History ExecutiveMeddling / LiveActionFilms

** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' suffered immensely from studio interference after the disastrous critical and audience reception to ''Batman v Superman'', to the point of not being recognizable as a Creator/ZackSnyder.

* This is why Pete Travis was fired from the post-production of ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' and replaced with screenwriter Creator/AlexGarland. Reportedly, Travis's cut was not the action-filled film that the studio and producers wanted, so he was locked out of the editing room and eventually let go. Garland could even seek co-director credit, but he and Travis managed a deal.

** A planned adaptation of Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Mort}}'' was nixed when producers wanted to "lose the Death angle". The book can largely be described as "Death takes an apprentice". Here is Pratchett's comment about it:

** There was a film version of ''Discworld/TheWeeFreeMen'' in the pipes, but according to Terry, the script he was shown "had all the hallmarks of something that had been good, and then the studio had got involved." The project is now mired in DevelopmentHell.

** ''Film/Alien3'' had a legendarily TroubledProduction. 20th Century Fox spent millions of dollars over a period of four years trying to get the script up and running -- every director who signed up left, either due to creative differences or refusing Fox's mandates (such as the inclusion of Creator/SigourneyWeaver). Fox then brought on rookie director Creator/DavidFincher, whom they believefd they could control. Fincher had other plans and started several battles with the producers. Fox prevented Fincher from shooting key scenes (which he shot anyway), sent him back for reshoots after a deliberately botched test screening (using, as actor Ralph Brown put it, "brain-dead kids from Southern California"), insulted him on several occasions and eventually locked him out of the editing room. The producers would also try to hide the story of the film's production, blocking the original version of the making-of documentary ''Wreckage and Rage'' (itself originally titled ''Wreckage and Rape'', telling you what the creators thought of it). Fincher hated the final product and was even so discouraged from directing that he almost turned down ''Film/{{Se7en}}''.

** In ''Film/IronMan2'', studio execs clashed with Terrence Howard agents, leading to him [[TheOtherDarrin being replaced]] by Creator/DonCheadle. They also re-cut BigBad Ivan Vanko/Whiplash's scenes to make him less sympathetic. And they insisted on adding story elements that would help set up ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', which director Creator/JonFavreau thought made for a much less coherent story overall. Favreau was so put off by the studio that he refused to return for ''Film/IronMan3''.[[note]]As director, anyway, Happy Hogan, his character in the first two Iron Man films, still returned for that film and later MCU films with Favreau reprising the role.[[/note]]

** Ever wonder why ''{{Film/Black Panther|2018}}'' and ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' were stuck in DevelopmentHell until 2014? Well you can blame Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, a racist and misogynistic PointyHairedBoss who believed, [[IRejectYourReality and could conceivably still believe]], that audiences wouldn't want to watch movies with non-{{White Male Lead}} heroes (a belief that rings rather hollow given the success of ''Film/TheHungerGames'' and ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}''). Perlmutter himself would only allow Marvel Studios president Creator/KevinFeige to make ''Black Panther'' and ''Captain Marvel'' on the condition that Feige would make an ''Inhumans'' movie[[note]]Feige had no interest in adapting the Inhumans in the MCU, but Perlmutter wanted the Inhumans to replace the X-Men in the MCU. That movie never did end up happening, instead being made into a [[Series/{{Inhumans}} TV series]], which unfortunately turned out absolutely awful and [[FranchiseKiller may have ended up the death knell for all Marvel TV properties]] besides the well-established and beloved ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''[[/note]]. This issue, among many other questionable decisions Perlmutter made, led to Disney sacking him as Marvel CCO in October 2019 in favor of Feige.

*** Disney were responsible for the first example (to the plot) - Shane Black originally intended to adapt the Demon in a Bottle comic book storyline[[note]]this storyline dealt with Tony Stark's alcoholism[[/note]], but Disney objected as children would be watching it and Creator/RobertDowneyJr was [[WagTheDirector reluctant to explore alcoholism on screen]] because he felt it could take him back to a mental state he'd worked hard to move beyond.
*** Marvel's corporate arm were responsible for the second one - The Main/BigBad was original female, but they insisted it be a male character, as toys based on female characters wouldn't sell. As a result, the entire script had to be changed, and led to the downsizing of both Ellen Brandt's and Maya Hansen's roles.

