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

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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.

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This one has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.

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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.

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Bradd Pitt is also a producer, so is Tom Hanks, and so are 4 other guys. Why isn't it also Pitt's fault, since no one has ever indicated Curran quit because of Norton, an actor he's worked with twice before? Norton is not an actor in the show, and Norton never wrote a draft of a shooting script. He was a general "writer" with Curran, with Michelle Ashford having written the scripts being shot when production halted. Sounds like Curran's issue was with Ashford.

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However the Screen Writers Guild refuses to credit him to this day for his girlfriend influenced shenanigans

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This suggests you have a deep misunderstanding of how the wga and credits work. Very few people that take a hand at "rewriting" or "punching up" a script have ever or will ever get credit. Norton and Hayek did not demand credit, and his rewrite did not stall or throw off production. Frida is also a film that people tend to like (I don't), so why does this matter? And his girlfriend asked him to do this. Would you say no to 2001 Salma Hayek?

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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

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I got nothing for this except that it reeks of non-story. Giving a star actor latitude to have a costume designed is common. I doubt any of those actors don't send the bill to production.

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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."

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Norton was not a producer and did not have any control over this movie. He did recut it, but he did so when the studio hated the cut. Have you seen any other Tony Kaye movie? You probably also would not have liked the cut. Kaye taking out his frustrations on Norton was true, and misguided.

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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.

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This is one of those rumors that only shows up in reference to articles about the Hulk. And I've seen Red Dragon. It could have used 20 more drafts.

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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

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All you just said was that he did what was in the contract Marvel agreed to, and then Marvel regretted it.

Shite, dude. That's what I said in my post. You could have saved us both some time.

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And Norm Macdonald really seems to despise Chris Kataan, so that's all I need to know about that one

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Tracy Morgan has said that him and Cheri Oteri are the biggest pricks he's ever met, and he loves pissing all over their legacies.

Charlie Sheen - Two & Half Men
Suzanne Sommers - Three's Company
John Amos - Good Times
Pernell Roberts - Bonanza
McLean Stevenson - MASH
Wayne Rogers - MASH
Jackie Mason - Ed Sullivan Show

Lindsey lohan
Megan fox
Russell crowe
Steven segal
Shia leboulf

John Amos

Wanted harder hitting story lines and to stop all the weekly scenes Jimmy saying "Dyn - O- mite"

He was let go over the issues he brought up to the writers, and producers, the show quickly canned at that point.

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which potentially killed the momentum he had with ... Shrek franchises

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Didn't they make 4 movies on top of a bunch of TV specials?

Read her, Julia Roberts , miles teller are bad

And Mara

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Orson Welles' Frozen Peas

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Came here to say this.

And Christian Bale.

Val Kilmer for sure

Also Knocked up the main girl she coulda launched off of that with apatow if she wasnt a bitch

Also made role choices after burning that bridge

21 dresses women love tho

Missed that story on Roberts & Weinstein: was that early in her career? Clean bunghole?