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Most Expensive Mistakes in all History - Part 2

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Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

One small slip-up can cause a catastrophic fallout like no other. Following on from part 1, here are some more monumentally expensive mistakes that will go down in history for all the wrong reasons.




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0:00.0

One small slip-up can cause a catastrophic fallout like no other.

0:04.2

Following up on our previous episode about expensive mistakes, here are some more

0:07.9

monumentally expensive mistakes that will go down in history for all the wrong reasons.

0:14.7

You're listening.

0:16.1

You're listening to be amazed.

0:24.0

Cinema audience. You'd be amazed. Cinema audiences may have noticed something strange about Henry Cavill's performance as Clark Kent, aka Superman, in the 2017 movie Justice League.

0:32.8

Critics quickly began talking about the actor's haphazardly blurry upper lip, which made Superman look

0:38.0

perplexingly non-human in various close-up shots throughout the film. As it turns out, this unnerving

0:43.8

facial deformity was the result of an embarrassing and costly mistake, especially considering

0:49.4

Justice League ended up being the lowest grossing movie in the DC extended universe. After filming

0:55.5

rapt, Warner Bros. realized they needed to schedule some urgent reshoots for extra scenes,

1:00.5

but there was one small problem. Cabell was already filming for Mission Impossible 6,

1:05.6

and he'd grown a big old mustache especially for it. Despite Warner Bros. arguing how much easier it would be to

1:12.9

add a virtual mustache to the actor for Mission Impossible then remove it for Justice League

1:17.4

and even offering to pay for the work themselves, Paramount Bann Cavill from

1:21.8

shaving his facial hair. With no other option, Bfx artists had to painstakingly remove the stash scene by scene,

1:29.3

which, along with the payout of organizing the reshoots, ended up costing a whopping $25 million.

1:36.3

A hefty fine to pay for just one mustache.

1:39.3

Now, most people can only dream about winning the lottery, but for one anonymous pensioner in Coventry, England,

1:45.1

that dream very nearly became a reality. In October 2010, the Euro-Millions jackpot was worth

1:50.8

a staggering $145 million, the biggest lottery prize in British history thus far, and hopeful

1:58.2

ticket holders eagerly waited for their numbers to come up. After the announcement on

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