It's really not the actors fault if they can't do any script analysis and create a performance. It's the directors job to get a good performance out of an actor. You hire folks who can do it, and you don't keep something until you've got what you want. If they guy 'directing' isn't doing quality control, no one is. It just sounds like there isn't yet consumer demand for quality acting, or the companies would fix this.

Cut the funding, dump the project and reassign the personel to more useful projects like laser based fusion power, or robotics, or composite smart armor development.

Unfortunately, you've got to build them for them to be useless. If this works, long range missiles can become obsolete, not before.