This sounds like a clear-cut case of a filmmaker going off the reservation by not delivering the version of Haunted he was contracted to make.
Hopefully the filmmaker will be able to recover from the setback of Haunted.
An under-the-radar $17 million dollar horror movie titled Haunted was only five short weeks away from going before cameras, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks Pictures and producer Steven Spielberg have pulled the plug.
While director changes happen all the time on projects in pre-production, they rarely happen this close to shooting, but DreamWorks must have felt it was better to cut their losses.