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In a interview film in 1990 Harlin told about his future projects. He was going to shoot after "Die Hard 2" (1990) a modern remake of Humphrey Bogart film "Key Largo" (1948). Film was titled "Gale Force", but was never made. After "Gale Force" he was going to film "Torpedo" titled gangster film which would have been set in 1939 New York, but this film was never made either. He dreamed it would have become his "Godfather" film.
After those two films he planned to make the "Fade" with Steven Spielberg producing. Film would have told a story about teenage boy growing up in a small town in 1940's. Spielberg had offered him the film by sending him the book the script was based on.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-04-ca-273-story.html Renny Harlin Finds Plenty of Action in Hollywood : Movies: With ‘Die Hard 2’ and ‘Ford Fairlane’ opening almost simultaneously, the Finnish director of adventure films is taking the industry by storm. By CHRIS WILLMAN July 4, 1990 12 AM PT
Director Renny Harlin wants to make one thing perfectly clear.
“I don’t know what you’ve read,” he said with the trace of an accent, “but I never told anybody that I’m the Finnish Steven Spielberg.” He faintly glowered at the thought of this presumption on his lips. “That’s following me, that curse. I don’t know where it started. I’ve never said anything that silly.”
Others may have suggested it if he hasn’t, or they soon will. Harlin is hardly an American household name yet, but with two major-studio films coincidentally opening a scant week apart--the sure blockbuster “Die Hard 2" today, followed by a gamble, “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane,” next Wednesday--he will soon benefit from name repetition.
Not that either picture is likely to inspire a Renny Harlin retrospective at Cannes or the Museum of Modern Art. “Ford Fairlane,” featuring the film debut of shock-comic Andrew Dice Clay as a private eye who looks and talks like shock-comic Andrew Dice Clay, is particularly lowbrow fare. “Die Hard 2" is just what it is, a slick, expensive action film that is high on thrills and low on logic.
But both show the sure-handedness of a director seemingly far more experienced than Harlin. Some are predicting that “Die Hard 2" may even turn out to be the biggest box-office hit of the summer--making this 31-year-old immigrant the hottest Hollywood property that no one has heard of yet.
Hottest and most expensive. Harlin is earning $3 million to direct his next film, “Gale Force,” a suspense thriller to be produced later this year from a Joe Eszter has screenplay.
Perhaps more impressive than the movies themselves is the fact that they were made back-to-back, with no breathing room between them, by Harlin and much of the same crew under the aegis of producer Joel Silver. The young director tends to come off as cool and collected as Silver is notoriously loud and agitated. It’s easy to envision them complementing each other in comic tag-team fashion. And when Silver approached him with the unthinkable last fall, Harlin didn’t flinch.
“Near the end of shooting ‘Fairlane,’ Joel gave me a script,” said Harlin in his office on the 20th Century Fox lot. “It was called ’58 Minutes.’ I read it and liked it a lot, so I asked, ‘What is this?’ And he said it was ‘Die Hard 2.’ I said, ‘Oh, who’s directing it?’ And he said ‘You.’ And I said, ‘Really? Like, next year?’ He said, ‘Well, next week, basically.’ He was very strong in his will about it.”
The story behind the story is that Joe Roth, the new production boss at Fox, had decided to order a sequel for this summer, and production needed to begin immediately to meet that deadline. Luckily, the studio had optioned Walter Wager’s short novel, “58 Minutes,” and a script that was already on hand was rapidly rehauled into a sequel that fit the Bruce Willis character.
Indeed, a week after wrapping up production on one film, Harlin was filming his next. Not only did he work on editing “Fairlane” at night and on weekends while filming “Die Hard,” but he also started editing the latter, he says, from the first day of shooting.
“It was funny sometimes, going back and forth from one editing room to the other. I would sit down and look at the material and say, ‘oh god, this is really too silly. I don’t know if this is going to work.’ And then I would realize it was ‘Ford Fairlane’ that I was looking at, not ‘Die Hard,’ and (comedy) was appropriate. . . . It was a tough year.”
It got tougher. “Die Hard 2,” which takes place at Christmas, was supposed to be filmed at an airport in Denver, but the weather looked more like spring when the crew arrived, setting off a frantic and often fruitless search for snowier climes.
“The end sequence is set in one place in the movie, but it was shot in eight locations,” noted Harlin. “We started in Denver, lost the snow; went to Moses Lake, Washington, lost the snow in one day; went to Michigan, lost the snow in a few days; went to the border of Canada, lost the snow in two days.
“So we came to L.A. and refrigerated three stages, brought the airplanes and helicopters inside, rebuilt the entire church--which was originally a location in Denver--on the set. But we didn’t get everything; I needed wider shots. Went to Lake Tahoe, the only place left with snow at that point, and shot there for two nights.”
Harlin oversaw a crew of 350, about 70 of whom were employed to create a white Christmas--using plastic snow indoors, and biodegradable soap flakes and potato flakes outside.
Despite all the delays and cost overruns from moving that crew from state to state--with final budget estimates as high as $60 million, though Harlin claims it was lower--he says he never thought too much about the prospect of fumbling the project and being remembered as the man who killed the “Die Hard” franchise.
“It was intimidating in the beginning. But I never thought, ‘This is too big, I can’t do this.’ I’m fairly experienced with effects and opticals and stunts, because every one of my pictures has had those elements. I realized that now, with a budget, I can really show what I can do--and if I screw up, I’ll be killed. I’ll be thrown into movie jail and never let out.”
Harlin remembers being a movie buff at age 5 back in Finland, creating cinematic realms in his imagination and pretending his parents and friends were supporting characters to his leading role. At the age of 15, he told pals he wanted to be a director--not just any kind of director, but an American movie director.
After a stint in a Finnish film school, all 12 of his feature-length scripts were turned down by the all-important Finnish Film Foundation. The rejections gave him just the impetus he needed to come to the States, where he managed to put together financing for an ill-inspired 1986 action picture called “Born American.”
Producer Irwin Yablans subsequently hired him to direct “Prison,” and in what he considers his biggest break, New Line President Robert Shea brought him on board for “A Nightmare on Elm Street IV,” which proved to be the most profitable sequel in the series.
Producer Walter Hill was impressed enough by that to sign Harlin for Fox’s “Alien III,” on which he labored for a year. Having abandoned that project, which is still in search of a workable script, he was quickly landed by Fox for “Ford Fairlane.”
If Harlin seems to have suddenly become the golden boy of studio directing, his conscience continues to nudge him toward more significant work, he says. Does the Finnish Spielberg--so far typecast as an action-oriented director--have a “Color Purple” or “Empire of the Sun” in his future?
“I’ve gotten to the point now where I can choose what I’m going to do. I want to use my talent for something that has a purpose, that somehow justifies my existence and my right to use money and be part of the biggest mass media in the world. . . . One of the projects that I’m developing to direct is about the environment and the ozone layer and about nuclear weapons and whales and dolphins and everything. I want to do movies that say something."
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-07-fi-290-story.html
Credit for ‘Gale Force’
L.A. Times Archives
July 7, 1990 12 AM PT
Share In reference to Chris Willman’s July 4 article about director Renny Harlin (“Renny Harlin Finds Plenty of Action in Hollywood”):
Let’s give credit where credit is due. (The coming movie) “Gale Force” is an original screenplay written not by me but by David Chappe. It is the product of Mr. Chappe’s imagination and creativity. My rather tenuous connection to the project at this point is that I have had one discussion with Renny Harlin and the producer, Daniel Melnick, about doing a possible rewrite.
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/23/movies/film-a-few-alps-a-little-sibelius-and-cliffhanger.html
https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/04/27/interview-with-renny-harlin
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/13/movies/at-the-movies.html
https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/07/19/renny-harlin-hes-everywhere/
http://carolcofilms.com/?page=development_projects
As early as 1986, Verhoeven had begun researching for a (planned) film on Jesus.
[It had been] developed initially under the title Christ: The Man.
But the film Christ the Man was never realized. Instead, Verhoeven wrote the book Jesus of Nazareth
, incorporating his ideas for film scenes in the book in the process.
"In 2007, Verhoeven wrote the book Jesus of Nazareth (Dutch: Jezus van Nazaret) about the life of Jesus of Nazareth.[11] The book reviews the ideas of Jesus of Nazareth and the alleged corruption of these same ideas over the last 2,000 years. Co-written with Verhoeven's biographer Rob Van Scheers, the book is the culmination of the research Verhoeven conducted in preparation for Jesus: The Man, a motion picture about the life of Christ.[12] The book tells about the Jewish uprising against Roman rule and characterizes Jesus as a radical political activist, downplaying any supernatural events and miracles as unproved or unprovable. Jesus of Nazareth: A Realistic Portrait was released in September 2008 in Dutch, and was published in English in May 2010 by Seven Stories Press.[13]"
https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-11809-paul-verhoeven.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/movies/awardsseason/07lim.html
Since the 1980s, Verhoeven has worked on a project telling the epic story of the Batavia flagship...
On April 9, 2002, in an interview conducted for Ain't It Cool News, Verhoeven revealed[14]
Believe me, there were plans for a SHOWGIRLS 2! It's called BIMBO'S... Joe and I seriously discussed it at one point. When the movie turned out the way it did, we made a treatment for a sequel, just for fun. Joe came up with the title; BIMBO'S: NOMI GOES HOLLYWOOD. But nobody wanted to do it...
https://www.screendaily.com/verhoeven-receives-lifetime-award-reveals-new-projects/408894.article
http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/8801
https://magyarnarancs.hu/film2/paul_verhoeven_filmrendezo_jezusrol-75496
https://deadline.com/2013/08/resolution-signs-paul-verhoeven-563194/
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/verhoeven-talks-jesus/
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/who-needs-hollywood-9kng0qr95
https://www.bz-berlin.de/archiv-artikel/regisseur-schrieb-jesus-buch
https://variety.com/2008/digital/features/universal-verbinski-plan-to-role-play-1117997496/
The Host remake Verbinski
https://www.firstshowing.net/2008/gore-verbinski-directing-a-domestic-second-life-story/
https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/11/05/gore-verbinskis-second-life
https://variety.com/1993/voices/columns/mancuso-zeroes-in-on-first-big-project-109766/
https://variety.com/2006/biz/markets-festivals/youth-focused-town-tough-on-aging-vets-1117950833/
https://variety.com/1999/film/news/the-maestro-scores-again-1117755074/
https://variety.com/1993/voices/columns/snipes-sports-makeover-for-demolition-1117862122/
https://variety.com/1994/film/news/becker-bags-city-hall-117073/
https://variety.com/1995/tv/features/benchmark-in-viacom-s-corner-99128477/
Far from the United States, from Predator, from the certainties of a cash machine, the new McTiernan is therefore starting a European career. He is currently staying in France. He is writing. A script is ready, which he will soon shoot in Serbia. In this new action film, of which he reveals a few snippets before retracting, he wants to play with temporal paradoxes: "The action seems to take place in Europe in the sixties, but it is an illusion."
He taps Cate Blanchett for the lead role: " That of a retired officer, a childless mother who meets a motherless child." The film is called Tau Ceti 4.4, named after a distant star. John McTiernan is now on another planet.
In 2019, it was reported that McTiernan's Tau Ceti 4 would be pitched to buyers at that year's Cannes Film Festival. Uma Thurman and Travis Fimmel signed on to star in the sci-fi/action film, which McTiernan would have directed from his own original screenplay.[15]
Uma Thurman and Travis Fimmel will star for John McTiernan in the sci-fi Tau Ceti 4, a hot sales title that IMR International will introduce to Cannes buyers next week.
McTiernan (Die Hard, Predator, The Thomas Crown Affair) will direct from his screenplay and is producing alongside Gail Sistrunk, Anthony Katagas, and Thurman.
Tau Ceti 4 takes place on the war-torn fourth planet in the remote Tau Ceti solar system, where three heavily armed strangers show up, size up the various oligarchs and military thugs who terrorise the place, and set about killing every single one of them. CAA and Paradigm jointly represent North American rights.
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Thurman’s credits include Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 and 2, The House That Jack Built, and TV series Chambers.
Fimmel starred in TV hit Vikings, Warcraft, Leon On Pete, and the upcoming El Tonto, among others, and stars in Ridley Scott’s first television directing gig, the upcoming Raised By Wolves at TNT.
McTiernan is represented by Paradigm, Ron Mardigian, and Ziffren Brittenham. Thurman is represented by ICM Partners, Untitled Entertainment, and attorney George Sheanshang. Fimmel is represented by Paradigm, Management 360, and Sloane Offer
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/9/572wbhc8lih6sd6mos6e6vx46xccld
IN THE BEDROOM
LITTLE CHILDREN
WE THREE
BLOOD MERIDIAN
BEAUTIFUL RUINS
PURITY
TÁR
GILEAD
TIME BETWEEN TRAINS
LEGS
A PLACE ONLY MARY KNOWS
PULP FICTION
THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
CON AIR
LUCK OF THE DRAW
DEATH PROOF
ST. VINCENT
MONA LISA remake
GENGHIS KHAN
HELL'S ANGEL
THE ICE MAN
THE EXPENDABLES 2
LAST PINT
THE IRISHMAN
SHE'S STILL HERE
Untitled Roman Polanski The Palace follow-up film
https://www.looper.com/151980/whatever-happened-to-mickey-rourke/
Coen brothers Michael Cimino Peter Bogdanovich Terry Gilliam Alan J. Pakula Hal Ashby Peter Weir Jon Favreau Scott Cooper Francis Ford Coppola? Walter Hill?
