For 32 years, every director who disowned a film became Alan Smithee (opens in new tab)

For three decades, a Hollywood director who wanted to disown a film could take his name off it and replace it with one man: . According to Wikipedia, the name was "an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project," coined by the Directors Guild of America in 1968. — Read the rest The post appeared first on .