Fame is a volatile mistress . You never know when she will bestow her blessing upon you , and you do n’t make out when she ’ll take it aside — although starring in really crappy scifi and fantasy film is a pretty good mode to make the latter happen . Here are 15 poor souls whose picture show careers ended rather abruptly .
1 ) Kristen Kreuk , Street Fighter : Legend of Chun Li
When Kristen Kreuk left the CW ’s hit series Smallville , it was because she was gon na be a grown - time movie star . Or so she thought when she was cast as lover favored Chun Li in the Street Fighter : Legend of Chun Li movie . But it was terrible , and she was horrendous in it , even for the Street Fighter fanboys who were really only front to see her kick things . She ’s now back on The CW in Beauty in the Beast , which is the best for all touch on .
2 ) Jake Lloyd , Star war : Episode I
Jake Lloyd was already a precocious star before George Lucas cast him as the wee Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace ; he star polar Arnold Schwarzenegger in the quite popular Jingle All the Way . Of course , we all screw how this went . Regardless of Lloyd ’s acting gift or lack thence , I think we can all agree that George Lucas is a direful writer of dialog and managing director of actors — even Ewan McGregor was bad in those — and the role was terrible to begin with . Poor Lloyd never stood a chance .
3 ) Lori Petty , Tank Girl
Lori Petty was get to be a hotshot . She was in three major hits in a row — Point Break , Free Willy and A League of Their Own — and was singled out for praise in all of them . So what did she pick for her first starring role ? A terrible adaptation of the nearly unadaptable indie risible Tank Girl . Here ’s a clue for all you aspiring actors : When you get your with child jailbreak , do n’t waste it on a movie where you have to make out with Ice - T while he ’s in a anthropomorphous kangaroo costume . Petty has made several movies since Tank Girl , and you ’ve discover of none of them .
4 ) Justin Chatwin , Dragonball : Evolution
confessedly , Justin Chatwin did n’t have the full-grown career run when he was cast as Goku in Fox ’s well - we - pay - a - goddamn - fortune - for - the - rights - so - we - might - as - well - crap - something - out adaptation of the hit gum anime Dragonball Z ( or more precisely , its less popular origin , Dragonball ) . But he had been in Tom Cruise ’s blockbuster War of the Worlds remake , and he could have gone on to bigger and expert things . rather , he ’s co - asterisk in one little Canadian moving-picture show and guest - starred in Showtime ’s Shameless alongside fellow Evolution victim Emmy Rossum .
5 ) Michael Keaton , Batman
It might not be fair to say Batman and Batman Returns killed Michael Keaton ’s career , but it did mortally wound it . You have to understand , Keaton was one of the biggest stars of the ‘ 80s , star in a long ton of hits like Clean and Sober , Beetlejuice , Mr. Mom , and more . And Batman and Batman Returns were hits , and Keaton did well in both of them … and then he had a clone comedy called Multiplicitly that went nowhere … and a bit part in Jackie Brown … and then he was a talking snowman in the sub - unbowed - to - video movie Jack Frost , a mere six years later . He ’s done a slight bit of body of work here and there , but for some intellect Batman Returns persist his last major role and hit .
6 ) Chris O’Donnell and Alicia Silverstone , Batman and Robin
And while we ’re on the topic of Batman ! Chris O ’ Donnell was a red-hot up - and - comer when he was cast as Robin in Batman Forever , which was n’t incisively loved but made a lot of money . Alicia Silverstone was more or less a star after Clueless . Then Batman and Robin came out and just destroy them . It was a severe movie , and they were surprisingly frightful in it , and they both slunk to TV afterwards ( where O’Donnell is presently having far more achiever than Silverstone ) . What ’s most amazing is that George Clooney , who played Batman , survived unscathed , because he was just as awful as his young sidekicks .
7 ) Sean Connery , League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
After a vast calling of popular smasher and undisputed cinematic masterpiece , Sean Connery had such a terrible prison term making the execrable League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that he forthwith pull away from acting when it was over , and despite countless offer , he has n’t acted since . If LXG did n’t technically kill Sean Connery ’s career , it ’s only because it made Connery put it out of its misery himself .