Moon Pictures...
THEY ALL LAUGHED (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
TWELVE'S A CROWD (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
I'LL REMEMBER APRIL (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
DETOUR (dir. TBA)
BREWSTER'S MILLIONS (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
THE LADY IN THE MOON (dir. Larry McMurtry)
THE CITY GIRL (dir. Martha Coolidge)
Always felt that Sutherland should have done MUCH more comedy. He was great at it. Nevertheless, he was one of a kind. An incredible, often transcendent of the form itself, dramatic actor (ORDINARY PEOPLE, DON'T LOOK NOW, KLUTE, Fellini's CASANOVA, and many, many more).
Hot take: Anderson needs to stop making films set in L.A. He reached his peak at Punch-Drunk Love, his best film IMO. I'll also give credit to Inherent Vice, an underrated gem. Lately, it seems, and I think certainly with this next film he's trying to fulfill a sense of idyllic nostalgia, but with no substance, and lack of style, or just somewhere where the two don't meet. Anderson is best when the style is the substance, and vice-versa, again I cite PDL. Essentially I feel now, he's making "movies", not "films", to use that pretentious turn of phrase. But I feel it's true. Making cinema is truly what he's best at, and he needs to go back to it, and to stop trying to make the next blockbuster and be the next Spielberg (events films - which aren't Anderson's thing - Battle of Batkan Cross) or Lucas (American Graffiti = Licorice Pizza). I think also this recent shift is a product of himself (as he's of middle-age now, and has a family, and is quite likely less willing to 'invent'), and he insists on only writing his own material, rather than hiring someone. It doesn't matter who the idea comes from, as long as it relates to what you're trying to do. If you choose to limit yourself to what you can only think as a writer in that moment, as you are creating more than words and descriptions but IMAGES that MOVE in TIME and SPACE, then your film will never grow and transcend behind yourself. Some directors can get too lost in this idea, and only write for the page, not the screen, ex.: Tarantino. Name a single master director (besides Bergman), who has done that. Anderson, Chazelle, these guys know better. They are capable of great films! They just need a great subject/story/milieu to sink their teeth into. They are too close to Hollywood I think to be able to create with a more imaginative and wild mindset.
If you are a director, you are a master/commander. Anderson has been doing this for 30+ years, he is very well capable of dictating and delegating. By middle-age, you should be at the master of your helm, and you should be hiring help. He has a film, he doesn't have time to go back to writing the novel. What he needs to do is direct more. Hire others to find out what's personal to him. "Oh, I like that idea, let's put that in," and on and on. Eventually, what you've done is you've crafted a personal piece of work, that is not of your own, therefore you've had distance from it. You've had people to help you sculpt and mold YOUR VISION! It's still yours.
Can you rewrite these so my portions (on [], [], and []) don't read like shit? I'm not eloquent enough, nor do I have the capabilities to do so myself. Thanks.
Up next...
- Michael Cimino's unrealized projects
- Akira Kurosawa's unrealized projects
- Frank Lloyd Wright's unrealized projects
- Stephen King's unrealized projects
- Roman Polanski's unrealized projects
- George Cukor's unrealized projects
- Michelangelo's unrealized projects
- John Ford's unrealized projects
- Alex Cox's unrealized projects
- Man's Fate (film)
- [additions to]: Michelangelo Antonioni
- [additions to]: Orson Welles's unrealized projects
Work in progress UNREALIZED PROJECTS pages:
- Alan J. Pakula
- Brett Ratner
- Joe Carnahan
- Terrence Malick
- Mark Rydell
- Penny Marshall
- Richard Linklater
- Le Corbusier
- John Boorman
- Charlie Kaufman
- Fritz Lang
- Luchino Visconti
- Sam Fuller[18]
- Federico Fellini (bio only)
- Howard Hawks (bio only)
- John Huston (bio only)
- Bob Fosse (bio only)
Hallelujah the Hills
Tough Guys Don't Dance (Picturing Peter Bogdanovich pg. 88)
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/jonas-mekas
Diaries: Becoming a Director
All I Wanna Do is Direct: My First Picture Shows, 1965–1971
Five American Icons
https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/peter-bogdanovich-r-i-p
Picturing Peter Bogdanovich Peter Tonguette
, which he cited on numerous occasions as his favorite book.
[21] [22] Orson Welles' The Unthinking Lobster
[23] 290 for index
[24]
Big Deal, 241-242, 556-561, 563-565, 549-550, 381
Ending, 434-435, 557
Winchell, 566-568
[25]index for Reel to Reel
https://archive.org/details/unclefrankbiogra0000katz/page/32
1. CHE Terrence Malick, who was to direct the film about Che Guevara, tells us that he is going to make The New World first. Except that Malick, at the time, made a film every twenty years, so that makes you imagine that yours will never be made. Eventually, Soderbergh took over the project, but it couldn't be announced publicly. That’s when Cimino called me to “apply”: “Hello, this is Michael Cimino, I would like to speak to you about Che. » He had a very interesting approach to the subject: the journey of Che and his soldiers is guided by a military strategy which depends on the geography of Cuba, the socio-cultural population of the different regions. For him, without working on the geography of a film, it is impossible to create antagonism. The enemy does not exist. And geography very little exists in American cinema because America believes itself to be the center of the world even though it has no history.
2. CREAM RISES This project was written like a book into which we slowly settle in, where nothing happens except the description of an environment, that of modeling in Los Angeles. It was the story of two girls a bit like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, who drink vodka at 10 a.m., who go shopping... In short, the daily life of two girls completely disconnected from reality . The more casual one drags the other a little into this life where they end up sleeping with guys just because they are rich. But finally, after an hour of film where nothing happens, the timid one is killed by one of these guys and the leader decides to return to the countryside with her uncle, an old cowboy farmer (Christopher Walken) with very strong values. western and there, the real plot begins, because she will abandon her superficial vision of life, of sex. It was something very contemporary, about the world of today and its confrontation with the world of yesterday, as if Cimino's cinema looked at the cinema of today. It was very moving. For the main role, Cimino had thought of Taylor Swift, but I told him that since her name was unknown to me, I didn't see how to make a film with her. A few months later, she became a global star. I should have given this project more priority to speed it up, because we were taking our time and finally it dies and then shit...
3. THE HUMAN CONDITION Gallimard had already made me read the script, they were crazy about it. They only gave the rights to Cimino because they loved his script. And it was indeed the script for a very great film. But putting it together would have been impossible without a major star with his name attached to “clear” Cimino’s. Otherwise, Hollywood would not have followed. You had to have DiCaprio. The other problem was not the budget, but the time. With him, quality combines with time. When he was preparing The Human Condition, he went to Beijing to see himself all the locations where he wanted to shoot and he wrote down extremely precise descriptions of the locations, like: "When you look out the hotel window, you see a lamppost at 70º to the west. »And I'm not exaggerating. He needs geographical knowledge, and that takes time. Except that time is money in cinema. This is why making small budgets with him is very difficult. When they saw that the film was not going to be made, Gallimard even wanted to publish the script, they loved it so much.
4.ONE ARM It was the story of a boxer who loses an arm in a car accident, and a boxer with only one arm, logically, ends up losing everything in his life. A very dark story that Chris Hanley had proposed to him and which he really liked, but the flow did not flow at all with Michael. He apologized and said to me: “Vincent, I cannot work with an illiterate person who makes a spelling mistake for every word he sends me. » Chris Hanley was a specialist in texting to go fast, a crazy indie producer who works on ten projects at the same time, and indeed not suited to an erudite intellectual who takes his time in his cinema and in his work.
5. THE SIOUX PROJECT During a dinner in Lyon, he begins to talk about this project, which is quite expensive, at 30 million. The idea was to tell the story of America from the perspective of Native Americans. A film about the genocide and then about a life both protected, on the reserves, and humiliated by the good American conscience confronted with the original crime. The film therefore had to be made in their language, otherwise it would have been like a betrayal, but it prevented him from counting on stars, which is why he couldn't do it. I always said to myself that this is a project that Mel Gibson could put together... Cimino was not someone who needed to confront the experience of filming to generate a film: he spoke in cinema everything the weather. He wrote all the time, lived surrounded by scripts that would be great to publish. For him, telling a film made the scenes exist, in a cinematic, unwritten way. I feel like I've seen them, all these films, just hearing it. And for him, these films existed. He died as a major filmmaker, he sweated directing. Cimino's career does not end with seven feature films but with around fifteen.
Robert Dillon
Charlie Peters
David Lynch's unrealized projects
[edit]Miscellaneous
[edit]Lynch was offered directing the films Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Return of the Jedi, Frances, Tender Mercies, American Beauty, The Ring and Motherless Brooklyn.
https://unobtainium13.com/2020/01/20/7-films-that-david-lynch-turned-down/
Dino De Laurentiis offered him the chance to direct "Handcarved Coffins" based on the Truman Capote story, but Lynch turned it down. To date, the project has not been filmed, by any director.[citation needed]
Roman Polanski's unrealized projects
[edit]- Waiting for Godot (1966) - Downhill Racer (1967) - This Perfect Day (1968) - Paganini (1968) - Donner Pass (1969) - Day of the Dolphin (1969) - Papillon (1970) - The Two Jakes (1974) - King Kong (1975) - White Dog (1975) - The First Deadly Sin (1976) - The Hurricane (1977) - Handcarved Coffins (1984) - Schindler's List (1986) - The Adventures of Tintin (1988) - M. Butterfly (1988) - The Master and Margarita (1989) - Mary Reilly (1989) - Sliver (1993) - The Double (1994) - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1995) - The Count of Monte Cristo (1997) - Master Class (1998) - Pompeii (2007) - Aryan Papers (2009) - Untitled WWII film (2011) - Untitled 2020s film (2024)
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59588
M. Butterfly
https://ew.com/article/1993/05/21/troubled-making-sliver/ Sliver
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1996/07/01/roman-polanski-abandons-production-of-the-double/ The Double
https://variety.com/1995/voices/columns/evans-polanski-talk-new-shades-of-gray-1117862617/ The Picture of Dorian Gray
https://www.nytimes.com/1969/02/09/archives/polanskis-new-babies.html Paganini & Donner Pass
https://variety.com/2009/film/columns/1969-polanski-vs-censors-1117999260/ Donner Pass
https://variety.com/1997/film/news/polanski-confirms-count-pic-111661045/ The Count of Monte Cristo
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2015/great-directors/roman-polanski-2/ This Perfect Day
https://variety.com/1998/voices/columns/polanski-to-enter-american-gate-1117467600/ Master Class
Pompeii (Search: roman Polanski variety 2007)
Worthpoint:
Day of the Dolphin Hurricane Mary Reilly
Waiting for Godot
[edit]Before he made Cul-de-sac, Polanski proposed a film adaptation of Waiting for Godot to playwright Samuel Beckett, who politely refused to allow it. Beckett insisted that the play was not cinematic material and that an adaptation would destroy it.[33]
Papillion
[edit]In early 1970, after the film rights to cusjbw's 1973 novel Papillon were purchased by Walter Reade’s Continental Distributing, Inc., Polanski was reportedly set to direct the adaptation, with Warren Beatty starring. The role eventually went to Steve McQueen, who was cast alongside Dustin Hoffman in the resulting 1973 film, which was directed by ________.
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/55041
Schindler's List
[edit]Years prior to making The Pianist, Polanski had wanted to make a film on the subject of the Holocaust and his youth, and, in the mid-1980s, was offered by Steven Spielberg the chance to direct an adaptation of Schindler's Ark; "a very generous offer but not right for me." Spielberg ultimately directed the story himself as Schindler's List, released in 1993.[34]
The Adventures of Tintin
[edit]In the late 1980s, Polanski became attached to a proposed film adapting the Adventures of Tintin comics, after Steven Spielberg initially left the project, dissatisfied with the scripts at the time.[35] However, Polanski quickly abandoned the idea as well, later stating that the "actors and natural settings could not work as well as comics."[36] Spielberg would eventually return to the helm later on his career with The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, produced using motion capture technology.
The Master and Margarita
[edit]In 1989, Polanski adapted and was set to direct a film version of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Communist Moscow.[37] The project was subsequently dropped by Warner Bros. due to budgetary concerns and the studio's belief that the subject matter was no longer relevant due to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Polanski has described his script as "the best thing I ever managed to adapt."[34]
Untitled pre-WWII film
[edit]In an October 2011 interview with French newspaper Le Figaro, Polanski announced his intention to next make a pre-WWII film about ageing. "It would follow the stages in the life of a woman who would not have at her disposal the resources of today like cosmetic surgery, creams and pills."[36]
Untitled film
[edit]In 2024, it was revealed to film critic Joseph McBride that Polanski was at work on a new film, following the release of The Palace.
In 2024, film critic Joseph McBride, after being informed, passed along the news that Polanski was at work on his next film, following the release of The Palace.
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/2/7/rekougsks37oamvx70492jw1rzfj4o
Robert Altman's unrealized projects
[edit]Another City, Not My Own
A Confederacy of Dunces
Bob Fosse's unrealized projects
[edit]- Burn Offerings (1969)[38]
- The Goodbye People (1973)[39]
- Ending (1979)
- Annie (1980)[40]
- The King of Comedy (1982)
- The Bad and the Beautiful remake
- Dick Tracy (1985)[41]
- Edie Sedgwick biopic
- Winchell (1988)
- Good Morning, Vietnam
- Big Deal
- Chicago
Fosse was going to direct an adaptation of the book Ending, but opted not to, due to its. The director would instead tackle All That Jazz, which delt with similar themes.
