Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
01-10-23, 11:47 AM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Not quite "canceled," but the only things I can think of right now off the top of my head:
Sergio Leone was supposed to do a war movie, "Leningrad: The 900 Days." Don't remember if the project was aborted or he died before he could make it.
Greta Garbo was supposed to do a movie in Paris in the late 1940s with a famous director whom I can't recall now and she even went to Paris for costume fittings, but the project got derailed.
Sergio Leone was supposed to do a war movie, "Leningrad: The 900 Days." Don't remember if the project was aborted or he died before he could make it.
Greta Garbo was supposed to do a movie in Paris in the late 1940s with a famous director whom I can't recall now and she even went to Paris for costume fittings, but the project got derailed.
01-10-23, 12:01 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Would have loved to see the Ava DuVernay New Gods film. And while Spielberg's vision is one of my top 5 films probably, it'd be amazing to peak into another timeline and see John Carpenter's Jurassic Park.
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01-10-23, 01:26 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Originally Posted by Nesbit
Also was really looking forward to 23 Jump Street with them as Men in Black.
Another vote for Batgirl. It's really absurd it can be so close to completion and just get canned like that.
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01-10-23, 06:10 PM
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Originally Posted by mndtrp
The sequel to Bubba Ho-Tep that was mentioned after the end credits. I don't think it was ever started in order to be properly canceled.
Originally Posted by rw2516
In the early eighties Spielberg bought the film rights to DC comic Blackhawk. Never did anything with it.
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01-10-23, 07:16 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Originally Posted by RocShemp
It was started. Paul Giamatti was cast as Elvis and it was going to be a prequel. Then, nothing.
Isn't this one finally happening?
Isn't this one finally happening?
Giamatti was going to be Col. Parker, and Ron Pearlman was replace Bruce Campbell as Elvis.
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01-10-23, 08:07 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Where is History of the World Part II?
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01-10-23, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by majorjoe23
Giamatti was going to be Col. Parker, and Ron Pearlman was replace Bruce Campbell as Elvis.
Originally Posted by JeffTheAlpaca
Where is History of the World Part II?
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01-10-23, 09:54 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Tim Burton was supposedly going to adapt the novel Geek Love, but nothing has ever come of that.
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01-11-23, 09:46 AM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Originally Posted by RocShemp
It was started. Paul Giamatti was cast as Elvis and it was going to be a prequel. Then, nothing.
Originally Posted by majorjoe23
Giamatti was going to be Col. Parker, and Ron Pearlman was replace Bruce Campbell as Elvis.
Interesting. I never actually followed up on the mentioned sequel, and somehow missed any articles about it. I can kinda see Campbell's point about the interwoven storylines, although I can also see how it could work out if there wasn't too much jumping around. Regardless, without Campbell's involvement as old Elvis, I'm sure my interest wouldn't have been very high.
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01-12-23, 04:32 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Wasn't there an Alien movie that was being talked about that would have Sigourney Weaver and be a sequel to the second movie and ignore 3 and 4? I'd like to see that.
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01-12-23, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by milo bloom
Wasn't there an Alien movie that was being talked about that would have Sigourney Weaver and be a sequel to the second movie and ignore 3 and 4? I'd like to see that.
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01-12-23, 04:46 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
I'm still skeptical it gets made, so I'll say Kill Bill 3
Also the Vega Brothers
Also the Vega Brothers
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01-12-23, 04:49 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Originally Posted by Osiris3657
I'm still skeptical it gets made, so I'll say Kill Bill 3
Also the Vega Brothers
Also the Vega Brothers
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01-12-23, 04:49 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Oh, the Eastern Promises sequel
01-12-23, 04:52 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ
You could make an entire thread about Tarantino movies that will never happen.
I thought of a couple more.
Darren Aronofsky's Batman movie and Ridley Scott was supposed to make an adaptation of Blood Meridian
01-12-23, 06:00 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Would have liked to see the other books after Interview with the Vampire adapted with the same team (Cruise, Pitt, Neil Jordan, etc.). It seemed like that was the intention at the time. Not sure if they ever had talks to do that. I guess it didn't do well enough so we ended up with the Queen of the Damned that we got.
Does the "The Day the Clown Cried" count? It was made but never released and only seen by a few people.
I would have liked to have seen "The Splinter of the Mind's Eye" adapted as a cheap sequel to Star Wars if it didn't do well.
Did anyone mention James Cameron's Spider-man yet? Also, Raimi's fourth Spider-man movie.
Does the "The Day the Clown Cried" count? It was made but never released and only seen by a few people.
I would have liked to have seen "The Splinter of the Mind's Eye" adapted as a cheap sequel to Star Wars if it didn't do well.
Did anyone mention James Cameron's Spider-man yet? Also, Raimi's fourth Spider-man movie.
01-12-23, 06:22 PM
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Rainbow Six… As far as I can tell, doesn’t seem to be moving forward after Without Remorse
01-13-23, 07:00 PM
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Although not cancelled, since it will be released long after I'm dead, I'm curious to see 100 Years.
Given how much Without Remorse sucked (a total waste of Michael B. Jordan, the character, and Guy Pearce), I'm okay with their taking more time before they make Rainbow Six.
Originally Posted by dex14
Rainbow Six… As far as I can tell, doesn’t seem to be moving forward after Without Remorse
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01-15-23, 08:58 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
Originally Posted by GoldenJCJ
Not just an abbreviated single movie but in an age of 3 hour epics being commonplace, we got a single 90 minute movie. Seriously, WTF?!
01-15-23, 09:17 PM
#49
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I'd also like to have seen the original concept for The Godfather: Part III that would have pitted Tom Hagen against Michael Corleone.
01-15-23, 11:45 PM
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Re: Canceled movies you really wanted to see?
The Robert Zemeckis adaptation of Nicholson Baker's The Fermata, with a script by Neil Gaiman. A really intriguing mix of talent, esp. given the somewhat risque premise of the book. A number of script drafts were apparently completed by Gaiman but it never took off. Around 2014, there was also talk of a Zemeckis-produced series instead but that also disappeared into the ether.
