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== Anime & Manga ==
* Niizuma Eiji, superstar manga artist and friendly rival to the main characters of ''[[
** To his credit, said condition was only when he had the number one ranked manga {{spoiler|, and only was implimented later with what both he and the chief-editor agreed on what being "number one" meant (which was at least ten weeks ranked number one in the polls)}}
** Some fans have suggested this is really his way out in case he [[Executive Meddling|loses creative control of his series.]]
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* This is the entire plot of the Japanese film ''Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald''. The lead actress of the radio drama requests that her character be made American. This leads to the other actors wanting their roles changed, then they want plot changes, and pretty soon, the radio drama is nothing like what was originally written. It doesn't help that both the director and the drama's writer are complete pushovers.
* This is how Neville Sinclair, the self-important actor played by Timothy Dalton, treats the director of his "Laughing Bandit" movie in ''[[The Rocketeer (
* In ''[[State And Main]]'' the lead actress was hired specifically to play a part that requires nudity and a sex scene (its implied she normally gets hired for her looks, not her talent) but becomes a Christian before the shoot and demands the scene be removed. The director fights it for much of the movie but the writer eventually finds a way to make it work somehow rewriting the character as a nun.
== Web Animation ==
* The ''[[
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* [[I Am Spartacus|Kirk Douglas]] got rid of the first director for ''[[Spartacus]]'' and brought in (then-)little-known Stanley Kubrick. Though directing the film made Kubrick famous, he later claimed that almost everything was really controlled by Kirk Douglas. It might have helped that, in addition to the lead, Douglas was also the producer. It's worth noting that the two of them were very good friends; Kubrick did it as a favor to Douglas.
* Crispin Glover tried to do this in ''[[Back to The Future]]'', but didn't have enough enough sway to get away with it. His "unreasonable demands" for the sequels may have been creative control, but this cannot be proven. Just as likely would be a paycheck equal to [[Michael J. Fox]]'s, despite being a tertiary character.
* [[Meryl Streep]] once said in an interview that a director had no place telling actors how to act, they simply "rented" their performance. <ref>Keep in mind that she probably meant that the director could tell the actor what they wanted out of the character, but had no business interfering in the actor's "process," which is a perfectly valid point.</ref>
* [[Samuel L. Jackson]] reportedly had it in his contract for the ''[[Star Wars]]'' prequels that his lightsaber be special and different. He became the first Jedi, [[Expanded Universe|at least in film,]] to have a purple lightsaber. He also stated in numerous interviews prior to ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]'' that he wanted to have a cool on-screen death. So Mace gets his hand chopped off, fried by Force lightning, then catapulted out a window to his death.
** The lightsaber thing is a lot less interesting than "it was in his contract." The actors have always had input in the design of their lightsabers (except when Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen needed theirs to match up with the original trilogy, but only for the final film.) and during the process, Jackson asked if his could be purple so he could find himself in the wide angle shots (and because it was his favorite color).
* Christian Bale was offered the part of Marcus in ''[[Terminator]]: Salvation'', but wanted John Connor. This expanded the role, and kind of threw things off-balance.
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* The [[DVD Commentary]] on ''[[Battlefield Earth]]'' makes it clear that [[John Travolta (Creator)]], not the director, was in the driver's seat. Considering his status as driving force behind the project and probable writer of the script though, perhaps the wonder is that he wasn't ''actually'' the director.
* [[Edward Norton]] was accused of this during the post-production of ''[[American History X]]''. Director Tony Kaye alleged that Norton had the film re-edited so he had more screen time. Kaye disowned the project, tried (in vain) to have his [[Alan Smithee|name taken off the film]], and sued New Line for nearly $300 million. Norton received an Oscar nomination for his performance. How Norton's cuts changed the final product is impossible to say, but if Kaye was angry enough to sue for over a quarter ''billion'' dollars over it...
** Norton also did this with ''[[The Incredible Hulk (
** Edward Norton supposedly does insist on a fair amount of rewrites and such to any project he's on--when he doesn't do it himself.
* [[Halle Berry]] became notorious for this, starting with ''[[X
** This led to the ''[[Catwoman (
* [[Orson Welles]] did this a ''lot''. No matter how [[One-Scene Wonder|small]] or [[Classically-Trained Extra|insignificant]] his role was (and what his [[Money, Dear Boy|motives]] were for taking the part), he always rewrote his lines, and in some cases even insisted on directing his own scenes.