At the time of his death, Fosse had wanted to direct a film version of Chicago.
In 1986, Fosse would stage what would be his last Broadway musical in a production called Big Deal that was based on the 1958 Mario Monicelli film Big Deal on Madonna Street. The musical was well-received as Fosse another Tony Award for Best Choreography as well as four more nominations yet the show only lasted for 69 performances as Fosse was already considering about focusing more on films rather than musical theatres. While he had been attached to direct The King of Comedy, he passed on it despite its subject matter as he was also approached to do a remake of The Bad and the Beautiful but it never materialized. Other projects Fosse turned down was a film version of Dick Tracy and a bio-pic on cult actress Edie Sedgwick that was to star Michelle Pfeiffer in the role with Al Pacino as Andy Warhol.
Among the projects Fosse was interested in helming to the big screen was a bio-pic on the gossip columnist Walter Winchell as it played into Fosse’s fascination with the dark side of fame and celebrity. The other project that Fosse wanted to make into a film was a film version of his most celebrated musical Chicago just as it had returned to Broadway to great success. Sadly, neither projects would materialize as Fosse died of a heart attack on September 23, 1987 at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
John Boorman's unrealized projects
[edit]1960s
[edit]The Diamond Smugglers
[edit]Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
[edit]1970s
[edit]The Lord of the Rings
[edit]I Hear America
[edit]Labour of Love
[edit]The Last Run
[edit]https://catalog.afi.com/Film/54352-THE-LAST-RUN?cxt=filmography
Broken Dream
[edit]1970s
[edit]Sharky's Machine
[edit]The Bodyguard
[edit]Final Analysis
[edit]1990s
[edit]David Lean's Nostromo
[edit]https://variety.com/2006/biz/markets-festivals/youth-focused-town-tough-on-aging-vets-1117950833/
Alice and Lucien
[edit]A Simple Plan
[edit]Memoirs of Hadrian
[edit]The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
[edit]The Sea Wolf
[edit]2000s
[edit]Knight's Castle
[edit]Halfway House
[edit]The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
[edit]2010s
[edit]Mr. Ping Pong
[edit]Underground
[edit]2020s
[edit]The Honey Wars
[edit]References
[edit]https://www.notstarring.com/actors/boorman-john
https://davidkoepp.com/script-archive/the-sea-wolf-unproduced/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-06-ca-narnia6-story.html
https://variety.com/1993/film/news/hot-titles-104432/
Offers
[edit]Additionally, Landis has received offers directing , but has turned them down.
Beverly Hills Cop
[edit]https://www.youtube.com/live/JJQET_yFN9E?si=9HFTt5PO_EX-R6vl
License to Kill
[edit]Howard the Duck
Meatballs
Vacation
Big
Follow That Bird
Problem Child
The Nutty Professor
Nothing but Trouble
Men in Black
Steven Spielberg's unrealized projects
[edit]Leopoldstadt Long Lost My Magical Life Powerhouse The Bully Pulpit The Mother Code Bee Gees Untitled Walter Cronkite biopic Aleister Arcane
https://variety.com/2016/film/news/steven-spielberg-amblin-zach-king-my-magical-life-1201902957/
https://variety.com/2016/film/news/steven-spielberg-colin-trevorrow-powerhouse-1201776995/
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/the-mother-code-movie-steven-spielberg-amblin-1203158903/
https://variety.com/2016/film/news/walter-cronkite-vietnam-movie-steven-spielberg-1201795645/
https://variety.com/2016/film/news/jim-carrey-eli-roth-aleister-arcane-1201800579/
William Friedkin's unrealized projects
[edit]Last Warrant
Act of Vengeance
Bump City
The Man Who Killed Versace
Gangster (Stallone, Paul Attanasio)
Throughout his career, Friedkin has turned down various offers to direct films. "If I can't see it in my minds eye, I won't do it." (Last interview) Some of these include Gunn; M*A*S*H; All the Presidents Men; Superman: The Movie; Child's Play, then under the title Blood Buddy; and the second season of True Detective. He also rejected offers to direct the sequels to his films The French Connection and The Exorcist. In the 1970s, he was approached by Albert Broccoli to direct a James Bond film...
Federico Fellini's unrealized projects
[edit]Sixty-four minutes with Rebecka
Momentous Events: Russia in the '90s
The Journey of G. Mastorna
Untitled documentary (Scorsese)
The Thousand Miles
Trip to Tulum
Flash Gordon
Mandrake the Magician
Don Quixote
Voyage au bout de la nuit
The Master and Margarita
Orlando Furioso
https://thefilmstage.com/unused-ingmar-bergman-script-to-be-turned-into-feature-film/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1965/12/federico-fellini-wizard-of-film/660501/
Bernardo Bertolucci's unrealized projects
[edit]Red Harvest
The White Hotel
Man's Fate
Judge Dee[42]
Heaven and Hell
Bel Canto
The Echo Chamber
Terrence Malick's unrealized projects
[edit]- Q (1978) - Untitled Joseph Merrick biopic (1979) • Untitled Louis Malle film (1983) • Countryman (1983) • The Desert Rose (1984) • Great Balls of Fire! (1989) - Tartuffe (1988) - The English Speaker (1992) - The Moviegoer (1994) - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2002) - The Catcher in the Rye (2006) - Che (2008) - Held by the Taliban (2010) - Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (2011) • Untitled Harmony Korine film (2023)
Turned Down:
- In the Boom Boom Room (1979) - The White Hotel (1988)
Brighton Rock (1991) Untitled Richard Linklater documentary (2002) Aloft (2003) Untitled television series (2007)
https://theplaylist.net/the-lost-projects-and-unproduced-screenplays-of-terrence-malick-20110712/
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/58098
Brett Ratner's unrealized projects
[edit]Money Talks (1997)
Rush Hour (1998)
The Family Man (2000)
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
Red Dragon (2002)
After the Sunset (2004)
Josiah's Canon (2006)
Rush Hour 3 (2007)
Tower Heist (2011)
Midnight Run 2 (2013)
Hercules (2014)
The Fat Lady Sang (2015)
Beverly Hills Cop IV (2016)
The Libertine (2017)
Playboy (2019)
Girl You Know It's True (2023)
Rush Hour 4 (2025)
Superman: Flyby
Soul Soul Soul: The Murray Murray Story
The Killing of Chinese Bookie remake
Josiah's Canon
Across the Bridge remake
The Fly remake
Sticky Fingers
Ocean's Eleven
Die Another Day
The Red Circle
Paycheck
Memoirs of a Geisha
Superman: Flyby
Mission: Impossible III
Breaking Vegas (21)
The Boys from Brazil remake
God of War
The Fat Lady Sang
Playboy
The Wolfman
Escape from New York remake
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Beverly Hills Cop IV
Conan the Barbarian
Youngblood
The Reluctant Communist
The 39 Clues
Untitled John DeLorean biopic
Wicked
Untitled Eddie Murphy project
Hunting Eichmann
The Last American Virgin remake
Midnight Run 2
The Golden Age: The Lost Treasure of Zheng He
I Want My MTV
Jersey Boys
Once Upon a Time in Russia
Enter the Dragon remake
The Libertine
Soul Soul Soul: The Murray Murray Story
Rush Hour 4
Untitled Mill Vanilli biopic
https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ratner-rolls-vegas-dice-1117909667/
https://variety.com/1999/film/news/fox-bridges-ratner-for-pic-1117492056/
https://variety.com/1999/film/news/u-jones-ratner-get-sticky-1117502910/
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/ratner-escapes-from-escape-from-new-york/
https://variety.com/2007/film/features/ratner-juggles-a-handful-of-projects-1117969376/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/eddie-murphy-brett-ratner-teaming-848643/
https://variety.com/2012/film/markets-festivals/bret-ratner-cj-team-on-golden-age-1118054540/
https://variety.com/2005/film/features/levy-plays-some-21-with-sony-1117928460/
https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/connery-loads-canon-1117904080/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-johnny-depp-brett-ratner-891688/
https://deadline.com/2011/10/ann-peacock-signs-on-for-brett-ratner-helmed-hunting-eichmann-189270/
https://deadline.com/2011/05/brett-ratner-signs-to-direct-the-39-clues-129974/
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/movies/brett-ratner-directs-tower-heist.html
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/09/once-upon-a-time-in-russia-oligarchs-movie
https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/brett-ratner-boards-youngblood-1117999799/
https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ratner-guns-for-crime-pic-1117908445/
https://variety.com/2001/film/news/regen-joins-the-circle-1117791347/
https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ratner-on-col-s-laff-track-1117908414/
https://www.today.com/popculture/brett-ratner-goes-seasoned-pros-wbna6394425
https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/brett-ratner-to-direct-playboy-1117967550/
https://variety.com/2010/film/markets-festivals/brett-ratner-turns-communist-1118024792/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/movies/03john.html
https://www.slashfilm.com/504080/james-toback-and-brett-ratner-move-forward-with-delorean-biopic/
https://www.thewrap.com/thewrap/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=N2SSFCDj&full=true#display
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/sean-connery-called-brett-ratner-a-fraud/
Joe Carnahan's unrealized projects
[edit]Miami The Surrender of Washington Hansen The Town Live Bait A Cold Case Quantico Death Wish remake Narco Sub Nemesis Daredevil Narc TV series White Jazz Killing Pablo https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/movies-joe-carnahan-stretch-mission-impossible-the-grey-tom-cruise-white-jazz-daredevil-unproduced-movies/
Bad Boys for Life https://variety.com/2015/film/news/joe-carnahan-will-smith-bad-boys-3-1201516017/
Leo from Toledo https://variety.com/2019/film/markets-festivals/mel-gibson-frank-grillo-joe-carnahan-leo-from-toledo-1203392691/
Dine and Dash https://variety.com/2012/tv/news/carnahan-binder-to-dine-and-dash-1118060787/
Five Against a Bullet https://variety.com/2016/film/asia/jackie-chan-joe-carnahan-five-against-a-bullet-1201934154/
Umbra https://variety.com/2010/film/news/carnahan-to-write-direct-umbra-1118025652/
Mission: Impossible III https://variety.com/2003/film/markets-festivals/carnahan-to-lead-mission-3-1117881199/
Continue https://collider.com/joe-carnahan-continue-fox/
Blood, Sweat & Tears https://deadline.com/2013/06/ae-buys-amateur-bull-riding-drama-from-joe-carnahan-timberman-beverly-520634/
Cross Brothers https://deadline.com/2012/02/jason-bateman-forms-aggregate-label-gets-first-look-film-tv-deal-at-universal-224474/ https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/joe-carnahan-to-direct-cross-brothers-ralph-fiennes-bryan-singer-sought-for-imitation-game-david-yates-takes-a-reliable-wife-253945/
Graves Pound for Pound Thorn Wheelman 2 https://collider.com/frank-grillo-joe-carnahan-interview-wheelman-2-upcoming-movies/
Motorcade https://deadline.com/2015/03/joe-carnahan-motorcade-dreamworks-1201390975/
Untitled Will Wright biopic https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/helmer-high-on-drug-pic-1117930524/
Bunny Lake Is Missing Remarkable Fellows Preacher Taskmaster
https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/helmer-high-on-drug-pic-1117930524/
Mark Rydell's unrealized projects
[edit]The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
The Thing of It Is...
The Exorcist
A Star Is Born
The White Hotel
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Cutter and Bone
No Small Affair
Nuts
Starman
Children of a Lesser God
The Mrs.
Fertig
Manhattan Ghost Story
Untitled Abbie Hoffmann biopic
An Unfinished Life
Survivors
The Locked Room
Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Story
Jumpshot
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/23860
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/67015-CUTTER-AND-BONE?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57284-CHILDREN-OF-A-LESSER-GOD?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58853-DECEIVED?cxt=filmography
https://variety.com/2000/voices/columns/journal-follows-in-i-variety-i-s-footsteps-1117779260/
https://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/60s-revivals-spur-rivals-1116679932/
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jamie-foxx-to-star-in-ray-charles-bio-pic-75864/
https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/05/07/foxx-unchains-his-heart
https://variety.com/2006/film/markets-festivals/a-lot-of-white-noise-1200341788/
https://variety.com/1994/film/news/rydell-castle-rock-ink-deal-for-fertig-120485/
https://variety.com/1993/film/news/stone-woos-rydell-for-a-ghost-pic-106995/
https://variety.com/1999/voices/columns/rydell-sets-his-sights-on-molina-s-survivors-1117750232/
https://variety.com/2002/film/markets-festivals/rydell-locks-up-gig-to-direct-rko-room-1117869536/
https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/rydell-finds-jumpshot-1117916116/
Paul Thomas Anderson's unrealized projects
[edit]- Knuckle Sandwich (1993)
- Rule of the Bone (1996)
- Anchorman (2004, producer)
- Forest Hills Bob (2004, exec producer)
- Untitled feuding families film (2004)
- A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
- Metal Gear Solid (2008)
- Power Play (2008)
- Untitled "full-blown" comedy (2012)
- Vineland (2014)
- Mason & Dixon (2014)
- Pinocchio (2015)
- Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
- The Apprentice (2018)
- Untitled daughter collaboration (2018)
- Untitled Teen Titans film (2018)
- Untitled 1940s L.A.-set jazz epic (2021)
- Untitled film "about veterans in their 50s" (2023)
Paul Thomas Anderson Was Working on Another Movie Before Filming ‘Licorice Pizza’
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2021/11/5ure30j78cq7rgyqq85kb9tqu7az1e
November 8, 2021
Jordan Ruimy
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Film is 1940s L.A-Set Jazz Epic? Denzel Washington Rumored to Star https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/10/lj1wvb248n2tzn33bh5188v5r4svca October 23, 2022 Jordan Ruimy
Is Paul Thomas Anderson’s Mysterious New Movie an Adaptation of Pynchon’s ‘Vineland’? https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/cwpt4b84a0geai0nno95vp9659bhoq Jordan Ruimy March 3, 2023
https://www.timeout.com/film/paul-thomas-anderson-interview-it-was-like-getting-the-keys-to-your-dads-car Paul Thomas Anderson interview: ‘It was like getting the keys to your dad’s car’ December 11, 2014 Time Out
https://www.slashfilm.com/499510/rumor-paul-thomas-andersons-power-play/ June 7, 2008 Peter Sciretta Rumor: Paul Thomas Anderson's Power Play?
