{"id":545447,"date":"2023-01-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/scandals-on-set-strife-the-hollywood-reporter\/"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T14:00:00","slug":"scandals-on-set-strife-the-hollywood-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scandals-on-set-strife-the-hollywood-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scandals, On-Set Strife \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a289f09e788e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a289f09e788e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scandals-on-set-strife-the-hollywood-reporter\/#Scandals_On-Set_Strife_%E2%80%93_The_Hollywood_Reporter\" >Scandals, On-Set Strife \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scandals_On-Set_Strife_%E2%80%93_The_Hollywood_Reporter\"><\/span>Scandals, On-Set Strife \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Will Smith was supposed to be the most controversial element of <em>Emancipation<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le TV+\u2019s big-budget epic from director Antoine Fuqua chronicling an enslaved man\u2019s bid for freedom in 1860s Louisiana. Apple TV+ raised eyebrows by choosing to release its record-breaking acquisition \u2014 the streamer paid a reported $105 million for the drama during Cannes\u2019 virtual market in 2020 \u2014 in early December, just nine months after Smith infamously slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars (and Smith\u2019s subsequent 10-year ban from the ceremony).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    With all eyes on whether the film could help rehabilitate Smith\u2019s image after the slap, <em>Emancipation<\/em> producer Joey McFarland managed to deflect some of the attention away from the film\u2019s lead star at a red carpet premiere in November, when he proudly brandished what he claimed to be the original print of the haunting photo that inspired the movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Revealing the famed 1863 image known as <em>The Scourged Back <\/em>\u2014 showing a man with welts and scars across his back, a picture that helped expose the atrocities of slavery during the Civil War \u2014 McFarland explained that he had taken it \u201cupon [himself] to build and curate a collection\u201d of photos of 19th century African Americans. The online reaction was swift and fierce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cWhy do you own the photograph? Why did you bring it to a movie premiere if the intent is to preserve it respectfully?\u201d asked The Black List founder Franklin Leonard, who also questioned why McFarland \u2014 a white man from Kentucky \u2014 collected \u201cslave memorabilia\u201d and why it wasn\u2019t already in a museum. Meanwhile April Reign, who is behind the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag, noted with disgust that McFarland had \u201cbranded his newly acquired photos of enslaved people\u201d using the hashtag #McFarlandCollection on Instagram. Leonard suggested that the producer may have taken the print to the red carpet simply to bump up its value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    While probably not what McFarland expected when he brought forth his treasured acquisition from his jacket pocket for the cameras (he posted a statement two days later in which he \u201capologized to everyone I have offended\u201d), the uproar isn\u2019t the only controversy to have cast a cloud over the producer. In fact, the 50-year-old\u2019s relatively short career in the industry \u2014 just more than a decade long \u2014 has been almost entirely overshadowed by scandal, featuring extensive links to a fugitive accused of being the mastermind behind the multibillion-dollar 1MDB corruption scandal, considered the largest money laundering operation in history and one that led to the Department of Justice\u2019s biggest forfeiture claim on record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    McFarland\u2019s red carpet incident isn\u2019t even his only controversy connected to <em>Emancipation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    According to multiple sources, the producer was asked to leave the set of the film nearly halfway into the shoot after what <em>THR<\/em> hears was disruptive behavior with crewmembers and dissension with several above- and below-the-line people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    McFarland asserted on the red carpet \u2014 where he described himself as a \u201cfilmmaker, writer, amateur historian and passionate curator of truth\u201d \u2014 that his print of <em>The Scourged Back<\/em> was the \u201coriginal,\u201d something experts have questioned given the number of duplicates in existence. \u201cHe can\u2019t say this is the only one out there \u2014 there are many other known prints,\u201d Thomas Harris, a New York-based collector and dealer specializing in \u201ccartes de visite\u201d photos (small, card-mounted albumen prints from a glass plate negative) from that era, notes to <em>THR<\/em> (one print apparently recently sold for $32,500). But whether his was the original, McFarland claimed that he sought to discover the identity and journey of Peter, the individual photographed in 1863. In a 2020 article in the Louisville <em>Courier Journal<\/em>, he discussed the \u201cintense research\u201d he put into the subject, working with experts to slowly piece together the story of Peter and his escape from enslavement, an account that would eventually lead to Bill Collage\u2019s script for <em>Emancipation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((667\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Emancipation_Photo_01-EMBEd-2023.