Most Flopped Movies
The 13th Warrior (1999) – Most Flopped Movie
It is the most flopped movie of Hollywood. A loose retelling of the Beowulf story blended with Ahmad ibn Fadlan’s factual account of the Volga Vikings, Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton was the inspiration for the 1999 American historical action movie “The 13th Warrior”. Along with Diane Venora and Omar Sharif, it also features Antonio Banderas as Ibn Fadlan. Crichton oversaw some uncredited retakes while John McTiernan served as the director. The film was produced by McTiernan, Crichton, and Ned Dowd; Andrew G. Vajna, James Biggam, and Ethan Dubrow acted as executive producers.
Ahmad ibn Fadlan served as the court poet to the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir of Baghdad before being deported as an “ambassador” to the Volga Bulgars as a result of an extramarital affair with the wife of a great noble. The Norsemen show up just in time to save Melchisidek, his father’s previous traveling partner, and their caravan from Tatar assaults. Since one of the Norsemen, Herger, speaks Latin, they can communicate through Melchisidek when he takes safety at their hamlet on the Volga River. Both individuals discover through Herger that the Norsemen’s festival is actually a wake for their recently deceased monarch. Additionally, Herger introduces them to Buliwyf, one of the king’s sons.
Buliwyf murders his brother during a battle that Ahmad and Melchisidek witness, establishing Buliwyf as the heir apparent. The slain king is then customarily burnt aboard a Viking ship that has been abandoned, together with a female slave who promises to give herself up in exchange for the opportunity to travel with him to Valhalla, the Norse afterlife (or “heaven”).
Despite having reportedly spent $160 million on production and marketing, the movie only made $61 million worldwide, making it the largest box office failure of 1999 and incurring losses of up to $129 million.
47 Ronin (2013) – Second Most Flopped Movie
It is the second most flopped movie of Hollywood. American fantasy action movie “47 Ronin” was released in 2013 under the direction of Carl Rinsch. The movie is based on the novel Chshingura (“The Treasury of Loyal Retainers“), which is a dramatized depiction of the forty-seven ronin, a gang of masterless samurai who fought for Asano Naganori’s opponent Kira Yoshinaka in 18th-century Japan to exact revenge for Naganori’s murder. Walter Hamada and Morgan came up with the plot. This version, in contrast to earlier ones, features Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Rinko Kikuchi, and Ko Shibasaki and delivers a stylized depiction set “in a world of witches and giants.”
47 Ronin was created by H2F Entertainment, Mid Atlantic Films, Moving Picture Company, Stuber Productions, and Relativity Media, and premiered in Japan on December 6, 2013, before receiving a simultaneous 2D and 3D theatrical release in the US on December 25, 2013. When it was released, 47 Ronin was among the biggest box office flops in history. It received mostly negative reviews from critics and only made $151 million of its $175-225 million production budget, leaving Universal in the red for 2013. Variety listed 47 Ronin as one of “Hollywood’s biggest box office bombs of 2013.”
Blade of the 47 Ronin, a stand-alone sequel, was made available on Netflix on October 25, 2022.
The 355 (2022) – Third Most Flopped Movie
It is the third most flopped movie of Hollywood. Theresa Rebeck and Simon Kinberg collaborated on the screenplay for “The 355“; Rebeck wrote the story. Simon Kinberg is the film’s director. Among the ensemble cast of the movie are Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Fan Bingbing, Diane Kruger, and Lupita Nyong’o, who play a group of foreign spies who must cooperate to prevent a terrorist cell from igniting World War III. Along with Sebastian Stan, Édgar Ramirez is a star. The name of the female spy who worked for the Patriots during the American Revolution was codenamed Agent 355, and that number appears in the title.
As they collaborated on Dark Phoenix, Chastain and Kinberg came up with the concept for the movie. The film was formally unveiled in May 2018, and Universal Pictures purchased the distribution rights at the 71st Cannes Film Festival. From June to September 2019, Paris and London were the locations for the movies. On January 7, 2022, The 355 received a theatrical release in the United States. It garnered mostly unfavorable reviews from reviewers and underperformed at the box office, earning just $27.8 million worldwide compared to its $40–75 million budget.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) – Fourth Most Flopped Movie
It is the fourth most flopped movie of Hollywood. Terry Gilliam co-wrote and directed the 1988 fantasy adventure film “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen“, which starred John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Robin Williams, and Uma Thurman. The movie, which was produced internationally by the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany, is based on legends surrounding the German aristocrat Baron Munchausen in the 18th century and his battlefield heroics against the Ottoman Empire.
With only $8 million in box office receipts, the movie cost Columbia Pictures $38 million. It was an infamous box office flop. movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Makeup, despite this, and movie garnered favorable reviews from reviewers.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2022) – Fifth Most Flopped Movie
It is the fifth most flopped movie of Hollywood. Featuring Eddie Murphy (in a dual role), Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr, Luis Guzmán, James Rebhorn, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, and John Cleese, “The Adventures of Pluto Nash” is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Ron Underwood. The movie was made available to the public in the US on August 16, 2002.
Little America is a lunar colony that exists in 2080. Pluto Nash is a businessman, entrepreneur, retired smuggler, and ex-convict who buys a nightclub to both realize a long-held desire and stop mobsters Gino and his nephew Larry from killing the club’s previous owner and longtime friend, Anthony Frankowski. Pluto cleans it up and turns it into a highly well-liked nightclub with the aid of his friend Miguel and a robot by the name of Bruno.
Dina Lake, a young woman who is stuck on the Moon in 2087, needs to make money so she may be sent back to Earth. She is the daughter of Pluto’s friend Nicky Sticks. She receives a job as a server from Pluto. Mogan and Kelp, the goons of enigmatic millionaire Rex Crater, who wants to purchase the club, approach Pluto. Pluto declines, so the henchmen blow up the club with bombs. Dina, Bruno, and Pluto succeed in getting away.
The movie, which received negative reviews and failed at the box office, is remarkable for being one of the largest flops.
These are the Top 5 most flopped movies of Hollywood.
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