A Billionaire Tried to Make a Movie. It Was a Disaster.

In the late 2000s, a Chinese billionaire with zero filmmaking experience but a deep obsession with movies (he’d seen over 4,000!) set out to create the next Hollywood style blockbuster - an epic underwater fantasy that the world had never seen before.

He gave it a budget of over $100,000,000 but between endless rewrites, changes of directors and complete financial chaos, "Empires of the Deep" turned into one of the biggest filmmaking disasters ever.