Lasse Hallstrom, Joe Johnston to Share Directing Credit on Disney’s ‘Nutcracker’

Lasse Hallstrom and Joe Johnston will have a unique shared directing credit on Disney’s upcoming “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.”The helmers — who are not a directing team — will be listed on the same title card for “The Nutcracker,” which stars Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Misty Copeland, and Mackenzie Foy.Hallstrom was the first director on the movie.

Johnston was hired for a month of re-shoots, requiring extensive special effects, when Hallstrom was not available to film the additional footage.Typically, under the Directors Guild of America’s rules, only one filmmaker can be credited with directing a film.

That was the case on “Bohemian Rhapsody,” in which Bryan Singer was given the credit, even though he was fired in the latter stages of shooting and replaced by Dexter Fletcher.

That rule can be waived to allow two directors to be credited when filmmakers have a history of

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