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How long do you think it took for 2018 Netlix relase Other Side of the Wind to be made

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2002 British Zombie Movie (one of my absolute favorites) 28 Days Later shows multiple scenes of barren London streets. They achieved this by simply acting like traffic guards instead of getting actual city permission. With modern security and strictness, there are heavy limitations to what you can make today

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isn't your typical run-of-the-mill zombie movie. In fact, I think it's wrong to call it a 28 Days Later zombie movie even if the enemy can infect the film's heroes with a single drop of blood. Instead, it's a virus movie that feels eerily familiar to us now, 20 years later.

Some of the most famous shots in 28 Days Later are the scenes filmed in the empty London streets. Made on a tight budget of $8 million, the film did not have the resources to shut down huge areas of London or have the film on the best gear.

How did director Danny Boyle and his team shoot 28 Days Later, and why can't this formula be replicated in the modern era? Let's break it down.

Accessing the Empty Streets of a Busy City

Boyle knew that 28 Days Later would be a special film after reading the first 10 pages of Alex Garland's script. In an interview with NME, Boyle recounted his first impressions of the story, saying, "[Jim] wanders around London on his own and you just thought 'Oh my God!' What an amazing idea: a deserted London. It's actually come to haunt us [since COVID]. We complain how overcrowded [cities] are and about the stress, and then in an instant, life as we know it in many, many different forms can empty them."

Filming scenes on Westminster Bridge that are supposed to show a desolate London is an incredible challenge since the bridge is situated right in the center of the city and is one of the busiest areas due to its proximity to the House of Parliament and the South Bank.

Shot before the September 11 terrorist attack, the film crew was easily able to close off sections of streets for minutes at a time, usually early in the morning before sunrise on Sundays and 45 minutes after dawn, to shoot the location devoid of traffic and passers-by.
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"The central city security was almost unrecognizably relaxed compared to what you will understand as city center security now," Boyle said. "That changed with the millennia and we benefited from deciding to shoot those early mornings in July."

He adds, "We hired all these girls to be traffic marshals. One of them was my daughter who was 19 at the time and they'd say, 'Would you just mind waiting here? We're making a film...' It's just bizarre the way it worked."

The only time filmmakers would have been able to film on the empty city streets would be in the rare chance that a stay-at-home order gets placed during a worldwide pandemic. Fingers crossed that we don't experience another time like that again in our lives, so what's the solution to filming on location as they did in 28 Days Later?

Unfortunately, filming in most locations requires a city permit today. Without a permit, local authorities will shut down your production for the day and cause a major upset in your shooting schedule. It isn't that people want to stop you from filming. Instead, they want to make sure you have permission to do and are following the appropriate safety precautions for the shoot.

Of course, the But if you want to follow the rules and make sure that there is no way for your film to get sued, guerilla style of filming is still in use today in productions that don't have the budget, time, permits, expensive sets, or rented locations, a style that Boyle fully embraced for 28 Days Later. get that permit.
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Was it filmed on a Motorola Razr?

One aspect of that I adore is its visual language, which was enhanced by the 28 Days Later Canon XL 1 digital video (DV) camera. Yes, the Canon XL 1 has a very specific look that is out-of-place in the modern era of filmmaking, but the style is undeniably stripped back with its realistic texture.

The $500 camera is much smaller and easily maneuverable compared to traditional film cameras, allowing the cast to capture brief shots quickly during the short amount of time they filmed in busy locations. The Canon XL1 has a real resolution of 512x492 and a virtual resolution of 750x492. The image is just very low resolution, high contrast, and sharpened to hell, so there are halos around everything.

The Canon XL 1 allowed Boyle to capture wide sweeping shots as well as shaky movements that followed the brutality of the story.

However, this quality of the camera has been outshined by so many other affordable cameras that are easy to maneuver. The best camera to use on a shoestring budget is the one that is in your pocket.

I am a big fan of smartphone filmmaking. It allows young filmmakers to create a movie without needing expensive equipment that they can't invest in. The camera quality of most smartphones is far superior compared to the Canon XL1, using apps like FiLMiC Pro can mimic the effects of a traditional filmmaking camera, and can allow you to shoot anywhere at any time.
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While there are more challenges when it comes to filming in a busy world that is now extremely cautious about what is and isn't allowed to be filmed, we have so much great technology at our fingertips that is affordable and simple to work with.

28 Days Later was an indie horror that has been able to stand the test of time and can serve as inspiration for your next project. Boyle, Garland, and the entire cast and crew of the film show us that all you need to create a film that will live on forever in cinema is a tight script, inexpensive equipment, and a team that is willing to get the best shot every time the director yells "action."

What other films do you think couldn't be made today? Let us know in the comments!

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Two Reasons Why '28 Days Later' Could Never Be Made Today

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Could a film from 20 years ago be made today? The simple answer is no, and this is why!

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One of the most notorious movie flops, John Carter lost Disney an estimated 200 million and led to management changes

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Despite Disney having high expectations John Carter would be a hugely successful blockbuster, it lost the company so much money Disney fired its studio chief. Loosely based on the novel A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, known for Tarzan and other classic pieces of literature, it starred Taylor Kitsch as war-weary military captain John Carter, who finds himself transported to the Red Planet and falling in love with the heroine at the center of Burroughs' book. Princess Dejah's world is on the brink of collapse, and one human man becomes the deciding factor in an epic conflict between Mars' inhabitants.

