There are few films as edge-of-your-seat entertaining as Harrison Ford's crime thriller The Fugitive , which saw him in a breathless race to find his wife's killer and prove his innocence. Despite its breakneck pace and stellar cat-and-mouse chase, the film's production was anything but polished, with a chaotic shoot and daily rewrites almost guaranteeing disaster.

Based on the popular TV series of the same name, The Fugitive was an IP whose cinematic adaptation was discussed for decades before getting greenlit. From the start, the movie was hampered by a swiveling door of scripts and screenwriters —a creative quagmire that threatened it ever got off the ground.

Filming proved no easier; cut storylines and a down-to-the-wire ending made it so, at any time, The Fugitive co

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