10 Directors That Were Fired 

Theres no better feeling than watching a Mr Sunday Movies video and then realising Mason's in the video too.

This whole video could just be about The Flash movie directors.

Any fired director should be replaced by Michael Joseph Jackson.

Disney really jumped the Gunn, huh

6:42 I always imagined paul rudd would just duck down and scurry off screen when he had to shrink in the movie, glad to see it confirmed.

We know that James and Maso were all in on Justice League.

One of the most interesting director change ups for me is Wizard of Oz. Five different directors over the course of production, and somehow they still made a classic. And one of those directors left to direct Gone With the Wind. Crazy times.

I’m almost positive that James slipped a “we both enjoyed it” past Maso on the podcast this week. He’s officially all in

You know who wasn't fired? Michael Joseph Jackson

I was also scarred for life by the Cyborg in Superman III.

Hahaha I love Superman 3...And so it seems I'm not the only one creeped out by the woman becoming a robot. That scared the crap out of me as a kid!!

I hope he goes off topic and rants about something unrelated

It’s funny seeing this justice league scenario being talked about back then and then now seeing what’s happening in 2020 is crazy

Holy shit I am early. I give this video the Pitts not the pits

#ReleaseTheYouShouldProbablyMoveCut

That robot in Superman 3 freaked me out so much as a kid, but yeah that that fight where Supes fights himself was pretty cool

Technically George Lucas wasn't fired, he just sold the company , he wasn't even attached to Disney at any point

Great video as always Mr Sunday

I thought that his eyes opening in Rogue One looked more like the directed said "cut" and he looked to the camera but they just didn't notice

Justice for James Gunn!! #rehirejamesgunn

I think we've heard a bit of what Lucas wanted to do with EP7 and tbh it seemed like a pretty cool idea. Would really like to have seen his version of it.

Thank you. I was mindlessly refreshing my feed looking for something interesting early af

We're all here for a Michael Joseph Jackson joke

Fun video! I was thinking that another big director change was Del Toro for The Hobbit. Really interesting story behind all that too! Keep up the good work, m8s!

So glad there two of you to make list videos not boring

I'm so fucking pissed about the James Gunn thing that I'll see Suicide Squad 2 in theaters twice, but not ironically this time. Also skip Guardians 3 or not pay to see it in theaters like a cool guy who steals movies.

That robot lady messed me up bad when I was little. It was too much the way she was pulled in screaming.

I want all the fired directors to immediately start working on projects for the competing companies.

I completely forgot about Superman 3, and watching the short scene with the creepy robot thing brought back repressed fears.

Wasn't Spielberg suppose to direct Return of the Jedi but couldn't because of the screen actors guild or something?

Mr. Sunday Movies been Gnoming us for years.

Me, liking a video with 2.1k likes already: Oh sweet, that'll make it 10

So would Lord and Miller or Edgar Right make a better Guardians 3?

Darth Maul flashing his lightsaber on the facetime call like the roadman he is😂

Alien 3 fired their director (David Fincher) midway through shooting

love the title, gets straight to the point

You know that when Mason jumps in outta nowhere it’s gonna be a great video

1:01 I love the ad on the side predicting a 2021 flash movie That movie is never coming out

Thank you for mentioning how absolutely terrifying the robot is in Superman III!!

In Hawaii on vacation and I still listen to James and Maso

It's so rare I agree with the assessment of so many movies with an RU-vid personality. You guys summed up my opinion of Rogue One perfectly.

That evil superman looks badass

Lol, I almost noped the fudge out of here when you guys hit on that robot in superman 4... I couldn't sleep for weeks, I was so mad at my parents. Lmfao

James Gunn has returned🔥🔥🔥

If a studio interferes so much that the film isn't what it was going to be under a director, then it is like the director was fired. Think Trank in Fan4stic. I reckon his would have been great.

“And that’s ten” may very well be your best catch phrase ever James. That’s a keeper for sure (I say, knowing it’s going to be gone by the next video).

