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post #151 of 177
1/10/04 at 11:27am
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Originally posted by Wetbones
This film would have ruled the world but some moron decided to greenlight Renny Harlin's CUTTHROAT ISLAND instead!
Crusades was not the only film in development that got killed because of Cutthroat Island. The failure of the movie prevented two other pirate movies from ever happening: a remake of Captain Blood that would have been helmed by John McTiernan, and Verhoeven's Mistress of the Sea (based on Ann Boney, played by Michelle Pfeiffer). Alas, Renny killed those two potentially awesome flicks, and we've been devoid of a good pirate movie ever since (don't talk about Shitfest of the Carribean, please).
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post #152 of 177
1/10/04 at 9:03pm
Someone touched on H.R. Giger earlier in the thread, but didn't choose to mention one of his other non-films, "The Train" - which going by the concept art and short writeup in the Giger film book; saw a monstrous bladed biomechanical train (sort of like the one in Sil's dreams in 'Species') killing and/or capturing commuters as they waited at stations, and taking them to some bizarre tube-filled city (Giger's sketch of said city refers to it as "R'lyeh".)

There book says that at one point Ridley Scott was involved - but it never got beyond the very early concept stages.

And while part of me is sad at this, part of me is glad - because I do feel that the concept works best as it stands. To make a film, it would need a story, a protagonist and a resolution of some kind - which dulls the impact of what to me is a fantastic, nightmarish idea, one which always has me looking cautiously round whenever I hear a train coming.
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post #153 of 177
1/10/04 at 10:40pm
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To make a film, it would need a story, a protagonist and a resolution of some kind
Baffling. You mean Ridley Scott and H.R. Giger might collaborate on a movie with no story??
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post #154 of 177
1/11/04 at 5:48am
Alien vs. Predator
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post #155 of 177
1/11/04 at 6:55am
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Originally posted by The Inspector
Baffling. You mean Ridley Scott and H.R. Giger might collaborate on a movie with no story??
I don't think Scott wanted to make a film without any story or narrative structure but AFAIK it simply never progressed very far. He just gave Giger a few ideas, Giger did a few paintings and then the project went belly-up.

Giger talks briefly about it here:

http://www.hrgiger.com/ghost.htm

As you can see he has incorporated some of what he wanted to do with THE TRAIN into the trainwreck that is SPECIES.

There are a few more Giger projects that never happened, including DEAD STAR, to which Bill Malone (HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL Remake, FEARDOTCOM) was attached. That film ultimately got made as SUPERNOVA without Giger's or Malone's involvement, though Malone is still credited for the story IIRC.
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post #156 of 177
1/11/04 at 6:55am
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Originally posted by Ghostbuster626
Alien vs. Predator
If you're talking about the Briggs draft of the script I'll second this.
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post #157 of 177
1/11/04 at 6:57am
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Originally posted by Blunt
Crusades was not the only film in development that got killed because of Cutthroat Island. The failure of the movie prevented two other pirate movies from ever happening: a remake of Captain Blood that would have been helmed by John McTiernan, and Verhoeven's Mistress of the Sea (based on Ann Boney, played by Michelle Pfeiffer).
I didn't know that! Wow! was there a script for Verhoeven's MISTRESS OF THE SEA? Who wrote that? I'm sure it would've been amazing ...
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post #158 of 177
8/24/04 at 6:39pm
Yeah, I'm going to be an asshole and bring this thread back yet again for my own enjoyment.

I don't know what it is about this thread but I find all of it so damn intersting (and in some cases sad) at the same time.
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post #159 of 177
8/24/04 at 9:17pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Hein
Yeah, I'm going to be an asshole and bring this thread back yet again for my own enjoyment.

I don't know what it is about this thread but I find all of it so damn intersting (and in some cases sad) at the same time.
Good call. I'd forgotten all about this thread.

And I was just thinking the other day about one unrealised film in particular that I really would've loved to see. It isn't horror, but I remember reading, maybe in Total Film, about a Coen Bros. film that they were working on with Brad Pitt in mind to star. It was going to be a war movie about a US pilot shot down over Japanese enemy territory, and they wanted the whole film to be without a single line of dialogue.