Untitled daughter film
https://collider.com/robert-altman-paul-thomas-anderson-prairie-home-companion/
A Prairie Home Companion
https://www.vulture.com/2011/07/the-lost-roles-of-anchorman.html
Anchorman
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/paul-thomas-anderson-pta-knuckle-1792618750
https://movieweb.com/knuckle-sandwich-paul-thomas-andersons-unmade-movie/
Knuckle Sandwich
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/paul-thomas-anderson-pta-rule-bone-1787255627
http://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/1997/11/interview-creative-screenwriting-paul.html
https://quotefancy.com/quote/1068681/Paul-Thomas-Anderson-It-felt-like-the-first-thing-but-when-I-first-started-out-I-got-a
"It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book."[citation needed]
Rule of the Bone
https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-movie-update-5008812
Metal Gear Solid
https://www.vulture.com/2012/11/p-t-anderson-wants-to-make-a-full-blown-comedy.html
https://www.vulture.com/2012/11/paul-thomas-anderson-wants-to-make-a-comedy-loved-ted.html
Untitled full-blown comedy
The Apprentice
Denzel Washington Leonardo DiCaprio Tiffany Hadish Nicolas Cage
A Rage in Harlem
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/2/h9gvz365acdeldwxiy1knxh4nmimf0
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/7/hpjdtib2fdaoqcvjmk7rib2gw6fwn0
In 2018, Anderson teased the notion of possibly directing a live action Teen Titans feature.
...Anderson expressed his interest in [someday?] directing a "full-blown" comedy in the style of films like Ted...blah blah blah
...that he hoped to one day direct a "full-blown" comedy
in a 2014 Time Out interview he even insinuated that he tried to script it: “I'd wanted to adapt “Vineland”, but I never had the courage. It seemed to be a great way to translate [Pynchon] into a movie.
In 2014, Anderson stated that in addition to Vineland, he would love to someday adapt Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.
Untitled 1940s L.A.-set jazz epic
[edit]Wanting to work with Tiffany Haddish on a new project, Anderson issued a statement in January 2018 publicly praising the actress and including his phone number in the message.
In January 2018, Anderson teased that
https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/paul-thomas-anderson-wants-to-work-with-tiffany-haddish.html
Later that month, Haddish confirmed that they (she and Anderson) were (officially) in talks (and were discussing collaborating on) (and were particularly discussing) (to collaborate on a potential feature about/on the subject of) Los Angeles, "back when Central Avenue was the Sunset Boulevard of L.A." (Specifically, they spoke about the golden age of L.A.’s “Little Harlem” in the 1940s, when the Hotel Dunbar in South Central Los Angeles was the center of a thriving African-American arts and music scene.) (a project set in the golden age of L.A.’s “Little Harlem” in the 1940s, "back when Central Avenue was the Sunset Boulevard of L.A." and was [the center of] a thriving African-American arts and music scene.)
https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/tiffany-haddish-on-her-groupon-super-bowl-ad-beyonce.html
(In 2021) Haddish (later) expounded to IndieWire what the project might look like:
“You know how they got ‘Harlem Nights‘? I was like, ‘What if we did “South Central Nights,” like what South Central used to be? How L.A. was this place where you could come and be free, but it was still very segregated, and how that worked in the relationships, the interracial relationships, and all that dynamic?”[44]
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/paul-schrader-got-blatant-critiques-163049449.html
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/denzel-washington-paul-thomas-anderson-next-film/
https://collider.com/paul-thomas-anderson-next-film-shooting-window/
https://thefilmstage.com/paul-thomas-anderson-to-shoot-next-film-in-summer-2023/
In 2021, Denzel Washington also teased that (he had spoken with Anderson about a new project) (he and Anderson had spoken about him starring a new project)
It was also rumored that Anderson, a self-professed fan of Chester Himes, was adapting his/Himes' (novel) A Rage in Harlem as (the) basis for the film/project. (, a novel also set in Harlem during the 1940s Jazz age.)
This project was also rumored to co-star Denzel Washington.
Before turning to make Licorice Pizza, Anderson later stated that he was ready to shoot a separate film in 2020 but had a change of heart and decided it was too “bleak” a project to make during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the same project.
In 2020, Anderson stated that he was ready to shoot a new film that year, but had a change of heart, and decided it was too “bleak” a project to make at the time, especially during a pandemic, and opted to helm “Licorice Pizza” instead.[45]
https://vimeo.com/681658659/7493ca68...wner=160173128
Richard Linklater's Unrealized Projects
[edit]Friday Night Lights
Rivethead
Untitled high school football documentary
The Smoker
School of Rock 2
Liars (A-E)
College Republicans
The Incredible Mr. Limpet remake
A Walk in the Woods
Larry's Kidney
The Rosie Project
Untitled John Brinkley biopic
Untitled Bill Hicks biopic
Untitled body-swap film
Untitled 19th-century film
https://variety.com/1997/film/news/linklater-linked-to-imagine-pigskin-pic-1116679215/
https://variety.com/2002/film/news/linklater-quarterbacks-texas-tale-1117866373/
https://www.slashfilm.com/504742/richard-linklater-to-tackle-road-trip-movie-liars-a-e/
https://www.slashfilm.com/517331/paul-dano-karl-rove-richard-linklaters-college-republicans/
Mark Pellington's Unrealized Projects
[edit]Harvest One for the Ages Electric God The Wrong Element The Orphanage remake The Trap MOM
Garden of Gods Rated
https://variety.com/1999/film/news/d-works-plants-pellington-for-gerritsen-s-harvest-1117492971/
https://variety.com/1999/film/news/pellington-gets-ages-pages-1117503492/
https://variety.com/2000/film/news/propaganda-seeks-electric-god-1117786511/
Damien Chazelle's Unrealized Projects
[edit]- The Claim (2010)
- Marseille (2010)
- Paranormal Activity 4 (2011)
- Ouija (2012)
- The Cellar (2013)
- Untitled Apple TV+ drama series (2018)
- Untitled Matthew Vaughan musical (2024)
- Untitled prison film (2024)
- Evel Knievel on Tour (2024)
https://scriptshadow.net/screenplay-review-marseille/ Screenplay Review – Marseille February 27, 2024
https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-ayer-heart-of-the-beast-damien-chazelle-1235865835/
https://deadline.com/2017/06/damien-chazelle-produced-by-panel-ageism-1202111085/
The Claim
[edit]In 2010, a script written by Chazelle was featured on The Black List
https://scriptshadow.net/screenplay-review-the-claim/ Screenplay Review – The Claim February 4, 2015
https://variety.com/2010/film/news/2010-black-list-best-unproduced-screenplays-1-7099/ Stuart Oldham 2010 Black List: Best Unproduced Screenplays December 13, 2010
https://deadline.com/2017/03/damien-chazelle-the-claim-movie-screenplay-oceanside-route-one-1202042649/ Patrick Hipes March 13, 2017 Damien Chazelle-Penned ‘The Claim’ Staked By Oceanside Media & Route One
https://deadline.com/2017/08/ericson-core-directing-thriller-the-claim-damien-chazelle-1202140726/ Anita Busch August 2, 2017 Ericson Core To Direct ‘The Claim’; ‘La La Land’ Oscar Winner Damien Chazelle Scripting
Marseille
[edit]One of Chazelle's earliest screenwriting efforts, Marseille, is a
The Cellar
[edit]Untitled Apple TV+ drama series
[edit]In 2018, it was reported that in addition to the Netflix series The Eddy, Chazelle was prepping an "innovative" drama that had landed a straight-to-series order at Apple. He was set to write and direct every episode, and reunite with La La Land producers Jordan Horowitz and Fred Berger for the show. No plot details were disclosed.[49]
Untitled Matthew Vaughn musical
[edit]In January 2024, a musical (project) written by Chazelle was in development at Marv Studios with filmmaker Matthew Vaughn planning to direct it.[50] Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast the following month, Vaughn described the script that Chazelle sent him as "Kick-Ass meets The Wizard of Oz."
https://screenrant.com/argylle-director-matthew-vaughn-spy-movies-break-musical/
Untitled prison film
[edit]In March 2024, Chazelle acknowledged that he was (in the process of) finishing (writing) a new screenplay that he planned to direct, but (admitted that he was skeptical) remained skeptical about the amount of creative freedom he would be allowed following the box office disappointment of his previous film Babylon (2022), (which lost Paramount Pictures an estimated $87 million). "I'm in a sort of trepidatious state of mind, but I have no illusions. I won't get a budget of Babylon size any time soon, or at least not on this next one," Chazelle told Ben Mankiewicz on an episode of Talking Pictures. "I have very mixed mind about it. Maybe I won't be able to get this one made. We'll have to wait and see."[51] The following month, it was reported by Deadline Hollywood that Chazelle had officially set (up) his next project/film at/for Paramount, produced under his Wild Chickens Productions banner as part of a first-look deal with the studio that was signed in 2022. While plot details were vague, sources said at the time that the film is set in a prison and based off an original script he wrote. Chazelle and Paramount executives were expected to begin meeting with "A-list talent" for the high-priority project. Paramount subsequently announced during its CinemaCon presentation that the film would open in 2025.[52] By July, it was expected that principal photography would commence in October 2024,[53] though this did not occur, and no updates were given since.
Evel Knievel on Tour
[edit]In September 2024, in a Vanity Fair interview promoting the ten-year anniversary of Whiplash (2014), Chazelle revealed that he was working on another project simultaneously as his prison-set film. "My mind is all still figuring itself out in terms of what's next," he said. "I've definitely been working on this thing that I might be jumping into—but there's another thing I might be jumping into. There's two things that I'm toying with, so I need to commit to one lane or the other fast." In December 2024, it was rumored through/from a production grid that this second project was an Evel Knievel biopic for Paramount Pictures, with Leonardo DiCaprio tentatively attached to star. It was believed that Chazelle had signed on to direct the project in place of an original screenplay in development at Paramount through a first-look deal, due to budget concerns and creative differences following the box office disappointment of his previous film Babylon (2022). In January 2025, the project was confirmed, with a script by William Monahan and Terrence Winter titled Evel Knievel on Tour listed via an issue of Production Weekly.[54]
Noah Baumbach's Unrealized Projects
[edit]Highball
First Kiss[55]
Prep
The Emperor's Children
Mr. Popper's Penguins
The Corrections
Flawed Dogs
Barbie
Untitled autobiography
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/4/keit97ag0ouj6ehodo4jlow1s3roc2
Denis Villeneuve's unrealized projects
[edit]The Darling
Footnotes in Gaza
The Son
Cleopatra
Dune: Messiah
Rendezvous with Rama
Untitled James Bond film
Nuclear War: A Scenario
I'm Waiting for You
Nicolas Winding Refn's unrealized projects
[edit]Batgirl
Wonder Woman
The Avenging Silence
The Equalizer
Spectre
Barbarella
Billy's People
Jekyll
The Dying of the Light
Magic Mike
The Bringing
Maniac Cop
Logan's Run remake
Button Man
Untitled heist film
Witchfinder General
Les Italiens
What Have You Done to Solange?
https://variety.com/2016/tv/global/nicolas-winding-refn-neon-demon-les-italiens-1201757479/
https://theplaylist.net/nicolas-winding-refn-to-helm-modern-20090907/
Scott Frank's unrealized projects
[edit]Lily
Maximum Bob
Bye Bye Brooklyn
Houdini
Hell's Angels (Tony Scott)
Unforgiven TV miniseries
Laughter in the Dark TV miniseries
The Sparrow TV miniseries
The Force[56]
Untitled Queen's Gambit follow-up film
Dustland opera
Faker novel
Red Harvest
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/01/how-a-script-doctor-found-his-own-voice
https://variety.com/1995/film/features/pollack-packs-full-bag-99130283/
https://variety.com/1996/voices/columns/leonard-lectures-on-filming-books-1117862936/
Unfinished projects
[edit]1976—78 Conceives a number of film projects, all of which are ultimately abandoned at one stage or another: The Crew, co-written with Mark Peploe, which would have been shot in Australia; The Color of Jealousy; a science-fiction film titled L’aquilone (The Kite), with a script by Tonino Guerra, which was to have been filmed in the southern Asiatic part of the Soviet Union; and Patire o morire (Suffer or Die), with a script by Guerra and Anthony Burgess, which was first to star Richard Gere and then Giancarlo Giannini.
The White Sheik
[edit]Your second film should have been The White Sheik, which Fellini ended up directing. Why didn’t you do it?
