10 Movies Delayed To "Get It Right" (That Still Got It Wrong)

10. Accidental Love - 6 Years Of Delays Can't Save A Half-finished Laugh-free Rom Com

This one is probably more famous for being a tortured production than the film itself, a deeply flawed attempt at mashing up romantic comedy and satire—that classic combination, as popular as peanut butter and broken glass. Based on a timely (way back in 2008, that is) satire of the US healthcare system, the film would have followed Jessica Biel as a woman who becomes a nymphomaniac after a nail is accidentally lodged in her head—except that scene was never filmed, leaving the film a confusing mess.

Financed by a known embezzler, the film’s production was halted over a dozen times before being cancelled altogether, though not before the film’s controversial director could alienate star James Caan enough for the actor to leave the project.

The US healthcare system may never have improved, but this didn’t help Nailed’s chances of securing a distributor as an unfinished project. That is until 2014, 6 long years after the production was first halted. Bolstered by the success of Russell’s then-recent Silver Linings Playbook and renamed, the studio threw out a cobbled-together cut which finally appeared in cinemas as Accidental Love—to universal derision, with critics hating the flick and audiences avoiding it