If you watch the production diaries, you'll see exactly what went wrong. tl;dr Guillermo del Toro was the original director with proper prep time and then Pete

If you watch the production diaries, you'll see exactly what went wrong. tl;dr Guillermo del Toro was the original director with proper prep time and then Peter had to take over, without the prep time. He was winging it most of the time and making things up on the spot. You can literally hear the above from his own mouth: https://youtu.be/SQkygZdZ_Vk https://youtu.be/SQkygZdZ_Vk