Landing a role in a major franchise can set an actor up for life. Sometimes, however, creative differences, scheduling conflicts, or other facts lead to them exiting a role earlier than planned. Here are 14 actors who quit or were fired from major franchises and why :.
Neve Campbell played Sidney Prescott in five Scream movies. However, she declined to return for Scream VI. In , she told Deadline , "As a woman, I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream.
I felt the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise. To all my Scream fans, I love you. So, the film focused on newer characters instead, but they left the door open for Sidney to return β and she's reportedly returning for Scream 7. Co-director Matt Bettinelli-Olpin told Games Radar , "We got to really explore and do a lot of character building in this one.
It was really fun to create these new characters in a really cool and exciting way. But not three or four times, which is what they did. He said, 'I know you always wanted the crab cake recipe. Let me cook it for you. So he called twice. He was more concerned that he forgot the crab cake recipe than would I be in Godfather III, " he said. Tom Hagen was killed off-screen before the start of the movie, and he was replaced by the new character B.
Harrison, played by George Hamilton. Megan Fox played Mikaela Banes in the first two Transformers movies. She was supposed to appear in Transformers: Dark of the Moon , but in , she told Wonderland that director Michael Bay was "a nightmare to work for" and compared him to a dictator.
