Despite his enormous success, Eszterhas seemingly felt slighted by the industry in which he made his living, and decided to bite the
hand that fed him with Hollywood satire «An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn,» in which director Eric
Idle makes a $ 200 million action movie (starring Sylvester Stallone, Jackie Chan and, um, Whoopi Goldberg) and tries to take his
name off of it after studio interference, but is unable to because his
name is actually Alan Smithee.