Holly Marie Combs is revealing the real reason why Shannen Doherty left Charmed after the series’ third season.
30.11.2023 - 19:27 / deadline.com
Iconic producer Joel Silver has been fired from the forthcoming Amazon film Play Dirty, Deadline can confirm. While the decision reportedly stemmed from alleged verbal abuse on Silver’s part toward studio execs over creative differences, Amazon has declined to comment.
Silver’s team couldn’t be reached for comment, but we will update this post if and when one comes in. News of Silver and Amazon’s parting of ways was first reported by Variety.
The first of a number of projects in the works at Amazon centered on the Parker crime novels by Donald E. Westlake, which were written under the pen name Richard Stark, Play Dirty was at one point supposed to star Robert Downey Jr., sources said, but while he’s no longer involved in that capacity, with Mark Wahlberg now attached to star, Downey remains aboard to produce for Team Downey and had left the project well ahead of the fallout with Silver. The project was set to reunite Silver with writer-director Shane Black on the heels of their work together on such titles as The Nice Guys, Predator, Lethal Weapon, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which starred Downey.
While it’s been reported that Silver was also fired from Amazon MGM’s forthcoming reimagining of Road House, directed by Doug Liman and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, sources tell Deadline that the producer had already “fulfilled his obligations” on that picture prior to the axing. He will not be involved with forthcoming creative conversations surrounding the film’s release early next year.
Best known for his work on franchises like Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, Predator and The Matrix, Silver has also previously produced titles like 48 Hrs., Weird Science, and Tales from the Crypt. His most recent credits include the animated Brandon
Holly Marie Combs is revealing the real reason why Shannen Doherty left Charmed after the series’ third season.
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“Let’s Be Clear” podcast on Monday where she recalled questioning the show’s producer Jonathan Levin about why Doherty, now 52, was being axed from the hit drama. “He said, ‘We didn’t mean to — but we’ve been backed into this corner — we’re basically in this position where it’s one or the other,’” Combs recalled Levin’s explanation. “‘We were told [by Alyssa] it’s her or [Shannen] and Alyssa has threatened to sue us for a hostile workplace environment.’”“Charmed” ran on the WB from 1998 to 2006, but Doherty was let go at the end of its third season.
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