10 Woefully Troubled Film Shoots That Derailed Major Movies
6. Alien 3 Was Filmmaking-By-Committee Personified
When David Fincher then best known for his music video work stepped in to direct Alien 3, two other directors had already been and gone. Fox had squandered $7 million without even a finished script to show for it. Obviously, this wasnt going to end well. A teaser trailer was released which suggested that the Xenomorph race were headed for Earth. But Fincher was presented with a series of already-completed sets that forced him to tell a different story about a prison planet and Ripley with an alien in her womb. "I sort of allowed myself to be steered into this communal making, Fincher later told the BBC Film show, as well as mentioning that when the sh*t hits the fan in such a filmmaking-by-committee scenario, all of a sudden everyone scatters and you're the guy saying 'Wait? Who has a suggestion now?' With an inexperienced director at the helm, an unfinished script, and a studio who didnt know what they were doing, the result was of course - a disaster, in Finchers own words. Thankfully, despite getting stuck in Foxs rushing-to-get-a-sequel-out mayhem for a time, Fincher managed to successfully distance himself from the project and move on. He didnt even stick around for post-production.
