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Most films reach theaters looking calm and polished, which hides how rough the making of them can be. Behind the scenes, some productions have come close to falling apart because of storms, budget crises, clashing egos and plain bad luck.
The ten productions below are well documented and often discussed by the people who worked on them. Each one nearly collapsed, yet each one ended up on screen.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola took his crew to the Philippines for what was planned as a short shoot. It stretched to well over a year. A typhoon destroyed sets, and the production fell far behind schedule and over budget.
Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack during filming, and Marlon Brando arrived unprepared and overweight. Coppola reworked the ending while shooting. The 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse records much of this turmoil.
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Werner Herzog filmed in the Peruvian Amazon and insisted on hauling a real steamship over a hill instead of using effects. The shoot was interrupted by border conflicts between local groups and by changes to the cast. Jason Robards fell ill and had to leave, and Mick Jagger also left, so Herzog recast the lead with Klaus Kinski.
Kinski’s furious outbursts were so notorious that Herzog later made a documentary about their relationship, My Best Fiend. Burden of Dreams, a 1982…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2026-11-14 06:48:00
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