In one scene, Kurt Russel’s character smashes the guitar to stop Leigh from playing. When filming, Russell assumed that it was the prop guitar. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. As it turns out, the now-destroyed antique guitar was worth around $40,000. Russell was beside himself when he learned the truth.
When first creating the Resident Evil franchise, the writers ended giving the main character Alice, played by Milla Jovovich, almost the same amount of lines as the secondary character, Rain. Since Jovovich was the protagonist of the series, she felt offended that a lesser character would have an almost equal amount of screen time and lines as her.
So, she gave the filmmakers an ultimatum to either change the script or she would leave the movie. Both options would cost a lot of money, but they decided the cheaper and easiest option would be to basically rewrite the entire script.
A lot of actors prefer to do their own stunts. It brings them closer to their character and makes them feel like they’re doing more than just reciting lines of dialogue. Tom Cruise is one of these daredevil actors. Cruise does his own stunts so often, he rarely requests a stunt double anymore. Yet, when filming a stunt for Mission Impossible – Fallout, he might have been better off with one.
Cruise ended up shattering his ankle jumping from building to building, leaving him out of commission for months. The film lost a lot of money on account of his injury although the scene still made it into the movie.