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Will Smith in Emancipation.\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"667\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Will Smith in <em>Emancipation<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy of Apple TV+<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But despite this seemingly vital role in <em>Emancipation<\/em>\u2018s early development, people closely connected to the film tell <em>THR<\/em> that, on set, McFarland repeatedly went beyond his station, making demands and suggestions outside of the chain of command that led to disruption and created friction with those around him. Eventually, it reached a point where he was asked not to return, with director Fuqua said to have made the final call. (McFarland\u2019s reps declined to comment on the situation, and Fuqua did not respond to a request for comment.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   alignright size-large is-resized alignright lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:250px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((375\/250)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1404570877-EMBED-2023.jpg?w=999\" alt=\"The film\u2019s director, Antoine Fuqua, reportedly played a key role in barring McFarland from the film\u2019s set for what has been described as disruptive behavior\" srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"375\" width=\"250\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">The film\u2019s director, Antoine Fuqua, reportedly played a key role in barring McFarland from the film\u2019s set for what has been described as disruptive behavior<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Amy Sussman\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It should be noted that, while he is the first named producer in the credits (coming after Fuqua and Collage), McFarland\u2019s name \u2014 unlike those of fellow producers Todd Black, Smith and Jon Mone \u2014 does not come with the PGA mark, given by the Producers Guild Association to those who they determine have \u201cperformed a majority of the producing functions on a specific motion picture in a decision-making capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>THR <\/em>understands that McFarland appealed the decision of the guild \u2014 which gathers evidence seen by a panel as part of its review process as to who should get the mark \u2014 but his bid ultimately fell short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The PGA says it won\u2019t comment on or confirm disputes, while Apple TV+ declined to talk to <em>THR<\/em> for this article. Despite repeated requests for him to offer his side of what happened, McFarland also declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Aside from his quotes at the premiere and in his hometown paper, McFarland has actually barely talked to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> in nearly 10 years, not since his dramatic breakout as the co-producer of 2013\u2019s Oscar-nominated <em>The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em> (which he would follow with the comedy sequel <em>Dumb and Dumber To<\/em> in 2014, the Mark Wahlberg-Will Ferrell comedy <em>Daddy\u2019s Home<\/em> in 2015 and the 2017 remake of <em>Papillon<\/em>, starring Charlie Hunnam). But for those who have been keeping an eye on the producer\u2019s career since <em>Wolf<\/em>, another comment he made on the <em>Emancipation<\/em> red carpet may have caught their attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Speaking to <em>THR<\/em> at the premiere about his collection of 19th century photographs, of which he said <em>The Scourged Back<\/em> was the one that \u201cmeant the most,\u201d McFarland explained that he\u2019d been \u201cseeking out and acquiring\u201d as many lost and forgotten prints from this era for the \u201clast couple of decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    This timeline means McFarland already had started his collection when in 2009 he befriended Jho Low, the flamboyant Malaysian businessman alleged to be behind a now infamous corruption scandal in which billions of dollars were siphoned from his country\u2019s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund and spent in extravagant style around the world, most notably on parties, property in the U.S. and forays into Hollywood (there is no evidence to suggest the photo displayed on the red carpet was purchased with money from Low or stolen 1MDB funds).