Does he intentionally pick bad projects?
It amazes me. How hard would it be to look at the track record of the directors he's working with.
Previous work DANNY LERNER has directed:
Traitor's Heart
IMDB score: 2.6/10 (50 votes)
Seen it and it's an absolutely abysmal piece of drivel filmed in South Africa and trying to pass it off as the USA. Much of it is composed of stock footage from earlier movies by the production company NuImage and it's all spliced together really shoddily. Awful direction, stupid script, awful movie.
Shark Zone
IMDB score: 2.0/10 (49 votes)
"Imagine that they let him direct after giving him twenty minutes inside a stock footage vault from The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week to splice out everything he could get his hands on. Welcome to Bulgaria pretending to be San Francisco. Welcome to Hell. Welcome to Shark Zone." - Ziggy's Video Realm
He has 2 other directorial efforts, both awaiting 5 votes. He has also written the scripts for many of the worst NuImage "action" movies of all time. Such as:
Merchant of Death (1997) 3.6/10 (62 votes)
Operation Delta Force II: Mayday (1998) 3.0/10 (99 votes)
Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target (1998) 2.9/10 (125 votes)
U.S. Seals (1999) 2.2/10 (499 votes)
Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire (1999) 3.3/10 (77 votes)
Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault (1999) 3.4/10 (71 votes)
Octopus 2: River of Fear (2001) 2.5/10 (143 votes)
Disaster (2001) 2.3/10 (42 votes)
U.S. Seals: Dead or Alive (2002) 2.9/10 (51 votes)
Out for a Kill (2003) 3.0/10 (658 votes) bottom 100: #63
Basically, the only worse choice he could have made than starring in a Danny Lerner directed vehicle would be an Albert Pyun or Jim Wynorski movie. This is almost as bad as it gets.