20 Movies That Would’ve Been Way Different with Their Original Directors

Movies have directors. Hell yeah, that’s the quality knowledge you come to Cracked for. Movies have directors, but sometimes movies end up having different directors. Sometimes, pre-production is a mess, the studio is skeptical, directors go out of their way to be pains in the butt, and sometimes, just sometimes, actors simply usurp their role. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t. In every case, however, this leaves us with the untraversed path, with the Schrödingerian question of what could have been.
In this Pictofact, we venture into the quantum realm, while also providing a follow-up to a recent Cracked investigation. Indeed, we now theorize about movies that could have been way different had they kept their original directors. Some of these you will know, some of these you won’t, and some of these might have actually just turned out the same. But that’s the thing, we don’t really know. Like with the plot of forgotten Gwyneth Paltrow rom-coms or immediately forgotten Marvel shows, what we have here is a classic what if situation. So let’s see what might have been. Forgotten rom-coms, quantum mechanics, and original directors? Hell yeah, that’s the quality knowledge you come to Cracked for.
George Lucas -- 'Superman'

Sources: Collider, Wikipedia
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
Darren Aronofsky -- 'The Wolverine'

Source: IndieWire
Image Credit: 20th Century Studios, Marvel Studios
Kevin Smith -- 'Good Will Hunting'

David Fincher -- 'Spider-Man'

Source: Screen Rant
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures
Phil Lord and Chris Miller -- 'Solo: A Star Wars Story'

Source: Screen Rant, Screen Crush
Image Credit: Lucasfilm
Bryan Singer -- 'Bohemian Rhapsody'

David Cronenberg -- 'Total Recall'

James Cameron -- 'Jurassic Park'

Source: James Cameron Almost Directed Jurassic Park
Image Credit: Universal Pictures
Zack Snyder -- 'Justice League'

Source: Wikipedia
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
David Lynch -- 'Return of the Jedi'

Sources: hudsonunionsociety/YouTube, Screen Rant
Image Credit: Lucasfilm
Dick Richards -- 'Jaws'

Sources: Wikipedia, Screen Rant
Image Credit: Universal Pictures
The Godfather Part II

Sources: The Playlist, Screen Rant
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures
Tamra Davis -- 'Bad Girls'

Source: Screen Rant, Wikipedia
Image Credit: 20th Century Studios
John Carpenter -- 'Firestarter'

Source: WhatCulture/YouTube
Image Credit: Universal Pictures
Paul Schrader

Source: CBR, Screen Rant
Image Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
Alejandro Jodorowsky -- 'Dune'

Source: Documentary on YouTube
Image Credit: Universal Pictures
Christopher Nolan -- 'The Aviator'

Source: /Film
Image Credit: Miramax Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
Edgar Wright -- 'Ant-Man'

Source: CBR, Screen Rant
Image Credit: Marvel Studios
Colin Trevorrow -- 'Star Wars: Episode IX'

Source: Wikipedia
Image Credit: Lucasfilm
Vincent Ward -- 'Alien 3'

Sources: 6 Baffling First Drafts Of Famous Movies, Wikipedia
Image Credit: 20th Century Studios