10 Behind-The-Scenes Movie Stories Better Than The Actual Plot

10. The Actors Commission Their Own Script - MiB: International

The spin-off to the wildly varying franchise of Men in Black was set to be a huge success. Right up until Sony's Executive VP of Production left the studio and was not replaced. This apparently left the production without a mediator to stand between director F. Gary Gray and the infamous Hollywood super-villain Studio Interference. Producer Walter Parkes had a very different vision of the film than Gray - very different from the vision that stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson had as well. His interference changed the script they had signed on for so extensively they hired their own dialogue writers to join the crew.

The original script called for social introspection about topical issues such as immigration reform. And it even had a pop-star alien that would resemble The Beatles and merge into a single entity in the climactic final battle. But Parkes' rewrites changed the film into what Rotten Tomatoes calls "amiable, yet forgettable."

Gray and Parkes argued virulently about everything on set and in post production, even the color correction of the film. Gray tried to leave the production numerous times, but Sony convinced him to stay to see the film through to completion. In the end both Gray and Parkes submitted their own cuts of the film for review and the studio ultimately went with what Parkes had to offer.