This is not how contracts work! If you hire someone to remodel your kitchen, you have to pay them even if you don’t like the work they do.
Hiring creatives to make an artistic product is always a risk, but that’s the name of the game. You have limited control over the ultimate product unless you really pay them well. On the production company side, you must. have. a. contract. BEFORE you do work and get a deposit if possible.
We’re only getting one side of the story here though - don’t know exactly when or how the relationship went south.
