sorry, connery retired himself (just look at his astonishing bad role choices in that period, and also the roles he didn\’tn care to like f.e. gandalf). also norrington was basically shut out of the (post-)production of the film and about 10-15%(!) of his cut and material remained intact. connery and the studio then took over, and the final product can be seen in its horrficic glory. lxg can be seen as a prime example of big hollywood actors and studios shitting over their own films out of complete incompetence and vanity.