Anyone else remember this one or did I imagine the whole thing?

Edit: Just Googled it. It was 'To The White Sea'. Looks like there was dialogue in the script, just very little.
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post #160 of 177
8/24/04 at 10:22pm
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Originally Posted by Quatermain
Good call. I'd forgotten all about this thread.

And I was just thinking the other day about one unrealised film in particular that I really would've loved to see. It isn't horror, but I remember reading, maybe in Total Film, about a Coen Bros. film that they were working on with Brad Pitt in mind to star. It was going to be a war movie about a US pilot shot down over Japanese enemy territory, and they wanted the whole film to be without a single line of dialogue.

Anyone else remember this one or did I imagine the whole thing?
That sounds pretty cool. I'd just question if Pitt is a strong enough actor to pull off a role like that though.

This one is unrealized for now, but the Coen's are working/worked on a Tarzan film. I think that could have been great.
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post #161 of 177
8/24/04 at 10:36pm
It's not horror (since I am so far ebhind on aborted movie projects...when the hell was David Lynch offered ROTJ?), but after the release of Lost In La Mancha, i was wondering how The Man Who Killed Don Quixote would have turned out.
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post #162 of 177
8/24/04 at 11:31pm
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Originally Posted by Quatermain
Good call. I'd forgotten all about this thread.

And I was just thinking the other day about one unrealised film in particular that I really would've loved to see. It isn't horror, but I remember reading, maybe in Total Film, about a Coen Bros. film that they were working on with Brad Pitt in mind to star. It was going to be a war movie about a US pilot shot down over Japanese enemy territory, and they wanted the whole film to be without a single line of dialogue.

Anyone else remember this one or did I imagine the whole thing?

Edit: Just Googled it. It was 'To The White Sea'. Looks like there was dialogue in the script, just very little.

Ah, TO THE WHITE SEA... the budget was $80 million, and they were thisclose to a greenlight when the whole thing fell through. Since then, they have done INTOLERABLE CRUELTY and THE LADYKILLERS, fueling speculation that this lost battle defeated the brothers creatively.
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post #163 of 177
8/24/04 at 11:58pm
Although it wasn't long ago this was mentioned, there's been no mention of Johnathan Mostow's SECONDS remake. I think that film would lend itself well to straight horror.


Also, Pedro Almodovar's bizarro, semi-horror-sounding pic TARANTULA. In it, Antonio Banderas was a scientist who captured his daughter's rapist, surgically altered him to become a woman to shame him, and then fell in love with his own creation.
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post #164 of 177
8/25/04 at 8:46am
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Originally Posted by cabal
I guess this is veering away from horror but my all time (wish it would have happened but it didn't) movie is "Dune" directed by Alexandro Jodorowsky (spelling?) with H.R.Giger doing the props and Salvador Dali playing one of the characters.
Maybe this has already been pointed out so sorry if I'm repeating, but this Dune project had to have the all-time greatest concentration of actual geniuses for one film:

*The totally twisted Jodorowsky, who makes David Lynch look like Ron Howard
*Dali, as his usual mad self, playing one the characters (but he was asking for like a million $ an hour)
*the bigger than life, bigger than the universe Orson Welles playing another
*H R Giger doing the props. No complaints there.
*Moebius as the conceptual artist. I personally think he is the greatest comic artist of all time, at least the most visionnary.
*Pink Floyd, back in their 70s heyday, doing the soundtrack.

Not bad, eh? No wonder this film never happened, with all those egos. But as far as fanboy dreams go, I don't think it can be topped.




**Edited to say sorry I've read the thread after posting the message, this has already been covered. But I'm leaving my message anyway as a tribute to possibly the most ambitious film project ever attempted **
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post #165 of 177
8/25/04 at 6:05pm
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Originally Posted by fabfunk
Ah, TO THE WHITE SEA... the budget was $80 million, and they were thisclose to a greenlight when the whole thing fell through. Since then, they have done INTOLERABLE CRUELTY and THE LADYKILLERS, fueling speculation that this lost battle defeated the brothers creatively.
I think they're still pretty damn creative. Did you see Intolerable Cruealty? It was billed as a romantic comedy, but it wasn't, or maybe it was, but the only romantic comedy in which a character shoots himself in the face by mixing up his gun and his aspirator.
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post #166 of 177
8/26/04 at 11:03pm
Come ont people.