* After his 1972 work in ''[[
** He refused to memorize lines for anyone, insisting that they be held off-camera on cue cards or, when technology allowed, to be fed via radio into an earpiece.
*** For ''Last Tango in Paris'', he asked Benardo Bertolucci if he could write his lines on co-star Maria Schneider's ass. Bertolucci refused to let him do it.
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* According to [[Joss Whedon]], [[Kevin Costner]] "fired" the director of ''[[Waterworld]]'' halfway through.
** [[It Got Worse]]. Costner demanded the movie to be shot in the ocean rather than in a water tank on land... which led to the construction of an expensive water tank set ''in the ocean''. Since there were no bathrooms on the set people had to be ferried regularly to land so they could poop. Throw in the fact that between takes Costner was living in a mansion with swimming pool and a cook for his personal use with all expenses covered by the producers and you'll understand that the rest of the crew was a bit upset. And last but not least, Costner demanded the SFX crew to hide his receding hairline ''digitally'' (not a cheap feat in 1995). The result? The most expensive film ever produced until the release of ''[[Titanic]]'', and one of the biggest movie flops ever.
* Sam Worthington caused a massive number of script changes to the 2010 version of ''[[Clash of the Titans]]''. The old script [[What Could Have Been|stayed relatively true to mythology and its modern interpretations]], [http://chud.com/articles/articles/23299/1/BY-ZEUS-THE-VERSION-OF-CLASH-OF-THE-TITANS-YOU-DIDN039T-SEE/Page1.html as well as having more gods, more consistent characters, and a less schizophrenic plot.] Worthington wanted a movie that could appeal to his nephew, and he was running off the high from ''[[Avatar (
* The release of the ''[[Tombstone]]'' Director's Cut on Blu-Ray has re-ignited claims that [[Kurt Russell]] was the actual Director. Kevin Jarre, the initial Director, was fired because he refused to cut the screenplay. Following that, George P. Cosmatos was brought in to finish the film. However, following Cosmatos' death in 2005, Russell claimed that Cosmatos was simply following Russell's orders (and did the same for [[Sylvester Stallone]] on ''[[Rambo]] II'') and received credit to avoid issues with the studio.
** Actually it would be issues with the [[Unions in Hollywood|DGA]] and the Eastwood Rule. In it, it is stated that an actor in the film can not take over the director's position if the director is fired. As such Russell wouldn't have been allowed to direct it and this was the reason Cosmatos was brought in.
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* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', [[Johnny Depp]] infamously decided to act like he was drunk the entire movie instead of trying to act like a [[Badass]] like the directors wanted. Though technically, he still ''was'' a badass.
** Also, Depp's off-kilter Jack Sparrow became the [[Breakout Character]] of the franchise, eclipsing the other two main characters to the point that, when Orlando Bloom and [[Keira Knightley]] declined to return for a fourth film, nobody noticed.
* [[Robert Pattinson]] does this in ''[[Twilight (
** Here is a reference on the site [http://impishidea.com/criticism/13/robert-pattinson-too-smart-for-twilight "books suck and Edward's a freak"].
* [[Sean Bean]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** Which, considering that Peter Jackson ''usually'' tried to stick to the books as much as possible while still making decent movies, probably wasn't too great a stretch.
** Further, a number of Jackson's plot alterations were decried by hardcore fans, so Bean might've saved him some grief.
* A pretty dark example of director wagging took place on the set of ''[[Blade|Blade Trinity]]'' if writer [http://efilmcritic.com/feature.php?feature=1451 Chris Parry] is to be believed. Wesley Snipes didn't like the Director (David Goyer, who wrote the first two ''[[Blade]]'' movies and co-wrote ''[[Batman Begins]]''), and decided to do the least amount of work imaginable in response. He was only on set when a shot required him to face the camera directly (his stunt double had to fill in the rest of the time) and seemed to go out of his way to be a dick to everyone involved when he could be bothered to show up.
* There were a few lines in ''[[Star Trek VI:
** This also led to an induced [[Plot Hole]]. During the final battle, Captain Sulu and the ''Excelsior'' was supposed to [[Big Damn Heroes|arrive dramatically]] and use its [[Chekhov's Gun|charting gaseous anomalies]] equipment to jury-rig a heat-seeking photon torpedo. Shatner, however, insisted that the ''Enterprise'' should save itself. In consequence, the ''Excelsior'' arrives just in time to be shot at, and the gaseous-anomalies equipment is [[Ass Pull|magically]] onboard the ''Enterprise'' instead.
