Kubrick’s A.I., Gilliam’s and Orson Wells’ Don Quixote, Raimi’s Evil Dead 4, Spielberg’s A boy’s life.
Welles’ Merchant of Venice and The Deep.
Spielberg was to do, this boys life?
wow, Catch me if you can would of been there 2nd collab
Kubrick: Artificial Intelligence and Napoleon. He was also going to direct One Eyed Jacks. I heard that he was also going to do Schindlers List but Spielberg ended up doing it instead.
Tarantino was going to do a James Bond movie…that would have been interesting.
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Jesus
Nicolas Roeg’s Flash Gordon
Ken Russell’s Dracula
David Lynch’s One Saliva Bubble and Goddess
Martin Scorcese’s Gangs of New York with music by The Clash
Looks like Jodorowsky’s “Kingshot”. (sadly)
Apparently they’ve tried like three times now to film “Confederacy of Dunces” but each time they start production the leading man died, its considered something of a Hollywood curse now: John Belushi, John Candy, then Chris Farley. Creepy.
Also a huge shame cuz I friggin love that book.
I have never read Confederacy of Dunces but is that casting on the money? If so I’m sure someone’s working on a version with Jack Black since it appears Black is the new Fat.
Firstly, I highly suggest reading it. It’s so brilliant and funny and sad and perfect all at the same time.
I didn’t think Chris Farley was very appropriate for the part, but I could see the other two. And yeah, apparently Black is the new Fat but I’m not sure if I could see him in the part. Depends on whether or not he can act smart and crazy and horribly socially undeveloped. And southern.
The character is a genius of medieval philosophy and literature, with an MA in the subject, but he also lives with his mom and only left New Orleans on one occasion in his entire life. He’s absolutely childish and has the most absurd personality. I’m laughing just sitting her thinking about it, a testament to the novel’s quality. I just may go read it for a fourth time…
Robert Bresson’s Book of Genesis project
Josef von Sternberg’s I, Claudius
Sergei Eisenstein’s An American Tragedy
Jean-Luc Godard’s The Story (Bugsy Siegel biopic w/Robert De Niro & Diane Keaton)
Charles Laughton’s The Naked and the Dead (taken over by Raoul Walsh)
Joseph Losey’s Remembrance of Things Past
Gus Van Sant’s Warhol (abandoned after death of prospective lead actor River Phoenix)
Manoel de Oliveira’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sean Penn’s The Autumn of the Patriarch (w/Marlon Brando)
Anyone heard of Atuk?
Kubrick’s Aryan Papers always sounded interesting too. Spielberg must be the king of these, between Night Skies/ ET 2, Lincoln, Oldboy with Will Smith, etc…
I’m really skeptical of whether Confederacy of Dunces: the Movie would be much good. Didn’t Will Ferrell want to be Ignatius at some point?
I 100% concur that The Aryan Papers would have been a sight to behold, if you go on youtube I think you can find an entire documentary on the woman who was to play the lead. Also would have liked to see how different A.I. would be if Kubrick had directed that.
I’d have also liked to see anything else Charles Laughton would have directed (if that’s what’s implied) since Night of the Hunter was so good.
>>If so I’m sure someone’s working on a version with Jack Black since it appears Black is the new Fat.<<
If he signs on I hope his affairs are in order…
Among the many unrealized Orson Welles projects I was had come about was his version of CARMILLA.
Martin Scorcese’s Gangs of New York with music by The Clash (WOWOW)
Cool list Mike Spence :D
I never knew a dark cloud hovered above the dunces project…it would seem cursed.
I think John Candy would of pulled it off the best
Scorsese was supposed to do Clockers, that would of been interesting…
Sergei Eisenstein’s An American Tragedy
Jean-Luc Godard’s The Story (Bugsy Siegel biopic w/Robert De Niro & Diane Keaton)
I need to hear more about The Story! I need to hear more about An American Tragedy
Cranly, thank you
Jodorowsky’s Dune. He had sets built.
Terry Gilliam’s Watchmen
Bruce Lee’s Game of Death
Game of Death, dont get me started.
Terry Gilliams was gonna do Watchman? wow
One that came closer to fruition only to crash and burn:
“The Day the Clown Cried” by Jerry Lewis.
It was going to be his “big serious statement” film and it mostly got filmed, and rough-cut, but evidently Lewis himself took some or all of the footage after some more than ordinary ‘creative differences’ with his investors, writers and his producer. To this day, he refuses to discuss it.
Lewis beat R. Beignini’s “Life is Beautiful” with “Clown”: a story about a circus performer winding up in a Nazi camp. The few who have seen footage say it is dreadful.
I would have liked to see David Cronenberg’s Basic Instinct 2 (or his Total Recall, for that matter).
I am dying to see the day the clown cried!
Sam Fuller was going to do a film called Red Square. It was going to be a story about an average person in communist society, and the plan was to do shooting in Moscow with hidden cameras, and pad that with some studio shot footage. Would be been insanely controversial for the time it was going to be made. However the studios wanting to capitalize off the success of Steel Helmet, made him do another war film, and we got Fixed Bayonets instead.
I just brought The Big Red One, so I can get my Fuller on.
I just read a book about Fassibender’s movies, and at the end of the book, it talks about the movie he was gonna make after Querelle. It was about a detective agency and Gunther Kaufman was going to be it. I forget the title of the movie.
It sounded very interesting.
Martin Scorsese has a lot of projects which are not certain to happen. Silence, Sinatra, the Dean Martin biopic.
I want to see Napoleon, even if it meant Kubrick would never make A Clockwork Orange or Barry Lyndon.
David Lean was about to start shooting an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo when he died.
Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Woody Allen, David Cronenberg and Pedro Almodóvar have all attempted to direct D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel, with stars such as Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes and Anne Hathaway attached.
I heard and I am not sure about it but I read somewhere that Mike Nichols wanted to “Blue Movie” with an X rating and make it pornographic
One Eye Jacks was supposed to be written by Sam Peckinpah and Directed by Stanley Kubrick and Starring Marlon Brando.
mel brooks version of 40s army life in Private Snafu
steve martin starring in a Roman Polanski movie called The Double
John Waters’ Fruitcake concieved as a film for children
Steven Soderbergh’s Moneyball
I remember reading, years ago, about Scorsese not only have the rights but going into pre-production, with DeNiro in the lead, for… “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas.”
Unfinished Orson Welles Films:
*Don Quixote
*It’s all True
*One-Man Band
*The Big Brass Ring
*The Cradle Will Rock
*The Deep
*The Dreamers
*The Merchant of Venice
*The Other Side of The Wind.
Rudy
My teacher told me of an abandoned Scorsese project, one he tried to do but couldnt, it was Herman Melville’s Pierre.
What are other films that never happened but where supposed to happen
I remember before Robert Altman died he was gonna do a movie called PAINT! which from what i remember reading about it on IMDB before it was taken down, it was a story centered in the NYC art world! HOW FUCKING COOL would it be, if Paul Thomas Anderson took on this project, to see him shoot a movie in NYC! That would be my dream, but hes a California man
Kubrick was gonna do Napolean and now Tascan books is releasing a 700 dollar collection of his notes on the film. Kubrick was also gonna do The Aryan Papers also
Lets discuss some of these lost projects