Rebooting James Bond is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make two different Casino Royale films, from Peter Sellers fighting Orson Welles in Charles Feldman’s 1967 version, to the 50 year journey to properly making Ian Fleming’s novel in 2006 with Daniel Craig.
 
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In the entertainment world, there are millions of dollars on the line and troubled productions are bound to happen. And we are going to talk about these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. From the creators of WTF Happened To This Movie?, It Was A Sh*t Show is a video essay/documentary/podcast series looking at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.
 
Sources:
BBC
Box Office Mojo
Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood
GQ
The James Bond Bedside Companion
LA Times
Latino Review
Life
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers
New York Times
The Numbers
Polygon
Rotten Tomatoes 1
Rotten Tomatoes 2
The Telegraph
Trippin’ with Terry Southern

 
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Psychedelic Cinema

 
Music:
Bo Burnham - Bezos II
Bacharach - Casino Royale (1967, Original Soundtrack)
David Arnold - Casino Royale (2006, Original Soundtrack)
Ryan Hudson - Sh*t Show Theme

 
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