Despite an exciting adventure story, dazzling visual effects, a strong cast, and the potential to launch a franchise that could have included the rest of John Carter 2 and 3's canceled story plans, the movie was a resounding disappointment. It needed to recoup at least double its Mars-sized production and marketing budget to turn a profit, but its box office failure ended up tarnishing Disney's reputation. Not only did it have to fire its studio chief, but it had to take a substantial write-off, which affected its earnings (and its creative output) for years to come.

John Carter's Box Office Failure Lost Disney $200 Million Dollars

John Carter remains Disney's most significant financial loss to date. With a production budget that initially ballooned to $306.6 million dollars, a British tax rebate was able to bring that number down to $263.7 million, but even so, that number didn't account for the $100 million dollars Disney spent on marketing alone. According to Box Office Mojo, John Carter ended its run with a domestic gross of about $73 million and an international gross of $211 million, which means it generated approximately $21 million dollars in profit which, when levied against the marketing budget, IP rights, and costs of distribution, meant a staggering loss of $200 million dollars for Disney.

After director Andrew Stanton's extensive habit of scrapping and reshooting footage created exorbitant production expenses, Disney thought it could throw more money at the problem. It blitzed advertisements in the weeks leading up to its release on television and in theaters, but the trailers only confused viewers rather than intrigued them. Audiences didn't quite know what to make of the film because John Carter lacked a focused marketing strategy, making it seem like a generic fantasy movie rather than the unique adventure it was.

The Consequences Of John Carter's Box Office Disaster

As a direct result of John Carter's underperformance, Disney's then studio chief Rich Ross resigned the same year, taking the fall for John Carter as well as several other over-budgeted box office bombs. Taylor Kitsch's career, which was supposed to catapult as high as John Carter could jump in Mars' atmosphere, never fully recovered. John Carter's canceled sequels would have meant new exciting stories as well as Disney toys, video games, books, and of course, theme park rides, but all of that completely disappeared.

John Carter had a budget to rival Avatar, but Avatar earned over $2 billion dollars at the worldwide box office after its run, and Disney's own sprawling space fantasy couldn't compete. It's hard to believe that at one time, the House of Mouse shied away from making blockbusters, but John Carter made the entire genre a risk for several years. Disney dropped the rights to "John Carter" in 2014, but with all the traction and financial success it's gaining from its live-action remakes, it would have been nice if the film had gotten a second chance to be better.

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After the epic sci-fi blockbuster John Carter bombed at the box office in 2012, it lost Disney so much money that it ended up firing its studio chief.

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As technology has expanded, so has the realm of possibilities for scriptwriters. Now you can design a stunning otherworldly universe for your movie to be set ... it just might cost you  a few hundred million dollars

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It is always crazy to see what movies almost got made. The Francis Ford Coppola version of On the Road is the one I would like to see most.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of abandoned and unfinished films.

Films may not be completed for several reasons, with some being shelved during different stages of the production. Some films have been shut down days into production. Other unfinished films have been shot in their entirety but have not completed post-production where the film is edited and sound and score added. This is different from unreleased films which are finished but have not yet been released and shown in theatres or released on DVD. In some instances these films cannot be shown due to legal reasons. Withdrawn films are similar except they did have brief showings but cannot be shown again, also usually for legal reasons.[citation needed ]

According to the Film Yearbook, "history has shown that the unfinished film is with few exceptions designed to remain that way." Exceptions do exist: these include Gulliver's Travels and The Jigsaw Man, both of which shut down when they ran out of funds but after a year or more found new financing and were able to finish shooting.[citation needed ]

Films that were abandoned during the pre-production stage before principal photography began, and significant preparations had been made such as a completed script, hiring of key cast and crew, scheduled start date for filming, and construction of sets.

Film

Year production was to begin

Director

Screenwriter

Producer

Cast

Notes

References

Brasil 1500 (U.S. title: Gonçalo)

1997-1999
Michael Cimino
Fábio Fonseca, David Newman

Ilya Salkind, Jane Chaplin, Cláudio Kahns

Antonio Banderas, Paul Scofield

This Brazilian-American co-production, budgeted at $35 million, intended to portray the events of April 21, 1500 in Santa Cruz de Cabrália, the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral's flagship in Brazil. Written by Fábio Fonseca, with revisions by David Newman, filming was initially set for early 1998, and then again in early 1999, for a planned release in 2000 coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil. The film was to be told through the eyes of a fictional character, (similarly to Titanic), Gonçalo, a Portuguese sailor from Cabral's fleet. Antonio Banderas considered to star, with a supporting cast composed largely of Brazilian natives. Locations included Porto Seguro, Portugal, and studios in Los Angeles. Director Michael Cimino claimed that an exact replica of Cabral's flagship had been constructed for the production.

Blest Souls
1987
Michael Cimino
Eoghan Harris, Robert Bolt, Michael Cimino

Barry Spikings, Michael Cimino, Joann Carelli

A Cold Case
2004
Mark Romanek
Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman

Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro

Mark Romanek's dream project was an adaptation of the procedural novel A Cold Case starring Tom Hanks as chief investigator Andy Rosenzweig. Robert De Niro also signed on for a role. The film was in the late stages of pre-production when it was suddenly pulled due to life rights issues with the novel. Subsequent revivals of the film would too be halted due to Hanks' commitment with other roles at the time. "I hope to make it someday and in a way," said Romanek. "It's a part for Tom Hanks that might be a lot more affecting when he's older."

The Dancer
1970
Tony Richardson Edward Albee Harry Saltzman
Producer Harry Saltzman canceled the project during pre-production several weeks before shooting was to begin. Saltzman claimed Albee's script was amateurish. Tony Richardson believes Saltzman used this as a pretext to avoid making the film. According to Richardson, Saltzman had overextended himself and did not have the funds to make the film. Saltzman eventually made the film in 1980 as Nijinsky, directed by Herbert Ross.

