It Was a Sh*t Show

Making the MCU is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Iron Man, from getting the film rights to The Avengers, to the casting of Robert Downey Jr, and filming a movie without a script.

Making the DCEU is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Justice League, from Zack Snyder leaving the film and Joss Whedon reshooting 90% of it, to removing Henry Cavill’s mustache.

Making a movie with 70 lions is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Roar, from taking 5 years to film to getting dozens of people mauled by giant cats.

Making a movie with your enemy is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Star Wars, Batman Forever, Terms of Endearment, Castle, The Notebook, and many more.

Making Superman sequels are hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, from stunt casting Richard Pryor to slashing a budget in half, days before filming.

Making puppets act is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Team America: World Police, from getting marionettes to drink scotch to removing a NC-17 rating.

Making a movie twice is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make The Good Dinosaur, from recasting every voice actor to changing directors mid production.

Talking in movies is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to talk in Superman, Hercules in New York, Singin’ in the Rain, Star Wars, most musicals and so many Bond movies.

Making one movie over a decade is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Mad Max: Fury Road, from its numerous delays that started in 1998 with Mel Gibson, to the risking life in limb stunts in the unruly deserts of Africa that caused Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy to nearly kill each other.

Making dogs and cats live together is mass hysteria. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make GhostBusters, from the incredibly short deadline to the hope-it-works attitude of making fake ghosts.

Making movies with Kemo Sabe is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make two different Lone Ranger movies, from the failed franchise starter with the stubborn actor in 1981 to the failed franchise starter with the stubborn budget from 2013.

Replacing an actor is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was on Lord of the Rings, V for Vendetta, Life of Pi, X-Men and many more.

Releasing a movie with a creep is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make All the Money in the World, from reshooting every scene Kevin Spacey was in, to kickstarting the debate about the gender pay gap in Hollywood.

Traveling through time is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Back to the Future, from the years it took convincing a studio to make it to replacing an overly serious actor weeks into filming.

Making sequels to a pop culture classic is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make the Back to the Future sequels, from Universal forcing them to be made, to the tense negotiations with Crispin Glover.

Making a sequel decades later is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to finally make sequels to Dumb and Dumber, Blade Runner, Crocodile Dundee, The Wizard of Oz, and more.

Making Batman sell Happy Meals is hard. Join us for our first live show (via Utah Remote-Con, with moderator Steph Lisman from Cutscenes & Cupcakes), as we talk about how difficult it was to make Batman Forever, from the backlash against the overly kinky Batman Returns to the egotistical actor troubles of Val Kilmer and Tommy Lee Jones.

Exorcising a little girl is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make The Exorcist, from William Friedkin’s manic directing style to the endless rumors about how cursed the movie was.

Exorcising someone multiple times is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make the sequels to the Exorcist, from the nonsense that is Exorcist II: The Heretic, to the studio forced changes of The Exorcist III.

Exorcising someone in the past is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make the prequels to The Exorcist, from the unfinished DVD release of Dominion, to the completely reshot version of Exorcist: The Beginning.

Keeping a Mogwai from eating after midnight is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Gremlins, from the insanely difficult puppetry to how it changed movie ratings for the future.

Making a good female led superhero movie is (apparently) hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Wonder Woman, from the decades of trying to bring her to the big screen, to the constant juggling of writers and directors it took to finally get made.