Alan Smithee: Alan Smithee. Director: Eternally Twilight: An AI's Guide to the Twilight Saga. 'Alan Smithee' is a common pseudonym for directors whose film was clearly taken away from her/him and recut heavily against her/his wishes in ways that completely altered the film.
The Directors Guild contract generally does not permit a director to remove her/his name from films. The Directors Guild has been striving for decades to establish the director as the...