Movies That Were Stolen From Directors 

Honestly the real tragedy in the case of Once Upon A Time In America is that the stress of all the lawsuits and fighting with the studio took a massive toll on Leone’s health and he died only 5 years after it came out from a heart attack. According to people he knew him, that sharp decline in his health started during his back and forth with the studio

Studios still haven't learned to listen to the filmmakers and it's killing the industry

David Lynch is legit. Weird, but legit. He only sold out once, and that was Dune. And he's the first to admit it too. Since then he's just done his own thing, and he's done some amazing stuff. Not necessarily popular or accessible, but in my opinion honest. His ideas, his work. He doesn't take himself too seriously either, voicing himself in shows like Family Guy.

You forgot about The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), staring Clint Eastwood. Eastwood fired Philip Kaufman (the director) and took the directors duties for himself. This case is so infamous that the Director's Guild of America made a new rule, known as "the Eastwood Rule", which prohibits an actor or producer from firing the director and then personally taking on the director's role.

Marvel and DC spend hundreds of millions of dollars to produce a movie and entrust a director to bring his creative vision from script to screen. For producers and studios to leave the director out of critical intentions for the film is reckless, and makes for a disjointed, incoherent story. It's tantamount to having a racecar driver winning a race, only to have his lead sponsor CEO take over to drive the final lap.

How no studio executives didn’t see the absolute brilliance of Sergio Leone at the time is mind blowing, even award shows didn’t recognise his talent. The good the bad and the ugly along with once upon a time in the west are in my opinion his two greatest movies that at the time were just seen as spaghetti westerns and not masterpieces which in absolutely nuts

Hey man, I love your videos and I’m glad the channel seems to be growing. You make great content and the visual editing is always dope. One thing tho, a lot of times your voice sounds very muffled and I’m wondering if you have a really heavy pop filter or something. I usually have to turn my tv up by 10 to make out what you’re saying throughout the vid. Seriously though, love your content, keep it up.

Great video analysis. While "stolen from Directors" may be an overstatement, 99.9% of Directors don't own the films they make. The studio / production company / finaciers do. When Directors sign contracts with studio / financiers, they're bound by those agreements. If they go over budget, don't have final cut, or refuse to collaborate with the studio creatively, they can be fired from their own film, just like any employee. Final Cut is a proviledge employed by the selected few, even the most celebrated filmmakers don't make their best films with absolute authority.

Excellent video on this ongoing subject

Guess you could say Dick Richards and Burt Reynolds got a little...heated? :-D

To be fair, the studios *do* set up the criteria they want when a project starts, and if the delivered film goes outside of those criteria, what choice is there but to chop it down? “Cleopatra” is a go-to example when the studio wanted a three hour movie, and the director handed in a six hour movie. (Which was evidently very good, but which no one has seen since the initial screening) The studio compromised and made a four hour cut, which is pretty good, and which has the distinction of being both the biggest box office of the year, and also the biggest bomb of the year. Everyone went to see it, but at four hours they could only show it twice a day, and it cost so much they couldn’t possibly make money in it. The unfortunate thing is that these longer cuts often weren’t preserved because there was no concept of an aftermarket where longer cuts could be shown. I think the first movie to really make use of that was Dances With Wolves, which had a three hour cinematic release, and a four hour VHS release a year later.

Just so everyone remembers: the David Ayer situation wasn't restricted to the prior people in charge. James Gunn promised Ayer multiple times that he would let him release his cut of Suicide Squad at some point. Then, after Ayer talked about it in the press, Gunn told him "no." I guess Gunn just gets off on manipulating and humiliating people.

Blade runner’s producer’s happy ending is so bad. the paper unicorn ending is great. Makes u think

Once Upon a Time in America is a tragedy, imagine thinking you know what you’re doing with film better than Leone! Great video, thanks.

Would’ve loved it if you talked about Payback and it’s two cuts.

Dredd is an absolutely amazing film that definitely deserves a sequel..that said we were going to get a TV series named Mega City One but that now looks dead in the water

Tony Kaye sounds like a straight up nightmare 😅

I think the saddest part of the MCU is the way they treat their directors by using a pre-viz studio to make the complete film. Yes, pre-viz has been a part of filmmaking for a long time, but the way Marvel utilizes it is disrespectful toward the directors. This is something that Lucrecia Martel had to deal with when she was approached to direct Black Widow, and the studio told her that she didn't need to worry about directing the action scenes. Of course, she was expecting to be in charge of that as well, naturally. That's my concern about Marvel: why do they need directors if their vision will be limited or not to be needed at all?

Micheal Mann's "The Keep".

Blade Runner is one of the few times I actually prefer the narrated Theatrical Cut as opposed to the directors cut.

Now THIS has got me hyped for the upcoming Rebel Moon directors cuts! (just joking)

Tinto Brass and Caligula.

Denis Veneuve didn't get Dune right. He made his film. He didn't make Dune.

Wtf the main actor editing the film

All of your videos are incredibly difficult to hear unless you have headphones at max volume. The bass is too loud and your voice sounds like you are talking through layers of fabric while you hold something in your mouth.

a/k/a/ An Alan Smithee Project

Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil is just bad.

what's violent about punching a wall ????

Look up Dark Star.

Justice League and suicide squad are DC. They are NOT the same. Marvel has not destroyed films the way DC has.

Don't eat your words so we can hear clearly what you're saying.

SEX Machina 🤯

you sound like you're drowning

Blade Runner was made, the company that paid for it presented it to the public, the public loved it and it became a cult movie and then Scott proceeded to rubbish the version we all loved for the next two decades. So who stole what. NOBODY complained about the voiceover. NOBODY complained about the ending. NOBODY thought Deckard was a replicant. The whole thing has become an arguement when it didn't need to be. 🫤