Film Music Reporter have revealed that John Swihart (”Youth In Revolt,” “New In Town”) has been hired to score the film. As you might recall, way back in 2009, it was reported that Squeak E. Clean (aka Sam Spiegel, Spike Jonze‘s younger brother and one half of the quasi hip-hop duo N.A.S.A.) had been tasked with the soundtrack duties—a fairly bold choice. But it’s probably a safe guess that with Russell bouncing, Spiegel’s music likely went with it (and/or with the film in such production disarray as it was, Clean may have been hired, but the music may not have even been composed since there wasn’t much of a post-production).

But with Swihart’s hire, it looks like moves are being made to finish the film—though it’s apparently in rough shape with at least one key scene that still needs to be reshot. That “missing scene,” or unfinished one, in the picture—when Jessica Biel first gets a nail accidentally drilled into her head—was not exactly missing, per se, in the rough cut that was screened, but it was incomplete at least. The scene was there with a title on the bottom that read: “to be reshot.” It was, we’re told, a confusing moment and poorly lit, so this is likely why they’d want to reshoot it. Apparently it made the film feel very jarring since it’s basically the first plot point that puts the story into motion. That said, contractually, everyone is obliged to finish the movie though it will be interesting to see if moves are made to corral cast members—which include Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden, Catherine Keener, Paul Reubens, James Brolin, Kirstie Alley and Tracy Morgan—to get any further scenes finished (and if so, who they will get to direct) or if they will just try and edit around the moment somehow. All this on top of a suggestion made by Paul Reubens (who also has a small role in the film) last month at SXSW that O. Russell’s camp was trying to “bury the film” now that he’s an Oscar-nominated director.

Still lots to be answered about “Nailed,” the political satire about a naïve and uninsured small town waitress (Biel) who suffers an accidental nail to the head at the hands of incompetent construction workers, heads to Washington and becomes a cause celebre for healthcare rights. But as the wheels on this one keep turning, it sounds more and more like a parody of bad Hollywood production itself.

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David O. Russell has walked out of the troubled project, which is about a woman who fights for better health care in the U.S. after getting shot in the head.

The movie has been plagued by difficulties ever since filming began in 2008 – shoots were halted several times due to unpaid fees to crew and acting guild members.

All this was because producer David Bergstein had to fight off creditors after failing to properly bankroll the movie.

But, since then, a new financier, Ronald Tutor, has come on board – but Russell feels unable to continue working on the film.

“This has been a painful process for me. The multiple production delays and stoppages, which were caused by David Bergstein and preceded Ron Tutor’s direct involvement with me, have now spanned two years, and the circumstances under which the film would now be completed are much different on several fundamental levels than when we embarked several years ago,” the Daily Express quoted him as telling The Hollywood Reporter.

“I, unfortunately, am no longer involved in the project and cannot call it ‘my’ film. I wish Ron Tutor well,” he added.

“(Russell) conducted himself like a perfect gentleman. I understood his position. It really didn’t have anything to do with him but with others, and we just reached a point where I couldn’t do what he wanted,” said Tutor.

“But it was a decent negotiation between the two of us. No lawyers. No idle threats, just two people trying to clean something up, and we couldn’t get there. It was surprising and disappointing, but I understood,” he added.

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