# Favorite movie that never existed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567 "2003-01-23T23:51:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Omorka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Omorka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omorka)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/61 "2003-01-25T05:17:21Z")
Jittlov has pointed out that what was released was essentially a work print. (Life really imitated art on that one. The guy who played the evil producer really was an evil producer. See [http://home.usit.net/~f-shysa/wizard2.html](http://home.usit.net/~f-shysa/wizard2.html) for an abbreviated version of the story.) He’s mentioned on alt.fan.mike-jittlov that he would like to actually finish the film someday . . . ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/62 "2003-01-25T06:20:33Z")
Proctologists in Love: Someone Up There Likes Me (from tonight’s Whose Line is it Anyways?) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/63 "2003-01-25T07:27:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flymaster \* > \*\*Blimp: The Hindenburg Story, as referred to in Seinfeld. \*\* Huh. The _Hindenburg_ was a dirigible (a rigid, heavier than air vehicle), not a blimp (a balloon). ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/64 "2003-01-25T07:42:22Z")
Orson Welles’ first project when he was hired by RKO in 1939 was an adaptation of Conrad’s _Heart of Darkness_. It got as far as pre-production, leaving a script and some very intriguing production designs. Josef von Sternberg’s troubled 1937 screen production of Robert Graves’ _I, Claudius_, starring Charles Laughton and Merle Oberon, was abandoned during shooting after Oberon was injured in an auto accident. The existing footage formed the core of the 1965 BBC documentary \*The Epic That Never Was[/]. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/65 "2003-01-25T13:58:29Z")
Speaking of Welles, he did a version of one of Shakespeare’s plays with an all African-American cast that I would have loved to seen filmed. There was also a ballet during the Depression that had Dali doing the set design, that evidently totally unhinged the few folks who saw it, that I wish had been filmed. ---
**Author:** ![MemoryGongs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@MemoryGongs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemoryGongs)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/66 "2003-02-02T15:21:33Z")
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is a goldmine of movies like that. The main character is a director. such classics as The Night Wears A Sombrero, Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators, Kinds of Pain, The American-Century As Seen Through A Brick ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/67 "2003-02-02T16:27:47Z")
**Doctor Detroit II: The Wrath of Mom** **Moon Over Miami**. A movie about Abscam that would’ve starred Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, and Louis Malle directing. It died with Belushi. ---
**Author:** ![crawf54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e7dd6/32.png) [@crawf54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crawf54)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/68 "2004-01-03T10:42:37Z")
I would like for Dario Argento to complete the trilogy begun with **[Suspiria](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076786/)** and **[Inferno](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080923/)**. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/69 "2004-01-03T10:56:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by crawf54 \* > \*\*I would like for Dario Argento to complete the trilogy begun with > **[Suspiria](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076786/)** and **[Inferno](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080923/)**. \*\* Crap!!! That should have been me. Forgot to log out my friend, sorry, mods! (IANASP). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/70 "2004-01-03T11:08:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sqweels \* > \*\*Screw _Rochelle, Rochelle_, I wanna see _Sack Lunch_! 😃 \*\* Me too. I’ve gotta find out how they got in that sack! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/71 "2004-01-03T11:12:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Walloon \* > \*\*Huh. The _Hindenburg_ was a dirigible (a rigid, heavier than air vehicle), not a blimp (a balloon). \*\* Not quite. A dirigible is a steerable, lighter than air craft. Rigid dirigibles are also called Zeppelins–like _Hindenurg_. Non-rigid dirigibles are called blimps. Dr. Rieux, airship buff since 1976 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/72 "2004-01-03T11:12:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MemoryGongs \* > \*\*David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is a goldmine of movies like that. The main character is a director. > > such classics as The Night Wears A Sombrero, Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators, Kinds of Pain, The American-Century As Seen Through A Brick \*\* I hear **The Joke** is really good. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/73 "2004-01-03T11:18:05Z")
No doubt at all. Colin McKenzie’s _SALOME: A Tale of the Bible_. The subject of Peter Jackson’s [Forgotten Silver](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116344/) . ---
**Author:** ![Patr100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Patr100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patr100)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/74 "2004-01-03T12:35:23Z")
It’s got to be Orson Welles’ version of Batman. > **[CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news.](https://www.cbr.com)** > > Covering comics, movies, tv like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need! “George Raft signing up for Two-Face (after Bogart turned it down), James Cagney as The Riddler, Basil Rathbone as The Joker and Welles’ former lover Marlene Dietrich as a very exotic Catwoman with the same salubrious past Miller gave the character forty years later in “Batman: Year One.” Robin was completely absent from the picture, but the casting of Batman himself was the main reason the picture stalled and was consigned to the history books. Welles wanted to cast himself in the roles of both Batman and Bruce Wayne, but the studio wanted to go with a more traditional leading man like Gregory Peck.” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/75 "2004-01-03T15:46:37Z")
My favorite is **History of the world, part 2**. I really wanted to see Hitler on ice… OTOH, my least favorite is **the five minute hallway** (and whatever they call the longer movie) in “House of Leaves.” ---
**Author:** ![acrossthesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@acrossthesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acrossthesea)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/76 "2004-01-03T16:04:08Z")
Alex & Mikenut. The story of two turn of the 20th century dimwits and their slapstick adventures. Invented by me in a play and a bunch of short stories. I keep tweaking the screenplay to make it better. Someday, when I have lots of money, I will make sure it exists. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/77 "2004-01-03T17:05:23Z")
I wish Terry Gilliam could have finished his Don Quixote movie. Bad weather put them behind schedule, they ran out of time, and time is money. And is George Romero ever going to do his fourth Dead movie? Actually it would have been interesting to see _Day of the Dead_ shot to his original script. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/78 "2004-01-03T17:25:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > **Speaking of Welles, he did a version of one of Shakespeare’s plays with an all African-American cast that I would have loved to seen filmed.** It was a version of “Macbeth”. Only 4 or so minutes of it (the last scene in the play) survive, having been filmed for a WPA documentary. Based on that scene, I would have liked to see the rest of the film. ---
**Author:** ![Patr100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Patr100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patr100)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/79 "2004-01-03T18:03:20Z")
Welles also had a project for a Don Quixote film ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567/80 "2004-01-03T20:13:20Z")
_The List of 7_ by Mark Frost (cowriter of _Twin Peaks_). Young physician Arthur Conan Doyle becomes involved in a struggle against a mysterious group of occultists, assisting the brilliant Jack Sparks. Afterwards, his fictionalized accounts of the amazing Sparks begin his writing career. This is a wonderful, gripping story & a movie was actually planned. It’s apparently still a possibility but lacks financial backing. (The sequel, _The 6 Messiahs_ was a slight disappointment, but improved on re-reading; alas, the series has not continued.) _Homer’s Daughter_ starring Ingrid Bergman. She was interested in starring in this Robert Graves tale of the adventures of the woman who wrote the Odyssey. The project was discussed while she was in exile from Hollywood as a scarlet woman. Hollywood forgave her & the movie was never made. Of course, I’m among the multitude still awaiting the further adventures of Buckaroo Banzai & the Hong Kong Cavaliers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/150567.md?page=5)