When the new James Bond movie Spectre debuts next month , it ’ll join a choice club — movies that have hold up way over budget . And when you look at account , there are a lot of distressing cautionary taradiddle about films that spend way too much . Here are 13 picture show that went disastrously over budget .
1) Cutthroat Island (1995)
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What moving-picture show was passed over by Tom Cruise , Daniel Day - Lewis , Gabriel Byrne , Keanu Reeves , Jeff Bridges , Liam Neeson , Michael Keaton , Tim Robbins , Ralph Fiennes , Michael Douglas AND Charlie Sheen before finally landing on Matthew Modine ? 1995 ’s staggering money - toilet , Cutthroat Island , of line . While yield delays induce the budget to balloon astronomically before main picture taking even begin , the film also featured some rightfully costly set slice , include the complete wipeout of a lifetime size of it , function galleon . This , match with conductor Renny Harlin ’s press the player perform their own stunt , meant the production ate through international nautical mile of film stock , and even members of the gang itself — more than two - 12 crewmen left the moving-picture show after its principal photographic camera operator was fired follow a conflict with Harlin .
While push the picture show , Harlin ’s then - married woman , Geena Davis sieve footage of her own bungled stunts , including her devolve out a windowpane , rolling down a ceiling and eventually bring under a moving baby buggy .
Cutthroat Island additionally stomach many hilarious setbacks , include a low pipage on bent , causing raw sewerage to leak into a tank the actors were supposed to float in . Things became so dire , Renny Harlin end up putting $ 1 million of his own money on the air to keep the output afloat .
Still , the moving picture lose $ 105 million after have less than ten pct of its budget back at the box office , and debuted at routine 13 , functionally bankrupting its output caller , Carolco Pictures , in the fallout . To underline what an ignominious death knell this was , study the other new release for December 22nd , 1995 : Dracula : stagnant and Loving It , Sudden Death , Grumpier Old Men , Balto , wait to Exhale , and Tom and Huck .
2) Horror of Party Beach
take back - to - back with Curse of the Living Corpse , Horror of Party Beach ended up $ 20,000 over budget largely due to aesculapian bank note incurred by a bike accident during filming , in which members of the Charter Oaks Motorcycle Club obtain themselves in a big bucks up . constabulary were apprize — and they , too , got into an accident on the mode to the shoot .
Adding to thing , a few headless , seaweed - encrusted costume were in haste designed on set while wait for interior designer Bob Verberkmoes to complete the freakish , frogfish - with - red-hot - cad - for - teeth animate being point meant for closelipped - up shots . These ancillary costumes worked to arguably greater effect .
Tenney was so dismayed with the last project , he address the only chance to get statistical distribution was to distract people from the literal picture show . He hired someone to wear the monster costume and hide out in the man ’s room when the film screened for potential allocator at twentieth Century Fox . They were so delighted by the costume — and the film — they decided to buy it .
Together , both films be $ 120,000 .
3) Super Mario Bros.
A production that was vituperate by well-nigh everyone involve , this video - game picture show had a script that was for the most part in flux even during cinematography , with writer and directors ( husband / wife squad Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel ) mainly arguing over what sort of tone they were aiming for . The film ’s chaotic shooting schedule drop dead five week longer than expected , and with its dwindling pecuniary resource , the production was forced to jettison its last set objet d’art , in which Mario scale the Brooklyn Bridge , drops a “ Bob - omb ” down King Koopa ’s throat , and kick him to his doom before he explodes . In the finished projection , the character thawing into goop .
4) Bride of Frankenstein
From the first Clarence Day of filming , Bride of Frankenstein was in fuss — multiple cast of characters injuries , an uncompromising director , and the alcoholism of Dr. Frankenstein himself , Colin Clive , were only the beginning of the film ’s blow and on - set calamities . In the Holy Scripture of Boris Karloff :
“ The watery possible action of the sequel , Bride of Frankenstein , was film with me wearing a condom suit of clothes under my costume to ward off chill . But air got into the suit . When I was launched into the pool , my branch flew up in the air , and I float there like some obscene water lily while I and everyone else hooted with laughter . They finally fish me out with a boat - hook and deflate me ! ”
Later the day , Karloff broke his hip . Colin Clive also carry off to break a leg during filming .
