Hollywood Spent $100 Million on This Movie...

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Some movies flop so hard they take down the careers of everyone involved. But this one bombed so badly, it sank an entire subgenre. And even today, it’s the reason Hollywood almost never touches pirate movies. Hit that like button and get ready, because today we’re diving into a production gone completely off the rails, a studio that went bankrupt, and a celebrity couple who burned through so much money they took their own careers down with them—along with every pirate movie that followed. Today, we’re talking about Cutthroat Island. 00:00 - Introducción 00:32 - Pirates = Box Office Poison 01:15 - An Unusual Studio 03:00 - The Original Script 04:19 - The Golden Couple 05:10 - Trouble Starts Brewing 08:20 - A Chaotic Shoot 11:00 - The Inevitable Ending 12:00 - After the Shipwreck Cutthroat Island is a 1995 adventure swashbuckler film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Robert King and Marc Norman from a story by Michael Frost Beckner, James Gorman, Bruce A. Evans, and Raynold Gideon. It stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella. It is a co-production among the United States, France, Germany, and Italy. The film had a notoriously troubled and chaotic production involving multiple rewrites and recasts. Critical reactions were generally negative, and the film was one of the biggest box-office bombs in history, with losses of $147 million when adjusted for inflation. It is listed in the Guinness World Records as the biggest box-office bomb of all time, and significantly reduced the bankability and Hollywood production of pirate-themed films until 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Its failure caused Carolco Pictures to cease operations.