The Double
1996
Roman Polanski
Lili Fini Zanuck, Todd Black

Travolta reportedly stormed out of rehearsals thereby shutting down pre-production. Shooting to have begun in May 1996. Travolta was being paid US$17M. Robert Richardon was signed to photograph the film and Pierre Guffroy design the sets.

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Dune

1974-1976

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Michel Seydoux

Jodorowsky spent two years developing a film version of Frank Herbert's novel Dune. The project was abandoned in 1976. The attempt was the basis of the 2013 documentary Jodorowsky's Dune.

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The First Day (Russian: Первый День Pervyj Dyen)
1979
Andrei Tarkovsky
Based on a script by Andrei Konchalovsky
Goskino USSR
Natalya Bondarchuk and Anatoli Papanov

The film was set in 18th-century Russia during the reign of Tsar Peter the Great. As the film was critical of the USSR's state atheism, Tarkovsky submitted a different script to Goskino USSR than the one he actually filmed, with several extra scenes criticizing state atheism. After shooting about half of the film, this was discovered by censors and the project was halted by Goskino. Infuriated, Tarkovsky reportedly destroyed most of the footage he had shot.

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Flamingos Forever
Mid-to-late 1980s
John Waters
John Waters

John Waters for New Line Cinema

The unfilmed sequel to Pink Flamingos would have taken place 15 years after the events of the first movie. Troma Entertainment offered to finance the film at $600,000. However, the film was cancelled because Divine wanted to focus on more serious, male roles and Edith Massey died in 1984. Waters did not feel comfortable with Troma's post-editing facilities. The original screenplay can be found in his 1988 book "Trash Trio".

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Flora Plum

1999-2005

Jodie Foster

Steven Rogers

Jodie Foster, Barry Mendel

Foster planned to direct the romance film set among 1930s circus performers, and the start of filming was delayed after Crowe sustained a shoulder injury and left the project. McGregor replaced Crowe, but the project was abandoned in 2005.

The Freak
1966-1975
Charlie Chaplin Victoria Chaplin
The Freak was a dramatic comedy from Charles Chaplin. The story revolved around a young South American girl who unexpectedly sprouts a pair of wings. She is kidnapped and taken to London, where her captors cash in by passing her off as an angel. Later she escapes, only to be arrested because of her appearance. She is further dehumanized by standing trial to determine if she is human at all. Chaplin began work in and around 1969 with his daughter Victoria in mind for the lead role. However, Victoria's abrupt marriage and his advanced age proved roadblocks, and the film was never made.

Frenzy (a.k.a. Kaleidoscope)

c. 1967
Alfred Hitchcock Benn Levy
Alfred Hitchcock

Considerable test footage was shot. Not to be confused with Hitchcock's 1972 film Frenzy.

Gambit

2014-2019

Various

Josh Zetumer

Lauren Shuler Donner

Channing Tatum

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The Lawbreakers

1979 or 1980

David Lean

Robert Bolt (based on Richard Hough's novel Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian)

Phil Kellogg, Bernard Williams

David Lean and Robert Bolt began working on a script in October 1977, planning to adapt the source novel into two films; The Lawbreakers and The Long Arm. In November 1977, Dino De Laurentiis announced he would finance the project, and in December Paramount Pictures signed on to distribute. The intention was to shoot the film in Tahiti, where De Laurentiis had a large facility built. Producer Bernard Williams budgeted The Lawbreakers alone at $40 million, and De Laurentiis decided he could not afford to proceed. The first film's script was finished in November 1978, but Bolt later suffered from a heart attack followed by a stroke, leaving the second incomplete. Lean was ultimately forced to abandon the project after overseeing casting and the construction of the Bounty replica which cost $4 million. De Laurentiis did not want to lose the millions he had already invested, so he looked for a new director. Christopher Reeve stayed on as Fletcher Christian through the change in director, but he later dropped out at the last minute and was replaced by Mel Gibson. The film was release as one film The Bounty, in 1984.

The Long Arm

Leningrad: The 900 Days

Late 1980s

Sergio Leone

Based on Harrison Salisbury's non-fiction The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad

Sergio Leone

Robert De Niro

After Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone spent the remainder of his life preparing to produce and direct an epic war film set during the Siege of Leningrad with Robert De Niro playing an American journalist inside the city. Having raised $100 million in funding and discussed location filming with the Soviet government, Leone died of a heart attack before production could begin in earnest.

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The Micronauts
1975-1978

Don Sharp, Richard Loncraine and others

John Gay, Gordon Williams and others
Harry Saltzman
Adaptation of novel Cold War in a Country Garden. Some test and special effects footage was shot. Principal photography did not begin. No scenes with the leads were shot.

Midnight Rider

2013-2014

Randall Miller

Randall Miller, Jody Savin

Randall Miller, Jody Savin

William Hurt

Based on the life of musician Gregg Allman, the film was cancelled after camera assistant Sarah Jones was killed and seven others injured by a train while the production was filming a camera test on an active railroad trestle bridge.

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Napoleon
1968-1969
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
Jack Nicholson
Kubrick's film about Napoleon was well into preproduction and ready to begin filming in 1969 when MGM cancelled the project. Numerous reasons have been cited for the abandonment of the project, including its projected cost and a change of ownership at MGM.

