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- Naturally, the producers of "Cocoon" caught wind of this negative buzz around "Romancing the Stone" and, to quote Zemeckis, "got nervous," which led to him being fired as the film's director. Not long after, he was replaced by Ron Howard — himself on the verge of releasing his own breakout hit as a director with 1984's "Splash."
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Feb 22, 2022 · This was also a key factor in the events that led to Zemeckis being fired from "Cocoon," prior to shooting a single frame of footage. Someone at Fox had it out for the movie 20th Century...
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Studio insiders expected Romancing the Stone to flop to the point that, after viewing a rough cut of the film, the producers of the then-under-development Cocoon fired Zemeckis as director of that film. However, it became a surprise hit and 20th Century Fox's only big hit of 1984.
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Spent one year developing Cocoon (1985), but was fired by 20th Century Fox when he screened the final cut of Romancing the Stone (1984) for studio executives, who thought it was a disaster and destined to become Zemeckis' third straight box office failure.
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Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox announced in February 2015 that Zemeckis would direct Brad Pitt in Allied, a romantic thriller set during World War II. The film was released on November 23, 2016.
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Mar 23, 2019 · He initially developed the 1985 movie "Cocoon," for around a year, before he was fired by 20th Century Fox executives, after watching the final cut of his 1984 movie "Romancing the Stone," thinking it to be a disaster destined to fail. "Romancing the Stone," turned out to be one of the best films of 1984.
Mar 30, 2019 · Still, Zemeckis was fired from his next project for the studio, 1985’s “Cocoon,” before “Romancing” was released. “Cocoon” was given to Ron Howard to direct. “What happened was for ...
Mar 30, 1984 · Studio executives were so sure this film would flop that Robert Zemeckis was pre-emptively fired from directing Cocoon (1985). It turned out to be such a success that Zemeckis was able to go forward on his own project, Back to the Future (1985).
