re: Actors/Actresses who killed their careers by being difficult

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Norton was literally paid to do this by most productions on which he did it. When he took the Hulk job, the rewrites were part of his contract

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Well that's certainly a laughable take. The studios were forced to agree to his demands

1) On Motherless Brooklyn a film Norton directed, a fire claimed the life of firefighter Michael Davidson, and Norton's company faces a wrongful death lawsuit. Tenants in the building are also suing Norton for "recklessness, carelessness, and negligence" for bringing flammable equipment into the building, and failing to properly inform the tenants about the fire.

2) He's a producer on Lewis & Clark, an HBO miniseries. Director and co-writer has John Curran quit, Norton's version of the script was abandoned, and the miniseries still doesn't have a release date several years after HBO announced it was redeveloping the project.

3) Frida, the biopic that starred his then-girlfriend Salma Hayek allowed Norton to do rewrites, after Salma demanded it. However the Screen Writers Guild refuses to credit him to this day for his girlfriend influenced shenanigans

4) For Death to Smoochy, Norton got Armani to make him a costume for filming. He then sent the bill to the production company to pay for it

5) Norton didn't like the final cut of American History X, so he forced the studio to re-edit it to a 30 min longer version. This caused the director to ask his name be removed, and then took out 40 ads criticizing Norton, even saying Norton was "a narcissistic dilettante who raped the film."

6) For Red Dragon, Norton showed up on set to film his scenes with brand-new (and totally unsolicited) script pages that Norton had taken it upon himself to write.

7) And as far as Hulk goes, he was hired provided any suggestions he made to Penn's screenplay be incorporated into the script. After doing a substantial rewrite of the movie, Marvel executives hated it, and ordered a new one. Marvel so resented Norton's meddling that his role was given to Mark Ruffalo, despite Ed's Hulk being the first movie to introduce through end credits the franchise theme


The actor is very difficult, and was rarely asked for his input, unless it was forced on the movie makers