Nostromo
1991
David Lean
David Lean, Maggie Unsworth (from the Joseph Conrad novel of the same name)
Serge Silberman
Georges Corraface, Marlon Brando, Paul Scofield, Peter O'Toole, Isabella Rossellini, Christopher Lambert, Dennis Quaid

During the last years of his life, David Lean was in pre-production of a film version of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo. Steven Spielberg was initially attached to produce the project, with the backing of Warner Bros., but after several rewrites and disagreements on the script, he left the project and was replaced by Serge Silberman. Several writers circled the project, including Christopher Hampton and Robert Bolt, but their work was abandoned. In the end, Lean decided to write the film himself with the assistance of Maggie Unsworth (wife of cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth). Originally Lean considered filming in Mexico but later decided to film in London and Madrid. Nostromo had a total budget of $46 million and was six weeks away from filming at the time of Lean's death. It has been rumored that fellow film director John Boorman would take over, but the production collapsed.

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Oil and Vinegar
Late 1980s
Howard Deutch John Hughes
Molly Ringwald, Matthew Broderick

After he finished writing the script for Pretty in Pink, Hughes wrote the script of a film titled Oil and Vinegar, which was to star Matthew Broderick and Molly Ringwald as a couple who "spend a day in a motel room, swapping stories on life and love". According to Broderick, "It was very intimate: it was just the two of them, basically, is my memory, often in a car. It was a very typical romantic comedy about two very different people who fell in love, but it was very inventive in its smallness." The film was to have been released by Universal Pictures, but Hughes objected when the studio asked for rewrites. Therefore, the creative differences between Hughes and Universal, along with Broderick and Ringwald's scheduling conflicts, are credited for why the film was never made.

On the Road
1979-1995
Francis Ford Coppola
Ethan Hawke, Brad Pitt

Francis Ford Coppola bought the screen rights to On the Road in 1979. Over the years, he hired several screenwriters to adapt the book into a film, including Michael Herr and Barry Gifford, only for Coppola to write his own draft with his son, Roman. In 1995, Coppola planned to shoot on black-and-white 16 mm film and held auditions with poet Allen Ginsberg in attendance but the project fell through.

Paradise Road
1986
Peter Bogdanovich
David Scott Milton, Peter Bogdanovich (from the novel of the same name)

Peter Bogdanovich

Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Charles Aznavour, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Sophia Loren, John Ritter

In the late '80s, Peter Bogdanovich almost led an all-star cast for a comedy-drama set in Las Vegas called Paradise Road about degenerate gamblers who lose their casino in a poker game. However, the film was not made, due to the meddling of Sinatra's lawyers, as claimed by Bogdanovich.

Perfect Strangers
1975
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino
David V. Picker
In 1975, Perfect Strangers entered the early stages of pre-production at Paramount Pictures with a cast composed of Roy Scheider, Romy Schneider and Oskar Werner, and Michael Cimino aboard to helm the film based on his original screenplay. The project was described as a political love story that bore "some resemblance to Casablanca, involving the romantic relationship of three people." Due to various political and internal difficulties at the studio, the film was not made.

Pinkville
2007-2010
Oliver Stone
Mikko Alanne

In August 2007, it was announced that Oliver Stone was going to make Pinkville, a dramatization about the Mỹ Lai massacre. The film was to have starred Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum and Woody Harrelson in the lead roles. However, on November that same year, the project was postponed by its distributor, United Artists, in the wake of the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike. In January 2008, it was announced that the project was officially cancelled. It was later reported in December 2010 that Stone had spoken with Shia LaBeouf about considering to revive Pinkville with the latter starring.

The Prometheus Crisis/Meltdown

1973-1997

John Dahl (1994)

Peter Bart and Max Palevsky (1970s)

Dolph Lundgren (1994)

Casper Van Dien (1997)

Originally planned as a disaster film about a meltdown at a newly built nuclear power station based on a novel by two of the authors responsible for The Towering Inferno for release by Paramount. John Carpenter's script, retitled Meltdown, was a straight horror film he described as "kind of Halloween in a nuclear power plant." Carpenter's script came close to production in 1994 with Dolph Lundgren starring, and again in 1997 with Casper Van Dien, but fell through both times.

Ronnie Rocket
1977-1987
David Lynch
David Lynch
Stuart Cornfeld
Dexter Fletcher (1980)
Michael J. Anderson (1987)

After releasing 1977's Eraserhead, David Lynch began work on the screenplay for Ronnie Rocket, also subtitled The Absurd Mystery of the Strange Forces of Existence. Lynch described the film as being "about electricity and a three-foot guy with red hair". He and his agent Marty Michaelson initially attempted to find financial backing for the project, but the studio they met with never got back in touch. Later, Lynch met film producer Stuart Cornfeld who was interested in producing Ronnie Rocket, but when the two realized the project was unlikely to find sufficient financing, Lynch asked to see some other scripts to work from for his next film instead. Lynch would return again to Ronnie Rocket after each of his films, intending it, at different stages, as the follow-up not only to Eraserhead or The Elephant Man but also Dune and Blue Velvet. Brad Dourif, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nance, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton, and Dean Stockwell have also been considered for roles in the film at various times. Lynch visited Northern England to scout a filming location, but found that the industrial cities he had hoped to use had become too modernized to fit his intended vision. The project suffered setbacks because of the bankruptcy of several potential backers.

Sea Trial
1981-1983
William Friedkin
Based on Frank De Felitta's novel

William Friedkin, Peter Guber, Jon Peters

Michael Nouri, Laura Branigan

Principal photography was announced to begin in the summer of 1983, though Fox ultimately cancelled the production.

The Short Night
1979 or 1980
Alfred Hitchcock
David Freeman from Ronald Kirkbride's novel

Alfred Hitchcock for Universal Studios

Project cancelled due to Hitchcock's advanced years and ill-health.

