10 Movies That Destroyed Themselves

Don't Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde's follow-up to her directorial debut Booksmart, has done well in its first week of release, hitting opening weekend box office targets despite a troubled production, a familiar plot, and the title's absence of an essential comma.

Undoubtedly pressured by the runaway success of her first feature and the bidding war for her second, Wilde has not stuck the landing, generating an unholy PR sh*tstorm around the film that began when she failed to hold onto her male lead, Shia LaBeouf. Wilde claimed that she fired him, until LaBeouf produced video evidence that she had tried to keep him on the film and he had left of his own accord. This resulted in the hiring of Harry Styles, whose music world pull boosted the profile of the film along with all of its troubles.

To make matters worse, she shuffled the film around from the very beginning, including switching her and star Florence Pugh's roles. Whether this contributed to the toxic atmosphere between the pair is unknown, but the two had a fiery on-set relationship that began with screaming matches and ended with Pugh's absence from most press events.

Nonetheless, Pugh pulled through and gave a typically excellent performance, with Styles acting opposite her as a sort of black slate onto which the audience could mentally project the performance of a real actor.