WTF?

Yes, he does, and he didn't even credit the novel from which the script was virtually copied, often word-for-word. He didn't pay a bunch of people on this one either. He stiffed the hotel in Cape Cod, too. Then he got angry at them for complaining. And to those that say this is a "Hollywood guy" doing bad things, get real. This is a native Cape Cod guy doing bad things to everybody, including to folks in his own home town. But that's okay, because he is working in the service of great art. Consider this review from the LA Weekly:

Published on December 23, 2009

THE LIGHTKEEPERS Midnight-movie connoisseurs seeking the next blithely incompetent auteur in the vein of Ed Wood and The Room director Tommy Wiseau need look no further than Daniel Adams. A Harvard-educated veteran of the late-’80s and early-’90s direct-to-video scene, Adams has only recently hit his so-terrible-they’re-fascinating stride with two film adaptations of the early–20th century American writer Joseph C. Lincoln. This past spring, he unleashed The Golden Boys, an inert, geriatric kvetch-fest based on Lincoln’s novel Cap’n Eri, starring Rip Torn, Bruce Dern and David Carradine as a trio of crusty, woman-hating sea dogs in 1905 Cape Cod. Now he rounds out the year with The Lightkeepers, based on Lincoln’s short story “The Woman Haters” (a trend?) and starring Richard Dreyfuss as a crusty, woman-hating lighthouse operator in 1912 Cape Cod. As in the previous film — which appears to have been shot simultaneously, using recycled sets, costumes and tax incentives — conflict arises with the arrival of the dreaded fairer sex (as represented by Blythe Danner and Mamie Gummer), sending Dreyfuss and his younger, woman-hating assistant (Tom Wisdom) into a tailspin. Nothing if not consistent, Adams again shows an uncanny knack for marshaling ordinarily good actors into static, gauzy compositions and having them declaim dialogue like “By thunder!” and “If I’m confectionary with my women, drown me!” as if they’re projecting to the last row of some infernal dinner theater. I would add that Dreyfuss, who scowls a lot and snarls his lines in a LongJohn Silver brogue, gives the most desperate performance by an Oscar winner this side of Michael Caine in Jaws the Revenge. But, given that Dreyfuss is soon to be seen in Piranha 3-D, the verdict remains out. (Music Hall) (Scott Foundas)

Not being aware of all the dirty deeds associated with the making of The Lightkeepers, it didn't taint my attitude toward it when I first watched it. I found it delightful. It is too bad that so many people were hurt by the making of this movie and I am sorry for them. I guess I would wonder how many of the even "great" movies over the past have sordid, controversial backgrounds and, if we are unaware of them, we go on liking them (if we like them) unawares.