** Ever wonder why ''{{Film/Black Panther|2018}}'' and ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' were stuck in DevelopmentHell until 2014? Well you can blame Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, a racist and misogynistic PointyHairedBoss who believed, [[IRejectYourReality and could conceivably still believe]], that audiences wouldn't want to watch movies with non-{{White Male Lead}} heroes (a belief that rings rather hollow given the success of ''Film/TheHungerGames'' and ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}''). Perlmutter himself would only allow Marvel Studios president Creator/KevinFeige to make ''Black Panther'' and ''Captain Marvel'' on the condition that Feige would make an ''Inhumans'' movie[[note]]Feige had no interest in adapting the Inhumans in the MCU, but Perlmutter wanted the Inhumans to replace the X-Men in the MCU. That movie never did end up happening, instead being made into a [[Series/{{Inhumans}} TV series]][[/note]]. This issue, among many other questionable decisions Perlmutter made, led to Disney sacking him as Marvel CCO in October 2019 in favor of Feige.

** ''Film/Alien3'' had a legendarily TroubledProduction. 20th Century Fox spent millions of dollars over a period of four years trying to get the script up and running -- every director who signed up left, either due to creative differences or refusing Fox's mandates (such as the inclusion of Sigourney Weaver). Fox then brought on rookie director Creator/DavidFincher, whom they believefd they could control. Fincher had other plans and started several battles with the producers. Fox prevented Fincher from shooting key scenes (which he shot anyway), sent him back for reshoots after a deliberately botched test screening (using, as actor Ralph Brown put it, "brain-dead kids from Southern California"), insulted him on several occasions and eventually locked him out of the editing room. The producers would also try to hide the story of the film's production, blocking the original version of the making-of documentary ''Wreckage and Rage'' (itself originally titled ''Wreckage and Rape'', telling you what the creators thought of it). Fincher hated the final product and was even so discouraged from directing that he almost turned down ''Film/{{Se7en}}''.
** The original film itself has a ''positive'' version of this trope, according to some sources. The film's executive producers, Walter Hill and David Giler, ended up writing the final shooting script on the film, modifying Dan O'Bannon's and Ronald Shusett's original treatment. Among the changes they made was the introduction of the character Ash and making the characters' dialogue flow more naturally, befitting their role as "truckers in space."

** Creator/DreamWorks decided that Cameron Crowe's original vision of the film as a "band on the road" movie wouldn't appeal to audiences, so the theatrical version removed a large amount of Stillwater material in order to reshape the film as a love story between William and Penny. To compensate for tampering with the film, Dreamworks later released the "Almost Famous Untitled: The Bootleg Cut" DVD, which features the film as Crowe intended.

* The classic FilmNoir ''Film/TheBigSleep'' had positive executive meddling. The film was completed in 1944, but then shelved so the studio could push through its backlog of WWII movies. It was finally released in 1946. In the meantime, stars Creator/HumphreyBogart and Creator/LaurenBacall had married, and the pair's first film, ''To Have and Have Not'', had been released, demonstrating their bankable chemistry. ''Film/TheBigSleep'' was recut and new scenes, mainly featuring the two leads flirting, were inserted. This made the movie even more confusing, but the results were worth it. The original 1944 version survives, though, as it was shown to U.S. troops overseas during the war; both are available on DVD.

* During filming of ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', Universal kept pressuring John Landis to replace some of the African American musical stars in the cast like Music/CabCalloway and Music/ArethaFranklin with acts like Rose Royce who were more contemporary and successful (the notable exception was Music/RayCharles). Such changes would have [[LifeImitatesArt contradicted]] much of the {{Aesop}} behind the movie, to give respect and attention to blues, jazz and R&B's rich history and traditions, which were being neglected as new trends in music were emerging and traditional black musicians were being forgotten. Landis refused the changes, but as a result some theater chains refused to book it into their theaters in white neighborhoods.

