It’s the nightmare scenario for movie producers, right? You spend years assembling your project, convincing an Oscar-nominated screenwriter to tackle difficult material. You secure the necessary I.P. rights and the massive, $150 million budget to tell the story right. You get distributors on board—both foreign and domestic—and a starry cast whose schedules barely align. You spend months shooting the entire movie, mostly on location at the exact sites you envisioned (some of which you had to beg to secure). Then, as you’re starting postproduction, with your director cutting it all together to meet your aggressive release date, the phone rings, and everything begins to fall apart.