12:50 Where's that awesome graphic from???

You guys always crack me up.

the cat in the hat clip fits perfectly well done ben

Controversial opinion, Rogue One is the second best Star Wars Movie after Empire

Did this video actually have any mention of James Gunn being fired?

Likely the greatest opening lines on any youtube video ever.

Man, when you brought up Cassiens eyes at the end of Rogue one before he was obliterated. Funniest thing...

If Gareth Edwards was replaced then why was he still credited as director? And regardless of what happened I really love R1.

Richard Pryor! Never speak ill of him! Outrage! He actually did all his own stunts including that ski jump. Fight me.

Does anyone know what the name of the clip from 5:18 is called??

12:49 what video?

I appreciate the Lumière brothers reference at 0:28

That darth Vader scene at the end of rogue one was friggin awesome.

It was Superman 3. Another mystery of my childhood, solved.

I’m glad that you made it 10

Film Lucas George...

Lucas never intended to direct Episode 7. He said himself that he was already retired from directing.

The wizard of oz had FIVE directors. Why don’t more people talk about this?

I didn't notice the maul thing with his lightsaber until they mentioned it but it is so ridiculous when you notice it 🤣

If I don’t hear “out of a canon” at some point...

History is almost repeating it self with the Donner cut/Snyder cut situation. WB never learns from their mistakes and that's why they keep rebooting.

For at least some shots in the Rogue One trailer, Gatheth Edwards deliberately shot any random thing he thought looked cool to use for trailers, sort of knowing it wouldn't be used in the movie. Which I think is a pretty good idea, because it worked really well here. The trailers did a great job of showing you what kind of movie it'd be, but also didn't spoil anything because half the shots werent actually in the movie. Its a shame the Jyn vs TIE shot didn't make it in though, that was a really cool shot.

The ant man scene with Luis which everyone loves must've come from Edgar Wright

we need to figure out how to jump timelines Man in the High Castle style so we can see all these alternate movies

I want George Lucas to direct a star wars movie even a spinoff would be cool

What is the video called that begins at 12:48 pls tell me.

You can balance perspective, but can you bring balance to the force?

You forgot Bryan Singer for X-Men: The Last Stand and Bohemian Rhapsody (even though he's officially credited for the latter).

12:39 sublime editing

We do know what Rogue One's ending originally was (kind of). Gareth Edwards stated that those shots of the team running across the beach in the trailer was actually the team running towards the transmission tower after they got the death star plans from that archive room. Originally the transmission tower was NOT part of the same base, but when it came to editing the movie they felt it was too long and wanted to compress the story a bit, so in the reshoots they simply made it so the transmission tower WAS part of the main base so all those shots of the team running across the beach facing off against the AT-ACT's were cut.

The original plans of Lucas for episode VII were insane. Basically the protagonists would go to a microuniverse and meet a race that controlled the Midichlorians or something like that. George himself said fans would've hate it (though to be fair, it's hard to release a Star Wars movie and not have at least part of the fandom to hate it). Weird as it sounds I find it fascinating.

At this point I’m more interested in the “behind the scenes” of the new Star Wars movies than I am in the actual movies.

No joke: I was watching the “Rogue One” portion of this video, and was interrupted by some masterclass directing commercial featuring Ron Howard. So close.

That robot scarred my life. Also you guys should watch the documentary and do a video about the Iranian company that got the rights to superman then made superman 3 and 4. Electric Boogaloo: the Untold Story of Canon Films

I remember that pacific rim 2, was going to be directed by Drew Goddard, but I never learned what happened latter

Happened on Tombstone as well.

12:48 - 13:00 where is that from?

I was here to listen to you talk about James Gunn (you know, the fella you had in the thumbnail...)

Richard Marquand on Return of the Jedi, Tobe Hooper on Poltergeist.