Director James Whale even halted production for ten Clarence Day until Australian actor O.P. Heggie was available to play the hermit . The final cost was reportedly $ 397,023 — adjusted for inflation , that ’s almost $ 9 million today .
5) Jaws
The infamous output history of Jaws is legendary — the film spent over twice its projected budget to film on the Atlantic Ocean , lead in squiffy cameras and common salt - damage props . Steven Spielberg and the producers also had to spend tons of money to repair damages to an uncooperative animatronic shark , and to save the sinking killer whale with its actor still on gameboard . The film ’s screenwriter Carl Gottlieb even claims to have narrowly avoided decapitation by boat propeller during filming . primary photography was speculate to take 55 day , but end up coil into 159 . Spielberg even drop $ 3,000 of his own to shoot the scene where Hooper discovers Ben Gardner ’s broad - eyed trunk , after Universal refused to place any more money in the project for a reshoot .
6) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
This film ground on the video game series ended up cost $ 137 million — intimately twice its $ 70 million plan budget . The full CG animate picture show — at the prison term still fairly fresh — spent a lot of money animating all 60,000 strands of its extremely - publicized supporter , Aki Ross ’s , tomentum one by one , which take a render farm of one - thousand estimator to process . Aki was voiced by Ming - Na Wen , who also played Chung - li in another disastrously over budgeted picture game movie , Street Fighter : The Movie . In that instance , most of the movie ’s financing went toward secure Jean - Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia as leads , leaving minuscule left over for the rest of the pic .
7) Tangled
Disney ’s crack at Rapunzel spent six old age in development nether region before it was eventually unleashed , at a price of $ 260 million for metre invest — by comparison , the more popular Frozen only come to $ 150 million . There were years of retools , revision and a litany of directors—“Rapunzel ” & “ Rapunzel Unbraided ” were working titles for previous versions of the film — and everyone who worked on it had to be paid in full . As a result , this Disney Princess sketch became the second most expensive film ever at the clip of its release .
8) Evan Almighty
The poorly - conceived sequel to Bruce Almighty had an original budget of $ 140 million . But ramification with shoot multiple brute , work up a Biblically precise ark in a Virginia subdivision , and coordinating the work of multiple visual impression companies bloated the budget to over $ 200 million , making it the most expensive comedy of its time .
The movie ran into trouble with PETA for alleged violations of the Animal Welfare Act ; and some Muslim chemical group call for a ban due to its comedic take on spiritual study matter . The flick also incurred massive — and self - inflict — costs as director Tom Shadyac pledged to off set the production ’s carbon footprint by requiring the crowd to rag bikes to the Seth , works thousands of trees and reuse sets as building materials for Habitat for Humanity .
9) The Lone Ranger
Disney was indisputable the Lone Ranger would be its new megahit franchise , mistreat in to replace the fading Pirates of the Caribbean . The studio budget the flick as if it were Pirates 6 , yet music director Gore Verbinski ’s vision could n’t be realized with the projected $ 215 million budget . Supernatural ingredient of the script , like werewolves and demons , were drop midway through filming . Also , dash schedules were extended due to iterate dust storms and action scenes were cut .
Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer cut their own fee . Verbinski , however , deny to budge on the need for custom - made locomotives to traverse a especially created rail line in southerly New Mexico ( which was rip up immediately after filming ) . The meticulously detail train scenes did n’t help reviews , and The Lone Ranger ( ultimate cost : $ 250 million ) was a box office cataclysm . The locomotives did get a squeamish write up , though , in Trains powder store .
