Last month, Alan Taylor, director of upcoming Marvel sequel Thor: The Dark World revealed that there were going to be a number of re-shoots to incorporate new scenes and elements to the narrative. These particular story changes would be to add more Loki, capitalising on the popularity that Tom Hiddleston's performance of Thor's evil brother has garnered. The re-shoots will also be bringing back Anthony Hopkins as Odin and is rumoured to make a significant change to the end of the film. But, as much as fans love Loki, they love to squabble and doubt even more with many proclaiming that Thor: The Dark World is in trouble and heading for a New York Chitauri style disaster; but is it? Re-shoots aren't new to film production, nor is a production that has troubles or is an out-right disaster. So with that, here are 4 films which either seemed doomed due to troubled productions or required extensive re-writes and re-shoots.
4. Jaws
In 1975 Steven Spielberg was a young and creative filmmaker finding his particular style, and that is very much apparent in Jaws. Spielberg took some big gambles on Jaws which ultimately made the film the masterpiece it is today but which were a nightmare at that the time of filming. When filming began there wasn't even a finalised script, as Spielberg felt the first adaptation from Peter Benchley's novel didn't work and the script saw several writers take a chew on it. When filming began writer Carl Gottlieb was still working on it and received help from other writers as well as the cast themselves during filming. Ah, that cast, it's a great cast isn't it? So magnetic. Well, it almost wasn't, as just a week before the film Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw were not signed for their respective parts as Hooper and Quint, with both actors actually turning the roles down on first offer before being persuaded otherwise. Then there's the main star of the show: the shark. The shark that had been created for the film, Bruce as he was affectionately known, didn't work, and without a shark there was no film. But this actually ending up helping the film become the horror masterpiece it is as Spielberg had to rethink certain scenes and how he would use the shark throughout the movie. There were even more problems, such as Spielberg's decision to shoot at sea rather than on a sound stage which caused logistical problems, as well Shaw having a dislike for Dreyfus, and the film going over schedule and over budget which all put Jaws on the potential flop list. As history can attest, however, Jaws worked out just fine.