“Expensive Blunders: The Surprising Costs Behind Hollywood’s Biggest Filming Fiascos!”
A Controlled Explosion Gone Wrong
While most people know The Avengers from the superhero comic books and film series, those aren’t the only ones in popular culture. The Avengers was also a 1960s British spy TV series which was adapted into a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman. The film, however, turned out to be a complete bomb, failing to please critics or do well at the box office.
On top of its failure, disaster struck on set when filming for a controlled explosion. Rogue sparks landed on the roof of one of their studios, setting it on fire and causing around $1.6 million in damages.
Don’t Break Things That Aren’t In The Script
Battlestar Galactica was originally a 1970s television show. However, it received a makeover in the early 2000s along with a bigger budget. In the 2007 episode “Maelstrom,” there’s a scene when Admiral Adama, played by James Olmos, is working on a beautiful model ship.
He is then overcome in a fit of rage and grief and destroys the model, something that wasn’t in the script. Little did he know that the model was a museum piece that was loaned to the production company. He later admitted in 2012 that he would have never destroyed the ship if he had known it was worth $200,000.
Burt Reynolds Couldn’t Get It Together
Burt Reynolds’ performance was incredibly successful in the original Smokey and the Bandit film. Since the film was so well-received, it was a no-brainer that they would make a second one. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as smoothly while filming the sequel and Reynolds couldn’t seem to get any of his lines right.