10) John Carter
After losing two directors ( Robert Rodriquez and Jon Favreau ) while in evolution hell , this motion-picture show finally got off the ground with Pixar ’s Andrew Stanton guide . Stanton reshot nearly all extant footage for this 2012 Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation starring Taylor Kitsch , which in the end cost $ 250 million — including 2,000 visual effects from four dissimilar companies . Based on Burroughs ’ novel , A Princess of Mars , this moving-picture show ’s statute title was changed to John Carter of Mars to be less ominous to man , and then simply John Carter , to downplay its science - fabrication angle — just in case anyone was intimidated by neighboring planets . This may have been in response to the similarly fate Mars Needs Moms released the twelvemonth prior — another $ 150 million buck animated feature that made less than a quarter of its budget back in dramaturgy .
11) Waterworld
Universal put up $ 100 million for the fourth pairing between actor Kevin Costner and theatre director Kevin Reynolds — whose previous “ joint ” included Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves and Rapa Nui . But the project would end up $ 75 million over budget . Already an expensive enterprise , Waterworld was filmed at sea in an artificial enclosure on the Pacific Ocean , forcing production staff to commute to work via jetskis . Despite this , most of the budget was pass into maintaining Kevin Costner ’s soaring banner . The original musical score by Mark Isham was cast out for being too “ ethnic and bleak ” , allot to Costner — and Joss Whedon himself was even jetskied out to the set for seven weeks or rewrites . Costner was even endangered his own life sentence by being bind to the masthead of a triamaran sailboat , as the ship was plunge directly into an oncoming ocean squall .
12) Green Lantern
What was originally conceived to be a funniness starring Jack Black and drop a line by SNL ’s Robert Smigel would finally become an earnest adaptation of the DC Comics character , directed by Martin Campbell .
With an unappealing protagonist Hal Jordan plainly falling into the fishgig of Green Lantern and crusade against the nefarious Hector Hammond — a mellow school science instructor keeping himself out of the rat raceway of academics , hump he has nothing major to contribute — this pic wound up being a “ hard sit , ” to say the least . Worst of all , Green Lantern is depict as a dullard , who bring in guns and tongue out of green mental muscularity . Containing an estimated 1,300 optic event , and a perpetually CG uniform worn by Reynolds , the cost of yield went up to $ 200 million .
13) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen:
With a planned budget of $ 23.5 million , Gilliam ’s film reportedly rose to $ 46.63 million — though Gilliam himself deny this . Admitting the photographic film did indeed go over budget on the Time Bandits DVD commentary , he order the final number was “ nowhere near 40 million . ” On the Muchausen 20th anniversary DVD , however , manufacturer Thomas Schuly claims the deal with Columbia was always for $ 35 million , but when confronted with the tab , they were suddenly not inclined to go over $ 25 million . “ Everybody knew that cut out was just a fake ” . “ The problem was that [ former CEO ] David Putnam got fired , and all these deals were oral deals . ” Dawn Steel , the incoming chief executive officer , reportedly secernate producers , “ Whatever David Puttnam say does n’t occupy me . ”
Ultimately , only 117 prints were released in the US , so the prognosis of arrive at back that profit was inexistent — and everyone who worked on the motion-picture show seems to have a unlike level . Sarah Polley , only nine at the prison term of shot , said to AICN in 2007 , “ it definitely leave me with a few scars … It was just so dangerous . There were so many explosions going off so close to me , which is traumatic for a kid whether it ’s dangerous or not . Being in freeze cold water supply for prospicient menstruum of time and working endless hour . It was physically grueling and dangerous . ”
Which brings us back to Spectre
While it ’s simple calendar week from sacking , the 24th official James Bond film has spiral out of control , costing MGM and Columbia pictures over $ 300 million . And while we only have its base Sung to label it by — ehhh — the number boggles the judgment when you deliberate its source material : the namesake of its baddie , Franz Oberhauser , is the Word of James Bond ’s childhood ski instructor , Hannes Oberhauser , introduced in Ian Fleming ’s story “ Octopussy . ”“The author of all Bond ’s pain in the neck ” is the son of the man who taught him how to ski .
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