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* [[Dennis Hopper]]'s attempt to follow ''[[Easy Rider]]'' with an ambitious project he was conceiving for a while, ''The Last Movie'', [[Follow Up Failure|bombed so hard]] that it prevented Hopper from directing again for nearly a decade.
* Leo McCarey directed two movies of 1937: the light comedy ''[[The Awful Truth]]'' and the cynical drama ''Make Way for Tomorrow''. When he received the Best Director award for ''The Awful Truth'', he said that he'd been awarded for the wrong movie.
* Out of all the actors to play [[Batman]], [[Batman Forever|Val Kilmer]] has never been very well received. Many loved [[Batman (film)|Michael Keaton]] and hated [[Batman and Robin (film)|George Clooney]] but were really just indifferent to Kilmer, finding him [[So Okay It's Average|dull]]. However, Batman creator Bob Kane felt that he played the character best. (Granted, Kane died before [[Dark Knight Trilogy|Christian Bale]] and [[DC Extended Universe|Ben Affleck]] donned the cowl.)
* [[David Cronenberg]]'s (arguably) two most popular films, ''[[The Fly]]'' and ''[[A History of Violence]]'', were actually born out of [[Troubled Production]] on two films - he went into the director's chair on the former after he was fired from production on ''[[Total Recall]]'', and in the commentary, says he was "interested in it somewhat" (he didn't write the original script, just some patchwork), and admitted that he didn't like the original 1958 film. The latter film is one which he did [[Money, Dear Boy|primarily for the paycheck]] after having to defer his salary on the now-forgotten ''Spider''. Unlike many of the creators here, he has come to appreciate these projects, and talks in interviews about doing a potential companion piece to ''The Fly''.
* [[Roberto Benigni]] has stated in several interviews that he wanted to do his version of ''[[Pinocchio]]'' since he was a child. It was only after the success of ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' that he was given the freedom to pursue this project, which was poorly received outside of Italy. Nevertheless, about a decade and half later he filmed and produced a second version of the tale (with himself as Gepetto instead of the titular puppet) that got a comparatively better reception abroad.
* ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' was a pet project of [[Zack Snyder]] that got negative reviews and barely recouped its budget at the box office.
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