Comments on: The 25 Greatest Movies Never Made

By: Parker

Parker — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

Alexander Payne's Downsizing with Sacha Baron Cohen, Paul Giamatti, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep. I hope finally this will be happen. Downsizing's subject will be also current in the future…

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

What about Lem Dobbs' Edward Ford or Dan O'Bannon's screenplay adaptation of Theodore Rozsak's Flicker? Now THOSE are great scripts. It's a crime they never got filmed.
As for Scorsese's innumerable could-have-been's, I've always wondered the most about the Elmore Leonard adaptation of LaBrava (quite possibly his finest novel) with Dustin Hoffman on the lead role way back in the 80's. Could have been pretty cool.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

I was looking forward too Alex Proyas Paradise Lost

By: James

James — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

I haven't read "Night Skies", but when Shyamalan's SIGNS came out, lots of writers said it borrowed heavily form Spielberg's unmade film.

By: MDL

MDL — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

There's a book about this titled: The Greatest Movies You'll Never See. Might want to note it.

By: fry

fry — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

Carl Dreyer's film about Jesus and Kurosawa's complete "The Idiot" are the biggest what-ifs for me.

By: Thunderbubble

Thunderbubble — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

Thanks for the Night Skies treatment.
I would add Harlan Ellison's I, Robot screenplay to that list. I've always loved it's "Citizen Kane"-ish structure. In a sci-fi setting it would be incredible. Plus you get all the stories the way Azimov intended them to be told. Pure genius! Sigh…

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

The Coen brothers' unrealized To the White Sea, which was to star Brad Pitt and boast no/minimum dialogue, is a project I'd dearly love to have seen. And speaking of the Coen brothers, they reportedly wrote a draft of a '30s-set The Shadow, with Sam Raimi set to direct. I just… I can't. No. That one hurts too much.

By: avant576

avant576 — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

I yearn for Shane Carruth's A TOPIARY

By: Simon B

Simon B — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

Nice piece. Just to add to MDL's comment, it seems you may have stumbled across The Greatest Movies You'll Never See (which I co-wrote and edited). 'Borrowing' the artwork for Moon Over Miami, which, like all the posters in the book, was specially commissioned, was a bit of a tip-off. Still, top marks for finding a few that escaped us.

By: Xian

Xian — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

Curious about "Night Skies"… here's a script critique:
scriptshadow . blogspot . com / 2010 / 02 / titan-week-night-skies . html

Close the space on the link and cut/paste to address/url.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

What about Shane Carruth\’s A Topiary? It may be one of the greatest scripts i have ever read and it was never made because Carruth could never get the financing. Steven Soderburgh and David Fincher were even executive producers

By: Sanker from India

Sanker from India — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

I have only read the intro so far but I need to say this. The opposite thing to imaginary movies possibly being amazing only because they exist in our imaginations would be films that are so mind altering that nothing is ever the same again. Take 2001: a space odyssey, for example. Now it may seem obvious and even inevitable to say that it's fantastic but before that first viewing I had no idea what was in store for me. After watching it and once the experience really sunk after the second viewing, my viewpoint if all cinema was forever altered. The film's brilliance, in this case, was something I couldn't even fathom before I saw it. Those kind of unexpectedly amazing experiences are the ones which I personally treasure the most.

By: I. P. Freely

I. P. Freely — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

"Man's Fate" from the Andre Malraux novel about a political revolution in China, and it's
futility, was to be directed by Fred Zinemann and then Micheal Cimino….

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

Michael Mann's Gates of Fire
Ridley Scott's Crisis in the Hot Zone
Ridley Scott's Dune
Ron Howard's remake of Colossus: The Forbin Project

By: Martijn

Martijn — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

Crisis in the Hot Zone should have been mentioned! I read a bootleg script once. It was totally intense. Like a real-life Andromeda Strain. Instead WB beat Fox to the punch and made Outbreak which now reads as such a completely absurd movie. Thankfully many years later Soderbergh made Contagion which very realistically depicted a modern pandemic in a way no other film has.

By: Felip Serra

Felip Serra — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

Re: "Napoleon"
$5 million (1969?) is $100 million in today's dollars? Really? Seems a bit high…
Also Audrey Hepburn was offered the role of Josephine was politely declined. You can read the letter in the Taschen book on the subject.

By: Nikhil Dhawan

Nikhil Dhawan — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

I was looking forward to "The Tourist"

By: Michael Dare

Michael Dare — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

Hal Ashby was intending on making Tom Robbins\’ Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Wolfe\’s The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test, Richard Brautigan\’s The Hawkline Monster, Saul Bellow\’s Henderson, the Rain King, and Thomas Berger\’s Vital Parts.

By: Just read the book of Judith in the bible (Apocrypha) last night and the class agreed that Angelina Jolie would be perfect for the part - really - check it out...Brad as Holofernes?

Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

theophilies

By: nicholas win

nicholas win — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:47 +0000

I so would\’ve loved to see batman triumphant