17 Celebrity Vanity Projects That Imploded Gloriously
Just like literal dreams, not all creative dreams should come true.
![17 Celebrity Vanity Projects That Imploded Gloriously](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/7/5/0/714750.jpg?v=2)
Famous people have pet projects that they're passionate about, whether it's a play, a painting, a luxury hotel, or something else entirely. And some of the time, those projects turn out to be somewhere between ill-conceived and disastrous.
Here's a collection of the most cringeworthy creations that hatched out of celebrity brains and came to life in our reality.
![Kevin Spacey sang and danced to get investors for Beyond the Sea. He wrote, directed and starred in it because his mom loved Bobby Darin. Audiences, h](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/7/713917.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/8/713908.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED CON HALERIAN AND THE cITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS. This film was already on Luc Besson's mind during the filming of The Fifth Element It was tor](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/1/713901.jpg?v=2)
![Sir Patrick Stewart's lifelong dream was to play Othello, Shakespeare's famously dark-skinned lead. And in 1997, he did. He played a white Othello in](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/5/713915.jpg?v=2)
![Terry Gilliam started working on The Man who Killed Don Quixote IN 1989. It took him 29 years to finish. Delays included legal disputes, natural disas](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/4/713914.jpg?v=2)
![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 s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/2/713912.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDC COM e V dg Heidi Montag spent nearly $2'million of her own money on her first album, titled Superficial. The album, which she and her husband](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/5/713905.jpg?v=2)
![ShagFu, the 1994video game featuring Shaquille O'Neal, was a huge failure. HA OFU ALEGEND REBORN In 2014, O'Neal launchedan Indiegogo campaign, asking](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/1/713911.jpg?v=2)
![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 i](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/0/713910.jpg?v=2)
![Will Smith came up with After Earth as a parenting metaphor. In the movie, a sci-fi soldier (Will Smith) guides his son (his real-life son Jaden) thro](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/6/713906.jpg?v=2)
![Francis Ford Coppola's 1982 musical film One From The Heart was backed by the director's own money because he wanted to focus on what he wanted to say](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/1/3/713913.jpg?v=2)
![16%0 ALEXANDER was the legendary Oliver Stone's dream project, but was reviled by critics and moviegoers alike. He was so committed to the flop that t](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/4/713904.jpg?v=2)
![Mel Gibson worked passionately for two decades to make the movie The Professor and the Madman. It was a box office disaster which didn't even recoup a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/2/713902.jpg?v=2)
![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' f](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/0/713900.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/9/9/713899.jpg?v=2)
![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 Iyri](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/8/9/8/713898.jpg?v=2)
![Sylvester Stallone's 40s-era Rocky rehash Paradise Alley was based on his memories of growing up in Hell's Kitchen. Stallone wrote, directed, and sta](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/0/9/713909.jpg?v=2)