“Expensive Blunders: The Surprising Costs Behind Hollywood’s Biggest Filming Fiascos!”
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In Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, the roles of identical twins Paul and Eli Sunday were supposed to be played by Kel O’Neill. However, due to constant creative differences and many arguments over direction between Daniel Day-Lewis, O’Neill and Anderson, O’Neill was replaced by Paul Dano.
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Since O’Neill had already been in production for some time, this meant that they had to spend a lot of money recasting and re-shooting may of the scenes that O’Neill was once a part of. The extra money proved to be worth it as Dano’s performance was commended by many.