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Top 10 Famous Directors Who Were Fired
Typically, on the set, nobody wields more power than the director, whose vision as a storyteller brings the disparate elements of filmmaking together into a coherent, gripping, moving, and, if the stars are aligned correctly, highly profitable work of art. The egos, tirades, eccentricities, and influence of these Hollywood heavyweights are legendary, but they’re not the only power brokers in Tinsel Town.
Others have egos just as large or larger, possess even more clout, and hold greater sway in the entertainment business. Some are producers. Others are stars who are supposed to work for the very directors they oppose. When such titans collide, someone is bound to fall. Fortunately, many of their defeats, though humbling, are usually temporary, as directors of their stature and accomplishment are too valuable and talented to sideline for long.
Its screenplay was called
A Burst of Vermilian and it was to be directed by Stanley Kubrick, fresh from his success with Spartacus a year earlier. But working with explosive lead actors wasn’t on the director’s agenda and after firing Sam Peckinpah, he himself got removed from the project by Brando after six months of development work. The star had a definitive vision of making a bold statement, a reworking of the
Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett friendship that was in essence a father-son relationship, the conflict between the outlaw and the lawman; in a perverse twist, the outlaw chases the lawman after being betrayed, finding him in a picturesque, idyllic setting of Monterey and, after being reconciled, is humiliated and sadistically beaten up and sent out of town. Being the complex, dense, psychologically disturbing Greek drama that it is, he returns to exact his revenge in a way that could hardly be more complete; he seduces the older man’s stepdaughter, shoots him in the