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Five Movies That No One Will Ever Be Able to See
July 2, 2012
Posted By: Daniel Eagan
This posting instead is about movies that were never completed, or in some cases never filmed at all. Every filmmaker has a list of projects that just didn’t work out. Either they couldn’t find financing, or schedules were too complicated, or situations suddenly changed.
Directors and other creative personnel invested a lot of time and money into the five films below.
1. I, Claudius—Josef von Sternberg
2. It’s All True—Orson Welles
3. Napoleon—Stanley Kubrick
4. Elective Affinities—Francis Ford Coppola
5. Nostromo—David Lean
More: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/movi...gn=201207-hist
Napolean by Kubrick might have been amazing.
Here is a slightly bigger list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unfinished_films
At The Mountains Of Madness - Guillermo del Toro
Why won't this one be made? He is still making movies...occasionally in between being a foul mouthed artist....Originally Posted by Thumpsquid
Here's what I've read about it:
Guillermo Del Toro Says PROMETHEUS Has Probably Nixed AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
Well that's a shame. I would pay to see both but I don't think that was Del Toro's problem with it.
I had hear about the Kubrick Napoleon flick, the project sounded amazing. Too bad.
I would really like to have seen Nostromo; David Lean (director of The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia) directing a movie based on Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo.
(not to mention any other cinematic association the names Nostromo or Sulaco may have)
Storyboard:
Blame Twilight. Movie companies now operate under the assumption that a horror movie won't be successful unless it's actually a melodramatic PG-13 romance geared towards an audience who has never seen a proper horror movie (i.e. teenage girls). So, once the big movie companies figured out that At The Mountains Of Madness was going to be a hard R and that Shoggoths were not brooding teenage boys seducing equally brooding teenage girls, they refused to touch the project with a 20ft pole. So, Guillermo del Toro and James Cameron put the project on hiatus and went about their separate ways. Guillermo del Toro went on to make Pacific Rim (which is going to be awesome) and James Cameron is turning Avatar into a trilogy (no comment).
They were supposed to make a True Lies II which would have been OK. Clooney bought the rights to Gates Of Fire which I really think would be a great movie,if done by the right folks.
true lies 2? lol that sounds awsome
Napoleon by Kubrick would have either been the greatest film ever or the largest mass murder attempted since WW2.
Most likely both.
James Cameron put that to a rest after 9/11 by saying: "Terrorism isn't funny anymore" or something like that
it would consisted of 40% of napoleon staring at the camera in some squared background place whit some slow moving synthetizer music
and 35 years of development
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