10 Directors Who Sabotaged Their Own Movies

6. Martin Campbell - Green Lantern

On paper, Martin Campbell seemed like a fine choice to helm Warner Bros.' $200 million attempt to bring Green Lantern to the big screen.

After all, he turned in two of the strongest James Bond movies of the last 25 years - Goldeneye and Casino Royale - and proved he could handle big-budget thrills while remembering the human beings underneath it all.

But Green Lantern's egregiously CGI-heavy nature proved challenging for the filmmaker, combined with the fact that Ryan Reynolds was cast as Hal Jordan behind his back.

The director deemed Bradley Cooper his single casting pick, but back in 2010, Warner Bros. wasn't prepared to make him an offer.

As a result, Campbell and Reynolds struggled working together, with Campbell routinely picking the actor's performance apart and requesting an excessive number of takes from him.

This ultimately led Reynolds to state that he was relieved at the film's failure because he "dreaded" the prospect of doing a sequel, presumably with Campbell again at the helm.

Campbell's adversarial attitude towards his leading man clearly affected the overall quality of their work together, as extensive re-shoots were ordered several months from release, and fearing they had a director running amok, Warner Bros. eventually took the final cut away from him.

In recent years the filmmaker called the film a "failure" and admitted that the project was poorly conceived from the get-go.

Had he made more of an effort to play nice with Reynolds, though, perhaps the actor's performance wouldn't have played so flat, and perhaps Warner Bros. wouldn't have soured towards him quite so damn much.