Silver & Black

2017-2018

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Lindsey Beer, Geneva Robertson-Dworet

Amy Pascal, Matt Tolmach

Based on the Marvel characters Silver Sable and Black Cat. Filming was delayed indefinitely before the planned start of production in March 2018 because Prince-Bythewood was not happy with the script. The film was cancelled in August 2018.

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The Streets of Laredo
1972
Peter Bogdanovich
Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

John Wayne, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Ryan O'Neal, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, The Clancy Brothers

After directing What's Up, Doc?, Peter Bogdanovich landed a three-picture deal at Warner Bros., the first of which was to be Western called The Streets of Laredo, set just after the Civil War. Bogdanovich envisioned the film as a "summation of the Western", assembling an all-star cast of iconic Western stars which included primarily John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Fonda accepted the role, as did Stewart, though reluctantly. Wayne, however, declined (under the urgence of director John Ford who was on his death bed at the time), believing the film to be too much of a coda to Westerns. Since the film was keyed off of those three actors, Bogdanovich decided not to move forward with it. McMurtry later bought the rights back and adapted their script into a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel which he called Lonesome Dove.

Superman Lives

1996-1998

Tim Burton

Jon Peters

Nicolas Cage

A film based on DC Comics superhero Superman was developed by Warner Bros. for two years, with Burton directing. Smith, Strick and Gilroy wrote scripts; Cage was hired to play Superman. Filming was scheduled to begin in early 1998 but was repeatedly pushed back. The studio had spent $30 million on the film by the time it was cancelled in 1998. The attempt was the basis of the documentary The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?

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Time Between Trains
2004
Todd Field
Scott Smith, Todd Field (based on Gene Smith's non-fiction American Gothic)

Time Between Trains was a Civil War-era biopic of the famed stage actor Edwin Booth, brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. The project had found its roots in American Gothic, a book by Gene Smith about the Booth family, optioned by DreamWorks Pictures for Field, with Scott Smith tapped to write the script. Field claimed he spent months doing his own research in the Theater Collection at Harvard's Pusey Library and was ultimately unwilling to compromise on the historical detail required to depict five major cities over a 50-year span, which would have put the budget in the $50 million to $80 million range. DreamWorks halted the project after executive Michael De Luca left the company.

The Trap
2014-2017
Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine

Charles-Marie Anthonioz

Jamie Foxx was initially cast to star, but was replaced by Idris Elba. Benicio del Toro landed a role in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which also delayed the production. Four weeks before shooting began, the financiers pulled out.

Warhead (a.k.a. James Bond of the Secret Service)

1976-1979[63]

Kevin McClory for Paramount Pictures

Sean Connery (reportedly being paid US$5M)[64]

Financing and legal troubles doomed the project. McClory eventually licensed his rights to Jack Schwartzman who made Never Say Never Again, which has an entirely different screenplay. McClory continued his attempts to produce versions of Warhead into the 2000s.

Winchell
1987 or 1988
Bob Fosse Michael Herr Robert Benton Robert De Niro
Fosse started to work on the biographical film based on the American newspaper gossip columnist Walter Winchell with Robert De Niro starring as Winchell. Before he could even start the picture, Fosse passed away.

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The Yellow Jersey
1973-1986

Michael Cimino (1975-1984)
Jerry Schatzberg (1986)

Gary Mehlman, Carl Foreman

Dustin Hoffman (1983-1986)
Christopher Lambert (1986)

The rights to Ralph Hurne's novel The Yellow Jersey were optioned in 1973 by producer Gary Mehlman, who then made a development deal with Columbia Pictures. The novel, set during the Tour de France, followed an aging professional cyclist who nearly wins the race. By 1975, Mehlman broad aboard Michael Cimino to direct the film. Over the next several years, the film generated expenses of nearly $2 million, and was in development with four studios and several independent production companies. Shooting during the Tour was initially scheduled for 1980, even though the film had no star. In 1983, when Dustin Hoffman indicated an interest in starring in it, production was imminent for 1984. However, Hoffman fired Cimino due to his uncompromising way of working. Hoffman too left the project, unsatisfied with the other replacements. Jerry Schatzberg was then brought aboard to direct, but no other actors accepted the lead role.

Films that were abandoned after principal photography had commenced, or in the case of animated films, after animation had begun.

Year of production

Film

Director

Screenwriter

Producer

Cast

Notes

Ref

1922

Number 13 (a.k.a. Mrs. Peabody)
Alfred Hitchcock
Anita Ross

Alfred Hitchcock for Gainsborough Pictures

Clare Greet, Ernest Thesiger

Production stopped when funding ran out.

1931

Creation

Willis H. O'Brien

Story by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Merian C. Cooper, David O. Selznick

Ralf Harolde

1935-1937
Bezhin Meadow Sergei Eisenstein
Isaak Babel, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Aleksandr Rzheshevsky, based on a story by Ivan Turgenev

V. Ya. Babitsky

Vitya Kartashov, Nikolai Khmelyov, Pavel Ardzhanov, Yekaterina Teleshova, Erast Garin, Nikolai Maslov, Boris Zakhava

1937
I, Claudius Josef von Sternberg Alexander Korda
Production was dogged by ill-luck. A car accident involving Oberon caused filming to be abandoned.

1942

It's All True

Orson Welles

Orson Welles, John Fante, Norman Foster, Robert Meltzer

Orson Welles

Ensemble

RKO cancelled the project after Welles had filmed for over five months. The project was the basis of the documentary It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles.

