Bryan Singer Responds To His Bohemian Rhapsody Firing As His Production Company Leaves The Fox Lot

By Jacob Hall/Dec. 5, 2017 7:00 am EST

So we are presented with two stories: one where an irresponsible director with a history of abandoning his sets flakes on a production and leaves a cast, crew and studio in a jam and another where cold-hearted studio brass refused to let a director go home to visit sick family. In either case, the story of Singer’s firing becomes more clear – he didn’t return to work, the crew struggled without him for days, and he was let go. That much is true. However, new reports from industry trades double down on tales of Singer’s tardiness to the set and his frequent no-shows and the the tension it created between all involved (representatives from the Director’s Guild of America were even called to set to monitor the situation).