* A draft of the first ''Film/CharliesAngels2000'' film was written by Creator/BarrySonnenfeld, but a subsequent rewrite trashed everything except the opening scene, which doesn't inform the plot. Sonnenfeld joked that he wrote everything except the plot, dialogue and characters.
* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': Originally, [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4004942336/nm0341587 Rhianna Griffith]], the actress who played Jack, was slated to return, a decision backed by Vin Diesel. Instead, [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2464388352/nm1111968 Davalos]] got the role because studio executives thought she was prettier. Likewise, the second live action movie featured significant cuts which made the movie less fun to watch.

* The Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse was once plagued by reactionary responses by Warner Bros. executives following the poor reception of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' among critics and audiences. It has recovered from this since ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}''.

*** And then came the competing cuts. Warner Bros. felt that the movie didn’t deliver the fun, edgy tone that the “Bohemian Rhapsody” trailer captured. So while David Ayer continued to work on his version of the movie, Warner Bros. began working on another with help from Trailer Park, the company that had made the trailer. Multiple editors worked on Suicide Squad, though only John Gilroy is credited. Although, according to a source who worked on the movie, he left by the end of the process and that the final editor was Michael Tronick.

* ''Film/Deadpool2016'' had its working budget cut by Fox, from $65 million to $58 million dollars, ''right before the film was about to start production''. Tim Miller admitted that this helped the film's pacing, and led to some action scenes being cut, as well as introducing a RunningGag of Deadpool forgetting his duffel bag. The film also makes fun of only two mutants being around in the X-Mansion due to the limited budget:

* Mostly averted in the case of ''Film/DropDeadGorgeous'', but not for lack of trying by New Line late in the production, according to ''[=BuzzFeed=]'''s [[http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/drop-dead-gorgeous-15-year-anniversary 15th anniversary piece on the film]]. After principal photography was over, while the film was being edited, New Line, which hadn't really paid much attention during shooting, looked at its tracking numbers and found that not only were very few potential viewers aware of the film, fewer still planned to see it. Panicking, they asked the filmmakers to recut the film LighterAndSofter, more like a conventional teen comedy along the lines of ''Film/{{Clueless}}''. But there wasn't much existing material to do that with, by then it was already too late to get the cast back together for reshoots, and most of the editing was done. The studio never realized that, as the screenwriter put it, it was a movie for girls who saw ''Clueless'' and said "Fuck ''them''!"

* The original cut for ''Film/EventHorizon'' was 130 minutes long, but executives at Paramount were unsure about this, given that the film would be rated NC-17. After a disastrous test screening, Paramount told director Paul W.S. Anderson to remove thirty minutes and cut some of the violence in order for the film to be rated R. Because of this, the running time was shortened from 130 to 95 minutes and the film was a critical and commercial disaster. Anderson has since regretted shortening the running time of the film. The 35 minutes of deleted footage were presumed lost until 2012, when [[WordOfGod Anderson himself]] said that a videotape containing the original cut was found while he was being interviewed at the San Diego Comic-Con.

** Josh Trank envisioned his film as being between 2 hours and 20 minutes long; the studio cut that down significantly to a little over 1 hour and 30 minutes, plus about 10 minutes for credits. Judging by Josh Trank's Twitter comment that he disliked the final cut, it also appears that the rumors that he wasn't very involved in editing and reshoots are true, meaning that the studio took over. Numerous reviews noted that the reshot scenes (in which Kate Mara wears a noticeable wig) are primarily in the second half, which feels like it belongs to a different movie than the first half.

** [[http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/07/fantastic-four-josh-trank-tweet Entertainment Weekly later revealed]] that [[PrimaDonnaDirector Josh Trank]] lost the dressing room because he was combative and abusive toward the cast, producers, and crew, at one point [[http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Miles-Teller-Josh-Trank-Almost-Got-Fistfight-Fantastic-Four-Set-77277.html almost getting into a fistfight with Miles Teller.]] This, combined with personal issues (such as Trank trashing his rental house in response to a landlord's complaint[[note]]the damage was so severe that, in order to stave off a pricey lawsuit, a Fox executive had to fly out to New Orleans to personally apologize for Trank's behavior[[/note]]), led Fox to pull Trank from the film's production prior to the reshoots. The same article also mentions that Fox insisted that Trank include Kate Mara as Sue Storm and as a result, the two didn't get along during principal photography.