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1967
Monsieur LeCoq Seth Holt
Ian McLellan Hunter, Zero Mostel
Adrian Scott
Officially abandoned due to "poor weather conditions"

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1962

Something's Got to Give

George Cukor

Nunnally Johnson, Walter Bernstein

Henry T. Weinstein

Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin

The film had shot for over a month when Monroe was fired, but she was later rehired but died before filming could resume.

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1971
A Glimpse of Tiger Anthony Harvey
Jack Brodsky, Elliott Gould

Elliott Gould, Kim Darby

Based on Herman Raucher's novel of the same title. Warner Brothers shut down the film being shot in New York City on Friday 6 March 1971.

1972
Game of Death Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee died during filming. Several years later, a new story was crafted around the existing footage with other actors standing in for Lee.

1974-1975
Jackpot Terence Young Millard Kaufman
William D. Alexander for Paramount Pictures

Robert Mitchum was originally signed to co-star. Audrey Hepburn declined an offer to co-star. Burton played Reid Lawerence, an actor "paralysed by a falling lift." A media report claims that Burton would play an academy award-winning actor down on his luck who suddenly wins another academy award. The film was to be shot in Rome and Nice.[76] Another media report claims that the story was about "a famous actor" who "fakes a grave illness" to collect insurance money.[77] An article claims that "insurance swindle thriller" stalled due to a lack of funds.[78] Terence Young claimed that he could have finished the film if he could have gotten the three stars together for one more week.

1975
Bogart Slept Here Mike Nichols Neil Simon Howard W. Koch
Robert De Niro, Marsha Mason

Production shut down after a week of filming, when Nichols realized that De Niro was unable to adjust his intense Method style of acting to Neil Simon's precise dialogue. Simon reconceived the story, which was filmed two years later as The Goodbye Girl.

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1975
The New Spartans Jack Starrett
Oliver Reed (as a Colonel), Susan George

Production shut down after nine days of filming.

1975

Closed-Up Tight (a.k.a. Fermeture Annuelle)
Cliff Owen
Probably Peter Welbeck (a.k.a. Harry Alan Towers)[citation needed ]

Harry Alan Towers for Barongreen and Canafox Films (Montreal).

Production began in August 1975. Filmed for two weeks. A British-French-Canadian co-production. Rémy Julienne was stunt co-ordinator.

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1975
Trick or Treat Michael Apted
based on Ray Connolly's novel

Bianca Jagger, Jan Smithers

Shot in Rome and about forty minutes of usable footage was shot before the shoot was cancelled.

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1972-1976
Vileness Fats
Graeme Whifler & The Residents

The Residents

The Residents

Jay Clem, George Ewart, Marge Howard, Sally Lewis, Hugo Olson, Margaret Smik & Danny Williams

From 1972 to 1976 multi-media group The Residents worked on a film called Vileness Fats. It was to be 'The Ultimate Underground film' and was teased in a number of their musical releases from that period, however in 1976 the project was unexpectedly abandoned by the group. In 1984 a short cut of scenes from the film was released on VHS as " Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?"

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1977

Who Killed Bambi?

Russ Meyer, then Jonathan Kaplan

Roger Ebert and Malcolm McLaren

The Sex Pistols

Marianne Faithfull

Intended partly as a vehicle to bring the Sex Pistols to American attention, Russ Meyer was three days into principal photography in October 1977 when production studio 20th Century Fox withdrew, dooming the project.

1985
The Two Jakes Robert Towne
Robert Towne

Robert Evans for Paramount Pictures

Jack Nicholson, Robert Evans, Kelly McGillis

1988
Atuk Alan Metter
Tod Carroll

Based on Mordecai Richler's 1963 novel The Incomparable Atuk. Apparently one scene was shot before Kinison demanded re-writes and the production was shut down.[citation needed ]

1989

Gone in 60 Seconds 2

H. B. Halicki

H. B. Halicki

H. B. Halicki

H. B. Halicki, Denice Shakarian

Halicki began filming the sequel to his 1974 film Gone in 60 Seconds during the summer of 1989 but was killed while filming a stunt on August 20, 1989, and the film was never completed.

1990
Arrive Alive Jeremiah S. Chechik
Michael O'Donoghue, Mitch Glazer

Art Linson for Paramount Pictures

Willem Dafoe, Joan Cusack

Cancelled by Paramount executives after they watched the first few days of dailies.

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1991
Dylan David Drury
Jonathan Brett

Patrick Dromgoole

Gary Oldman, Uma Thurman

A biography of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, the film was shut down after nine days of shooting when Oldman "collapsed on the set," suffering from "nervous exhaustion."

1991-1997

Dimension

Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier and Niels Vørsel

Peter Aalbæk Jensen

In 1990, it was originally intended to produce only in three and four-minute segments every year for a period of 33 years for a final release in 2024, but Trier lost his enthusiasm for the project due to his struggle in recent works, notably the "Golden Heart" trilogy (consisting of Breaking the Waves, Idioterne, and Dancer in the Dark). In 2010, the filmmaker decided to complete all of the unfinished footage into a short film at the time as the rest of the film's development was abandoned. The short film was released on August 25, 2010.

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1992

Mouche

Marcel Carné

based on Guy de Maupassant's short story

Jacques Quintard

Provisionally entitled L'Amour de vivre, financing was withdrawn after only ten days of shooting when the director fell ill. Carné's attempt to "bring Impressionist painting to life" failed twice, in the '80s and '90s.

