S4E2: How NOT To CAST A Movie

THE BLURB: Here's a fact: cast your movie or TV show wrong and your movie or TV show is doomed from the start. You can’t undo bad casting – except maybe by firing the actor. But, sometimes, that choice isn’t on the table. You’re stuck with the bad actors ya got. How CASTING BORDELLO OF BLOOD further doomed the enterprise to MOVIEMAKING HELL. Sometimes one bad or difficult actor can hold more sway than all the good actors combined. That’s what happened on Bordello Of Blood. We had an executive producer in Joel Silver whose fucked up priorities caused him to compromise his golden goose (The Tales From The Crypt franchise) just to service an actor on another movie set. That would be Sylvester Stallone. If there’s an asshole di tutti assholes in this story – it’s him. And there are quite a few assholes in this story. Slowly but surely, as Bordello Of Blood’s production picked up steam – which it had to quickly because we had only three weeks to rewrite, design, scout, prep and cast the movie – every day became stupider than the day before it. Bordello quickly achieved a kind of “critical mass” of stupidity. And arrogance. And bad luck. And lots and lots of really bad behavior. But, hey – movie sets are bad behavior factories! And Bordello Of Blood was just gearing up to be an uber factory of stupidity – and especially very bad behavior. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.