Anyone else want to add one or two?
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post #167 of 177
8/27/04 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by El Topo
Maybe this has already been pointed out so sorry if I'm repeating, but this Dune project had to have the all-time greatest concentration of actual geniuses for one film:

(snip)
*H R Giger doing the props. No complaints there.
*Moebius as the conceptual artist. I personally think he is the greatest comic artist of all time, at least the most visionary.
Not only Moebius and Giger; Chris Foss and Ron Cobb were also attached. That's right, Jodorowsky put together the design team for Alien three years in advance. This great fan site, which details the history of the film (albeit en Francais), also has a gallery of the fantastic concept art.
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post #168 of 177
8/27/04 at 3:04pm
Sherlock Holmes v Dracula. I never read the script but I hear it was great. I think the guy who wrote it died last year too.
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post #169 of 177
8/27/04 at 5:20pm
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Originally Posted by Napoleon Rodriguez
Not only Moebius and Giger; Chris Foss and Ron Cobb were also attached. That's right, Jodorowsky put together the design team for Alien three years in advance. This great fan site, which details the history of the film (albeit en Francais), also has a gallery of the fantastic concept art.
Jesus, was Jodorowsky a visionary or what?

Cool link, thanks. I can never get enough of Moebius drawings
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post #170 of 177
6/16/05 at 3:13am
No way this is a bump to one old ass thread, right?
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post #171 of 177
6/16/05 at 12:52pm
where is The Inspector these days anyway? I miss that dude.
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post #172 of 177
6/16/05 at 5:33pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Hein
Come ont people.

Anyone else want to add one or two?

How about the Mike Myers-penned SPROCKETS movie? I remeber DIETER being set for release during the summer of 2001 with David Hasselhoff playing himself as the villain and Jack Black adding support. The script wasn't finished and apparently Myers flaked out when IMAGINE entertainment demanded the script be finished in time. I believe that cost Myers the role in THE GRINCH, but I may be wrong.

Anyway, what i read of the script was kinda weak (it's online somewhere), but it could have been something really really funny, as SPROCKETS is one of the most batshit crazy funny things in SNL history. Also, the script featured a spoof of WINGS OF DESIRE that was fall-on-the-floor funny.
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post #173 of 177
6/16/05 at 8:41pm
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Originally Posted by Disciple_72
where is The Inspector these days anyway? I miss that dude.

Whatever happened to The Hellboy too?
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post #174 of 177
6/16/05 at 11:13pm
Reading this i`m reminded of the John Landis American Werewolf follow-up(mentioned in the thread). A few weeks ago I was throwing a few old Fangos in the trash when I came across this article. What`s weird is that I don`t I think had ever read it before! What Landis describes is just amazing...it would have been pure joy to watch the sequel. Especially seeing David Naughton and Griffin Dunne talking and arguing in living dead mold. If there`s a few werewolf movies that gets made we never know, it could hopefully get greenlight.
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post #175 of 177
6/17/05 at 1:03am
Originally Dario Argento wanted Christoper Walken to play the lead role in Tenebrae.
But for some reason that didn´t happen.
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post #176 of 177
6/24/05 at 1:02am
John Carpenter's remake of "The Creature From the Black Lagoon."

The was supposed to come out sometime in the late 80's I think.
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post #177 of 177
6/25/05 at 6:32pm
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Originally Posted by Andrew Hein
No way this is a bump to one old ass thread, right?
No shit... I haven't posted here in years and then this topic notification arrives in my inbox.

FYI, most of the peeps who used to post here relocated to the Dread Central/Horror Channel forums when Ryan & Johnny transferred.

As for unrealized productions, I'm saddned by the stalling of George A. Romero's The Ill, if only because he was gonna shoot it over here in the UK and I was trying to get on the set as a PA or something.
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