10 Directors Who Quit Movies During Filming

10. David O. Russell - Accidental Love

David O. Russell's follow-up to I Heart Huckabees was originally supposed to be Nailed, a political comedy co-starring Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Though the film began shooting 2008, it was reportedly shut down 14 times during principal photography due to nonpayment of cast and crew, prompting Biel and Gyllenhaal to stage a walkout.

The film sat in production limbo until 2010 amid various financial woes, at which point Russell was summoned to complete reshoots for the film.

But Russell refused to return to shoot new material, claiming that original financier David Bergstein sabotaged the production for his own gain, while also objecting to Bergstein asking other producers to take 50% pay cuts.

As such Russell quit the film and the reshoots were eventually conducted without him. Due to Biel and co-star Tracy Morgan's contractual requirements, however, they were forced to take part in the reshoots unlike Gyllenhaal.

Nailed was eventually renamed to the more mainstream-friendly title of Accidental Love and released in 2015, where it unsurprisingly received predominantly negative reviews.