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Low became extremely close with McFarland \u2014 who it should be noted has never been charged with any crime \u2014 and for a period housed the producer in his Time Warner Center penthouse in New York (bought in 2011 with $30.6 million of 1MDB-linked money). Low is now a fugitive, thought to be living in China and wanted by international authorities. Both Low\u2019s private jet and his superyacht Equanimity \u2014 which McFarland enjoyed the use of on numerous occasions \u2014 have been seized (in 2019, Equanimity was sold by the Malaysian government for $129 million to recoup some of the stolen money).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Before meeting Low, McFarland had zero film credits to his name and had been working as a talent booker for Paris Hilton (whom the Malaysian had paid to attend his parties and had lavished with gifts). But it wasn\u2019t too long before McFarland was co-founding Red Granite Productions with Low\u2019s associate Riza Aziz in 2011 and producing the 2013 smash <em>The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em>, all with the backing of millions Low had allegedly stolen. Aziz, the stepson of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (now in prison for his part in the scandal), is currently being sued in his home country in relation to nearly $250 million that found its way into his Red Granite bank accounts (Aziz has denied the funds were linked to the corruption scandal).<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:1000px;\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((578\/1000)*100%);\">\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-454576765-EMBED-2023.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Malaysian financier Jho Low, Red Granite co-founder Riza Aziz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Jean Dujardin, McFarland and producer Emma Koskoff at the world premiere of The Wolf of Wall Street in Paris in 2013. Low is currently a fugitive wanted for his involvement in the Malaysian 1MDB money laundering scandal.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-454576765-EMBED-2023.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-454576765-EMBED-2023.jpg?resize=260,150 260w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"578\" width=\"1000\" decoding=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\"><span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Malaysian financier Jho Low, Red Granite co-founder Riza Aziz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Jean Dujardin, McFarland and producer Emma Koskoff at the world premiere of <em>The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em> in Paris in 2013. Low is currently a fugitive wanted for his involvement in the Malaysian 1MDB money laundering scandal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                    <cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Bertrand Rindoff Petroff\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    McFarland\u2019s red carpet comments to <em>THR<\/em> also suggest that his pursuit of 19th century prints coincided with the same time frame during which he used accounts linked to Low \u2014 subsequently found to have been filled with hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly stolen by the Malaysian \u2014 to fund splashy purchases of artwork and original movie posters, plus champagne-buying sprees at parties. In 2016, the Justice Department detailed McFarland\u2019s spending in its record-breaking civil complaint that charged Red Granite with participating in an \u201cinternational conspiracy to launder money\u201d and which saw the Feds look to seize the rights to <em>The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em> and, later, both <em>Dumb and Dumber To<\/em> and <em>Daddy\u2019s Home<\/em>, as part of its $1.6 billion forfeiture claim of assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In 2018 \u2014 the same year McFarland established McFarland Entertainment, which he used to produce <em>Emancipation<\/em> \u2014 Red Granite paid $60 million to settle its case with the Feds, while in 2019, McFarland voluntarily handed over nearly $14 million in company profits and gifts, including paintings by Basquiat and Ed Ruscha, and 16 movie posters, including one for Fritz Lang\u2019s 1932 classic <em>M<\/em>, as well as several luxury watches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It\u2019s important to note again that McFarland was never charged with any crime and there\u2019s no evidence to suggest he had any role in the alleged corruption. In court filings from 2019, his attorneys stressed that he had no knowledge that any funding or gifts were financed by fraudulently acquired money, and reps for Red Granite had previously repeatedly argued that \u201cto its knowledge,\u201d none of its funding was illegitimate. Indeed, Low was known to have kept his cards very close to his chest when it came to explaining the true source of the fortune he was lavishly splashing on his friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But there\u2019s also absolutely no question that McFarland\u2019s entire career was built on the back of Low\u2019s alleged crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIt\u2019s very hard to break into the upper echelons of producing in Hollywood, and there\u2019s no easier way than