** The film ends with the success of Project Mayhem and what appears to be a sort of reconciliation between Marla and Tyler, which differs rather greatly from the novel's ending. Even the book's author, Chuck Palahniuk, is said to have liked it better than his own ending, though he also mentions in his book "Non-Fiction" that the process of watching the book become the movie was deeply depressing, most especially the way actors such as Pitt and Norton wrote in their own bits of dialogue.

* As related by Frank Darabont in ''Fangoria'' Magazine, the meddling was rampant in director Chris Walas's ''Film/TheFlyII''. The screenwriters wanted to explore a number of themes, among them an exploration of what it means to be a son to a father. Those themes were dropped in favor of {{Squick}} and {{Gorn}}. Darabont says that at the first screening, Walas turned to him at the film's conclusion and said, "It's not the movie I wanted to make, either." Creator/MelBrooks reportedly remarked that, "In all my years, I have never seen such vile studio interference on a project." The worst thing? All these decisions were made by executives who ''hadn't even seen the first film''.

* ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', just weeks before its scheduled release, was [[http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/g-i-joe-retaliation-reshoots-to-add-more-channing-tatum-20120530# pulled for reshoots]] to give Channing Tatum's character, Duke, more screentime (as a response to Tatum's increased box-office draw). It is also believed that the film was, in part, rescheduled over the studio's fears of the film bombing in an already-crowded fall 2012 movie market.

* There were two cuts of Michael Cimino's ''Film/HeavensGate'': a five-hour cut and a studio-mandated 210-minute cut. This was the only time during the film's production that Cimino would capitulate to studio demands.

* ''Film/GrizzlyMan'': Averted to the applause of a grateful nation. The executives wanted to actually play the audio recordings of wildlife activist Timothy Treadwell's final moments (basically, the audio of a man and woman being ''mauled and eaten by a wild animal'') in the film. Director Werner Herzog vehemently refused on grounds of taste. The most audiences got was his reaction to listening to the recording himself with headphones on so the sound couldn't be picked up. [[BrownNote Based on]] [[NightmareFuel his reaction]], [[TearJerker and merely Jewel Palovak's (Treadwell's ex-girlfriend) reaction to Herzog's reaction]], anyone who viewed that film ''really'' dodged a bullet. Hell, he even warned her never to listen to it and urged her to destroy it (she still has it, but won't listen to it or release it).

** The 2013 South Korean film ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}'' nearly went through Weinstein's editing machine as well, ignoring protests from the film's director, Bong Joon-Ho (famous for ''Film/TheHost''). The original unedited film was a box-office hit in Korea, and it also got positive reviews after screenings in the UK. Weinstein cut the film by 25 minutes and edited it to play up the action at the expense of character development. Bong fought for the original cut, pointing to the negative press surrounding the recut, and he got his wish -- but Weinstein [[http://io9.com/us-release-of-snowpiercer-will-be-uncut-but-its-still-1518265822 scaled back]] the number of theaters that would show it.

* The existence of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' is due to this trope. Steven Spielberg wanted to end the series with ''Last Crusade'', but both Harrison Ford and George Lucas insisted that a fourth film be made. It went through ''20 years'' of negotiation and DevelopmentHell, caused mostly by Lucas being set on very specific scenes and plot points that had to be used in the movie. Writers like Creator/FrankDarabont and Creator/MNightShyamalan either quit or were fired by Lucas. The film was finally made and released in 2008, when Spielberg had no other projects in sight and Ford had given an ultimatum demanding that the movie be done now or never.

* Michael Mann's ''Film/TheKeep'' is a rather severe example. Running over three hours originally, the studio haphazardly cut it down to 96 minutes, resulting in an incongruous, Creator/DavidLynch-type film. Characters spoke in fragmented conversations that seemed to skip ahead of themselves -- you can actually hear the mid-sentence cuts to the audio track in some places. Michael Mann has disowned the film, and author F. Paul Wilson has since refused to allow any further film adaptations of his novels.

* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', the Wachowski siblings had wanted to have the machines use the humans plugged into the Matrix as a gigantic neural network computer. However, executives thought that the audience wouldn't understand this, so they changed it to using the humans to generate electricity, even though this violates the laws of thermodynamics and creates several plot holes (though some fans find it a decent enough metaphor).

* The infamous scene from ''Film/{{Predator}}'' where the group freaks out and fires their guns wildly into the jungle was put into the film solely because the studio told John Mctiernan that the movie needed more "gun shooting scenes". So he added a scene where [[TakeThat the gun shooting was pointless.]]

* ''Film/ScoobyDoo'': Writer James Gunn wrote a PG-13 movie around urban legends and WildMassGuessing developed by fans. Despite these elements being filmed, Warner Bros. forced many of them to be cut to get a PG rating. Later on, Gunn's contract mandated that he write a sequel and he was forced to leave the ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake as a result.

* [[NeverTrustATrailer The trailer]] for ''Film/Shaft2000'' had [[MissingTrailerScene a fight scene on an airport runway]] between [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Shaft]] and [[Creator/ChristianBale Wade]]. That scene was supposed to be in the movie, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome but it didn't make the final cut]] because of Jeffrey Wright's role as drug lord Peoples Hernandez being more of the antagonistic role.

*** The existence of a completed [[ReCut Director's Cut]] of the film with 100% Snyder material has been confirmed, but it being released or not remains a riddle for the ages. Some media commentators speculate that some execs' egos still preclude it from being released.
** In general, much of the clashes between Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. stemmed from disagreements over the direction of the DCEU given how Snyder started out the ''de facto'' architect of the franchise. The studio wanted the DCEU to be a ModularFranchise similar to that of the rival Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, thereby allowing it to reach a wide audience. Snyder, however, wanted to make a 5 EpicMovie arc that adhered to his own DarkerAndEdgier interpretation, while leaving said films open-ended for other directors to follow when making their own (such as Creator/PattyJenkins on ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' -- he also collaborated with her on the project). This difference in creative visions, coupled with his own personal family troubles, lead to Snyder leaving directing duties in the franchise, and his original 5-movie plan getting scrapped.

* A draft of the first ''Film/CharliesAngels'' film was written by Creator/BarrySonnenfeld, but a subsequent rewrite trashed everything except the opening scene, which doesn't inform the plot. Sonnenfeld joked that he wrote everything except the plot, dialogue and characters.

** In ''Film/IronMan2'', studio execs clashed with Terrence Howard agents, leading to him [[TheOtherDarrin being replaced]] by Creator/DonCheadle. They also re-cut BigBad Ivan Vanko/Whiplash's scenes to make him less sympathetic. And they insisted on adding story elements that would help set up ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', which director Creator/JonFavreau thought made for a much less coherent story overall. Favreau was so put off by the studio that he refused to return for ''Film/IronMan3''.[[note]]As director, anyway, Happy Hogan, his character in the first two Iron Man films, still returned for that film and later MCU films.[[/note]]

** In ''Film/IronMan2'', studio execs clashed with Terrence Howard agents, leading to him [[TheOtherDarrin being replaced]] by Creator/DonCheadle. They also re-cut BigBad Ivan Vanko/Whiplash's scenes to make him less sympathetic. And they insisted on adding story elements that would help set up ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', which director Creator/JonFavreau thought made for a much less coherent story overall. Favreau was so put off by the studio that he refused to return for ''Film/IronMan3''.[[note]]As director, anyway, Happy Hogan, his character in the first two Iron Man films, still returned for that film and later MCU films.

** In ''Film/IronMan2'', studio execs clashed with Terrence Howard agents, leading to him [[TheOtherDarrin being replaced]] by Creator/DonCheadle. They also re-cut BigBad Ivan Vanko/Whiplash's scenes to make him less sympathetic. And they insisted on adding story elements that would help set up ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', which director Creator/JonFavreau thought made for a much less coherent story overall. Favreau was so put off by the studio that he refused to return for ''Film/IronMan3''.

