# Favorite movie that never existed? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936 "2003-09-26T10:00:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/41 "2003-09-27T06:16:20Z")
I kinda liked that movie Kevin was watching in “Home Alone”, Angels with Dirty Sneakers if I recall correctly. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/42 "2003-09-27T06:17:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > \*\*In _Adaptation_, Donald Kaufman writes a script for a movie called _The Three_. > > (or maybe that movie DOES exist?) 😉 \*\* Go rent **Identity**. That’s pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/43 "2003-09-27T08:12:46Z")
Fox Force Five, mentioned in Pulp Fiction (although I suspect the recent Charlie’s Angels and Tarantino’s own upcoming Kill Bill are sorta close.) A Starman movie, adapting the James Robinson/Tony Harris comic book story arc “Sins of the Father” from Starman #0-5, starring John Cusack as Jack Knight, Paul Newman as Ted Knight, and Johnny Depp as The Shade. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/44 "2003-09-27T09:42:02Z")
History of the World, Part **2**! The Austin Powers ripoff with Tom Cruise and Kevin Spacey. I also would like to see Chubby Rain (from Bowfinger). “That’s what you get for not hailing to the chimp!” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/45 "2003-09-27T09:57:09Z")
I wish people would stop nominating things that exist. Grousser, there _is_ a Fantastic Four movie; Roger Corman was involved. It was never released, but copies are floating around. Hometownboy, the Starship Troopers you want is commercially available as the animated series. It maybe doesn’t have the Skinnies, but it does have the powersuits that were dropped from the movie due to cost. Ludovic, you’re just an idiot for nominating a movie that’s being completed as we speak and therefore most definitely exists- and that’s not even mentioning the animated RotK (a wise move IMHO). My favourite movie that never existed? Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/46 "2003-09-27T10:13:10Z")
**The Forever War** ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/47 "2003-09-27T10:42:23Z")
The “killing spree ending” of It’s A Wonderful Life. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/48 "2003-09-27T10:56:52Z")
One more for “Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.” I’m always a little sad at the end of “Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension” that this sequel was never to be. Also, Ramsey Campbell’s horror novel, _Ancient Images_, involves a search for a missing film starring Bela Lugusi and Boris Karloff titled “Tower of Fear.” It sounds like a pretty good 1930’s horror film, kind of James Whalish, and I’d love to see it despite the hideous curse upon it. ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/49 "2003-09-27T13:26:56Z")
**[Roger Rabbit II: Toon Platoon](http://www.filmbuffonline.com/ToonPlatoonReview.htm)** (despite the number, I have heard that this was supposed to be a prequel.) The original, 1911 silent version of [**The Posiedon Adventure.**](http://snopes.com/lost/poseidon.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/50 "2003-09-27T14:00:43Z")
There’s a couple of movies that DID get made that I would like to have seen made DIFFERENTLY. “Velvet” was an 80s TV movie, clearly a pilot for a series. It was about a trio of hot female secret agents whose cover was that of aerobics instructors working out of a chain of aerobics studios called “Velvet” that was actually a cover for the secret agency. I would like to see it remade except this time the aerobics studios are cover for a white slavery ring. In the original movie, there’s a really cool design aspect to the studios – a central office that looks out on all the exercise rooms through one-way glass so you can see the agents leading their sexy classmates in their spandex. I wouldn’t change a thing, I’d just have the white slavers watching the classes and saying – “That one seems to be coming along nicely – veeeeery flexible. Let’s take her!” Next scene, she’s tied up in the room with the white slavers helplessly watching her former classmates work out through the one way glass. Coulda been a very wicked little movie. Did I mention the original was by Aaron Spelling? ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/51 "2003-09-27T15:13:04Z")
It is sad to note that all the works of famed actress GINGER GRANT do not get any play. Her promising career was cut short by her disappearance for twenty years on the ill-fated S.S. Minnow. The world needs more films like BELLY DANCERS FROM BALI BALI. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/52 "2003-09-27T15:24:42Z")
I would like to see the movie they were filming in “Stuntman”. Also, any number of student films I shot but were never finished. Pee Wee’s movie from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. (with Morgan Fairchild) ---
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/53 "2003-09-27T18:35:46Z")
Some movies that never were:[ul][li]An Orson Well’s directed [Batman](http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=thecolumn) would have been interesting.[/li][li]Harlan Ellison’s script for **I Robot** would have made a cool movie.[/li]I hope that **Good Omens** directed by Terry Gilliam will be made one day; it sounds like a cool project…[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/54 "2003-09-27T18:44:41Z")
Oh, one more a Terry Gilliam version of **The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy** : > [@](#): > > The idea for a movie version of Douglas Adams’ collection of books has been mooted for many years. Says Gilliam, “I know Douglas and this sort of comes and goes occasionally, but it’s never gotten anything more than saying, ‘It’s an interesting idea, but…’ We’ve never worked out a script or anything.” > [Terry Gilliam's Unresolved Projects](http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/tgprojct.htm) It could have been great, however I don’t think I want to see a Hitchhiker’s Movie made now that Douglas is gone… ☹ Hollywood would probably screw it up anyway… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/55 "2003-09-27T19:02:36Z")
**Trio** starring Whoopee Goldberg, Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan (and directed, of course, by Alan Smithee). **Tunguska** , as described in Douglas Coupland’s book _Miss Wyoming_. The plot involves an orgasm that destroys Siberia – hey, what’s not to like about that? Terry Gilliam was making a **Good Omens** movie? What happened? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/56 "2003-09-27T21:20:28Z")
[The Monster](http://www.topthat.net/webrock/faq/faq6.htm), which was apparently the only flick a certain Bedrock theater ever showed. Any of the cinematic projects mentioned on [this page](http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/mad/fam_paul.html), particularly _Buchman_ and _Tunnel of Hate_. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/57 "2003-09-27T23:57:55Z")
Actually, **RealityChuck** , that would be _The Dancing Cavalier_. (Just another _Singing in the Rain_ fan.) ---
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/58 "2003-09-28T01:29:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gyrate \*Terry Gilliam was making a **Good Omens** movie? What happened? you can read about it at: [http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams](http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams) > [@](#): > > _According to Neil Gaiman:_ > The script is good, the cast seem committed, and the producers have the foreign financing in place. What they need is a US studio to commit some money (I think it’s about $15 million) to the project, and no US studio seems ready to take the plunge yet. My attitude on all Hollywood things is not to expect any of them to happen until I’m sitting at the premiere eating my popcorn. Worrying about the ups and downs of getting a film made could drive anyone to drink. Sounds as if the movie at least has a chance of being made within our lifetimes. Hopefully, if Gilliam’s next movie, **The Brothers Grimm** does well they might be able to get financing for **Good Omens**. ---
**Author:** ![kka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@kka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kka)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/59 "2003-09-28T02:57:55Z")
I hate to admit this, but there were two videos shot to look like they were cut from movies. I always thought they had potential. Janie’s got a gun - Aerosmith (molested teenage girl, mother looks the other way, daughter cracks and kills dad, and “runs away from the pain”) Into the great wide open - Tom Petty (Johnny Depp as a singer new to LA, managed by Faye Dunaway - burns out) ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936/60 "2003-09-28T19:09:19Z")
Another Welles movie: **Don Quixote**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movie-that-never-existed/203936.md?page=4)