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The name Alan Smithee was officially retired in 2000, probably because the list was getting so long that people were beginning to think Alan was a real director.
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The "Alan Smithee" director credit suggests that this is a parody.
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May 30, 2008 at 12:05 pm garbonzo: Are you thinking of "Alan Smithee"?
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #157 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Like the "Alan Smithee" name that movie directors use.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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I don't know what's going on with it right now - um, you know I was interested in trying to get the 'Alan Smithee' credit but they don't let you do that any more
Twitch 2009
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A few years ago there appeared a facetious book of academic essays about Alan Smithee – the catch-all DGA pseudonym under which movies are released if their real directors have removed their names in shame or horror – as if the alias were a directorial signature as recognisable as Hitchcock's or John Ford's.
Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name 2011
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Joe Felsenstein replied to comment from Alan Smithee
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Once on Amazon and again on the IMDB, but both showed it–this is indeed an Alan Smithee.
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Ti West has said that he now considers this an "Alan Smithee film".
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Ti West: Uh, yeah, it stands in the Alan Smithee category.
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