Abandonned. Legendary Movies that Never Made it to the Big Screen

[Doctor Jones]

I'm kind of glad Wayans didn't play Robin to be honest. That's the idea I never really liked from it. It's hard to imagine a Wayans brother play against Michael Keaton's Batman.

 

[Gort Baringa]

At the time I heard that James Mason and Trevor Howard were considered to play 007. Not sure about Cary Grant, I think that was also considered.

 

[gwynplaine]

At the time I heard that James Mason and Trevor Howard were considered to play 007. Not sure about Cary Grant, I think that was also considered.

Cool. Thanks for the info

 

[3rdstone]

I picked some (and there was more) of the facts and rumours posted here to qoute just for fun, but can you imagine yourselves..

Spoiler

Not legendary films, but still abandoned.

Fellini - Mandrake
Sergio Leone - The Phantom

I would have loved to see Ridley Scott's take on "I Am Legend."

i remember back in the 90s there were rumors, or maybe it was just wishful thinking, of a Doom movie being made with Arnold in the lead and to be directed by Paul Verhoeven

man, that would have been pretty amazing

A couple of years ago, Mark Millar claimed that he's had prove that, at some point, orson Welles was planning to make a Batman movie.This was supposed to be sometime after citizen kane (1941) and the early fifties.Millar at the time also claimed that he was in possesion of some early sketches...

I THINK it was proven to be ******** as expected...but it would have beeninsanely cool if it was true.

Dune by Alejandro Jodorowsky comes to mind. The proction art by Jean Gireaud, H.R. Giger and others alone is better than anything I've seen in Lynchs version.

For me, every time this kind of thread pops up. It HAS to be the James Cameron/Ridley Scott team up Alien 5/6 two parter. An epic grand scale invasion of Earth, with Engineers, Queens, Aliens, Dogaliens, etc starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nicolas Cage or Harrison Ford.

Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness.


http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=1173

We got Citizen Kane instead. Not a bad trade off.

Aronofsky's Wolverine. I maintain it would have given TDK a run for its money.

David Mamet's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, starring Al Pacino

.. what a hypothetic film festival with all this could've been like?

 

[gwynplaine]

^
What a Film Festival!

 

[weezerspider]

Tarantino's Casino Royale would have been sick.
Nolan's Howard Hughes film would have been cool(though I love The Aviator).
Kubrick's LOTR would have been epic.
Tarantino was approached for Green Lantern. Odd, but it would have been way better than the **** we got and I would have been interested to see what he would do with a traditional blockbuster.

 

[EML420]

The Godfather directed by Scorsese I read that he was asked to do it one can only imagine .

 

[weezerspider]

The Godfather directed by Scorsese I read that he was asked to do it one can only imagine .

We know how great he is with the gangster genre and his overall body of work is better than Coppla's, but I just can't imagine those films being better.

 

[Eddie Dean]

The real missed opportunity is Sergio Leone's Godfather.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Tarantino's Casino Royale would have been sick.
Nolan's Howard Hughes film would have been cool(though I love The Aviator).
Kubrick's LOTR would have been epic.
Tarantino was approached for Green Lantern. Odd, but it would have been way better than the **** we got and I would have been interested to see what he would do with a traditional blockbuster.

Tarantino's Casino Royale would have been a huge step back for the franchise. He wanted to set it in the 60's with Brosnan returning. Bond should always be a contemporary character to stay relevant.

Now those stakes aside, the movie by itself would have still been cool. Tarantino doing a spy film in the 60's would have been so awesome.

The real missed opportunity is Sergio Leone's Godfather.

 

[Kane52630]

James Cameron's Spider-Man

James Cameron's Aquaman

Tim Burton's Superman starring Nic Cage

Tim Burton's Batman 3

Joel Schumacher's Batman Triumphant

 

[Doctor Jones]

James Cameron's Spider-Man

James Cameron's Aquaman

Tim Burton's Superman starring Nic Cage

Tim Burton's Batman 3

Joel Schumacher's Batman Triumphant

Oh God yes.

 

[Kane52630]

I forgot The Rock's Spy Hunter, they released a tie-in game before the movie was ever in production.

 

[TheAQU4M4N]

I forgot The Rock's Spy Hunter, they released a tie-in game before the movie was ever in production.

is that a real poster?

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

Cameron's X-Men movie

more so especially because it would have been set right smack in the early-mid 90s which was when X-Men started to get really popular because of the animated series and Jim Lee's comic run

 

[Kane52630]

is that a real poster?

I believe so, they were in pre-production for a short time until they stopped it.

Here's the game cover:

 

[Donnie Darko]

Cameron's X-Men movie

more so especially because it would have been set right smack in the early-mid 90s which was when X-Men started to get really popular because of the animated series and Jim Lee's comic run

has his treatment ever been released the way his Spider-Man script was?

If they would've done James Cameron's X-Men starring the cast from the first Wizard Casting Call, that would have been something else.

 

[grout]

I would love to see a Alex Proyas Batman

 

[redhawk23]

At this point I would love to see Alex Proyas anything. He doesn't make the headlines nearly as much but the man has had almost as many projects fall through during pre-production as Guillermo Del Toro.

Oddly Proyas is actually rumored to be taking on an adaptation of Joe Gollum and the Sunken City which is written in part by Mike Mignola, creator of hellboy .

 

[grout]

At this point I would love to see Alex Proyas anything. He doesn't make the headlines nearly as much but the man has had almost as many projects fall through during pre-production as Guillermo Del Toro.

Oddly Proyas is actually rumored to be taking on an adaptation of Joe Gollum and the Sunken City which is written in part by Mike Mignola, creator of hellboy .

man, that is the truth.. At this point with Proyas I will believe it only when he is on set filming.

 

[weezerspider]

Tarantino's Casino Royale would have been a huge step back for the franchise. He wanted to set it in the 60's with Brosnan returning. Bond should always be a contemporary character to stay relevant.

Now those stakes aside, the movie by itself would have still been cool. Tarantino doing a spy film in the 60's would have been so awesome.

I thought he wanted to set it back when the novel takes place ('40s I believe, may be mistaken) and as just a one shot film, I don't think it would be bad for the franchise at all.

 

[Matt Mortem]

The Matrix prequel the Wachowski's wanted to do

 

[gwynplaine]

Cameron's X-Men movie

more so especially because it would have been set right smack in the early-mid 90s which was when X-Men started to get really popular because of the animated series and Jim Lee's comic run

Was that considered? I heard about his abandoned Spiderman project with Di Caprio but not about this one.

 

[Doctor Jones]

The Cameron Spider-Man project is something I'm glad didn't happen. It just sounded terrible.

Now Cameron's Jurassic Park? Yes please.

 

[gwynplaine]

The Cameron Spider-Man project is something I'm glad didn't happen. It just sounded terrible.

Now Cameron's Jurassic Park? Yes please.