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1992

Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor

Jim Markovic

Tom Clohessy

Krishna Shah

Carrie Chambers, Victor Campos, John Lodico

Principal photography commenced in 1992 in upstate New York before being abandoned when the film's production company, Double Helix Films went bankrupt. The film was intended to go into production again in 2004. However, the surviving footage, which runs at a mere 34 minutes, was made available for the first time when released via the original Region 1 DVD trilogy boxset, now out-of-print. Production was never officially completed, but select clips from the first three Sleepaway Camp films were edited together with the footage of The Survivor as "flashback" sequences, and it was released in 2012 as a stand-alone set.

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1993

Dark Blood

George Sluizer

Jim Barton

Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar

Phoenix died during production, after approximately 80% of the film had been shot. In 2012, a cut of the film was screened at several film festivals with director Sluizer providing narration for the scenes that were not shot.

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1997
Broadway Brawler Lee Grant
unknown
Joseph Feury
A sport-themed romantic comedy about a washed up ice-hockey player. Production was halted after 20 days of principal photography due to an acrimonious relationship between Bruce Willis and director Lee Grant and other crew. The financial loss incurred by the production's implosion obliged Willis to take on three roles at reduced salary for the production company: Armageddon, The Sixth Sense, and Disney's The Kid.

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1999
Fight Harm Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine

The premise of the film was to verbally provoke passers-by into a fight. The rules were that Korine couldn't throw the first punch and the person confronted had to be bigger than Korine. To him, Fight Harm was high-comedy reminiscent of Buster Keaton. "I wanted to push humor to extreme limits to demonstrate that there's a tragic component in everything." Filmed in New York, the project was abandoned following the injuries and arrests Korine faced while shooting.

1999-2000

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Terry Gilliam

Jean Rochefort, Johnny Depp

During the first week of shooting, the actor playing Don Quixote ( Jean Rochefort) suffered a herniated disc, and a flood severely damaged the set. The film was cancelled, resulting in an insurance claim of US$15 million. The production of the film was the basis of the 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha, and Gilliam ultimately completed the film nearly two decades later, as 2018's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

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2001
Lily and the Secret Planting Hettie Macdonald Lucinda Coxon Sarah Radclyffe
Winona Ryder, Gael Garcia Bernal

Shut down after four days when Winona Ryder was taken to the hospital with "a gastric infection." Kate Winslet was announced as her replacement, but the film was never restarted.

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2006
Revenge of the Nerds Kyle Newman
Adam Brody, Dan Byrd, Katie Cassidy, Kristin Cavallari, Jenna Dewan, Chris Marquette, Ryan Pinkston, Efren Ramirez, and Nick Zano

A remake of the first film in the 1980s comedy series was canceled after two weeks of shooting, when Emory University officials read the script and revoked the permission they had given to film; studio executives were disappointed in the dailies.

2009-2011
Yellow Submarine Robert Zemeckis
The CGI remake of the 1968 animated Beatles classic film was cancelled following the closure of ImageMovers Digital and the poor box-office results of that studio's last film Mars Needs Moms. Zemeckis considered shopping the remake around to other studios, before he himself gave up on the project.

2012-2014
10 Things I Hate About Life Gil Junger
Jeannette Issa, Gil Junger and Tim McGrath

Andrew Lazar, Tim McGrath and Gary Smith

Production began on the romantic comedy film in 2012. Despite a similar title to popular teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You, also directed by Junger, the films share no continuity. A third of the film had been shot when it was shut down after Smith abruptly resigned as head of the production company and Wood became pregnant. She returned briefly for an attempt to resume in late 2013, but left soon afterwards, claiming the producers had not raised enough money to pay her for the work she'd already done. A lawsuit against her by the studio remains unresolved and the film as begun will never be finished.

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2015

Wake

John Pogue

Christopher Borrelli

Production on the film shut down after a week of filming due to financial problems. Willis and Pogue left the project due to financial and schedule issues.

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2018

Nicole & O.J.

Joshua Newton

Joshua Newton

Boris Kodjoe, Charlotte Kirk

Based on the relationship of O. J. Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson, filming began in 2018 but was never completed.

Films that completed principal photography, or in the case of animated films, after most animation had been completed, but were abandoned during the post-production phase or were completed and never released.

Year of production

Film

Director

Screenwriter

Producer

Cast

Notes

Ref

1926

A Woman of the Sea

Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

The film was completed, and given a preview screening, but Chaplin was unsatisfied with it and destroyed all known copies in front of witnesses as a tax write-off in 1933.

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1927
The American J. Stuart Blackton Marian Constance Blackton George K. Spoor
Bessie Love, Charles Ray

Upon viewing the film, which had been made using the experimental Natural Vision process, producer Spoor decided the production was so bad that he would not release it.

1966-1969

The Deep

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Jeanne Moreau, Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles

Welles filmed The Deep, an adaptation of the novel Dead Calm, but abandoned the film. A rough edit was assembled by the Munich Film Archive and screened in 2015.

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1972

The Day the Clown Cried

Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis

Nat Wachsberger

Jerry Lewis

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1992-1993

The Fantastic Four

Oley Sassone

Craig J. Nevius, Kevin Rock

Steven Rabiner

Alex Hyde-White, Jay Underwood, Rebecca Staab, Michael Bailey Smith, Carl Ciarfalio, Ian Trigger, Joseph Culp, Kat Green, George Gaynes

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2004

Big Bug Man

Bob Bendetson, Peter Shin

Bob Bendetson

The animated film was planned for release between 2006 and 2008. It was Brando's final performance before his death in July 2004.

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2007

Hippie Hippie Shake

Beeban Kidron

Lee Hall

Tim Bevan

Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller

Based on the memoir of the same name by Richard Neville, the film was shot in 2007 and a rough cut was test screened, but director Kidron left the project during post-production and the film was never released.

