Editing WarGames (section)

=== Filming ===
[[Martin Brest]] was originally hired as the director, but was dismissed after 12 days of shooting because of a disagreement with the producers,<ref name="Erickson, Hal">{{cite web |url = https://www.allmovie.com/artist/martin-brest-82954/bio |title = Martin Brest: Biography |access-date = March 15, 2009 |author = Erickson, Hal |publisher = Allmovie}}</ref><ref name="Erickson, Hal2">{{cite web |author=Erickson, Hal |title=Martin Brest: Biography |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/martin-brest-82954/bio |access-date=March 15, 2009 |publisher=Allmovie}}</ref> and replaced with [[John Badham]]. Several of the scenes shot by Brest remain in the final film. Badham said that Brest had "taken a somewhat dark approach to the story and the way it was shot. It was like [Broderick and Sheedy] were doing some [[Nazism|Nazi]] undercover thing, so it was my job to make it seem like they were having fun, and that it was exciting." According to Badham, Broderick and Sheedy were "stiff as boards" when they came onto the sound stage, having both Brest's dark vision and the idea that they would soon be fired. Badham did 12 to 14 takes of the first shot to loosen the actors up. At one point, Badham decided to race with the two actors around the sound stage, with the one who came last having to sing a song to the crew. Badham lost and sang "[[The Happy Wanderer]]", the silliest song he could think of.<ref name="thi">{{cite web|url=http://thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2008/08/john-badham-hollywood-interview.html |title=John Badham: The Hollywood Interview |access-date=May 1, 2009 |author=Simon, Alex |date=August 2, 2008 |publisher=The Hollywood Interview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708070846/http://thehollywoodinterview.blogspot.com/2008/08/john-badham-hollywood-interview.html |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He invited what ''Wired'' described as "a small army of computer whizzes on set" to advise on accuracy.{{r|wired}}

[[Tom Mankiewicz]] says he wrote some additional scenes during shooting that were used.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tom|last=Mankiewicz|title=My Life as a Mankiewicz: An Insider's Journey Through Hollywood|others=with Robert Crane|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|date=2012|pages=253–254}}</ref> [[Walon Green]] was also an uncredited [[script doctor]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kehr |first=Dave |date=October 26, 1985 |title=WarGames |url=http://chicagoreader.com/film/wargames-2/ |access-date=September 14, 2023 |website=Chicago Reader |language=en-US}}</ref>