* ''Star!'', the first collaboration between Creator/JulieAndrews and director Creator/RobertWise since ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', was a victim of this. Upon its release in 1968, it was an expensive flop, no doubt due to the rise of UsefulNotes/NewHollywood, the oversaturation of movie musicals, and Creator/JulieAndrews taking an [[PlayingAgainstType unexpected dark turn]] as stage icon Creator/GertrudeLawrence. The latter issue seemed to be the biggest issue in the eyes of 20th Century Fox executives. In an attempt to remedy this, the studio decided to re-release it with a dramatically altered fashion against Wise's wishes. Fox hacked a third of the film's three-hour running time, minimizing scenes involving Lawrence's inner demons to appease Andrews fans who only saw her as Mary Poppins or Maria von Trapp. The studio decided to release the new bastardized version under the new title of ''Those Were the Happy Times'' with an advertising campaign that tried to pass it off as a [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual sequel to ''The Sound of Music''. Unfortunately, this did nothing to make people flock to see it, and ''Happy Times'' soon faded into obscurity. Fortunately, Fox didn't junk the original three-hour version of ''Star!'' and the film has been seen in its unaltered state since at least the early-1980s.

* ''Film/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', already a TroubledProduction, saw the studio make things worse when they fired director Richard Stanley from his dream project because Creator/ValKilmer was notoriously unreliable. They replaced Stanley with Creator/JohnFrankenheimer, who managed to make enemies out of both Kilmer and Creator/DavidThewlis, leading to a disorganized shoot and a BoxOfficeBomb.

*** The existence of a completed [[ReCut Director's Cut]] cut of the film with 100% Snyder material has been confirmed, but it being released or not remains a riddle for the ages. Some media commentators speculate that some execs' egos still preclude it from being released.

* The Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse has been plagued by reactionary responses by Warner Bros. following the poor reception of ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' among critics and audiences.

** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' suffered immensely from studio interference after the disastrous critical and audience reception to ''Batman v Superman''.
*** After some internal debate, Warner Bros. decided to keep on Creator/ZackSnyder as they feared that firing him would be seen as a sign of weakness. However, Snyder was kept on a tighter leash with the studio mandating that the film must be lighter than ''Batman v Superman'' and have a run time of just over 2 hours.
*** The original ''Justice League'' script by Snyder and screenwriter Chris Terrio was intended to have a dystopian future where most of Earth's heroes had been killed and Superman had turned evil. However, the executives vetoed this plan following the negative reception to ''Batman v Superman'''s dark tone, so Snyder started over with screenwriter Chris Terrio on a different shooting script.
*** When Snyder's daughter died during post-production, he stepped away from the film and left co-writer Creator/JossWhedon to finish up the project. Whedon was then ordered by Warner Bros. to write and direct several reshoots that altered the film's original tone and plot. Some changes included changing the color palette, removing several of the serious plot points and character moments, and adding more jokes.
*** Given the mid-production changes, the filmmakers wanted to delay the film so that additional time could be spend on polishing the effects and properly editing the film. However, Warner Bros. refused to change the release date and forced the studio to stick to its original November 2017 release date.

** In general, much of the clashes between Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. stemmed from disagreements over the direction of the DCEU given how Snyder started out the ''de facto'' architect of the franchise. The studio wanted the DCEU to be a ModularFranchise similar to that of the rival Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, thereby allowing it to reach a wide audience and and support multiple spin-offs. Snyder, however, never intended the franchise to emulate the MCU as he wanted the DCEU to begin and end with a 5-movie arc that adhered to his own DarkerAndEdgier interpretation. This difference in creative visions, coupled with his own personal family troubles, lead to Snyder leaving the franchise and his original plan getting scrapped.
** To avoid further studio interference, the Creator/DCFilms division was overhauled with new management that led to producer Walter Hamada becoming president of the studio. As Hamada had previously worked with directors Creator/JamesWan and Creator/DavidFSandberg on Film/TheConjuringUniverse, neither ''Film/Aquaman2018'' nor ''Film/Shazam2019'' experienced the behind the scenes shenanigans and abrupt production changes that afflicted the other DCEU movies. The production of ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'', which is the first project to be produced solely under his leadership, also went smoothly,

* In ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'', the original plan was for Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger to be the narrator. The suits didn't like that, so Creator/{{Mako}} became the narrator. TropesAreNotBad; Mako's narration is so [[LargeHam high on pork content]] that it's impossible not to like it.

