then later bought out entirely by the Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group. Creator/BlizzardEntertainment was also very protective of the ''Warcraft'' brand and supervised many aspects of the production. A revolving door of producers combined with his inexperience in dealing with such a high level of ExecutiveMeddling led to Jones having a very stressful time writing and directing the movie.

** Finally, the title was changed at the last minute from ''Three Rivers'' due to the increase in action scenes. All of this resulted in a product that [[BoxOfficeBomb flopped at the box office]], and is now an OldShame to Willis.

** In the end, the film became a massive BoxOfficeBomb, making a mere $20 million out of a $48 million budget—and the fallout did not stop there. It scuttled an attempt by Creator/{{Disney}}, who distributed the film through Hollywood Pictures, to integrate Creator/{{Nintendo}} into their business model, and in turn caused Nintendo to reject any further forays into live-action film adaptations of its franchises. The film's failure destroyed the directorial careers of Morton and Jankel, and played a large role in the downfall of producer Roland Joffe's career as well. Both Hopper and Hoskins consider their roles a massive OldShame; indeed, the latter had this to say in what was an otherwise pretty congenial interview with ''The Guardian'' in 2011:

** Wynorski dealt with a very troublesome shoot as discussed in a [[http://www.searchmytrash.com/articles/jimwynorski(1-13).shtml pair of]] [[https://big-gay-horror-fan.com/2014/10/17/interview-jim-wynorski/ interviews]]. Among the troubles were on-set theft, union problems and accidents. As shooting was taking place in Las Vegas, he also had to deal with the notoriously hot Vegas summer while cast and crew members spent their nights gambling and drinking in the city's casinos, frequently showing up to the set hungover and exhausted. The final product debuted on Showtime to a negative reception, with Soto's performance especially being panned. Wynorski later stated that out of the dozens of B-films he helmed, [[OldShame this was the only one he regretted making]].

** The film premiered over the Fourth of July weekend in 1999. Reviews were scathing, the box office wasn't much better, and a number of people involved with the original show condemned it, with Creator/RobertConrad, the original Jim West, even personally collecting the three [[UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward Razzies]] the film "won" in order to express his displeasure. Virtually everybody involved (save for Bai Ling) treats the film as an OldShame, though Maddock also regards it as a learning experience.

* ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'' had various mild to moderate problems during production, including a lack of budget, difficulty finding convincing prop guns due to the UK and Irish governments heavily regulating all guns (real and replicas) due to UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, and the film's ending having to be reshot twice after various mishaps resulted in the footage being damaged, much to the annoyance of stars Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/CharlotteRampling, who had to spend hours in make-up each time the ending was shot. Cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, tasked with making the film look surreal, used so much diffusion and soft focus that the film prints, once duplicated, were almost unusable. However, by far the biggest issue was that director Creator/JohnBoorman was absolutely stoned off his head during most of the shoot and kept rewriting scenes and adding new sequences on the fly, to the point where the editor was unable to assemble the footage into anything coherent, forcing Boorman to ADR in extra lines to try and get the film's storyline to somehow progress logically. The studio then forced him to film a prologue scene in order to make the storyline clearer, but most viewers seem to agree that the prologue, if anything, just made things even ''more'' confusing. To this day, Boorman himself admits to having absolutely no idea what most of the film means, beyond having a vague WhoWantsToLiveForever message, and considers it an OldShame.

** The film's failure left many casualties, some literal. Hawkeye Productions had gone bankrupt by 1990. Just afterwards Nilsson discovered his assistant had embezzled all but $300 of the remaining money from his music royalties. With neither a film nor music career left, Nilsson made only one more public appearance and died of his second heart attack in a year in 1994. Southern, who had been in shakier financial circumstances before Hawkeye, also went into both a literal and figurative death spiral. He was never able to get another screenplay produced, and survived mainly through journalism and teaching jobs. In 1995, on the way to one of them, suffering from stomach cancer, he collapsed, dying four days later. Torn never directed another film, and Goldberg and Claessen got divorced afterwards, as well.

