Teaser Trailers for Films Unreleased or Never Finished

Those are kind of hard to find in the public domain. If you had access to, say, NATO Showest reels, there would be a lot more.

I remember a 1968 MGM and 1985 Paramount reel popping up on YouTube, but the MGM one's been taken down.

Here's a part of the Paramount one:

*Drools*

MORE! MOOOOORE I TELLS YA!

Not exactly unreleased but this *version* of the film was scrapped.

There was a teaser for a version of Where the Wild Things Are released back in 2000 before How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This version was subsequently cancelled. Never was able to find the teaser again.

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There was a teaser for a version of Where the Wild Things Are released back in 2000 before How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This version was subsequently cancelled. Never was able to find the teaser again.

I worked at a theater during that Christmas. If there was a Wild Things trailer, we never got it (never saw it with any Grinch showings).

Granted, it could have been similar to the first Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions trailer, where it played for just the first week of Episode II's run.

Looks like someone reuploaded that MGM reel from 1967. While there's plenty of quality stuff here (Point Blank! 2001!), a lot of never-made/long-gestating films are at the end.

Get ready for.... LIONPOWER!

not really trailers but Box Office magazine always had promotional ads for movies that never got made, I'll post a few.

All from a 1974 issue of Box Office from a Universal promo book.

This almost looks like an unmade precursor to Rolling Thunder

I'd watch a Bogdanovich helmed Bugsy from the 70's.

This looks awesome.

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This looks awesome.

Just for shits and giggles, I dug around on Google News and apparently this came real close to being produced - it was a post apocalyptic story set in the Pacific Northwest, and when the budget hit $7 million, Universal passed. Hal Barwood has called it 'the Road Warrior with trains.'

Great stuff! To think we could have had a "Spider Man" from the director of "The Prowler" and "Invasion USA" and "Friday the 13th IV" and "Missing In Action".

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The fact that Battleship exists and "Road Warrior with trains" does not is a depressing thought. From now on, every movie should be "Road Warrior with trains." Every. Single. Movie.

Didn't they pretty much half-assedly attempt this in BEYOND THUNDERDOME?

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Didn't they pretty much half-assedly attempt this in BEYOND THUNDERDOME?

Been awhile since I've seen it, but I believe so.

The recycled chase at the end of THUNDERDOME is the least of its sins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atq0xLARLz0&feature=related

This was on the Chaos Theory disk. Peter Berg was supposed to direct but apparently they couldn't crack just how to make it. Shouldn't of been too difficult but oh well.

Cannon Films always had a slew of print advertisements announcing films that never came to be (like the aforementioned Spider-Man). Tons from this website http://originalvidjunkie.blogspot.ca/search/label/The%20Never%20Got%20Made%20Files

A few standouts

Would this count?

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Cannon Films always had a slew of print advertisements announcing films that never came to be (like the aforementioned Spider-Man). Tons from this website http://originalvidjunkie.blogspot.ca/search/label/The%20Never%20Got%20Made%20Files

Thanks for plugging my "never got made" series.  I've been doing it for a few years and found some awesome stuff.  

In fact, I just updated it today with the story of SEA OF SIN (1993), a killer mermaid flick that started production but didn't finish it.  Check out the badass monster design below by artist Steve Fiorilla.  Anyone interested, please feel free to check it out.

http://originalvidjunkie.blogspot.com/2012/05/never-got-made-files-72-sea-of-sin.html

Also, regarding the original question of teaser trailers for films unreleased/never finished, George Pal did an extensive trailer for his WAR OF THE WORLDS series in the 1970s that never got off the ground.  You can find it online.

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Cannon Films always had a slew of print advertisements announcing films that never came to be (like the aforementioned Spider-Man). Tons from this website http://originalvidjunkie.blogspot.ca/search/label/The%20Never%20Got%20Made%20Files

 

A few standouts

 

 

 

A science fiction movie about time travel and other worlds based on an idea from the man who brought us The Manitou?  How the fuck do I emigrate to the alternate universe where this actually happened?  Also, I want to see Clearwater.  Like, right now.  Looks like it would make a great double bill with Zardoz.

Does this count?

Tobe Hooper was all "Dammit, Spielberg!  First Poltergeist, now A.I.?"

Some more from the Box Office archives:

This eventually became the Goodbye Girl but was originally going to star Robert De Niro and be directed by Mike Nichols.

This eventually was made 20 years later but imagine the alternate career trajectory if Lucas had made this after American Graffiti. 

I'd love to find out more information on this, looks interesting.