* The original ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' ending had Ash drinking too much sleeping potion and, instead of waking up in the present, arriving in the [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic future]] and screaming through the credits. When test audiences complained about the ending, meddling executives stepped in to request a new, much happier ending be filmed in its place. However, TropesAreNotBad; the theatrical ending is widely considered better, as it gives Ash some closure. The original ending, though, was used in the international release.

** To avoid further studio interference, the DC Films division was overhauled with new management that led to producer Walter Hamada becoming president of the studio. As Hamada had previously worked with directors Creator/JamesWan and Creator/DavidFSandberg on Film/TheConjuringUniverse, neither ''Film/Aquaman2018'' nor ''Film/Shazam2019'' experienced the behind the scenes shenanigans and abrupt production changes that afflicted the other DCEU movies. The production of ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'', which is the first project to be produced solely under his leadership, also went smoothly,

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 The Movie'' was originally invisioned as an origin story of how Joel got stuck on the Satellite of Love. The executives also wanted little (if any) movie riffing (obviating the point of the series), insisted on using only Universal's collection of movies, asked them to "dumb down" the riffs and add more cursing, rewrote the ending, imposed InvisibleAdvertising, and pared down the movie thinking people wouldn't get why it's so long -- leading to a film ''shorter'' than most episodes of the original series. It was bad enough to contribute to Joel Hodgson leaving the series.

** Ever wonder why ''{{Film/Black Panther|2018}}'' and ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' were stuck in DevelopmentHell until 2014? Well you can blame Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, a racist and misogynistic PointyHairedBoss who believed, [[IRejectYourReality and could conceivably still believe]], that audiences wouldn't want to watch movies with non-{{White Male Lead}} heroes (a belief that rings rather hollow given the success of ''Film/TheHungerGames'' and ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}''). Perlmutter himself would only allow Marvel Studios president Creator/KevinFeige to make ''Black Panther'' and ''Captain Marvel'' on the condition that Feige would make an ''Inhumans'' movie[[note]]Feige had no interest in adapting the Inhumans in the MCU, but Perlmutter wanted the Inhumans to replace the X-Men in the MCU. That movie never did end up happening, instead being made into a [[Series/{{Inhumans}} TV series]][[/note]].

** ''Film/Alien3'' had a legendarily TroubledProduction. 20th Century Fox spent millions of dollars over a period of four years trying to get the script up and running -- every director who signed up left, either due to creative differences or refusing Fox's mandates (such as the inclusion of Sigourney Weaver). Fox then brought on rookie director Creator/DavidFincher, whom they believed they could control. Fincher had other plans and started several battles with the producers. Fox prevented Fincher from shooting key scenes (which he shot anyway), sent him back for reshoots after a deliberately botched test screening (using, as actor Ralph Brown put it, "brain-dead kids from Southern California"), insulted him on several occasions and eventually locked him out of the editing room. The producers would also try to hide the story of the film's production, blocking the original version of the making-of documentary ''Wreckage and Rage'' (itself originally titled ''Wreckage and Rape'', telling you what the creators thought of it). Fincher hated the final product and was even so discouraged from directing that he almost turned down ''Film/{{Se7en}}''.

** Ridley Scott wanted to cast Creator/ChristopherPlummer as J. Paul Getty in ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'', but the studio insisted on the more bankable Creator/KevinSpacey (also requiring an elaborate makeup job as unlike Plummer he was a few decades too young for the role). This backfired in a ''huge'' way when Spacey's long history of sexual abuse was revealed just a couple months before the film's release, turning his name so toxic overnight that it was decided the ''more cost-effective'' option was to bring in Plummer like Scott wanted in the first place, get back all the cast and crew involved in Getty's scenes, and reshoot them all in just a few weeks while still aiming for the same release date.

** To add insult to injury, the film was meant to be over 30 minutes longer of footage which was cut out of the movie at the last minute to have the terrible 3D conversion as said above thanks to rushing this movie for its July 2 launch, and it was probably not worth it as it made the movie much worse with many of the major problems this movie has. And to add insult to injury the Novelization has over 20 differences some major that got axed out because of what happen!