Last year in France came out a survival film “Island of Outcasts” about a married couple who find themselves trapped on an island near Antarctica. Interestingly, the tape at the beginning of production itself was on the verge of survival – it was planned to shoot with Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby, and the project was supposed to be a Hollywood dream for director Tom Bidegen. But in just four days of filming, the dream was derailed by Gyllenhaal’s psychopathic behaviour.
Outcast Island was originally planned to be filmed entirely in English under the title Suddenly, with an extravagant €26 million budget and Hollywood stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby. Rumours of creative differences between the actor and director emerged immediately after filming was suspended, but no one knew what exactly the two creators disagreed on.
According to journalists, the only culprit for failure is capricious and overbearing Gyllenhaal, who was not only the lead actor, but also the producer of the film, for the lead female role in which also tried, by the way, Margot Robbie, Anne de Armas and Jodie Comer.
Large-scale production promised high hopes, but as soon as the creators stepped on Irish soil, paranoid Gyllenhaal all tortured his fear of COVID, unpredictable behaviour and endless rewrites of the already accepted script. It turns out that he really wanted to rethink the entire project just eight weeks before the scheduled start of production, when the sets were already being built according to the approved text. According to the director, “My lead actor, who had fully approved the script, was now challenging every scene, the slightest line of dialogue, the slightest comma.
