Making any movie is a collaboration of gigantic proportions combining the visions of directors, actors, screenwriters and the hundreds of other roles required to get a film up and running and hitting screens. But it often isnt plain sailing and egos, production delays and that old chestnut creative differences can all get in the way, and if the films here are anything to go by the comic book movie genre is particularly prone to it. Some of the films on this list survived and thrived despite their behind the scenes drama raking in huge box office profits, receiving critical acclaim or gained cult film status while some merely survived filming and the post-production process only to flop commercially and/or critically. But they all managed to hit the screens, and in a world where films are flushed too easily down the drain to development hell, that has to be counted as a win. So read on to find out which director allegedly encouraged Sean Connery to punch him in the face, why Fantastic Four flopped and who called Ryan Reynolds a cracker...
10. Josh Trank's "Toxic" Behaviour - Fantastic Four
Its no secret that this years Fantastic Four reboot was blighted by production problems and on-set tension. Beyond the unconfirmed but well-publicised rumours of director Josh Tranks erratic behaviour during filming, theres also been talk of 20th Century Fox demanding huge reshoots and re-editing Tranks original cut without him. Whether these rumours are accurate remains to be seen, though a now-deleted and not so cryptic tweet Trank posted a day before the films release in which he implied his vision of Fantastic Four had been hijacked by studio execs would suggest theres a grain of truth to them. The Results: Did the film survive? Well it hit cinema screens so it made it past the first milestone, but poor box office sales and receiving the worst reviews a Marvel-based movie has ever gotten in Rotten Tomatoes history means it wont be going down in cinema history at least not for anything good anyway.
