10 Infamous Movie Box Office Bombs That Cost Obscene Money
9. The Call Of The Wild
The Call of the Wild came and went to little fanfare earlier this year, briefly coming agonizingly close to nabbing top spot at the domestic box office before drifting off into obscurity.
You wouldn't think that an old-fashioned adventure tale adapted from a novel that's over 100 years old and features an old guy and his canine companion as the two main characters would require an astronomical budget, but somehow the shaggy dog story cost a reported $150m to bring to the big screen.
Buck is clearly a breed of dog that hails directly from the uncanny valley, and there's something really strange about watching Harrison Ford in typical grizzled form interacting with a co-star that was clearly never there during shooting, because at no point does the CGI used to bring his faithful friend to life manage to fully convince.
The movie's box office performance is expected to lose the studio anywhere between $50m and $100m, and the only memorable thing about it is the brilliant fan theory that wonders if the adventures of Han Solo and Chewbacca in the Star Wars universe are a direct result of Ford's Jack Thornton taking some mind-bending substances when out with his dog in The Call of the Wild subplot we never saw.