Favorite movie that never existed?

Mike’s Murder, the movie for Joe Jackson’s soundtrack.

Re: “Rochelle, Rochelle”. First the movie, which came out on video, and then the play.

Also back in 1991 I saw Tommy Chong at a comedy club, and he said, “me an’ Cheech are makin’ another move!”, but it’s probably just as well that never happened.

And I’m sure by now most of us are glad Ralph Bakshi never finished his version of Lord of the Rings.

I wasn’t.

As bad as Bakshi’s LotR was, the Rankin/Bass production of Return of the King was far, far worse. And it’s still the only production of RotK available!

Call me the ultimate consumer, but I wouldn’t object to seeing a Feelie ala Brave New World. People making love on a bearskin rug? Yes please!

In the Computer game ** The Longest Journey **, at one point, the main character goes in to a movie theater where another character is watching (alone) a movie called *Victory Hotel * that apparently doesn’t actually exist.

You only hear bits of the dialouge, but it sounded interesting and I’d have liked to have actually seen the film.

If you think that, I doubt you read the same version of the script that I did. It was awful. Alien 3 was no prize, but at least it was coherent.

Blue Harvest: Horror Beyond Your Imagination.

Props to whomever gets that one. :wink:

Hansard’s Guide to Refreshing Sleep. Dickens spoke highly of the books, and had v. 1-19 on his shelf. I await the movie.

The History of the World Part II by Mel Brooks. Part I kinda sucked, but the previews for part II at the end of Part I (including “Hitler on ice” and “jews in space”) looked kinda fun.

Seinfeld’s Prognosis Negative

Which actually wasn’t that good, despite all of the hype.

Neil Gaiman’s Sandman

Script here as written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio.

By the way, the Wordplay site from which this is taken contains 45 columns of How to Write a Screenplay direct from the above pros. Highly recommended

I could be wrong, but wasn’t that (or at least Blue Harvest) the code name for one or more of the Star Wars movies? (I’ve never wondered if that name had any real meaning, but now that I think about it, Luke was a moisture farmer, wasn’t he?)

Yeah, that’s what it was. Lucas used that as cover while shooting parts of Empire, IIRC.

Ya know, at the risk of slashdotting us again, I’d think that it’d be pretty cool to start a Return of the Jedi as done by David Lynch thread.

Correct Vorae and Tuckerfan. It was the cover for the Tatooine desert scenes they filmed in Yuma from Return of the Jedi.

Oh and my favorite movie never made? Harlan Ellison’s I, Robot.

Working title for Revenge of the Jedi

Thank you…thank you :slight_smile:

Blast, Max, check out page 2 before posting…

I want to see the completed version of Mike Jittlov’s Wizard of Speed and Time. If someone ever gives Jittlov a couple of million, it might yet happen.

Then I think you must have seen a different Alien 3 than I did.
No, strike that, Alien 3 never existed. The series ended beautifully with Aliens.

Omorka writes:

> I want to see the completed version of Mike Jittlov’s Wizard
> of Speed and Time. If someone ever gives Jittlov a couple of
> million, it might yet happen.

What are you talking about here? Jittlov made a short in 1979 called The Wizard of Speed and Time. He then made a full-length movie in 1989 also called The Wizard of Speed and Time (in which the plot is a fictionalized version of how he made the short). Why do you think there’s going to be something else?