Complex sentence: The first choice of director by Wayne and Fox was Richard Fleischer attempted to bow out of the film as he thought the script was bad insuring the film would fail and he would be blamed for a box office failure for Wayne.
Split into simpler sentences: The first choice of director by Wayne and Fox was Richard Fleischer. However Fleischer attempted to bow out of the film as he thought the script was bad insuring the film would fail and he would be blamed for a box office failure for Wayne.