* ''Film/WagonsEast'', the last film Creator/JohnCandy starred in, would have been an example of this ''without'' John Candy [[DiedDuringProduction dying during its production]]. Some of the details were covered in Robert Crane's book ''Sex, Celebrity and My Father's Unsolved Murder'':

** Things truly turned disastrous once shooting began. Conflicts between Creator/{{Disney}} and the directors led to massive ExecutiveMeddling, daily on-set rewrites occurred without any of the involved parties allowed to communicate with each other,[[note]]Solomon was sent down to the set a couple of weeks in, and found that while his draft was the basis of the script, Morton and Jankel had inserted in various scenes and bits from the drafts they had liked, to the point that there was no longer any throughline to the narrative.[[/note]] and production went over-budget and ''far'' over-schedule (Creator/DennisHopper stated "I was supposed to go down there for five weeks, and I was there for seventeen."). Morton and Jankel's ControlFreak tendencies and poor communication caused severe friction between them and the film's stars.[[note]]One anecdote has Morton allegedly deciding a Koopa costume needed to be more tarnished and throwing a cup of coffee on it; after realizing someone was in it and it was a cup of hot coffee, he said, "Oh, well, it's only an extra." Morton contests the story... but only to say that the coffee was cold.[[/note]] Creator/JohnLeguizamo declared that he and Creator/BobHoskins were having such a bad time that they would frequently get drunk to make it through the experience (which led to injuries to the both of them during shooting). Around a half-hour of scenes were cut from the final film to get it to an acceptable run-time. In the end, the film became a massive BoxOfficeBomb, making a mere $20 million out of a $48 million budget.

** The fallout from the film was massive. It scuttled an attempt by Creator/{{Disney}}, who distributed the film through Hollywood Pictures, to integrate Creator/{{Nintendo}} into their business model. It caused Nintendo to reject any further forays into live-action film adaptations of its franchises, it ruined the directorial careers of Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel, and played a large role in the downfall of producer Roland Joffe's career. It was also considered a massive OldShame by Creator/DennisHopper and Creator/BobHoskins, the latter of whom had the following to say in an otherwise pretty congenial interview with ''The Guardian'' in 2011:

** Director Penelope Spheeris said that she had to shoot each scene three times, once Myers' way, once Creator/DanaCarvey's way, and once Creator/LorneMichaels' way. She also fought with Myers over the final cut of the film, and Myers himself in one case threw a tantrum over the lack of margarine for a bagel. Spheeris did not return for the sequel.

* The Creator/DolphLundgren action vehicle ''Film/RedScorpion'' was originally set to film in UsefulNotes/{{Swaziland}}, but the production was denied permits just a week before filming was to begin. As a result, it was instead filmed in what was then the UsefulNotes/{{South Africa}}n province of South-West Africa (now the republic of UsefulNotes/{{Namibia}}). This [[https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-americas-most-notorious-lobbyist-produced-a-dolph-lundgren-film immediately caused problems]], as South Africa at the time was under massive international pressure over [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra apartheid]]. More importantly, the South African government and the film's producer and writer, the infamous lobbyist Jack Abramoff, were using the film (in which Lundgren plays a Spetsnaz operative in Africa who defects to the anti-communist rebels) as part of their propaganda efforts to portray the African National Congress as communist sympathizers. Creator/WarnerBros pulled out of the production as a result, not wanting to run afoul of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, while anti-apartheid activists led a boycott of Lundgren's films in protest. Even a number of cast and crew members, such as Carmen Argenziano (who plays a villainous Cuban colonel), were disgusted when they found out that South Africa was essentially bankrolling the film. Creator/TomSavini, meanwhile, who did special effects work on the film and described his experience in one of the DVD bonus features, also said that the meals on set were barely edible and that he and his family almost died in a flood during production. The budget ballooned to $16 million as a result of the delays to production that these issues caused, even with [[BackedByThePentagon the South African Defense Forces providing support of their own]], and it landed at the box office in April 1989 with a resounding thud.

** Verhoeven mentions a minor adversity on the commentary track of the Criterion Collection release: Dallas was chosen as the shooting location in part because of the futuristic look it has downtown. Verhoeven especially liked the look of one particular building when it was lit up by external lights at night. Unfortunately, that building was being renovated during the shooting and the lights were shut off. As they were finished in Dallas and were leaving, they literally saw the lights come on through the plane's window...

* ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' was a bumpy ride for Creator/DebbieReynolds. Despite the fact that Reynolds and Creator/GeneKelly's characters (eventually) became sweethearts on screen, in reality the two actors did not get along very well and frequently bumped heads (not in the least because she had not been his choice as she had to learn not just to do the dances for the film but to ''dance'', period, in all of three months). In fact, Kelly, in his role as director, once mocked Reynolds' dancing to the point where, after shooting finished, Creator/FredAstaire (who was visiting the set that day) found her huddled under a piano, sobbing. He helped her get her dancing closer to Kelly's draconian standards. Kelly also made Reynolds tap so much for the number 'Good Morning' without any break that her feet began to bleed and she needed to be carried to her dressing room. In the end, Kelly hated how Reynolds' tapping came through, so he dubbed over it (mind you, Reynolds was entirely new to tapping until Fred Astaire came along and helped her). She wasn't the only one to have problems; Kelly spent three days filming the title number while running a high fever, and Creator/DonaldOConnor was so exhausted after one of his big numbers that he needed four days of bed rest afterwards.

** The shoot finished after two-and-a-half months, but to the production team's horror, the film was still missing anywhere from ''10-15% of the script'', due to what Alfredson described as a "compressed shooting schedule". As a result, the production team had to go back a year later and either refilm or shoot missing parts of the script. [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/the-snowman/268388/the-snowman-what-on-earth-went-wrong A feature story from Den of Geek]] showed that an entirely different team of production leads (including additional screenwriters and a second assistant director, along with ''Film/{{Platoon}}'' film editor Claire Simpson) helmed the reshoots.

** Naturally, crunch was involved. [[http://web.archive.org/web/20200531193110/http://www.tssznews.com/2019/12/16/source-sonic-movie-vfx-team-endured-crunch-on-redesign/ According to]] a VFX artist who worked on the redesign, a large load of work still in progress was thrown out after Paramount changed course, with artists being forced to work up to 10-12 hours during a ''70-hour work week'' for six weeks. And to add salt to the wound, just after the redesign was sent to Paramount, MPC’s Vancouver branch, which was primarily responsible for re-animating Sonic, was shuttered abruptly by its owner as part of a corporate restructuring, resulting in all of the artists who were involved in the redesign finding themselves out of work just several months before release.

** The famous bridge scene was a complete disaster to make, as the first location turned unsuitable and required moving the production, ''building a new bridge'' (greatly straining the budget) and right when the bridge was finished the entire area was struck by a drought, requiring that the crew artificially create the storm and high water on the river. A helicopter hovered a few meters away from the bridge to create the illusion of strong wind. The entire sequence, lasting for about ten minutes, basically ''doubled'' the film budget and extended filming by two months. On the plus side, it still looks fantastic, especially in the restored Blu-ray edition.

** Though Douglas and Kubrick had collaborated amicably on ''Paths'', ''Spartacus'' proved another story. Kubrick's notoriously prickly, perfectionist personality led to endless rows with Douglas, arguing over script content, editing, the staging of scenes and even [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Kubrick's wardrobe]]. When Douglas asked Kubrick his opinion of the "I Am Spartacus" scene, Kubrick (in front of cast and crew) called it "a stupid idea." Douglas promptly chewed the director out. When Kubrick removed close-ups of Spartacus's crucifixion during the finale, Douglas (by his own account) grew so angry he ''attacked Kubrick with a folding chair''.

* Creator/AndreiTarkovsky's ''Film/Stalker1979'' wound up literally killing many of the people involved, including the director himself. How so?

** The new location, an abandoned hydroelectric power station, sat near a chemical factory which heavily polluted the area; the "snow" in one scene is actually airborne pollutants from said factory, which caused female crewmembers to break out in allergic rashes. The cast and crew were in close contact with (and in some cases were literally knee-deep in) a miasma of toxic chemicals, and many of them -- including Tarkovsky, Larisa, and actor Anatoly Solonitsyn -- later contracted fatal illnesses as a result.

** During the editing process, the film received an R-rating, which de Souza believes came from a [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents then-recent school shooting that had made people sensitive to violence in children's movies]]. This resulted in many of the fight scenes being heavily trimmed down and reedited, which sometimes messed up the flow and even caused continuity issues. Despite Capcom's insistence, many of the special moves also ended up being cut due to the level of violence or there simply not being enough time to create the necessary special effects.

