Michael Bay Almost Ruined This Colin Farrell Movie

Not a lot of movies can claim a three-decade development process, but long before Joel Schumacher took the reins of the 2002 single-location thriller Phone Booth, Alfred Hitchcock was trying to make it in the ’60s. When long-time screenwriter and B-movie director Larry Cohen pitched Hitchcock on the idea of a movie set completely in a phone booth, the pair struggled to put together a compelling reason that a protagonist would be stuck for the length of a movie and never got to make the film before the legendary director’s death. But when Cohen came up with a sniper angle, the troubled production was just beginning, cycling through directors and stars to no avail. Despite this, what was eventually put on screen is an impressive thriller with a great cast.