having access to a huge pot of money. And that\u2019s essentially what happened to him,\u201d notes Bradley Hope, co-founder of podcast studio Project Brazen and a former <em>Wall Street Journal <\/em>reporter who \u2014 together with Tom Wright \u2014 broke many of the stories about 1MDB. The two would later co-author <em>Billion Dollar Whale<\/em>, detailing the various aspects of the scandal and high-spending activities of the figures involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In Low, McFarland found someone able to bankroll his filmmaking ambitions, and other, more indie titles in a prolific run at Red Granite between 2011 and 2015 would include the Jon Hamm-Kristen Wiig-starring comedy <em>Friends With Kids<\/em>; Alexandre Aja\u2019s supernatural feature <em>Horns<\/em>, with Daniel Radcliffe; and the Christian Bale-led drama <em>Out of the Furnace<\/em>. <em>Emancipation<\/em> actually marks McFarland\u2019s first film since <em>Papillon<\/em>, which was produced by Red Granite but released after the corruption scandal had become public knowledge and the production company\u2019s subsequent demise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIt\u2019s like a classic Hollywood story,\u201d notes Hope. \u201cA guy who was essentially a hanger-on with a celebrity meets a mysterious, rich Malaysian and then is catapulted into the higher ranks of film production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Alongside the film financing, almost all the details about McFarland\u2019s more freewheeling use of Low\u2019s allegedly ill-gotten millions \u2014 whether it was to bid on pieces of art at auctions in New York or take part in gambling <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s to the Venetian casino in Las Vegas \u2014 are well documented by the DOJ. In fact, in its 2016 filing against Red Granite, it showed emails in which McFarland claimed that he was \u201cobsessing\u201d about growing a library of rare and very expensive movie posters, with the producer messaging Aziz and the owner of movie memorabilia company Cinema Archives with a list of posters, joking that he and Aziz were both \u201csuch neurotic obsessive creatives\u201d and declaring \u201cWE HAVE TO OWN THEM ALL.\u201d (Aziz would spend more than $4.2 million from his Red Granite account at Cinema Archives, gifting several posters to McFarland.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Interestingly, McFarland\u2019s Wikipedia entry is very light on references to Red Granite or the corruption scandal, mentioning once that he was \u201cvice chairman of Red Granite Pictures\u201d and containing a solitary line about the 1MDB scandal that notes how in 2019 he \u201cvoluntarily\u201d surrendered \u201cluxury goods\u201d traced to stolen funds. Low doesn\u2019t appear at all, his name (and mentions of his ties to McFarland) having been removed in edits made in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    This apparent attempt to redefine and clean up McFarland\u2019s backstory ties in with efforts that were made in 2018 to minimize his involvement and stature at Red Granite, downplaying his role there. However, numerous close sources have asserted that McFarland actually was very much the man in charge at the company, with Aziz largely taking a back seat (\u201cHe spent most of his time sitting in his office watching tennis,\u201d says one).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Unfortunately for McFarland, his activity on the <em>Emancipation<\/em> red carpet with the <em>Scourged Back <\/em>photo may have undermined plans for him to break free from his scandal-tainted past and start fresh. As has become standard, the uproar saw numerous social media users immediately scour the web, digging up old stories, with his 1MDB and Low ties detailed in subsequent articles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    And <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> of the discord and dissension during filming of <em>Emancipation<\/em> that saw McFarland being asked to leave the set of his own film may not help his producing aspirations should another big feature idea come his way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But of course, had <em>Emancipation<\/em> generated the type of awards buzz that Apple was clearly hoping for with the December release, all of this might have been happily forgotten by a fickle industry willing to brush aside the controversies \u2014 as driven by Smith or, indeed, <em>Emancipation<\/em>\u2018s producer. After all, McFarland has already made one impressive comeback, returning just half a decade after his links to the biggest corruption scandal in history were laid bare and with an A-list movie that became the largest film festival acquisition of all time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    As one producer notes, \u201cYeah, welcome to Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>This story first appeared in the Jan. 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.hollywoodreporter.com\/sub\/?p=THR&amp;f=saleb_2&amp;s=IH2205THRS\">Click here to subscribe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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