10 Filmmakers Who Blamed Actors For Failed Movies

2. Ron Hutchinson Blamed Marlon Brando's Laziness - The Island Of Dr. Moreau

1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the most infamously troubled movie productions of the 20th century, a powder keg of egos which saw young filmmaker Richard Stanley attempting to juggle the duelling egos of Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer.

Stanley was fired after three days of shooting, with veteran filmmaker John Frankenheimer then brought onboard to finish the film, which he did while clashing extensively with Kilmer.

The final product was a critical and commercial dud, and the best thing anyone got out of it was a fascinating documentary about the film's hellish conception, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau.

And while Val Kilmer tends to catch the lion's share of the flak given his well-noted rep for being "difficult," Dr. Moreau's screenwriter Ron Hutchinson insists that a tyrannical Brando was actually more to blame.

In a recent interview, Hutchinson called the Hollywood legend a "monster" who was "hell-bent on sabotaging" the production, refusing to read Hutchinson's written word and opting for improv instead, while routinely locking himself in his trailer and gorging on pizza.

Hutchinson, who spent much of the film's shoot on-set, called it an "awful experience." Spending months watching your toiled-over script be butchered during production is pretty much the most hellish scenario a working writer can surely imagine.