10 Actors Who Avoided Awful Movies Due To "Scheduling Conflicts"

While Richard Gere didn’t actually manage to avoid shooting this awful movie, the story surrounding his desperate attempt to is too hilarious not to mention.

Famous for its tricking of A-listers into starring without showing them any other parts of the film due to its sketch-comedy style and not allowing them to drop out once they’d agreed, producer Charles B. Wessler waited an entire year for Gere’s schedule to clear up.

Despite being a friend of Wessler’s, Gere’s demands following the year-long wait involved making sure the shoot didn’t run any longer than four days and moved the entire production of his scenes from Los Angeles to New York. Unfortunately for Gere, this movie’s production team were determined not to let a single actor slip through their fingers and his scenes were shot.

Director and producer Peter Farrelly (in his second appearance on this list) clearly knew his actors were trying to drop out, but he didn’t care. He is quoted as saying 'wait for them. Shoot when they want to shoot. Guilt them to death” to be his main strategy when actors attempted to quit on him.

The fact that Farrelly now has an Oscar for producing, directing and writing Green Book is so funny when remembering the production of this atrocity. Better luck next time, Richard Gere.