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2008

Queen of Media

Furqaan Clover

Kimba Henriques, Furqaan Clover

Richard Miller

Robin Givens, Oliver "Power" Grant

Based on Wendy Williams' biography Wendy's Got the Heat, the film was shot in 2008 with a $3 million budget, but was never released.

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2008-2009

Black Water Transit

Tony Kaye

Matthew Chapman

Laurence Fishburne, Karl Urban

Budgeted at $23 million, the film was shot in 2008 and a rough cut was screened, but it was never completed due to financial and legal disputes.

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2010

Prankstar

Tom Green

Tom Green

Katy Wallin

Tom Green

The mockumentary written by, directed by, and starring Tom Green was completed in 2010 and announced for release later than year, but never materialized.

2012

Killing Winston Jones

Joel David Moore

Justin Trevor Winters

Albert Sandoval, Daemon Hillin, Tom Somerset, Peter Winther

The dark comedy was shot in late 2012 and was originally scheduled to be released in theaters in 2014. However, no release was announced and the studio has not made any statements about the film since 2014. The release was reportedly cancelled due to the rape allegations and criminal trial against Danny Masterson, who plays a prominent role.

2015

The Long Home

James Franco

Vince Jolivett, Steve Janas

James Franco, Vince Jolivett, Jay Davis

James Franco, Josh Hutcherson, Tim Blake Nelson, Courtney Love, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Ashton Kutcher, Josh Hartnett

Filmed in 2015 and planned for release in 2017, it has yet to be released in any format as of 2023.

2016

All-Star Weekend

Jamie Foxx

Donald Caldwell Jr., Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx, Deon Taylor

Jamie Foxx, Jeremy Piven, Jessica Szohr, Eva Longoria, Robert Downey Jr., Ken Jeong, Gerard Butler, Benicio del Toro

The directorial debut of Jamie Foxx, the film was scheduled for release in 2018. In August 2022, Foxx confirmed the film will not be released, due to it "trying to break open the sensitive corners with Robert Downey Jr. playing a Mexican man".

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2016

El Señor de la Sierra

Alejandro Irias

Alejandro Irias

Jefferson Sierra

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2016-2017

Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon

Ben Palmer

Neil Forsyth

The film, based on an urban legend of Michael Jackson, Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor embarking on a road trip to Ohio following the September 11 attacks, was shot in 2016. It was later announced that the film would be repackaged as an episode of the British TV series Urban Myths, but never aired due to controversy surrounding white actor Fiennes playing Jackson.

2017
Gore Michael Hoffman Andy Paterson
Michael Hoffman and Jay Parini

Based on Jay Parini's biography of Gore Vidal, Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal, the film was in post-production when Netflix decided to cancel it following the sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey.

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2020

Kukuriraige: Sanxingdui Fantasy

Fumikazu Satou

Huang Jun

Marie Miyake

A Japanese/Chinese animated co-production, the film was originally intended to be released on February 27, 2020 alongside the short film Jewelpet Attack Travel!, but was postponed indefinitely due to production issues. As of 2022, there are no plans to release the film at any point in the foreseeable future.

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2022

Batgirl

Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah

Christina Hodson

Kristin Burr

The film was originally intended to be released on streaming platform HBO Max, with discussions internally about potentially giving the film a theatrical release, especially with the film's estimated $90 million budget. The film was in post-production and had been test screened when Warner Bros. Discovery decided to shelve the film, stating that it would not be released in theaters nor on streaming platforms and saying that the film "simply did not work" and went against the new desire and mandate from CEO David Zaslav to make DC films "big theatrical event films".

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2022

Scoob! Holiday Haunt

Bill Haller, Michael Kurinsky

Tony Cervone, Paul Dini

Frank Welker

A prequel to 2020's Scoob!, the film was in late stages of post-production and scheduled for a December 2022 release on HBO Max when Warner Bros. Discovery cancelled its release.

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The most expensive films with information available from reliable sources regarding how much money had been spent on the film when it was abandoned.

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3. ^ Waters, John (October 1988). Trash Trio. New York: Random House, Inc. pp. xi-xii. ISBN 9780394759869.

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9. ^ "Bruce Willis to Star in Oliver Stone's Pinkville". MovieWeb. August 28, 2007. Archived from the original on November 17, 2019.

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13. "'The Prometheus Crisis' to go into production", ^ The Greeley Daily Tribune, 28 December 1973, p. 19.

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19. ^ Bing, Jonathan (July 29, 2003). "D'Works goes 'Gothic'". Variety.

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22. ^ Film Bulletin, Volumes 47-48, 1978, page xxvii claims "aim is a spring '79 start"

23. ^ "New York". Newyorkmetro.com. New York Magazine Company. 11: 9. 1978. ISSN 0028-7369. LCCN 76012785.

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25. ^ Matthews, Jack (September 19, 1986). "THE 12-YEAR CYCLE TO GREEN-LIGHT 'THE YELLOW JERSEY'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 16, 2023.

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30. Kit, Borys. ^ Disney torpedoes Zemeckis' "Yellow Submarine" The Hollywood Reporter (14 March 2011).

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34. United States ^ Gross Domestic Product deflator figures follow the Measuring Worth series.

35. ^ Garcia, Thania (2022-08-07). "'Scoob!: Holiday Haunt' Producer Reveals Score Being Recorded After Film's Axing: 'Already Paid for the Stage and Musicians'". Variety.

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Toggle the table of contents From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of abandoned and unfinished films. Films may not be completed for several reasons, with some being shelved during different stages of the production. Some films have been shut down days into production.