** Since test audiences found the original cut confusing, they had to do loads of reshoots to make the movie more [[HotterAndSexier sexy]] and [[BloodierAndGorier violent]]; Willis didn't want to do them, and even blamed the director for the original cut's poor quality. Overzealous executive Mark Canton, known for being behind [[Film/LastActionHero various]] [[Literature/TheBonfireOfTheVanities other]] troubled productions, wanted many scenes altered, and even shielded the movie's production problems from the public.

** First, lead actress Marilyn Burns proved completely unable to convincingly keep ahead of Creator/GunnarHansen as Leatherface while he was chasing her through the woods, forcing Hansen to run much slower than he actually could, and even resorting in one shot to pointlessly cutting up tree branches to let Burns widen the gap between them. There was also an incident where Hansen slipped on the wet grass and lost his grip on the still-running chainsaw, which flew up in the air and then came down point-first just inches from his head.

* ''Film/{{Troy}}'' had a tamer production than most examples but still troubled. Filming happened in Morocco at first but had to be moved due to the impending Iraq war. Filming then happened in Mexico, where two hurricanes tore through the sets. Many stagehands also fainted in the intense heat. Creator/PeterOToole later derisively referred to director Creator/WolfgangPetersen as "that kraut" and said he had no idea what he was doing, while Creator/BradPitt grew very frustrated at constantly being placed in front-and-center glamour shots, and in 2019 revealed that this combined with the film's tepid reception caused him to totally change career tracks from the blockbusters he'd previously been known for.

** The toxic press coverage arguably colored reviews of the final product, which was mixed to negative. While the film opened at #1 at the box office, it only grossed $88 million in the US and was widely declared a BoxOfficeBomb, though the film [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff performed significantly better internationally]], making $176 million for a combined $264 million in total. ''Waterworld'', along with ''Film/WyattEarp'' and ''Film/ThePostman'', sent Kevin Costner's career [[StarDerailingRole into a severe downturn]], though he would recover in the years ahead in smaller productions such as ''Film/TheGuardian2006'', and even worked with Kevin Reynolds again for the miniseries ''Series/HatfieldsAndMcCoys''. Universal theme parks would launch a wildly successful [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/WaterworldALiveSeaWarSpectacular stunt show attraction]] based on the film, and the film itself later became a CultClassic thanks to television reruns and a Director's Cut home video release.

** After the film was finished, Disney head Michael Eisner, wanting the company to have a strong start with 1991's summer movie season, [[ExecutiveMeddling insisted]] that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptmP1lziJw4 the trailer]] basically tell the story of the film, and include ''all'' the scenes that preview audiences had found funniest. It indeed opened strong and ultimately made money, but many audiences wondered what there was to see that they hadn't already seen ...

** Jonze brought the idea to Warner Bros. and got the film greenlit. When actual production began, the troubles only got even worse. The costumes for the wild things arrived and were heavy, bulky, and awkward for the actors wearing them. The faces were entirely blank, leaving freedom for CGI faces to be added later, but proved to be a challenge for child actor Max Records to work around, as he was basically talking to a faceless object with an actor uttering the lines behind him. To make things less awkward for Max, Jonze had some of the crew members invite their children onto the set.

* Famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti's one and only Hollywood vehicle, the 1982 ''Yes, Giorgio'', quickly ran into problems when its star proved completely unable to handle the demands of a feature film's shooting schedule, refusing to work more than twelve hours a day and insisting on stopping shooting no later than 8 PM. On top of that, he proved to be quite the prima donna on-set, insisting that he only be filmed from angles that hid his infamous girth, and making so many demands that crewmembers began to jokingly nickname the film "No, Luciano." This, along with weather problems that delayed the sequences filmed in Pavarotti's native Italy -- and even forced some planned shots to be replaced by matte paintings -- caused its original $17 million budget to inflate to a then-sizeable $23 million. The finished product crashed and burned at the box office, barely crossing the $1 million mark, derailing Pavarotti's screen career out of the gate and torpedoing the once-illustrious career of director Franklin J. Schaffner.

* ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'' had various mild to moderate problems during production, including a lack of budget, difficulty finding convincing prop guns due to the UK and Irish governments heavily regulating all real and even replica guns due to UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, and the film's ending having to be reshot twice after various mishaps resulted in the footage being damaged, much to the annoyance of stars Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/CharlotteRampling, who had to spend hours in make-up each time the ending was shot. Cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, tasked with making the film look surreal, used so much diffusion and soft focus that the film prints, once duplicated, were almost unusable. However, by far the biggest issue was that director Creator/JohnBoorman was absolutely stoned off his head during most of the shoot and kept rewriting scenes and adding new sequences on the fly, to the point where the editor was unable to assemble the footage into anything coherent, forcing Boorman to ADR in extra lines to try and get the film's storyline to somehow progress logically. The studio then forced him to film a prologue scene in order to make the storyline clearer, but most viewers seem to agree that the prologue, if anything, just made things even ''more'' confusing. To this day, Boorman himself admits to having absolutely no idea what most of the film means, beyond having a vague WhoWantsToLiveForever message, and considers it an OldShame.

** A subplot was filmed involving Audrey Totter's character as a giant cat tamer, as in the original novel. During filming, Garfield was sprayed by one of the lions, and he jokingly asked for stunt pay.

** And the fifth film, ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales Dead Men Tell No Tales]]'', was being produced in Australia as its star Creator/JohnnyDepp was suffering a huge relapse into addiction . As such, he was [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/johnny-depp-pirates-of-the-caribbean-5-always-late.html chronically late]] to the set, as most of his time was spent drinking and getting into fights with his then wife Creator/AmberHeard. This caused huge problems on set as it often came to a halt for hours at a time. It got to the point where a production assistant was hired just to wait outside Depp's rental house and announce that he was awake when they saw the lights inside come on. There was also a two-week delay that cost untold amounts of money when Depp, while high on ecstasy, severed his fingertip and had to be flown home to the US to see a specialist. All of this paled in comparison to Depp and Heard's legal troubles with the Australian government over sneaking their dogs into the country without the proper biosecurity paperwork. The whole saga took a year and left many wondering if Depp was going to arrested for dog smuggling. Heard ended up pleading guilty to perjury because the dogs technically belong to her but the affair was a huge draw on Disney's already thinning patience with him (they believed he had lied to both them and their insurers about being sober when they renewed his contract) and led in large part to them deciding to sever ties with him for good and reboot the series.

* For ''Film/SinceYouWentAway'', David O. Selznick cast his mistress Creator/JenniferJones opposite her estranged husband Creator/RobertWalker, sadistically forcing them to perform loves scenes together [[spoiler: (before rather symbolically killing off Walker's character).]]

** Wynorski dealt with a very troublesome shoot as discussed in a [[http://www.searchmytrash.com/articles/jimwynorski(1-13).shtml pair of]] [[https://big-gay-horror-fan.com/2014/10/17/interview-jim-wynorski/ interviews]]. Among the troubles were on-set theft, union problems and accidents. As shooting was taking place in Las Vegas, he also had to deal with the notoriously hot Vegas summer while cast and crew members spent their nights gambling and drinking in the city's casinos, frequently showing up to the set hungover and exhausted. The final product debued on Showtime to negative reception, with Soto's performance especially being panned. Wynorski later stated that out of the dozens of B-films he helmed, [[OldShame this was the only one he regretted making]].

** And the fifth film, ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales Dead Men Tell No Tales]]'', was being produced as its star Creator/JohnnyDepp was going through a bitter divorce from his wife Creator/AmberHeard. As such, he was [[http://www.vulture.com/2017/05/johnny-depp-pirates-of-the-caribbean-5-always-late.html chronically late]] to the set, as most of his time was spent drinking and getting into fights with Heard, to the point where it ate into the schedule as the set often came to a halt for hours at a time. It got to the point where a production assistant was hired just to wait outside Depp's house and announce that he was awake when they saw the lights inside come on. There was also a two-week delay that cost untold amounts of money when Depp cut the tip of his finger off during a blowout with Heard and had to be flown home to the US to see a specialist and have surgery. This was nothing compared to his fight with the Australian government, which took up a whole year and saw Creator/{{Disney}} and all the ''Pirates'' fans wondering if Depp was going to be charged with dog smuggling. While Amber Heard ultimately was forced to plead guilty after it was discovered that the dogs belonged to her, the year long saga was a massive draw on Disney's patience, and was a major factor in them deciding to not renew his contract and reboot the series.