The White Sheik should have been my first film. While I waited for Ponti and his associate Mambretti to approve the script I went to Bomarzo, the “villa of the monsters,” to make a documentary. I got sick at Bomarzo and had to stay in bed with an intense headache. I was very ill. I could not even tolerate the daylight. It was a situation which was horrible for me, but turned out to be great for Ponti and Mambretti’s company. They told me that they were in trouble because Lux [the production company] had refused a script on Miss Italy by [Alberto] Lattuada, and they needed another story. Ponti really liked The White Sheik and proposed to buy it from me, promising to accept another film of mine. I did not know Ponti, then. It was the first time I had even been in contact with him and so I sold him the subject for practically nothing. Later he sent me a novel to read, but it was all a pretense. I made a film with Ponti sixteen years later, Blow-Up.
Was your version of The White Sheik much different from the one Fellini made?
Not very much, but the structure was different. I have to say one thing, and I hope Fellini doesn’t mind. The opening titles did not say that the story was entirely mine, as it really is. However, in my script there was no precise plot, just a series of interconnected events. It was a rather free narration, a little like Federico’s own films today. At the time, Fellini and [Tullio] Pinelli criticized the fragmentary quality of my stories.
Thematically, The White Sheik seems to develop some elements of your short film Lies of Love.
Yes, in fact I wanted to make the film with the same two actors who played in the documentary
Ida and the Pigs
[edit]In 1956, Antonioni completed the script for the planned film Ida e i porci (English translation: Ida and the Pigs), which was not made.[58]
The Happy Girls from 24
[edit]Also in 1956, Antonioni wrote Le allegre ragazze del 24 (English translation: The Happy Girls from 24), which also was not produced, and he went on to direct Il Grido instead, the year following.[58]
Makaroni
[edit]In 1958, Antonioni and Tonino Guerra prepared Makaroni, a screenplay based on Ugo Pirro's novel Le soldatesse, but their hopes for production fall through at the last minute.[58]
Peter Pan
[edit]After the success of Blow-Up, Antonioni received an offer from an American producer to direct Peter Pan. "He called me into his office, and on the one side there was Mia Farrow, who was to take the lead role, on the other side was the composer and the artistic director (the music and scenery were all ready), and in front of me there was this producer with his check book out, offering one million and three hundred thousand dollars. And then I just asked: 'Since everything is ready, what do you need me for?' Those guys never understood why I turned them down. So many of my colleagues would have accepted."[59]
Technically Sweet
[edit]In 1966, Antonioni drafted a treatment entitled Tecnicamente Dolce (English translation: Technically Sweet), about a man lost in the Amazon wilderness after surviving a plane crash.[60] The title had been inspired by J. Robert Oppenheimer's remark on the atomic bomb because of the "technically sweet" theoretical problems it created. Antonioni later developed it into a screenplay with Mark Peploe, Niccolo Tucci, and Tonino Guerra, with plans to begin filming in the early 1970s with Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider. On the verge of production in the Amazon jungle, producer Carlo Ponti suddenly withdrew support and the project was abandoned, with Nicholson and Schneider going forward to star in The Passenger instead.[61][58] In 2008, Technically Sweet, became an international group exhibition curated by Copenhagen-based artists Yvette Brackman and Maria Finn, in which the creations of artists, working in multiple mediums and based on Antonioni's manuscript, were displayed in New York.[62] One of these was the short film "Sweet Ruin", directed by Elisabeth Subrin and starring Gaby Hoffmann.[63] Antonioni's widow Enrica and director André Ristum announced plans to produce a film based on the screenplay, with filming in Brazil and Sardinia set to begin in 2023.[64][65]
Silence
[edit]Yes, that’s true. I really like keeping quiet and watching the world go by, and in films I like the moments when, apparently, nothing is happening. I also wrote a story, “Silence,” in which an entire film was based on silence. It’s the story of a husband and wife who tell each other just a few very intimate things, at the beginning, and after that they have nothing left to say to each other.
The Crew
[edit]Antonioni and Mark Peploe co-wrote the screenplay about a wealthy man out on his yacht, which is taken over by gangsters mid-voyage. He’s forced to rely on his native intelligence to get himself to safety.
Why are you about to shoot another film in the United States? After Zabriskie Point you said you’d have some reservations about doing it again.
This time there will be no problems. The story takes place mostly at sea, on board a yacht. The theme will be the relationship between one character and his crew. I met some producers who asked if I had any projects in mind. I made a proposal and it was accepted. In Italy I had been asked to do an adaptation of a novel which I didn’t like, and besides that, the producer was terrible, I couldn’t work with him. So I accepted, for practical reasons, but I have to say that I also wanted to shoot a second film in the United States. I like America a lot; I don’t want to start any polemics. I will shoot in [Miami,] Florida – rather a nice place where everything is static, where everybody is wealthy, and the poor are there too, but they are Cubans and Puerto Ricans.
Why Miami?
Because it’s right for the story. Anyway, I’ll be filming very little on land.
Is it a major production company or an independent one?
It’s a French-American production company with a budget of nearly eight million dollars. It’s the most expensive film I’ve done to date. In America, with the unionized system you can’t make films cheaply. The actors are Robert Duvall, Joe Pesci, perhaps [Vittorio] Gassman, and another famous actor whose name I can’t reveal. There will also be a woman. The title is The Crew. It will be quite a crude film, but humorous, too – a strange story
The Color of Jealousy
[edit]Will you tell us something about the latest projects you are hoping to complete? We can begin, if you don’t mind, with The Color of Feelings.
This film was intended to be a kind of small treatise on jealousy, viewed from an obsessive standpoint – that is, it was the story of a man obsessed by jealousy. The story developed on three levels: the level of reality, the level of memory, and the level of the imagination. This structure gave me the opportunity to, let me say, “color” the events in three different ways, according to each of the different levels they belonged to. I wanted to make this film with video cameras so as to have a wider range of effects. In agreement with Barthes, I also used fragments of his book A Lover’s Discourse. Fragments. I sent him the script and he wrote me a very nice letter, with pertinent and flattering observations. One day I hope to pick up this project again, if someone doesn’t do it before me.[57]
The Kite
[edit]L'Aquilone (translation: The Kite)
Another project was a film I was going to make in the U.S.S.R. It was called L’aquilone [The Kite]’ I traveled all over Russia scouting for locations, and in the end I stopped in Uzbekistan, in a city called Khiva, with a medieval historical center that is practically untouched. It was supposed to be a very costly film (it was a science-fiction fable), and although the Russians were prepared to give me all I needed, they could not have given me what they did not have: a special-effects crew like the Americans and the English could provide. So I had to give it up.[57]
https://variety.com/1995/film/features/antonioni-s-clouds-in-b-o-heaven-99123636/
Suffer or Die
[edit]Scripted by Tonino Guerra and Anthony Burgess, it was to star Debra Winger alongside Mick Jagger or Richard Gere or Giancarlo Giannini as an architect. Amy Irving was cast at one point as a Catholic novice.[60]
Francis of Assisi
[edit]https://www.archivioantonioni.it/en/approfondimento/san-francesco/
In 1982 | "They asked me to do a film about St. Francis of Assisi, but for bureaucratic reasons I don’t think it will be possible. At RAJ [the Italian state TV], they’re late with their contracts, and in any case, I have signed up to do two films, so at least for the moment I can’t do anything about it. We’ll see." | "And then, I was supposed to do a film about St. Francis of Assisi – but probably nothing will come of it. I thought of doing a period St. Francis, a St. Francis of his own time – which, by the way, was an extremely violent, crude age; at the time there was a war between the people of Assisi and the nobles of Perugia. With his ideas about peace, St. Francis was everyone’s enemy. He was alone, a voice crying in the wilderness. That’s how I wanted him to come across – ahead of his time."[67]
In 1985 | "And then I’m also working on a film for Italian TV about St. Francis of Assisi. In any case, real Franciscans don’t like “The Flowers” because they think they are too saccharine, too romantic – in short, not authentic. Instead, I have followed some of their suggestions and have stuck closely to documented facts. (I made an in-depth study before I wrote the screenplay). Those same Franciscans appreciate that I have represented the character of Francis in opposition to the corruption of the Middle Ages and the atmosphere of violence on which it fed."[59]
Just to Be Together
[edit]In 1985 | How many projects do you have in hand at the moment? "Four! Destination Verna, The Crew, Two Telegrams (its plot is taken from a story in That Bowling Alley on the Tiber – in the story there is just the basic situation, but in the film there will be a complete narrative with characters)." | "However, my next film, Two Telegrams, will still be about feelings."[59]
Adapted by Rudy Wurlitzer from the director’s 1974 short story, “Two Telegrams.” The $11 million English-language drama was to start shooting on Los Angeles locations in February 1998. Robin Wright Penn was to play a successful urban-planning architect who divides her affections between her husband (Sam Shepard) and her lover (Andy Garcia). Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp would also be featured. Wright Penn withdrew for personal reasons.[66]
https://variety.com/1997/film/news/antonioni-set-for-together-1116678758/
https://variety.com/1998/film/news/nicholson-may-back-up-antonioni-in-together-1117469422/
Destinazione Verna
[edit]In 1985 | I’m working on another one, with Ponti and Sophia Loren. The film is based on a beautiful story by an America writer, Jack Finley, and is called Destination Verna. It’s the story of a middle-aged woman who doesn’t expect anything more out of life. And then, one fine day, they say to her: “There’s a seat in a spaceship going to the planet Verna, a marvelous place, a sort of earthly Paradise.” And she asks: “But how do you get there?” The planet Verna is outside the solar system and the distance is such that the woman decides not to go. It is the last big opportunity of her life, but she lets it go by because it would be a one-way trip and she’s afraid of burning her boats behind her. It’s a very understandable reaction. If you asked the average man: “What are you doing here? Wouldn’t you like to go to a Heaven-like place? This is a golden opportunity for you” – very few would have the courage to confront the unknown and drop everything, even though they might complain about their condition down here on Earth. They prefer to live with despair down here rather than confront the unknown. That’s a very human feeling.[59]
1999, A woman buys a ticket to live on a planet called Destinazione Verna, in Antonioni’s story written with Tonino Guerra, to be produced by Felice Laudadio. The cast included Anthony Hopkins, Sophia Loren, Naomi Campbell, Laura Morante, Stefania Rocca, Kim Rossi Stuart, Carlo Cecchi, and Chiara Caselli.[66]
https://variety.com/1999/film/news/return-destination-1117491888/
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/oct/03/news1
Alan J. Pakula's unrealized projects
[edit]Desire Under the Elms
The Wapshot Scandals
The Martian Chronicles
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
St. Urbain's Horseman
One More Song
Superman
Brubaker
Terms of Endearment
Children of a Lesser God
Nuts
Spring Moon
Three Ways Home
The Mrs. (Deceived)
The Significant Other
Sleeping Arrangements
Friday Night Lights
CDC
Cover Story
Green River Rising
Secret Santa
Brainstorm
The Secret History
A Tale of Two Strippers
No Ordinary Time
The Wapshot Scandals
The Martian Chronicles
The Drowning Pool
That Championship Season
Taxi Driver
Rich and Famous
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper
Blade Runner
Cutter's Way
A Long and Happy Life
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/52528-DESIRE-UNDER-THE-ELMS?cxt=filmography
https://thewalrus.ca/2007-10-film/
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57040-SUPERMAN?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/56379-BRUBAKER?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57284-CHILDREN-OF-A-LESSER-GOD?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57769-NUTS?cxt=filmography
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/14/movies/at-the-movies.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-25-ca-194-story.html
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58853-DECEIVED?cxt=filmography
https://variety.com/1991/film/features/pakula-consents-to-more-pix-following-adults-99126618/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-09-ca-1957-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/25/arts/at-the-movies.html
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1991/01/28/pakula-working-on-two-movies/
https://variety.com/1994/film/news/pakula-options-cullen-s-story-117953/
The short was purchased by Warner Bros and developed into a feature film with Huffman writing and Alan J Pakula to direct. (IMDb)
https://leoadambiga.com/tag/richard-dooling/
https://variety.com/1998/film/news/filmmaker-pakula-dies-in-accident-1117488719/
Spring Moon[69]
The Secret History/No Ordinary Time[70][71]
Orson Welles' unrealized projects
[edit]The Sacred Beasts
[edit]One of the driving figures in the “New Hollywood,” Bogdanovich adored Welles as a director, like many other young directors breaking free from the predominant studio tastes. In fact, the meeting gave Welles some hope that he could start up yet another project, an original story of his that at that time was called The Sacred Beasts. This was a tale about the film industry, the 1960s art house crowd, bullfighting, and the interplay between machismo and film directing.252 It reflected current cultural trends and revolutions for which it was unclear how long they would last. (https://www.wellesnet.com/sacred-beasts-lost-other-side-wind/)
Midnight Plus One
[edit]Welles toyed with the idea of adapting Gavin Lyall’s thriller Midnight Plus One, to star Robert Mitchum and Jack Nicholson. Would have been produced by Bert Schneider, who Welles would later act for in the 1972 horror film, Necromancy. The rights to Lyall's novel could not be secured. No evidence of a script.
https://www.wellesnet.com/memories-shared-at-evening-with-oja-kodar-in-woodstock-illinois/
Surinam
[edit]Welles wrote an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Victory with Oja Kodar. It was to be made for Peter Bogdanovich’s The Directors Company and star Kodar and Ryan O’Neal. But Bogdanovich had a couple of flops, money became short and the project was dropped. Conrad's novel is frequently described as an modern-day variation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Several drafts are at UM's Kodar collection.
