The comedy movie John Wayne refused to star in: “He didn’t like it, and he wouldn’t do it”
The Duke baulked at this idea from a legendary New Hollywood director.
Author: Michael Gordon Archives: 03/2025
The movie Steven Seagal was too weird to be cast in: “He was clearly a little crazy at the time”
Seagal? Crazy and weird? Say it ain’t so!
The directors Dennis Hopper spent an entire day screaming at: “What the fuck can we do?”
Hopper saw red in truly spectacular fashion.
The movie that offended Sigourney Weaver simply by existing: “Why would you want to do that?”
Weaver didn’t mince her words about this shameless cash-grab.
The movie that sent Nicolas Cage into Hollywood exile: “I did not take the job lightly”
Ironically, this wasn’t even a bad flick.
The forgotten Coen brothers movie whose script Billy Bob Thornton didn’t need to read: “You can’t go wrong”
Thornton knew this one would be good, but he didn’t know it would be forgotten.
Nicolas Cage names his wildest movie: “And that’s saying something”
This movie was so batshit insane that it shocked even Cage.
The angriest Quentin Tarantino has ever been at movie critics: “They weren’t doing their job”
Tarantino felt these critics were frauds.
The Stephen King character played by two different actors at the same time: “It’s really complicated”
The two versions couldn’t have been more different.
“Britain’s collective nervous breakdown”: Rupert Russell on ‘The Last Sacrifice’, folk horror, and the real-life murder that inspired ‘The Wicker Man’
This isn’t the story of one murder – it’s the story of a nation in crisis.
The movie Meg Ryan didn’t want to make: “I did say that I couldn’t do another one”
Ryan had to be talked into this one.