10 Movies That Were Only Made With VERY WEIRDLY SPECIFIC Conditions
1. A Subplot Involving A Mine Had To Be Added - Enemy Mine
And yet, studio demands don't get much more ridiculous or inane than those made by the stuffed shirts overseeing Wolfgang Petersen's 1985 cult classic sci-fi film Enemy Mine.
Enemy Mine starred Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr. as a human and alien who become stranded on a hostile alien planet and must reluctantly join forces in order to ensure their mutual survival.
It's a fun-if-flawed movie, with many complaining about the film's unnecessary inclusion of miner antagonists known as Scavengers.
Bafflingly, the miners weren't in the original script at all, but Fox executives felt that the title would confuse audiences if there wasn't, in fact, a mine and miners in it.
If you've ever wanted a crystal clear window into how little studio execs think of the average moviegoer, here it is: they couldn't even believe that Middle America would understand the possessive syntax of the title.