Crazy Weather
[edit]https://www.wellesnet.com/crazy-weather-script/
https://www.wellesnet.com/exploring-hemingway-welles-connection/
https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/16/what-orson-welles-really-thought-about-ernest-hemingway
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/welles-and-hemingway-how-two-titans-clashed-over-spain/
The Assassin
[edit]According to Matthew Asprey Gear, the trailer Welles wanted to show at the AFI tribute wound up being shown to Michael Selsman a few months later. This was when Selsman wanted Welles for the project Sirhan, Sirhan, to be rewritten by Welles as Assassin: “Welles told Selsman the film [The Deep] was ‘in Europe in final cut – except for a sort of prologue I would like to shoot before the main titles,’ some ‘underwater second unit shots,’ and some post-syncing by Jeanne Moreau. The trailer may have simply bolstered Selsman’s belief that Welles didn’t finish his films.”349 Selsman, of course, passed on The Deep. More frustratingly, though Welles increased his involvement in Assassin, Selsman didn’t even have the money to film that project. As Asprey Gear writes, “there is little chance Assassin could have been made even if Welles hadn’t increased his financial demands.”350351 (350: https://brightlightsfilm.com/orson-welles-and-the-death-of-sirhan-sirhan-part-ii-the-safe-house/)
The Assassin
Based on a book by Donald Freed, the story speculates on the possible brainwashing techniques used on Sirhan Sirhan to prepare him for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Screenplay drafts are at UM's Kodar collection.
Authorship and exact titles will have to be verified, though they appear at first glance to be Welles original stories and adaptations. Titles include Operation: Cinderella, Two By Two (Noah’s Ark), Treasure Island, Great Leaders (aka Brittle Glory), Caesar, Christmas Shopping, Beware of Greeks, Saladin, The Big Question from Affair of Antol, The Honorary Counsel, The Heroine, The Cherry Orchard, The Little Prince, Because of the Cats, Inherit the Wind, Green Thoughts, Beatrice and Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing, Sirhan, The Bishop’s Beggar, Fair Warning, Mendelman Fire, China, Casanova, Ulysses, The Dreamers and Spain, which would have included parts for his wife and youngest daughter.
BECAUSE OF THE CATS
THE BLIND WINDOW (Mercedes)
BLACK MEDICINE
SOLDIER, SOLDIER
SURINAM (Conrad's Victory)
https://www.wellesnet.com/turin-museum-orson-welles/
THE UNTHINKING LOBSTER
ULYSSES
OPERATION CINDERELLA
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/movies/orson-welles-missing-scripts-found.html
The Method
[edit]Welles directed a 1961 documentary on the Actors Studio for BBC TV.
Mercedes
[edit][LAST FILM] A few months before his death, Mercedes is the adaption of Oja Kodar's story Blind Window and takes place in Spain.
https://www.wellesnet.com/exploring-hemingway-welles-connection/
True, but don't feel like finding info for...
THE SACRED BEASTS
TARAS BULBA
THE UNTHINKING LOBSTER
UNE GROSS LEGUME
Full list...
https://everything2.com/title/The+broken+dreams+of+Orson+Welles
http://wellesnet.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2932
Henry IV
In Europe in the late 1940s Welles scripted a loose adaptation of Pirandello's play, changing the central character into a young American who believes that he is the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. Welles was to play the central role and he claimed it was his finest script, but there is no evidence of it's existence.
The Autobiography of Cellini Bret Wood's Bio-bibliography of Welles claims that there was a project based on the life of 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini knocking around during the late 1940s and 1950s. There is no evidence of a script.
Enrico Caruso Wood's book indicates that Welles was also interested in a film about opera legend Enrico Caruso. How far it got is unknown. There is no evidence of a script.
The Odyssey While he was working on Othello Welles ‘hired’ Ernest Borneman to write a script based on Homer about Ulysses. Welles envisaged the equivalent of one of Robert Graves’s historical novels. Borneman stopped working when he wasn’t paid...although eventually he received his promised money. Shortly afterward, an Italian film version was made starring Kirk Douglas. There is a script called "Ulysses" in the Beatrice Welles archive.
Two By Two A screenplay was written based on the Noah story, but updated to modern times. The screenplay exists in the Beatrice Welles archive recently sold to UM.
The Mendelman Fire Mendelman's Fire, based on a 1957 short story by Wolf Mankowitz, concerns an unscrupulous scheme to insure Mendelman's fortune for his daughter and how its ramifications are traced by Botvinnik, an accountant whose wily activities delight in, but are horrified by, the course of the plotting. A script is part of the Beatrice Welles collection
Green Thoughts Welles's proposed followup to his TV pilot for Desilu, The Fountain of Youth, Green Thoughts was a "spook story with a seasoning of giggles", as he called it. When Fountain was rejected as a pilot, Welles went back to Europe. When Fountain was shown on TV the following year, it received great acclaim, and there was interest in continuing the series, but by that time Welles was involved in other things and decided not to come back for it, much to Desilu's anger. The script for Green Thoughts is part of the Beatrice Welles collection at UM.
Beware the Greeks A comedy that Welles was supposed to have written or revived in the mid-1960s. There is a screenplay by that name in the Beatrice Welles archive.
Because of the Cats A script based on one of Nicolas Freeling’s Van der Valk detective novels was written. A complete shooting script, with some camera directions, is at UM.
Crazy Weather Oja Kodar and Welles adapted her own short story, which concerns a married couple traveling through Spain, whose lives are disrupted by a mysterious young hitchhiker. Fragmentary screenplay drafts are at UM's Kodar collection.
https://www.tonybarrell.com/the-lost-batman-masterpiece/
Orson Welles' Batman
Jim Jarmusch's unrealized projects
[edit]The Garden of Divorce
Coming Through Slaughter
Zebulon
Untitled Nikola Tesla biopic
Three Moons in the Sky
Ghost Dog sequel
https://jimjarmusch.tripod.com/unfinished.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20090412094818/http://www.jim-jarmusch.net/films/unmaderumored_films/
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/men-looking-at-other-men/
https://web.archive.org/web/20040910153306/http://www.thefifthnight.org/detail.asp?ReadingID=186
https://scienceandfilm.org/articles/3632/revisiting-an-interview-with-michael-almereyda-on-tesla
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/jarmusch-shows-the-money
https://www.indiewire.com/news/general/jim-jarmusch-speaks-on-evolution-of-broken-flowers-78098/
According to Michael Almereyda, Jarmusch was involved in/to direct a film that would have started Tilda Swinton as the inventor of electricity, Nikola Tesla. Almereyeda, later made a film of Tesla, which starred Ethan Hawke in the role.
John Ford's unrealized projects
[edit](Revenge (1947), The Creighton Story (1960), Alias Whispering White, Operation Seventy-Three, Our Brother John, Slowsure, Wits and the Woman/The Demon Dragon)
1920s
[edit]A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
[edit]In 1929, it was announced that Fox planned to have Ford direct Will Rogers in a film version of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain. Ford had read and loved the book when he lived in Maine as a child. However, the film, released in 1931 as A Connecticut Yankee was instead made by David Butler. (pg. 208)
1930s
[edit]Young America
[edit]In August 1931, it was indicated in the trade papers that Ford was scheduled to direct the film Young America as a comedy for Fox, with Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Albertson and William Collier Jr. among the cast. The film was released the following year and instead starred Spencer Tracy, Doris Kenyon and Ralph Bellamy, and was realized as a dramatic effort under director Frank Borzage.[75]
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
[edit]In the early 1930s, Ford had originally been engaged to direct The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo for Fox. Before he could even start work on the production however, Ford had an accident slipping on his yacht Araner in which he fractured two vertebrae, and had to relinquish the job. Plans for the feature ultimately went forward, with Stephen Roberts taking over the director's position in Ford's absence.[76]
West of the Pecos
[edit]In August 1934, Ford was announced as a "probable director" for RKO's planned production of West of the Pecos. The final film, said to be lost, was directed by Phil Rosen and was later remade in 1945.[77]
Professional Soldier
[edit]The opening credits introduce the film as "Damon Runyon's Professional Soldier." The film was prepared for production by 20th Century Pictures and was released after the company merged with Fox Film Corp. A 9 Nov 1933 DV news item indicates that when Twentieth Century was handling the property, Gregory La Cava considered directing it. Early versions of the script, contained in the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Theater Arts Library, suggest that the character of "George Foster" be played by Franchot Tone, and that of "Picklepuss," which became "Mischa," be played by Mischa Auer. According to HR news items, Wallace Beery was originally set for the role of "Michael Donovan," but was instead placed by Twentieth Century-Fox in A Message for Garcia (see above). HR news items also noted that John Ford was scheduled to direct the film, that actor Freddie Bartholomew was borrowed from M-G-M, and that Rian James was signed to work on the script. James's contribution to the completed film, however, has not been confirmed. A studio publicity release stated that Sydney Jordan, "Hollywood's most famous sharpshooter," was hired "to perform the dangerous shots." HR production charts include Douglas Wood and Jack Byron in the cast, but their contribution to the final picture has not been confirmed. A 30 Oct 1935 HR news item incorrectly stated that Kenneth Macgowan was taking over associate producer chores from Raymond Griffith, but the reporting error was corrected the next day. NYT noted that the picture cost in excess of $750,000 to produce. According to the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department, also at the UCLA Theater Arts Library, the song "Joan of Arkansas" was written by Johnny Green and Edward Heyman for George White's 1935 Scandals (see above), but was not used in that film. Michael Whalen made his screen acting debut in this picture. [78]
A Message to Garcia
[edit]Ramona
[edit]Slave Ship
[edit]La Grande Illusion remake
[edit](pg. 254)
I'll Give a Million
[edit]1940s
[edit]Man Hunt
[edit]According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ford was the original director of Man Hunt, but departed from the production. Jules Furthman wrote two treatments for Ford in June 1940, but his work was not included in the final screenplay by Dudley Nichols. Fritz Lang directed the film, which was released the following year.[83]
The Eagle Squadron
[edit]In 1940—41, Ford left the production of Man Hunt and chose to direct a film called The Eagle Squadron in its place, for his own Argosy company. This project was not produced however, and Ford made How Green Was My Valley for Twentieth Century-Fox later in 1941.[83]
The Last Outlaw remake
[edit]In 1942, Harry Carey gained the story rights to The Last Outlaw, Ford's 1919 two-reel silent Western which had been remade in 1936, with the prospect of remaking the film again but as an "A picture". Ford's Argosy Pictures signed a contract in January 1945 to make The Last Outlaw for United Artists, but Ford was still in active military service and the project did not reach fruition before Carey's death in 1947. (pg. 258)
Later on in his career when he was struggling to find work in Hollywood, Ford contacted The Walt Disney Company and asked for a job, desperate to direct again. According to Harry Carey Jr., Ford likely mooted the Last Outlaw remake to Disney, which he wanted to make with John Wayne starring in the main role. "It would have been marvelous," Harry Jr reflected. "Duke [Wayne] as an older guy, getting out of prison in the thirties. Duke always wanted to do it." (pg. 686-687)
The Family
[edit]In 1946, Ford's Argosy Pictures purchased the film rights to Nina Federova's 1940 novel The Family, about a family of White Russians who are exiled to China after the Revolution.[84] The film was slated to commence production the following year with John Wayne and Ethel Barrymore in the cast. Ford framed the story as "the disintegration of a family after it has been unrooted."[85]
Untitled Battle of the Alamo film
[edit]In the late 1940s, after Ford and Merian C. Cooper had formed Argosy Pictures, John Wayne approached them with the prospect of making a large-scale film on the subject of the Siege and Battle of the Alamo. A screenplay centering on the character of Davy Crockett was completed by Ford's son Patrick for Argosy by 1948. That same year, Ford and Wayne announced the film while location scouting in Texas for 3 Godfathers. Ultimately, due to budget concerns, Ford and Cooper effectively shelved the project. Wayne later realized the film himself, released in 1960 as The Alamo, which Ford had directed second unit footage of.(Searching for John Ford pg. 611)
Pinky
[edit]A Ticket to Tomahawk
[edit](Print the Legend, pg. 363)
1950s
[edit]The Last Frontier
[edit]In the early 1950s, Ford began considering making a film about the Cheyenne immigration. He liked Howard Fast's The Last Frontier, and wanted to use it as the basis for a film on the subject, but never pursued the rights. A screenplay adaptation of the book had been written by Ted Buchanan in 1949. The project was initially set up at Columbia Pictures, but it was shelved. Ford, for his part, "plead[ed]" with Fast to talk to Buchanan to allow him to direct The Last Frontier. "I'll direct it right out your book," he told Fast, "Your dialogue and nothing else." Ultimately, Ford pursued a different iteration of the story with 1964's Cheyenne Autumn, his biggest production.
(Searching for JF, pg. 644)
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
[edit]In 1952, Ford came close to helming a production of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T. E. Lawrence's autobiographical account of serving with rebel Arab forces against the Ottoman Turks.[86] The story was instead later dramatized in the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean.