** Shatner was quite reluctant to do the "getting old" theme in ''[[Star Trek II:
*** A trend which reversed itself decades later on ''[[Boston Legal]]'', where about a third of Denny Crane's lines are about his aging and somewhat sad deterioration. (another third is about women, and the remainder is about... well, anything at all; you never really know what's coming next. Mad Cow, you see.)
* Steve McQueen only accepted to be in ''[[The Great Escape]]'' on the condition that motorcycle stunts were added in just for him.
** The studio complied for the most part, but did not allow him to perform the iconic jump over the fences. A stunt double rode the bike during that shot for insurance reasons and because the studio did not want their big star to land in the hospital.
* The film ''[[
* [[Alan Rickman]] only agreed to play the Sheriff of Nottingham in ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' on the condition that he could play the character however he wanted. He played him as a [[Laughably Evil]] [[Large Ham]] in an otherwise straight-faced (and some would say sucky) ''[[Robin Hood]]'' adaptation. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|He's often considered the best thing in the film]].
* [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] apparently did a lot of this during ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' (at least), greatly frustrating the director and some of the other actors. On the other hand, according to Kevin Smith (who told the story in one of his "Evening" shows) it's probably for the better: [[Executive Meddling|the studio]] apparently wanted a lot more low-brow humor and goofiness and weren't afraid to make the story suffer for it, which Willis essentially refused to allow. When they tried to tell him he couldn't make the changes he wanted, he [[Curb Stomp Battle|abruptly finished the argument]] by asking, "So who's your second choice to play John McClane?"
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* ''[[Growing Pains]]'' suffered badly from this after Kirk Cameron became a born-again Christian. Cameron began demanding final say over any and all scripts, demanded his on-camera love-interest/co-star Julie McCullough be fired simply for appearing in Playboy, and throwing tantrums whenever anything remotely sexual (be it something harmlessly non-verbal as his character having the keys to his girlfriend's apartment, which Kirk believed would imply that the two were fucking, or even a fake-out scene where Kirk is shown in bed with another woman, as part of a play he was doing). In 1991, the executive producers had finally had enough of Cameron, and quit the show, which was quietly cancelled a year a later.
* Neal McDonough is an extremely strict Catholic and as such, refuses to do any sex scenes on any show he appears in, citing his religious beliefs as reason. A more positive example of this, would be his demand that his character on ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' be given a redemptive ending (sparing the life of Susan and Mike's kid at the last minute) and ending up in a catatonic state in a mental institute, surrounded by imaginary versions of his dead family. Though this ending did piss off some people behind the scenes (series creator Mark Cherry), as previous attempts by cast members to control their character's storylines were shot down by Cherry.
* Danny Devito is up for pretty much any depraved storyline the writers of ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
** Of course, that story was just a gag to see how far they could push him.
* Toward the end of his tenure as the Fourth Doctor on ''[[Doctor Who]]'', [[Tom Baker]] was becoming pretty insufferable, demanding a minimum of retakes and, because of his volatile romantic relationship with Lalla Ward ''(who played Romana on the show)'', occasionally refusing to be so much as in the same room as her. This meant that they did not rehearse scenes with each other and barely even looked at each other on camera. In his final season, Baker met his match with a new production team, led by John Nathan Turner, who began instituting the now-infamous [[Limited Wardrobe]] and other creative edicts, and eventually left the show.
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== Music ==
* During the filming of [[
* According to the oral history ''I Want My MTV'', director [[John Landis]] was shocked by [[Michael Jackson]]'s crotch-grabbing "panther dance" when shooting the epilogue of the "Black or White" video. He warned Jackson that he had a kid-heavy fanbase (unlike [[Madonna]] or [[Prince]]) and that he was courting trouble with his moves, but Jackson said he was "expressing [him]self" and was able to overrule Landis's objections. When the video premiered on a four-network simulcast in the U.S. -- Fox aired it immediately after an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' -- the resultant furor over the epilogue (both over the dance moves and its seemingly random violence) resulted in it being ''immediately'' cut from subsequent airings, though it was later re-edited to justify the violence and even shown uncut in later years.
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