Making this Stephen King movie was so dark they HAD TO CANCEL it

There are disturbing movies… and then there’s Apt Pupil, based on a story by Stephen King. It’s about a teenager who blackmails a former Nazi officer — which already sounds pretty dark. But that turned out to be the least disturbing part. The production itself was overshadowed by a scene so controversial it nearly took down an entire studio. And that’s without even getting into the lawsuits, the rumors, the cover-ups, a teenage star with a tragic fate, and a director who went from Hollywood glory to complete cancellation. So hit that like button and share the video, because today we’re diving into a film that still makes people uncomfortable, sparks debate, and leaves more questions than answers.

00:00 - Intro
00:36 - Stephen King and Early Controversies
01:45 - A Cursed Adaptation?
03:00 - The Rising Director
05:00 - First Signs of Trouble
07:15 - The Cast
09:00 - A Controversial Production
09:55 - The Scene That Started It All
13:45 - Premiere Under Fire
14:48 - Tragedy and Downfall

Apt Pupil is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. It is based on the 1982 novella Apt Pupil by Stephen King. In the 1980s in southern California, high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers fugitive Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (McKellen) living in his neighborhood under the pseudonym Arthur Denker. Bowden, obsessed with Nazism and acts of the Holocaust, persuades Dussander to share his stories, and their relationship stirs malice in each of them.