The Demi-Gods
[edit]Also in 1952,
The Valiant Virginians
[edit](1954)
pg. 530, 553
(Print the Legend, pg. 433-434)
Mister Roberts
[edit](1955)
The Judge and the Hangman
[edit]In addition to The White Company, Ford and producer Michael Killanin were also discussing the possibilities of a project to be filmed in Germany, The Judge and the Hangman, poised to star John Wayne and Spencer Tracy. In March 1959, Dudley Nichols expressed interest in writing the script, but he fell ill and the project was not pursued by Ford further. (Searching for John Ford, pg. 600)
(Print the Legend, 457)
Billy Budd
[edit](Print the Legend, 457)
The White Company
[edit]In 1959, after shooting was completed on The Horse Soldiers, Ford was mulling filming a production outside of the United States. At this time, Michael Killanin was negotiating for the rights to The White Company, a book by Arthur Conan Doyle set in England, France, and Spain during the Hundred Years' War.[86] Though Ford was desperate to make a film of the story, the project was an expensive period piece, so he had little luck in gaining financial backing. (Searching for John Ford, pg. 600)
(print the legend, 530)
In a letter disclosed to Alec Guinness in 1963, it was revealed that Ford wanted to cast him for a role in the planned production. However, Guinness would decline the offer.
Ford also wrote to Guinness about/for a role
Ford continued to hope to make a film of the story well into the 1970s, (and was developing it alongside/simultaneously as the Strode projects). pg. 686
However, due to Guinness's busy schedule, he had to decline the role.
, I shall be with it until the following Fall. I agree with you about Sir Nigel, though I must confess to being quite unable to get through the whole book these days. When I was about fourteen or fifteen I loved it I remember. I would so like to work with you but it looks as if it won't be in The White Company. All good wishes, Sincerely, Alec Guinness. Both Sir Nigel and The White Company proved to be unrealized projects for John Ford despite his passion for these two great works by Doyle.
1960s
[edit]Sir Nigel
[edit]In 1963, toward the end of his career Ford was attached to film Sir Nigel, a companion piece of sorts to the (Ford's) planned White Company
, Ford also offered Alec Guinness a role
The Wandering Jew
[edit](Print the Legend, 487)
Desperate Trails remake
[edit]It was revealed in a profile for Esquire that while in the interim between shooting Cheyenne Autumn, Ford told actor George O'Brien that he (would like) wanted to someday do a remake of his own film Desperate Trails. "First picture made with actual nighttime photography," Ford noted. "It was based on a story by Courtney Ryley Cooper called 'Christmas Eve at Pilot Butte'. Like to remake it sometime. A nice story."[87]
Young Cassidy
[edit]In September 1963, it was reported that Ford would direct a film of the life of the writer Sean O'Casey, Young Cassidy. He wanted Sean Connery for the role.
http://www.rodtaylorsite.com/youngcassidy.shtml
https://variety.com/1964/film/reviews/young-cassidy-1200420694/
O.S.S.
[edit]While working on 7 Women, Ford began thinking (in earnest) about making a biographical film about his friend, Major General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, claiming that he had promised Donovan on his deathbed that he would do so.(pg. 680) Developed at (around) the same time as The Miracle of Merriford, it was to have been called O.S.S. and follow/track Donovan's experiences serving as chief of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.[86] Ford struggled to find a writer at first, his sensibility having become so far removed from what was popular in Hollywood at the time.(pg. 680) The project was eventually scripted in around 1967–68. John Wayne was tipped to play Wild Bill.[86]
The Miracle of Merriford
[edit]Ford was planning on following-up 7 Women with another for MGM, The Miracle of Merriford. Adapted by Willis Goldbeck and James Warner Bellah from a 1955 novel by Reginald Arkell, it was a comedy about American ex-soldiers who return to a British town after World War II to rebuild a church they damaged during the war.[86] According to author Joseph McBride, "Ford saw the project as a satire of the cultural clash between Americans and Britons, with humor similar to that of The Quiet Man." He wanted James Stewart and Dan Dailey in the leads, and was considering such other actors as Julie Christie, Jack Hawkins and Cecil Kellaway. By June 1965, MGM announced that the film would begin shooting in October that year, but plans were abruptly cancelled after the studio read the script. Although Ford claimed the reason was that it "didn't have enough sex", the bad preview of 7 Women in July was likely a contributing factor in the reason for the cancellation of the project, considering it was also set in the past and dealt with religious themes. The following summer, Ford approached producer Walter Wanger attempting to realize The Miracle of Merriford in the form of a TV movie, to no avail. (Searching for JF, page 679-680)
April Morning
[edit]In 1966, Samuel Goldwyn Jr. approached Ford with the idea of making April Morning, Howard Fast's novel of a teenage boy from New England who comes of age at the Battle of Lexington in 1775. Ford took a copy of the book with him on his trip to Paris that year so he could point to it as a forthcoming project to journalists.(Print the legend, pg. 529) The screenplay by Michael Wilson was, in Ford's words, "the story of a blacksmith and his family just before the Revolutionary War. The Battle of Lexington and Concord will be in the film ... but basically it's the story of a father and his son."[85] Goldwyn planned for April Morning to have a "modest budget", and was worried about the number of extras required for the battle scenes. Ford instructed him to call Western Costume and find out how many Revolutionary War costumes they had in stock. "I'll do it with stuntmen," he told Goldwyn. For the main cast, everyone involved wanted John Wayne for the part of the boy's father, and Goldwyn had the idea of approaching Henry Fonda and his son Peter for additional roles. It had been believed that Wayne, weary of his debt to Ford, turned the film down and effectively put it to end. Out of pride, Ford refused to ask Wayne, who eventually agreed/committed (on his own) out of Golden's urging. After a few months of development, Fonda opted out of starring.(Print the legend, pg. 530-531) According to Peter Bogdanovich, Ford planned to make the film with Lee Marvin.[88] When author Joseph McBride questioned Ford about the status of the project in 1970, he replied, "Well, it's still coming. I mean... no company wants to do it. [...] It's a great script. It's the best script I've ever read."[89] A deal was almost reached/agreed upon/struck to make the film at MGM, but it was scuttled by one of the executives. Fifteen years after Ford's death, Goldwyn and Robert Halmi made April Morning as a TV movie with Delbert Mann producing and directing.
Boule de Suif
[edit]Still struggling to find work as a director in the U.S., in 1966, French publicist Pierre Rissient suggested Ford make a film of Guy de Maupassant's "Boule de Suif", but set in France rather than in Monument Valley as he had done with Stagecoach, itself loosely based on the story. Ford flew to Paris in January 1968 to drum up interest from potential investors but nothing came of it. Rissient suggested Leslie Caron for the lead role, but Caron passed on it due to Ford's old school methods of movie-making. (pg. 682) Michel Déon was hired to write the script and had witnessed the development of the project. "Ford worked in his bed, ordering bottles of white wine in the morning while I came to work in the afternoon. Needless to say, it wasn't easy," Déon recalled. "He wasn't in a state to work and no insurance would take care of him for the duration of a shoot."[90]
Tora! Tora! Tora!
[edit]According to Admiral John D. Bulkeley, Ford had wanted to direct the $25 million American-Japanese coproduction Tora! Tora! Tora! alongside Akira Kurosawa, who at the time would have helmed/overseen the Japanese segments.(Searching pg. 681) Ford informed Twentieth Century-Fox of his interest through intermediaries, but Darryl F. Zanuck never seriously considered hiring him because his poor health made him unviable for such a large-scale project. Kurosawa was replaced after a few days of shooting and the film was instead jointly directed by Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku.
Midway
[edit]In the late 1960s, Ford also pursued a project about the Battle of Midway, specifying to John Lee Mahin that Midway would be his "last picture". He planned to use actual footage for the film. Albert S. Ruddy was set in place as the producer and Joseph McBride even wrote the opening. An Italian company was going to provide the backing, but the money became unavailable. (Searching for JF, pg. 680) A Midway feature was instead made by The Mirisch Company for Universal in 1976, directed by Jack Smight.
1970s
[edit]Untitled Spaghetti Western film
[edit]Ford's actor-collaborator and friend Woody Strode had grown to be highly in demand after starring in Italian Spaghetti Westerns, and lived in Rome between the years of 1969 and 1973 as a result. Due to his successes, he and Ford had discussed working together again on a Spaghetti Western in Italy or in Spain. Strode sent him a script as possibility for the project, which Ford didn't like.(print the legend, pg. 541) Though Ford found another screenplay, a "low-budget Western with religious overtones" as described by Joseph McBride, he wanted it to be rewritten to transform the white protagonist into a black one to suit Strode. According to Ford, in the summer of 1970, he needed someone to put up the $20,000 purchase price and when one of his representatives mentioned the director's interest in the script, the price shot up to $50,000.(pg. 686-687) McBride, present at the time when Ford announced his retirement for the first time officially, later found out that the day he interviewed him, he had been expecting a letter or a phone call from an Italian producer about the project. "Woody Strode was trying to get this Western done for him and this Italian guy was gonna call him and he never did. And Ford at that point, that day, he was realizing 'I'm not gonna hear from this man. This is the end of my career and I'm packing it in'."[89][91]
Appointment with Precedence
[edit]In the early 1970s, Ford was planning to make one last Western shot in Monument Valley alternately titled (various called/referred -to- as) Appointment with Precedence and The Josh Clayton Story. The film was to have starred Fred Williamson as Josh Clayton, the first black graduate of West Point to command a black cavalry unit. It was based on an original story by Robert Johnson, who appeared as a black trooper in Ford's own Sergeant Rutledge. (The film was to have additionally starred) Woody Strode (who) would have also starred/appeared/had a role in the film as/playing a sergeant resentful of his new commander,[92] with cameo appearances from James Stewart, Henry Fonda and John Wayne. By 1972, Ford had appointed James Warner Bellah to work on the film treatment for the project with Johnson.[92] There was some interest from Italian producers if the film could be made for under $2 million. Ford asked Wingate Smith to draw up a $1.5 million budget. (pg. 686-687)
https://westernsallitaliana.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-josh-clayton-story.html
Valley Forge
[edit]In March 1971, Ford and fellow director Frank Capra decided to team up to film Maxwell Anderson's 1934 verse play Valley Forge, which Capra had been trying to make since the late 1930s, as a benefit for the Motion Picture Country House Relief Fund.[93] Billed as a John Ford-Frank Capra Production, Capra was to direct the exteriors and Ford the interiors. Two major interior sets depicting Valley Forge were to be constructed at an ice-skating rink so that the actors' breath would be visible; the other major set, a Philadelphia ballroom, was to be built on a soundstage. George C. Scott was approached for the role of General George Washington. To help with the production, Ford and Capra enlisted Frank McCarthy, though by June Martin Rackin became involved as producer instead. Rackin then wrote a five-page proposal for Valley Forge and submitted it to Cinema Center Films.(pg. 688-689) It was pitched as an event film for the upcoming 1976 United States Bicentennial celebration and a "human drama" akin to A Man for All Seasons or Patton that would have mass audience appeal.[93] While CCF showed interest, Columbia refused to sell the rights to Valley Forge, halting further development.
"They say 'Who the hell's interested in George Washington?', I heard one producer say that to me."[89]
The Grave Diggers
[edit]In March 1972, it was reported in Daily Variety that Woody Strode or Fred Williamson would star in a new Ford film titled The Grave Diggers, an original by James Warner Bellah and his son James Jr. about Benjamin Davis, the first black West Point graduate to retire with the rank of a major general. (pg. 686-687)
Offers
[edit]The Strange Case of Cavendish
[edit]In 1919, Ford passed on an offer from Universal Pictures to direct an 18-part serial called The Strange Case of Cavendish for $300 a week. (pg. 118)
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
[edit]Seven Wonders of the World
[edit]The Bridge Over the River Kwai
[edit](1954)
Run Silent, Run Deep
[edit](Print the Legend, 457)
A Thousand Springs
[edit](Print the Legend, 486)
The Girl of the Golden West opera
[edit]In 1962, while in production on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Ford received a letter from the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York inviting him to direct an upcoming production of Giacomo Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West. Ford, insulted by the offer, sent back a message that he thought it was a "lousy opera" but that he was very interested in directing Puccini's La bohème instead.[87]
Howard Hawks' unrealized projects
[edit]Gunga Din
The Outlaw (pg. 61)
The Pride of the Yankees
Dreadful Hollow (pg. 8)
The Left Hand of God (pg. 8, 398)
The Sun Also Rises
Don Quixote
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (pg. 245)
Bengal Tiger (Man's Favorite Sport wiki)[95]
Yukon Trail
For Whom the Bell Tolls (pg. 10)
Untitled Ernest Hemingway/Robert Capa film (pg. 11, 15)
Monte Walsh (pg. 15)
When It's Hot, Play It Cool
Now, Mr. Gus (pg. 15) [96]
In many ways, A Girl in Every Port blueprinted the easygoing Hawks style he’d follow for a generation, well into the 1970’s. In the last years of his life, Hawks planned a remake of A Girl in Every Port. He constantly remade his own films, but this last project was especially dear to him. The title for the never-realized film could have been his epitaph, for it neatly signified both a union between sexual equals, and the reliance on professionalism Hawks celebrated in both men and women: the film was to be called When it’s Hot, Play it Cool.
