8 Million Ways to Die
Death comes to all except those who deserve it most.
Country
Production
Budget
$18 000 000
Box office
$1 305 114
Director
Actors
Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Randy Brooks, Alexandra Paul, Andy García, Tommy Lister Jr., Vyto Ruginis, Gene Ross, Lisa Sloan, Christa Denton
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Stephen J. Roth, Mark Damon, John W. Hyde
Camera operator
Stephen H. Burum
Composer
Artist
Michael D. Haller
Audition
Editing
Stuart H. Pappé, Robert Lawrence
Whole Team (93)
Whole Team (93)
Short description
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director and screenwriter Hal Ashby was fired immediately after the filming period ended, and creative control passed to PSO Entertainment, for whom this was their first large-scale project.
- According to Lawrence Block, author of the 1982 book that served as the literary source for the screenplay, the set was a "joyless" place. Director and screenwriter Hal Ashby was withdrawn and gloomy, and his directorial style consisted of forcing the actors to overact. Ashby was not allowed to work on the final version of the film; some scenes in which the actors were blatantly overacting made it into the theatrical release.
- Oliver Stone was filming the war drama 'Salvador' (1986) in Mexico and could not refine the script before the start of production, so Hal Ashby took it upon himself to make the changes. While working on the screenplay, Ashby relied on Stone's writing, Lawrence Block's original novel, and his own thoughts. In total, Ashby wrote 50 pages of text. He gave the text to producer Steven J. Roth, who said he liked it. Soon, however, Ashby stopped working on the script when he learned that PSO Entertainment had hired David Lee Henry to rewrite Stone's screenplay without consulting him. Predictably, Ashby was offended and stated that he had never been treated this way before. He felt even more slighted upon learning that Roth was reporting all script changes directly to executive producer Mark Damon, bypassing him entirely.
- Oliver Stone strongly disliked the final version of the script, which had little in common with what he had written and what David Lee Henry had subsequently refined. Henry's version was disliked by both the producers and the actors involved in the project. The finale envisioned a large-scale shootout at the airport, the filming of which would have inflated the movie's budget to at least $16 million. Screenwriter Robert Towne was hired for $250,000 (a quarter of his usual fee), and he set about the final destruction of the version written by David Lee Henry. After this, Oliver Stone visited the set only once. He did not want his name to appear in the credits, but it was already too late, as the credits had already been completed.
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