8 Films Disowned By Their Directors Before They Were Released

Solar Crisis is a pretty unexceptional entry in this list. The film itself isn't good, but honestly it's not terrible either. It's not aged very well over the past couple of decades, but it's not offensively bad by any stretch of the imagination. It also didn't have a troubled production schedule, instead completing its production in well under a year.

What is significant however is that it's the only entry in the list to feature two separate discredits. After the film under-performed in Japan (where it was first released) the production company behind the film optioned to reshoot some footage, which the director of the project, Richard C. Sarafian, felt uncomfortable putting his name to.

The weird thing is Sarafian's son, Tedi, was the one who helped rewrite the script to accommodate these reshoots. After helping reshoot his father's work, Tedi then decided he didn't want his name on the project either and opted for the pseudonym "Crispan Bolt" in place of the already taken Alan Smithee.

Also it's worth noting that the film's technical adviser went on record saying that landing on the sun was impossible, but the producers ignored him because they thought it'd be cool. Never change, Hollywood.