Has Anyone Seen Swimming with Sharks?
Because all I could think while reading this article about Scott Rudin was--Are all big producers as abusive as Buddy? In retrospect, seems like that movie was more of documentary than fiction.
https://www.vulture.com/2021/04/scott-rudin-as-told-by-his-assistants.html
Another assistant recalled what happened when his colleague forgot to deliver a message to Rudin from the head of a studio. “That’s not good, right? The reaction that happened afterwards, I had never seen anything like it,” he said. “He picks up one of those big iMac computers the see-through ones, and starts chucking them, one by one, across the room at the assistants. Not at a wall; at the assistants. We were all dodging them. At which point he fires everybody.”
“There was a permanence to what he did,” he continued. “There’s something you carry with you in your life after that, a distrust of people, maybe. When you know what a person will really treat another person like, and you see it … I don’t know, it changed me.”