# Good movie concepts that got trapped in Production Hell **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199 "2006-05-18T00:37:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199/41 "2006-05-18T19:02:37Z")
Two words: Wonder. Woman. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199/42 "2006-05-18T19:46:13Z")
[QUOTE=brianjedi] Not even. Sony wouldn’t consider making it because the proposed budget was almost $100 million (which it would make back easily,) and Bill Murray didn’t want to do it. Dan Aykroyd ended up closing his office on the Sony/Columbia lot, which he’d had for close to 20 years. [/QUOTE] I had once heard that Murray was willing to do it IF he was killed off early in the movie and spent the rest of the time as a ghost. I for one would like them to do GB3 but use the original premise that Ackroyd and Belushi had- in the future ghosts are common pests and the Ghostbusters are as common as the Orkin man…then a really big supernatural threat pops up ---
**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:** [May 18, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199/43 "2006-05-18T20:09:06Z")
Mark Frost’s “The List of Seven” was apparently “sold” to Universal, but nothing came of it. This ripping yarn tells of young Dr Conan Doyle’s encounters with eldritch creatures & fiendish plots. And of the mysterious, brilliant detective who impressed him so greatly. Going 'way back: Ingrid Bergman wanted to play the lead in “Homer’s Daughter” by Robert Graves. This was while she was exiled from Hollywood for “immorality”–becoming pregnant out of wedlock! Hollywood forgave her & the movie was never made. (The movie of “I Claudius” was never made, either. But the BBC eventually acquired the rights & did well by it.) ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199/44 "2006-05-18T20:21:22Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] I had once heard that Murray was willing to do it IF he was killed off early in the movie and spent the rest of the time as a ghost. I for one would like them to do GB3 but use the original premise that Ackroyd and Belushi had- in the future ghosts are common pests and the Ghostbusters are as common as the Orkin man…then a really big supernatural threat pops up [/QUOTE] I read something about a possible GB3 the other day at Rotten Tomatoes. It sounded like Ackroyd was still on board, but the only other name I remember mentioned was Ben Stiller. ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199/45 "2006-05-18T20:25:42Z")
Oh yeah, Rick Moranis too… Here’s the link dug out of my history: [Ghost Busters 3 Comes Back to Life… Again](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comments/?entryid=324870) Not much info there really. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199/46 "2006-05-18T20:26:50Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] On the musical theatre side, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson’s Sweidsh masterpiece “Kristine” is busy being translated into English for its Broadway opening. It’s only taken five years, with no opening set yet. **Hell, I can could done the translation by now.** [/QUOTE] (Bolding mine) Is this a whoosh? Otherwise, bad idea. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199/47 "2006-05-18T21:18:48Z")
Eight - 10 years ago, I used to love the Corona Coming Attractions site – a nice clean list of all movies in development (by stage, including “development hell”…perhaps that’s where the term came from?), with updates as they happened. (It was where I first heard the news about LOTR, back around 1997.) Now the site is virtually unreadable. Is there a some other good site with this kind of stuff? ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199/48 "2006-05-18T22:32:49Z")
Plans for a “Doom” movie have been around since just after the game became a big hit. A couple different movie studios had the rights to the film but canceled production early on, then nothing happened until around 2002 when they started making the actual movie. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movie-concepts-that-got-trapped-in-production-hell/357199/49 "2006-05-18T22:39:36Z")
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