- Denise Richards , The World Is Not Enough
Denise Richards is not a good actress . Her mantrap carry her through movie like Wild Things and Drop Dead Gorgeous , but when she was actually required to work — just a minuscule — in the already slimy James Bond pic The World Is Not Enough , it all croak to hell . To be fair , the role — a nuclear physicist identify Christmas Jones — was never move to be in her pilothouse , and her casting was like a savage antic . She ’s mystify around Hollywood , but she ’s never star in anything again , and I cerebrate everyone ’s okay with that .
9 ) Hayden Christensen , Star war : Episode III
Goerge Lucas destroyed many a promising calling while make the prequel trilogy . After crushing Jake Lloyd ’s dream of stardom , he plucked untested Hayden Christensen out of nowhere to play the older Anakin Skywalker in both Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith . Again , Christensen ’s questionable gift , coupled with Lucas ’ nous - bogglingly bad dialog and charge , combined to destroy Christensen ’s life history as rapidly as it began . He did bring off to make Shattered Glass on his fashion down , at least .
10 ) Brandon Routh , Superman Returns
Much like George Lucas and Hayden Christianson , Bryan Singer discovered Brandon Routh and wander him as Superman in Superman Returns . Unlike Christianson , Routh actually did a keen problem play what Singer wanted him to — an sr. , more somber variant of Christopher Reeve ’s Superman from the original movies . It ’s not Routh ’s fault that no one wanted to see Bryan Singer ’s particular Superman moving picture other than Bryan Singer . Routh grapple to get a recurring role on Chuck for a chip , as well as the leash in the direct - to - video recording Dylan Dog picture show , but not much else . And it ’s a damn shame .
11 ) Joe Piscopo , Dead high temperature
Joe Piscopo was a member of Saturday Night Live during the dark years in the other ‘ 80s , where he was upstaged by Eddie Murphy ( avowedly , so was everybody else ) . When Eddie Murphy left to make action - comedies like 48 time of day and Beverly Hills Cop , Piscopo decided to do the same . This career began and ended with Dead Heat , where he played a constabulary officer with a zombie for a partner . If you like forged picture show , it is utterly one of the not bad , most entertaining bad picture show you could ever hope to see . frankly , it merit to be a cult classic even more that it deserved to lay off Piscopo ’s movie career .
12 ) Kevin Costner , Waterworld
After making Hollywood trillion of dollars with Dances with Wolves , The Untouchables , and Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves , Kevin Costner could do anything . What he chose to do was make a $ 200 million scifi movie where he was a Pisces - man who drank his own urine , which was called Waterworld . This was not a success . Hollywood , still technically onwards from his previous successes , gave Costner another blank hitch , which he used to make The Postman , another post - apocalyptic epic no one wanted to see . This in effect put Costner ’s career in a medically - induce comatoseness , in which it was Einstein - dead but artificially stay fresh alive , until he miraculously recuperate 10 years afterwards in the suspense movie Mr. Brooks . He ’s bounced around since then , but he has n’t headlined anything since . you may currently see him in Man of Steel , explain the importance of countenance children dieto young Clark Kent .
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13 ) Kristanna Loken , BloodRayne
Kristanna Loken was the hot new action mechanism miss after play the new , sexy Termanatrix in Terminator 3 : ascension of the Machines . And then she immediately squandered that momentum by starring in BloodRayne , Uwe Boll ’s movie version of the gently popular sexy - vampire legal action videogame . To the surprise of no one , this was a complete boxwood berth failure , and her next movie was Boll ’s In the Name of the top executive : A Dungeon Siege Tale , which pretty much move straight to telecasting and still flush it . Whether or not you trust Dungeon Siege was the moving-picture show that killed her career , it ’s safe to say she would n’t have bothered with the role if her calling had n’t been bleeding out after being stabbed repeatedly by BloodRayne .
14 ) Mark Hamill , Return of the Jedi
Mark Hamill has had an astonishing life history as a voice doer , one that rivals the great Mel Blanc . He ’s voiced unbelievable characters , he ’ll be the defining voice of the Joker for the next 50 years at least , and his list of credits is crazily enormous . And yet , in 1983 he was one of the biggest movie mavin in the entire earthly concern , a career that basically ended the minute Return of the Jedi arrive out . Why ? I do n’t make out . He was n’t the strong role player next to Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford , but he managed good than Ewan McGregor did in the prequels ( have got directors that were n’t George Lucas certainly helped ) . Well , at least he — and we — can take quilt in that whatever the movie humans lose , the world of animation gained .
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