9 Directors Who Really F**ked Up The First Day Of Filming

4. Randall Miller Defied Shooting Restrictions & Got A Crew Member Killed - Midnight Rider

And now for a first day of filming so abjectly reprehensible it actually resulted in the movie itself being cancelled.

The William Hurt-starring Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider got off to an historically terrible start when, while shooting a scene on a railroad trestle bridge, assistant camerawoman Sarah Jones was killed by an oncoming freight train.

The production had not received clearance to be shooting on the trestle, causing not only Jones' death but also the injury of numerous other crew members.

Shooting procedure was immediately investigated while director Randall Miller hired a PR firm to handle damage control, in the hope that shooting could be swiftly restarted.

Amid mounting pressure from the worldwide filmmaking community and a lawsuit from Allman himself, the decision was eventually made to pull the plug on production.

The next year, Miller pled guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing and received a 10-year sentence, of which he served just one. It's safe to say his career as a filmmaker is over, though.