8. Richard Stanley Got Fired For Sh*t Val Kilmer Did - The Island of Doctor Moreau
Val Kilmer is know to be a notoriously difficult actor to work with, given that everybody who has ever had the pleasure of making a movie with the man has cited his intolerable work ethic. If it ain't Val's way, it's the highway. Now here's a really sad story: director Richard Stanley spent four years trying to get a movie version of
The Island of Doctor Moreau into the works, and eventually managed to get it into production over at New Line. But when production started, Val Kilmer decided that he didn't want to read his lines and wanted 40% less screentime. Roles were switched around, Marlon Brando and Kilmer argued with one other, and on day three, New Line had fired Stanley from his dream project because the director had failed "to keep Val Kilmer in line."