For a passionate and creative filmmaker, there’s nothing worse than the meddling Hollywood executive. Akin to the experience of having your ill-informed, slightly intoxicated and relatively estranged uncle wandering onto the production of your movie, making half-assed suggestions and trying to chat-up the dancers, the Hollywood executive is the first and only person you don’t want hanging around your set.
Because a movie executive is like having your own personal demon: somebody to stalk your every move, chipping in with “neat ideas” that no ordinary person would ever consider implementing – and usually only to garner a feeling of superiority in front of the crew. And yet most filmmakers have no choice but to relinquish control and take advice from their less-creative superiors. These are the guys who are paying for it, so why shouldn’t they?
And to be fair to a lot of big-time executives, they do know exactly what they’re talking about. Hollywood wouldn’t be the grand success that it is today without lots of top brass executives knowing exactly what they’re doing and – better yet – knowing exactly how to make big bucks. But reflect on the 10 “creative changes” we’ve assembled here, all of which were suggestions from Hollywood executives that – should they have been passed – would have ruined some of your all-time favourite movies. Blergh!
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All these right there is why Steven Spielberg will forever be awesome to me, just because of the response to Spaceman from Pluto alone.
Steven Spielberg is just a very intellegent, creative man who gave us some of the best films ever made.
I dint know that about LotR I knew he was selling it as 2 films.
This was certainly an eye opener!
lol @ ‘The Wookie Should Wear Pants’.
Am I the only person who thinks the Voice-over version of Blade Runner is the best?
I even prefer the tacked on happy ending.
LOTR as one film?
I would have liked there to be zero LOTR films. Utter garbage.
I’m genuinely confused by the “Spaceman from Pluto” one. How is that title even relevant to the plot?? o_O
It’s mostly because Sid Sheinberg is an idiot, he’s done that to many movies, always trying to suggest crap that would make the movie suck for some reason because he thinks it will make the movie better.