23 Failed Celebrity Side Projects That Had Them Crawling Back to Their Bread and Butter

RENALDO & CLARA is a four hour movie created by Bob Dylan that has footage of his concerts, interviews of various singers, and vignettes based on lyrics from his songs It was pulled from theaters when critics called it "incoherent, impenetrable, self-indulgent, and... virtually unwatchable." CRACKED.COM

Highly creative individuals such as ourselves know how it feels to yearn for another art form. We’ve solely been writing pre-list blurbs for years now, and even though it’s made us world famous millionaires, it hasn’t been satisfying our creative itch for a while now. We asked the Cracked higher-ups for a new assignment involving real think pieces about serious world issues, but like these overly ambitious celebrities, we quickly learned that success in one creative field doesn’t necessarily translate to success in another.

Makes sense, right? Like, LeBron James probably wouldn’t be able to score a goal in the NHL. Not that we’re comparing ourselves to LeBron James. That dude is on another level in the pre-list blurb writing game.

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RENALDO & CLARA is a four hour movie created by Bob Dylan that has footage of his concerts, interviews of various singers, and vignettes based on lyrics from his songs It was pulled from theaters when critics called it "incoherent, impenetrable, self-indulgent, and... virtually unwatchable." CRACKED.COM

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Kevin Spacey sang and danced to get investors for Beyond the Sea. Не wrote, directed and starred in it because his mom loved Bobby Darin. Audiences, however, did not share his passion, and the movie bombed at the box office, making less than a third of its $25 million budget. CRACKED.COM

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In 2015, Morrissey wrote a novel about a 1970s relay team that gets embroiled in black magic. The novel, List of the Lost, has phrases like "bulbous salutation" (meaning "erection"), "lush houses of beddy-bye shut-eye snoozled in sleepland," and "Whoever put the pain in painting had also put the fun in funeral." Book reviewers and Morrissey fans both hated it. CRACKED.COM

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Shaq Fu, the 1994 video game featuring Shaquille O'Neal, was a huge failure. $HADFU A In 2014, O'Neal launched an Indiegogo campaign, asking for $450,000 to make Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn. The game came out in 2018 and also flopped, with a Metacritic score of 36. CLEVEL AND 33 CRACKED.COM

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Metallica were excited to make an album with Lou Reed. They blamed fans when it sucked. Lulu debuted to pitiful sales, selling only 13,000 copies in its first week. James Hetfield later called the fans who criticized the effort "fearful people who are probably typing from their mom's basement that they still live in." CRACKED.COM

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In 1984, Paul McCartney wrote the screenplay for and played himself in Give My Regards to Broad Street. Somehow, he has zero charisma, and manages to make being a rock star look dull and plodding. Also, there's a rehashed plot, flat characters, and many pointless dream sequences. It bombed hard, critically and financially. Why did McCartney make it? Because being the star of his own movie was his childhood dream. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED COM ie TV ds Heidi Montag spent nearly $2 million of her own money on her first album, titled Superficial. The album, which she and her husband produced themselves, took three years to make. Despite boasts that it was comparable to Michael HETDI Jackson's Thriller in terms MONTAG of sound and quality, SUPERACIAL Superficial was met with poor sales and bad reviews. Au

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George Lucas' 2015 flop Strange Magic was one of his biggest passion projects. It's an animated musical with a story built around lyrics from Lucas' favorite songs (those songs are about 70% of the movie). His goal was to make another Star Wars, but for girls, and he worked on the movie on and off for 15 years. It had the worst opening of any animated film, ever, and got 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. CRACKED.COM

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Bill Murray wanted to do a serious film. It flopped. Murray and director John Byrum spent 18 months writing a film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge. The movie, about a traumatized WW1 veteran, would be his first starring dramatic role. The movie was panned by critics, with Murray later admitting, "I kind of deluded myself that there would be a lot of interest. I made a big mistake." CRACKED.COM

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Jada Pinkett Smith wicked WISDOM CRACKED.COM She's the frontwoman of a nu-metal band, Wicked Wisdom. They played Ozzfest in 2005, released an album in 2006, and have played shows as recently as 2018. Pinkett Smith says she's received death threats from confused, enraged metalheads.

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Brie Larson S Finally yout PE.OR E L CRACKED.COM To vent her frustration at not being cast in 2003's Peter Pan, 14-year-old Brie wrote an album called Invisible Girl. It caught the attention of a label that briefly tried to style her as an Avril Lavigne-type. They released a tepid pop-punk album called Finally Out of P.E. because FRICK gym class!

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Kobe Bryant bryani K.O.B.E. Kobe CRACKED COM Kobe had been rapping since high school, and he really wanted to make a career happen. After a live performance of his debut single absolutely tanked, the music video was nuked and he was released from his label. Не then started his own label, but couldn't keep it running for a full calendar year.

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William Shatner WILLIAM SHATNER CAPTAIN KIRK OF STAR TREK THE TRANSFORMED MAN CRACKED.COM Shatner released a spoken-word "cover" album of poetry and pop songs in 1968, The Transformed Man, that would be a #1 comedy album and pull in a Netflix deal if it were published today.

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Scarlett Johansson CRACKED.COM She cut her teeth on a George Gershwin cover song, and went on to cover, just, a whole bunch of Tom Waits songs. Her first full-length cover album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, got this rave review from Spin: "There's nothing particularly compelling about Scarlett Johansson's singing."

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Lord of the Rings Stars' Side Projects as Luke Evans Rugged action star Luke Evans does cringy power ballads. Oh, is that disrespectful to his music? Nothing compares to his disrespect to Pat Benatar's "Love is a Battlefield." If Benatar's 1983 original is the LOTR movies, then Evans' 2019 cover is the Hobbit movies. Yes, we stand by that comparison. CRACKED.COM

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In 2004 Robert Downey Jr. recorded an album of original and cover songs titled The Futurist. THE Fuburist After receiving mixed reviews, he has wisely refocused his energies on his film career. CRACKED.COM

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23 Failed Celebrity Side Projects That Had Them Crawling Back to Their Bread and Butter

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In 1986, John Travolta lent his vocal talents to The Road to Freedom, an album of songs written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Sample lyric: "You are not mind or chemicals, you don't even have a form/ You're in a trap of senseless lies, it's time to be reborn" THE ROADTO FREEDOM and friends The spectacular new hit album of Scientology® songs! CRACKED.COM

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23 Failed Celebrity Side Projects That Had Them Crawling Back to Their Bread and Butter

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Joe Pesci released a 1998 album as the persona of Vincent Gambini from the 1992 film My Cousin Vinny. Michael Gallucci reviewing for Allmusic described the work as such: "his nasally New York tones translate directly onto record about as subtly as a mob hit, burying everything around it in a mound of failed songs and lame jokes." Sings just for You VINCENT LAGUARDIA GAMBINI PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT CRACKED.COM

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Want to see Kanye West's short film? You'll need seven movie screens. It's called Cruel Summer. Kanye decided to spread the film across seven individual screens, with each one showing a piece of a scene, or different perspectives of the same one. So unless your local multiplex has seven screens in one room, it won't be coming to a theater near you. CRACKED.COM http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2169610/

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23 Failed Celebrity Side Projects That Had Them Crawling Back to Their Bread and Butter

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Meet rapper Dee Dee King. Also known as Dee Dee Ramone. Dee Dee was the bassist and primary songwriter for arguably the greatest and most universally respected punk band ever formed. Не also loved rap music, and although he admitted he had no idea how to rap, that didn't stop him from releasing what's been called one of the worst albums of all time. CRACKED.COM http://www.allmusic.com/album/standing-in-the-spotlight-mw0000199527

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