10 Movies That Did Crazy Things When They Ran Out Of Money

10. Director Renny Harlin Spent $1 Million Of His Own Money To Fix The Script - Cutthroat Island

Films don't get much more calamitous than Cutthroat Island, the 1995 action-adventure film that bombed so catastrophically at the box office that it put studios off swashbuckling movies for almost an entire decade, until Pirates of the Caribbean reaffirmed their commercial viability.

The production was beset by numerous delays and on-set accidents which caused the budget to balloon to a ludicrous $98 million by the time it was all said and done - though some estimates peg it as high as $115 million.

Furthermore, the script just wasn't working during pre-production, and though Renny Harlin asked the producers to bankroll rewrites, production company Carolco Pictures was on the verge of bankruptcy and had no further funds to give.

As a result, a desperate Harlin ended up spending $1 million of his own cash to pay the writers to complete a new draft.

Even though Harlin was a rising superstar director after the success of Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger, that was still a majorly drastic move for any filmmaker.

And it was ultimately all for nought - the film was critically panned, with particular attention paid to its shoddy screenplay, while Harlin received a Worst Director Razzie nomination, and it grossed a brutal $10 million worldwide.