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** Gilliam has attempted unsuccessfully to relaunch production several times since 2005. He restarted preliminary work in 2008 with Robert Duvall as Quixote. Depp was still attached to play Grisoni, but because of his tight schedule he had to leave the project and was replaced by Ewan McGregor. In 2010, Gilliam announced that the funding had collapsed.
** In November 2014, it was reported that Don Quixote was in full pre-production once again, with [[John Hurt]] as Quixote and Jack O'Connell as Grisoni. Filming was set to begin in 2016, however it was announced in September 2015 that the film had been suspended again, due to Hurt being diagnosed with cancer shortly before filming (he died in 2017). A final filming attempt, this time with Adam Driver as Toby (who also helped secure funding), and Jonathan Pryce as Quixote, was unexpectedly announced in March 2017; the film finished its filming by June of the same year, and was finally premiered in Cannes on May 19, 2018.
* Pretty much any collaboration between [[Werner Herzog]] and [[Klaus Kinski]] was guaranteed to be this; most notably ''[[Fitzcarraldo]]'', which took the problems of ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' and turned them [[Up to Eleven]]. Among the many problems with the production was that, instead of using special effects to replicate the feat of towing a huge boat up and over the side of a mountain, Herzog insisted in doing it for real. Numerous serious injuries and at least one death resulted. ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'' was almost as troubled; though not as fatal.▼
** Herzog and Kinski's highly tempestuous relationship was chronicled in Herzog's documentary on Kinski -- ''My Best Fiend'' (yes, that's spelled correctly). Although the story of Werner forcing Klaus to perform his scenes at the point of a gun is apocryphal, he freely admits they both threatened on numerous occasions to kill each other; and actually attempted it at least once each.▼
** And, like ''Apocalyspe'', ''Fitzcarraldo'''s trouble production is the subject of its own documentary film, ''Burden of Dreams''. Near the end, Herzog speculates that he should give up filmmaking and go into a mental asylum.▼
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** George Cukor told the Soviet studio head how honored he was to be filming in the same studio where Sergei Eisenstein had filmed ''[[The Battleship Potemkin]]'' in 1925. "Yes," said the studio head, "and with the very same equipment."
* ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''. [[No Budget]], the directors clashing with each other, Graham Chapman either getting drunk or suffering from withdrawal on set, getting a location veto shortly before filming began, actors [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/trivia?tr0767057 rushing back to the hotel after wrapping for the day in order to bathe]...
▲* Pretty much any collaboration between [[Werner Herzog]] and [[Klaus Kinski]] was guaranteed to be this; most notably ''[[Fitzcarraldo]]'', which took the problems of ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' and turned them [[Up to Eleven]]. Among the many problems with the production was that, instead of using special effects to replicate the feat of towing a huge boat up and over the side of a mountain, Herzog insisted in doing it for real. Numerous serious injuries and at least one death resulted. ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'' was almost as troubled; though not as fatal.
▲** Herzog and Kinski's highly tempestuous relationship was chronicled in Herzog's documentary on Kinski -- ''My Best Fiend'' (yes, that's spelled correctly). Although the story of Werner forcing Klaus to perform his scenes at the point of a gun is apocryphal, he freely admits they both threatened on numerous occasions to kill each other; and actually attempted it at least once each.
▲** And, like ''Apocalyspe'', ''Fitzcarraldo'''s trouble production is the subject of its own documentary film, ''Burden of Dreams''. Near the end, Herzog speculates that he should give up filmmaking and go into a mental asylum.
* ''[[Dersu Uzala]]'', due to [[Akira Kurosawa]] having to work in the USSR as no Japanese studio wanted to fund him at the time. The resulting studio, Mosfilm, clashed with Kurosawa as his perfectionism did not fit the "deliver a certain amount of shot film per day" the company wanted. Union fights were recurrent, and cameramen were changed every week. There was only one interpreter - to a crew of mostly Russians! To make the tiger attack more realistic, a wild one was used instead of a domesticated animal - and needless to say, it wasn't collaborative. No wonder the film took 3 years to get ready.
* ''[[The Exorcist]]'' went over budget and schedule ($4,5 million and 105 days to $12 million and over 200 days plus 6 months of post-production!), and William Friedkin proved to be a [[Prima Donna Director]] who [[Bad Boss|didn't care much for the cast and crew]] (for instance, Ellen Burstyn complained that for the scene Chris is telekinetically thrown against a wall, the stuntmen were pulling her too hard... and Friedkin's response was a take so strong Burstyn injured herself!).To make it worse, there were strange events (such as the interior sets of the MacNeil residence getting burned) that lead people to consider the film cursed.
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* The 1996 ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau]]'' had two directors because dealing with prima donnas Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando (who were both going through bad days: the former, a divorce; the latter, a daughter killing herself) proved too much for Richard Stanley, who left for John Frankenheimer to take over (he faced the two on the same coin: [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,292752_3,00.html apparently] once he replied Kilmer with "I don't give a fuck. Get off my set!"). Co-star David Thewlis had such a terrible time making the film that he skipped the premiere and has vowed to never watch it. The final result shows how bad it was.
* ''[[Waterworld]]''. Budget overrun (from $100 million to the then-record $175 million), director Kevin Reynolds leaving and leading [[Kevin Costner]] [[Wag the Director|to further take over the film]], a hurricane destroying the sets, stuntmen getting lost or drowned... and [[Executive Meddling]] kicked in to order cuts and reshoots.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' already suffered badly with their series, as
** ''[[Turbo a Power Rangers Movie]]'' was just as bad. Initially envisioned as a reunion of the original MMPR cast teaming up with the new Turbo team, it fell apart when Walter Jones and Thuy Trang refused to give up their Guild membership cards to film. The explanation of the Turbo powers was dropped when David Yost left near the end of ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]''. The original cut was actually over ''three hours long'' and they were forced to trim it down to under two. Beyond all of that, it was no wonder the movie flopped!
* The movie version of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' was rife with problems. The original plan was for them to reveal how Joel got tossed onto the Satellite of Love and built his robot friends - Crow, Tom, Gypsy and Cambot. The executive liked it, but he didn't want the series' main catch - the riffing - to be prominent. This, along with a few other problems, lead to Joel Hodgson to leave the series halfway through Season 5. When the movie idea was picked back up, more problems came about - Universal would only let them use movies that they chose and they were stuck with ''[[This Island Earth]]''. They were forced to not only cut out movie scenes - which meant the entirety of the movie was shorter than your normal ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode - but lop one host segment and modify the last one, killing a [[Brick Joke]] set up from the very beginning. And the killing blow? The company producing this had the option of fully backing either this or ''[[Barb Wire]]''. [[It Will Never Catch On|Guess what they chose?]] (and considering [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?view=main&yr=1996&wknd=16&sort=avg&order=DESC&p=.htm how high the theater averages were], who knows how much it would have grossed without [[Invisible Advertising]]?)
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