1

“Super Mario Bros was a nightmare for the cast and crew. There were daily re-writes, [John] Leguizamo and [Bob] Hoskins would get drunk to endure the shoot, nobody really knew what the movie was about, the directors (A husband/wife team) were such jerks, they were fired during production.”

2

“The Wizard of Oz went through three directors during principal photography, a last minute Tin Man recast after the actor had a severe allergic reaction to the make-up, and several on-set accidents.”

3

Pulgasari. Fairly boring kaiju film set in medieval times. What's more interesting is that it was made thanks to Kim Jong-il kidnapping a South Korean director and forcing him to make terrible movies for the Communist regime in the 1980s.

4

“Best ever was "The Abyss". Should read about it. James Cameron had walk offs from the set because he was being crazy. There's a scene where they use hyper-oxygenated water in the suits to go deeper under water, and it's a real technology that can sort-of work, and Cameron asked Ed Harris to actually do it. Harris then walked off set. He was treating the cast like guinea pigs. Harris would've certainly died if he had accepted.”

5

“The Twilight Zone. Helicopter crash, caused by effects, kills Vic Morrow and two young kids, who never should have been working at the time. John Landis and others ended up in court for a decade. Sections of the final movie (it's four original series remakes by various directors) are good, but at the time I couldn't get past knowing this.”

6

Anthony Daniels was apparently a massive d—k to Kenny Baker, but from what I've heard he's that way to most people.”

7

“Bette Davis and Joan Crawford absolutely hated each other. They were also past their best acting days and the studio told the filmmakers “We wouldn’t give you a dime for those two old broads.” Then the film was a major hit.”

8

“1. Director Olivia Wilde left her long-term boyfriend, Jason Sudeikis, for Harry Styles after meeting on the set of the film (presumably). Obviously, there are unconfirmed rumors of infidelity. 2. There’s an apparent divide between Wilde and star Florence Pugh. Pugh hasn’t done much press for this movie, but also has been busy with filming the sequel to Dune. Though, her exit at the festival is pretty telling. 3. Shia Leboeuf was originally cast in the Harry Style role and even apparently did some scenes. Olivia Wilde claimed she had fired him because he had made Pugh feel unsafe on set, but Leboeuf claimed that he had in fact quit due to creative differences. I believe Wilde doubled down, but Leboeuf came back with a recording of a conversation.”

9

“Alien 3. The nightmare that was it's entire production is better than the movie. The rejected scripts are also pretty entertaining. The movie lost several directors went through at least 5 different scripts, entire sets were built that were never used and the movie started shooting without a finished script. The final movie is far from the worst in the series but the production was bad enough David Fincher almost quit directing and he never made a directors cut like the other directors of the franchise”

10

“Night of the Iguana. It was the 1964 film that made both Richard Burton and Liz Taylor truly notorious. As a Hollywood power couple, they were the Brangelina or Bennifer of their day, despite both being married to other people at the time: him to Sally Williams Burton, her to Eddie Fisher. Shortly after the film began shooting, Burton arranged for Taylor - with whom he had already had a torrid affair during Cleopatra - to fly in on a private aircraft, and set her up in a luxurious "love nest" in town, from where he commuted to nearby Mismaloya for the day's work. While their affair during Cleopatra was general gossip-sheet knowledge, the sheer blatancy of their doubly adulterous living arrangements in PV took first industry insiders, then the entire world, by storm. The scandal was also responsible for putting Puerto Vallarta on the map as a romantic tourist destination. Before the film, it was just another remote, sleepy and ill-serviced fishing village with little to recommend it to visitors. Today, it literally is ‘the town that adultery built’.”

11

“Roar (1981). They used real lions and tigers. Most of the crew was injured at some point throughout the production and you can see the real fear in the actors' eyes.”

12

“Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando apparently had a bit of a feud on the set of Guys and Dolls (1955), as Sinatra had wanted the lead. Brando asked Sinatra for help with some of the musical numbers, and Sinatra brushed him off saying that he "didn't go for that Method". In one scene that had Sinatra eating cheesecake (which he hated) while Brando talked, Brando would purposely do the scene perfectly and then mess up the last line, so they would have to re-do the scene, and Sinatra would have to have another slice of cheesecake.”

13

“I'm not sure how well known it is, but Lucy Liu reportedly took a swing at Bill Murray on the set of Charlie's Angels when he told her she couldn't act.”

14

“BLADE III for sure... Wesley Snipes smoked weed all day, tried to strangle David Goyer, Goyer bringing in bikers as his 'security', main star and director only communicating through post it notes…”

15

“In the final scene of the 1970 film 'Maidstone', actor Rip Torn gets too into character and attacks director/actor Norman Mailer with a hammer to the head. Mailer fights back biting Torn's ear while being strangled. All of this made it into the final cut.”

16

“One of my favorites is when they were making True Grit, John Wayne f—g hated Dennis Hopper. Wayne's daughter was on campus for the Kent State riots/shooting and I think she even got minor injuries or something. One night they were shooting something with Hopper at the Warner Brothers lot, and a helicopter lands. Wayne gets out with a gun and was like "Where is that commie hippie piece of s—t Dennis Hopper?? I'll f—g kill him!" They had to hide Dennis Hopper on the set, then talk the Duke down and get him out of there. (If I remember this story was in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls).”

17

“The leaked Sony emails revealed that David O. Russell was so abusive to Amy Adams on the set of American Hustle that Christian Bale had to step in to defend her.”