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From 'Superman Lives' to 'Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian,' these are the greatest movies we'll (probably) never get to see.
- Michele Debczak
Feb 8, 2018 · For every movie made, there are hundreds of rejected screenplays, germs of ideas, and screen tests that just never worked out.
- Jacob Shamsian
- Henry Blodget
- Spike Lee’s Jackie Robinson Biopic. Spike Lee gave cinephiles the ultimate gift during the pandemic in 2020 by dropping the full screenplay for his unmade biographical drama about baseball icon Jackie Robinson.
- David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises” Sequel. David Cronenberg’s gangster drama “Eastern Promises” earned Viggo Mortensen an Oscar nomination for Best Actor, and the story was strong enough to lure the filmmaker into planning a follow-up project.
- Steven Spielberg’s “Ghost Stories,” Starring Tom Cruise. Steven Spielberg directed Tom Cruise in “Minority Report” and “War of the Worlds,” and their working relationship was originally set to continue with a third project titled “Ghost Stories.”
- Peter Jackson, Neill Blomkamp, and Guillermo del Toro’s “Halo” Movie. After dazzling the world with his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Peter Jackson next sought to oversee the film adaptation of the wildly popular video game series “Halo.”
Jul 1, 2024 · Vote up the best movies that basically wipe out the whole cast. Although everyone loves a happy ending, there are plenty of movies where almost everyone dies before the runtime is up. And these aren't endings like Avengers: Infinity War, where the majority of deaths are just going to be undone in a sequel. No, we're talking about films where ...
- Heart of Darkness Orson Welles. Adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novella. The production began to fall apart when Welles took a long delay in getting the script out to his actors.
- Genesis Robert Bresson. A lavish adaptation of the Book of Genesis. Dino de Laurentiis had agreed to finance, but Bresson abandoned the project only to take it up again and then abandon it a second time.
- Napoleon Stanley Kubrick. A biopic on Napoleon set to be made just after the successes of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick was so enthusiastic to make the project that he confessed to identifying with Bonaparte even down to the way he ate his food.
- An American Tragedy Sergei Eisenstein. 1930 Adaptation of Dreiser’s novel to be produced by Paramount. Selznick thought the script terribly moving, but too depressing for commercial success: “a subject that will appeal to our vanity through the critical acclaim…but that cannot possibly offer anything but a most miserable two hours to millions of happy-minded young Americans.”
Jun 10, 2015 · This article is a celebration of the best movies never made – films that would have been surefire masterpieces, that generations of film fans have had to resort to merely imagining existing.
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1. Stanley Kubrick. Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey. Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school.