https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/filmnotes/fnf01n8.html
https://www.proquest.com/docview/210242953?sourcetype=Scholarly%20Journals
https://cinemastationblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/dream-projects-howard-hawks/
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/603
https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-42-winter-2002/dreadful-hollow
https://lfq.salisbury.edu/_issues/45_3/vampires_detectives_and_hawks.html
https://lithub.com/about-all-those-unproduced-screenplays-william-faulkner-wrote/
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John Huston's unrealized projects
[edit]The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Mr. Skeffington
The Story of G.I. Joe
Quo Vadis
The Secret Sharer
Three Weird Tales
On the Trail
Alouette
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Lysistrata
Typee
A Farewell to Arms
The Unforgiven
Will Adams
Montezuma
Waterloo
The Disenchanted
The Ginger Man
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Bullet Park
The Last Run
Addie Pray
Catholics
Across the River and Into the Trees
Love and Bullets
High Road to China
Revenge
The Rack
Mister Johnson
Haunted Summer
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/5097-THE-HUNCHBACK-OF-NOTRE-DAME?cxt=filmography
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/16657/captain-horatio-hornblower#overview
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/50473
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/52509-COWBOY?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/52172
https://www.nytimes.com/1956/02/04/archives/huston-will-direct-lysistrata-on-tv-monroe-may-star.html
Dalton Trumbo by Bruce Cook (Montezuma)
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/08/movies/at-the-movies.html
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/54836-PAPER-MOON?cxt=filmography
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/01/archives/hustons-young-man-hustons-young-man.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1972/08/22/archives/john-huston-set-to-direct-and-act-in-catholics.html
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/56918
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/57989
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58669-REVENGE?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58945-MISTER-JOHNSON?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/58755
Jerry Schatzberg's unrealized projects
[edit]Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack
A Star Is Born
The Yellow Jersey
Scarecrow sequel
The War for Gloria
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/279848660/
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-jerry-schatzberg/
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's unrealized projects
[edit]Life of Pi
Red Leaves
Phantom of the Opera TV series
Changer l'eau des fleurs
Untitled sci-fi animated film
Untitled Amelie documentary
https://variety.com/2015/film/global/marrakech-jean-pierre-jeunet-amelie-spirit-1201659864/
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/jean-pierre-jeunet-amelie-mockumentary-1202131545/
Walter Hill's unrealized projects
[edit]Lloyd Williams and His Brother
Alien
The Gauntlet
The Last Gun
White Hunter, Black Heart
The Last Good Kiss
Red Harvest
Lone Star
The Far City
Cody's Return
Dick Tracy
Untitled comedy film
The Magnificent Seven remake
Blue City
Pop. 1280
American Iron
Revenge
The Fugitive
Patriot Games
The Killer remake
Hong Kong (https://variety.com/1992/voices/columns/clinton-biopic-prepped-for-convention-1117862353/)
Tales from the Crypt film (https://variety.com/1992/film/news/crypt-pix-vault-to-silver-screen-101201/)
The Getaway
Sudden Country
Red White Black and Blue
Persona Non Grata (https://variety.com/1999/film/news/full-slate-for-7arts-1117760119/)
Vengeance Is Mine
St. Vincent
Unknown
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? remake
To Live and Die in L.A. TV series
Goliath season 2
Untitled noir film
In 1992, Walter Hill and David Giler wrote a screenplay for Tri-Star Pictures that was to star Richard Gere and Denzel Washington. In June of that year, it was announced that Hill and Giler were writing a script titled Hong Kong that was based on the film, with Hill directing. The producers had difficulty with the relationship between the two main characters, as they felt that American audiences would interpret it as a homoerotic one. Producer Terence Chang, who worked with John Woo on several productions, suggested to the American producers to have Michelle Yeoh play the role of the police officer to resolve any homoerotic reading of the film. A year later, screenwriters Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr. were hired by producers Charles Roven and Robert Cavallo to write a screenplay based on the film for Tristar, in which they wrote a third draft dated on 23 August 1993 that featured a story of a Caucasian hitman living in Hong Kong. This screenplay moved the focus from the pairing the hitman and the police detective characters to the characters of the blinded night club singer and the hit man.
Penny Marshall's unrealized projects
[edit]National Lampoon's The Joy of Sex: A Dirty Love Story
Peggy Sue Got Married
Time Steps
Super Mario Bros.
Forrest Gump
Blue Moon
The Boys of Neptune
Saving Grace
Hazel
Live from Baghdad
Untitled Jim Braddock biopic[101]
Cover Me
Untitled Effa Manley biopic
Untitled Dennis Rodman documentary
Frankie and Johnny
https://variety.com/1993/film/news/seattle-s-arch-scripting-marshall-redford-project-108222/
https://variety.com/1995/more/news/studios-balk-at-spending-a-pretty-penny-on-boys-99127020/
https://variety.com/1997/film/news/marshall-developing-grace-1116679360/
https://variety.com/1997/film/news/two-pics-in-cards-for-scribe-taylor-1116679248/
https://variety.com/1997/film/news/u-turns-production-corner-1200324742/
https://variety.com/1998/film/news/leder-eyed-to-helm-u-s-saving-grace-1117478207/
https://variety.com/1998/film/news/sonnenfeld-smith-might-team-again-on-ali-biopic-1117479505/
https://variety.com/1999/film/news/marshall-shifts-shingle-to-sony-from-universal-1117756632/
https://variety.com/2003/film/markets-festivals/warners-linson-run-for-cover-1117880375/
https://variety.com/2003/film/markets-festivals/cinderella-slipper-fits-u-miramax-1117879946/
Roger Donaldson's unrealized projects
[edit]Shattered Silence
Conan the Destroyer
Untitled James Bond film
The Guide
Che
Stander
The Fantastic Four
The Farm
Abyssinia
The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa
Umbra
Honor Among Men
Cities
All Quiet on the Western Front
Jena Six[102]
The Guinea Pig Club
The Bounty sequel
Immortal[103]
Nhiem TV series
Icarus Factor
https://wearecult.rocks/the-roger-donaldson-interview
https://variety.com/1998/film/news/donaldson-to-guide-guide-1117470767/
https://variety.com/1998/more/news/cannes-briefs-6-1117470912/
https://variety.com/2000/voices/columns/twins-pique-the-interest-of-dicaprio-1117786913/
https://variety.com/1999/film/news/full-slate-for-7arts-1117760119/
https://variety.com/2000/film/news/columbus-1492-likely-to-pull-up-anchor-with-fox-1117776719/
https://variety.com/2001/film/news/donaldson-moves-to-farm-1117855440/
https://variety.com/2002/film/markets-festivals/helmer-sez-abyssinia-1117871142/
https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/mona-lisa-theft-to-hit-the-bigscreen-1118002961/
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/roger-donaldson-stole-mona-lisa/
https://variety.com/2009/biz/news/donaldson-set-to-direct-honor-1118010955/
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/roger-donaldson-making-umbra/
https://variety.com/2011/film/news/roger-donaldson-to-direct-cities-1118036337/
Samuel Fuller's unrealized projects
[edit]Tigrero
Cain and Abel
The Charge at San Juan Hill
Flowers of Evil
Riata
The Rifle
Let's Get Harry
The Adventures of Balzac
Stars and Swastika
Burning Sappho
Snug Harbor
The Three Most Wanted Men
As Fuller described/detailed/divulged (several sequences) to Tim Robbins in the documentary. Featuring his birth, a confrontation with Alexander Dumas and...
In the words of his daughter, "Snug Harbor followed..."
https://www.flavorwire.com/435197/12-abandoned-movies-by-famous-screenwriters
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/movies/a-fuller-life-tells-the-story-of-samuel-fuller.html
https://filmuforia.com/samantha-fuller-filmmaker-a-fuller-life-2014/
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1974/jan/03/cover-sam-fuller-a-good-name-for-a-heavy/
https://variety.com/1985/film/reviews/let-s-get-harry-1200426875/
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126447750342
Christopher Nolan's unrealized projects
[edit]Larry Mahoney
The Keys to the Street
Untitled Howard Hughes biopic
Troy
The Prisoner
Untitled James Bond film
Untitled horror film
https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/christopher-nolan-unmade-films/
https://movieweb.com/every-unmade-christopher-nolan-movie/
https://screenrant.com/christopher-nolan-unmade-canceled-movies-projects/
https://variety.com/2024/film/global/christopher-nolan-horror-film-oppenheimer-1235913375/
The Screen Rant article for Nolan does discuss a fourth project: Larry Mahoney. Plus, Nolan has been circling to direct a James Bond film for a WHILE, and has spoken publicly of his interest in doing so, even though he may not want to anymore; mentioned here, here, here, and here.
Martha Coolidge's unrealized projects
[edit]Photoplay
Wild About Harry
Some Kind of Wonderful
Angie, I Says
https://variety.com/1993/film/news/davis-says-helmer-coolidge-would-be-cool-102618/
Mike Newell's unrealized projects
[edit]Last Train to Memphis[105]
Untitled John Milius Western
The Runaway Jury
The Day of the Triffids
The Comedian
The One and Only Ivan
China Court
https://variety.com/2001/film/news/newell-mulls-jury-mona-1117856472/
https://deadline.com/2014/01/mike-newell-plants-flag-to-helm-the-day-of-the-triffids-670245/
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/harry-potter-mike-newell-uk-shoot-china-court-1235574612/
https://deadline.com/2015/05/robert-de-niro-mike-newell-the-comedian-art-linson-1201430714/
Frank Capra's unrealized projects
[edit]The Child-Woman
The Boneyard of the Sea
The Eternal Will
The Flying Marine
Valley Forge
A Song to Remember
Golden Boy
It Happened Tomorrow
The Friendly Persuasion
No Other Man
A Woman of Distinction
Westward the Women
Soviet
Saint Paul
Marooned
The Addams Family episodes
Dear and Glorious Physician (CW wiki)
Circus World
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/9130-THE-FLYING-MARINE?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/829-IT-HAPPENED-TOMORROW?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/24590-A-SONG-TO-REMEMBER?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/4178-GOLDEN-BOY?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/51836-FRIENDLY-PERSUASION?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/26572-A-WOMAN-OF-DISTINCTION?cxt=filmography
https://catalog.afi.com/Film/18529-CIRCUS-WORLD?cxt=filmography
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/03/books/it-wasn-t-such-a-wonderful-life.html
MGM production chief Irving Thalberg wanted to borrow Capra from Columbia Pictures and offered Columbia chief Harry Cohn $50,000, the use of an MGM star of his choice for a film and Capra's choice of properties. The director selected "Soviet," the story of an American engineer building a dam in Russia. It was to star Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery. Thalberg's illness caused MGM boss Louis B. Mayer to cancel the production but MGM made good on the payment and the loan-out.
Among many unrealized projects in his long career, one to which he was especially devoted was a film about the life of Saint Paul , to star Frank Sinatra.
Was originally supposed to write and direct Circus World (1964) but quit the project when star John Wayne rejected Capra's script and instead insisted it be written by his old friend, James Edward Grant.
Capra was such a fan of the TV show The Addams Family (1964) he offered to come out of retirement to direct some episodes. But he couldn't reach a financial agreement with the producers.
Jim McBride's unrealized projects
[edit]Gone Beaver
The Brothers Frigidaire
Hot Times
The Instant Enemy
Sneaky People
The Big Red One
The Moviegoer
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Elektra, Assassin
The Return of David Holzman
Meet Your Match
History Is Made at Night
https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/59159/page/320
https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2024/02/show-business-in-the-end-an-interview-with-jim-mcbride/
https://variety.com/1992/film/news/ostroff-rooted-in-tree-deal-100696/
https://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/60s-revivals-spur-rivals-1116679932/
Jonathan Caouette's unrealized projects
[edit]Jonathan is also working on a screenplay entitled "Everything Somewhere Else" based on the acclaimed surrealistic Spanish novel,Todo en otra parte. He is also in development for a film with writer, David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, Aida) and producer Howard Gertler (Worlds greatest Dad with Robin Williams and Shortbus directed by John Cameron Mitchell) Jonathan is also currently shooting a new documentary about severely traumatized children. He is a recent recipient of a Rockerfeller Fellowship. Jonathan recently completed directing the film, "Rotaurorae" with Chloe Sevigny. "Rotaurorae" was commissioned by producers Asia Argento and Michele Civetta as part of the ONEDREAMRUSH film festival in Beijing, China as a part of a collective with the likes of Kenneth Anger, Sean Lennon, David Lynch, Gaspar Noe, Larry Clark, Abel Ferrara, and Harmony Korine among others. Currently, "Rotaurorae" is being fleshed out to a longer version of the film with the intent to submit it for the Cannes Film Festival in 2010 with a new title "All Flowers In Time". Jonathan is also going to be the executive producer of the film "Mountain Park", which is a documentary about a group of troubled children attending a post modern tough love camp in Texas.
Ronnie Rocket
Richard Kelly's unrealized projects
[edit]
Holes
Bessie
Untitled gun-control satire
Knowing
It TV miniseries
Untitled Mystic River-esque character drama
The Dark Tower TV miniseries
Untitled 3D film
Corpus Christi
Amicus
Soulmates
Untitled Rod Serling biopic
Southland Tales prequel
Untitled Donnie Darko film
Mississippi Mud
For Thom Yorke
https://www.vice.com/en/article/southland-tales-richard-kelly-interview/
https://www.scribd.com/document/239987316/BESSIE-by-Richard-Kelly
https://scriptshadow.net/weird-scripts-week-bessie/
https://www.avclub.com/glitter-doom-and-elephants-fucking-an-oral-history-o-1846123331
https://www.thetimes.com/article/richard-kelly-grvsmttzqnl
https://www.avclub.com/knowing-1798216975
http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/18334
https://collider.com/richard-kelly-interview-southland-tales/
https://thefilmstage.com/richard-kelly-plans-return-to-world-of-donnie-darko/
https://comicbook.com/horror/news/the-twilight-zone-rod-serling-biopic-richard-kelly-movie/
https://theplaylist.net/richard-kelly-new-southland-tales-film-20200407/
https://ew.com/movies/dwayne-johnson-southland-tales-justin-timberlake-sequel/
https://theplaylist.net/richard-kelly-southland-tales-interview-20210126/
https://thefilmstage.com/richard-kelly-on-creative-heartbreak-political-cinema-and-future-projects/
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