10 Insane Rules Movies Weren't Allowed To Break

As long as you cast women as the leads, are they really any other major rules a filmmaker needs to follow when making a Charlie's Angels movie? Apparently so, if the 2000 blockbuster adaptation is to be believed.

In addition to being one of the film's three stars, Drew Barrymore was also a producer, having acquired the movie rights to the property years earlier.

This gave Barrymore major creative control over the film, and one of her primary mandates was that the Angels never fire guns throughout.

It was an odd choice given that the original TV show had regularly featured the trio operating firearms, and yet Barrymore preferred to have them triumph through their martial arts abilities and tech skills. Co-producer Leonard Goldberg explained Barrymore's reasoning:

"We talked about that, and we thought that given the violence that's going on in our country... The villains have plenty of guns. They have big guns, small guns, rockets, helicopters, bombs, everything. But we thought, let the Angels show you that you can do it without guns."

As creative impositions go it's at least somewhat admirable from a moral perspective, even if the no-guns rule probably felt like an extreme restriction to the screenwriters.