There must have been many times when producers wished they'd chosen a different project or hired more
actors or directors.
William
, widely regarded as the worst poet in Scottish history, played MacBeth in "
", and refused to die on cue during the final swordfight. His opponent, playing
, on the brink of exhaustion, had to loudly demand he fall down.
Two movie productions that caused embarrassment or financial loss in more recent times include the making of 1967's '
', which featured (in real life) a foiled plot by the locals to blow up a temporary dam in Castle Combe,
. The movie cost twice as much as it made, animals
and died, and the foul English weather caused production to move to
in the Caribbean.
A near disaster was the making of '
' in 1963. Costing $44 million with an original $2 million
, the film was plagued by illness, change of studios and directors. It was mainly the Box-office pulling power of the stars, Richard Burton and
, that finally put them into profit.
In
, the pop duo Milli Vanilli was awarded a
in 1990 for its debut album. This was later
when it turned out to be a massive fraud by their producer, with the duo lip-synching to
by other artists.
Who could forget the, er,
incident at the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show in which
tore off part of
's outfit exposing her right breast? Various sources claim it was
, though Ms. Jackson's staff insisted it was a '
malfunction'.