Lucas has told his general outline for 7 to 9 and he says it would've wrapped up the Skywalker story

Patty Jenkins was interested in directing Thor: The Dark World, but Marvel didn't fully agree with her ideas and Alan Taylor, who directed some episodes of The Sopranos and Game of Thrones and also directed Terminator: Genisys, was hired.

Firing James Gunn was Marvel's greatest mistake since 2003's Daredevil.

Superman III is the only good Superman movie This is the hill I've decided to die on. It is very nice.

Honestly I think seeing the tonal shift in Solo and Rogue One are refreshing...

I'd even watch a video of these guys if it was just them saying "bananas" back and forth for two minutes.

Until recently, whenever James said Lord and Miller, I thought he was saying Lorden Miller. I had no idea who that was

Where is the Goat Man puppet? I demand more puppetry from this silly channel

I don’t know if this counts, but there were multiple replacement directors on The Wizard of Oz. The first director, Norman Taurog, who only did some early Technicolor tests, was replaced by Richard Thorp, who did about two weeks of filming. Feeling like he was rushing production, Mervyn LeRoy replaced Thorp with George Cukor. Cukor didn’t actually film anything, instead he acted more as a “creative advisor” until he had to leave due to a prior commitment of filming Gone with the Wind, and was replaced by Victor Fleming. The main director who did the most filming, Victor Fleming, was forced to leave the filming by the studio to help film Gone With the Wind after that movie was experiencing some issues. Fleming was then replaced with King Vidor who was assigned to finish the film, and he was the one to direct the Kansas scenes. Heck, even on IMDB, Mervyn LeRoy, one of the producers, is listed as an uncredited director.

I met Joe Cornish at a film festival, and he said that the final version of Antman is about 60% his and Edger Wrights original script. most of the 3rd act is taken straight from the original version of the film.

A lot of people complain about Alien 3 given how good the first two were in comparison but considering the development hell that film went through I'm amazed it turned out as well as it did. The director's cut/alternate scenes aren't great so I think they made the right call.

You’re the only other person besides myself that I’ve heard say the Rogue One space battle was tippity tops so I felt like I understood and we had a connection you but then you said the Darth Vader scene at the end was only “good” and you “liked it” while I think it’s the greatest scene ever from the whole franchise so now I feel like I don’t know who you are and there’s a rift between us. Your move.

George Lucas did say what his films would have been about. It was more Midichlorians and The Whils controlling the Force. "“Everyone hated it in Phantom Menace [when] we started to talk about midi-chlorians,” Lucas tells Cameron, who conducts the interview. “There’s a whole aspect to that movie that is about symbiotic relationships. To make you look and see that we aren’t the boss. That there’s an ecosystem.” And how would that have related to the sequels? “[The next three Star Wars films] were going to get into a microbiotic world,” he continues. ”But there’s this world of creatures that operate differently than we do. I call them the Whills. And the Whills are the ones who actually control the universe. They feed off the Force.” “Back in the day, I used to say ultimately what this means is we were just cars, vehicles for the Whills to travel around,” Lucas tells Cameron. “We’re vessels for them. And the conduct is the midi-chlorians. The midi-chlorians are the ones that communicate with the Whills. The Whills, in a general sense, they are the Force. GL: If I’d held onto the company I could have done it, and then it would have been done. Of course, a lot of the fans would have hated it, just like they did Phantom Menace and everything, but at least the whole story from beginning to end would be told." www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/george-lucas-star-wars-episode-7-8-9-microorganisms-disney-whills-midchlorians-a8398606.html

i wanna see a ‘knock-off’ film called ‘The Star War’ by a newly formed ‘GeorgeLucasFilms’ in which we follow a young boy, Sky Lukewalker (or Suke Liewalker - whichever is funniest) battle against Darth Voider by dismantling, brick by brick, a colossally large, cuboid shaped space station - ‘The Fatal Sun’

Do a bandcamp commentary for SOLO A star wars story