Greatest movies never made

In development now.

No cast. And David Goyer - not a good sign.

some of the freddy vs jason sequel scripts that were described in the nightmare on elm street series documentary … they were way out there … like freddy and jason became electronic viruses and they infect a spaceship and was killing everyone off while battling each other …

Besides, Peter Dinklage is way too old to play Miles now.

You’re not at all alone. I lovedJohn Carter and would’ve loved to have seen the sequels. I was on a panel at a convention a few years ago that was attended by a LOT of like-minded fans who would have seen the sequel(s). I wore a T-shirt with a made-up poster for John Carter and the Gods of Mars.
The movie altered a lot of things from the books, but I think they did a very good job of it. Explaining what they changed and why, though, would take up a book.

You should both watch Kevin Smith’s tale of his time working on a Superman script. It’s rather long (that link is only to the first part), but entertaining.

Bit role actor Glen Stensel died a few years after announcing he was trying to get financing for a movie about. . . Teddy and the Chappaquiddick, eh, ‘incident.’

I have. I believe there is also a documentary about the making and unmaking of the film.

A good series of movies about Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct. The one that was made based on Fuzz was so bad I won’t link to anything about it.

Too bad, though I’d even rather see that as a TV series.

At least one other person on the planet liked John Carter. It had a weak aerial fighting scene in the first reel, but I enjoyed the rest.

I don’t hate the Beatles music, but I am pretty confidant in saying Tolkien made the right call there.

I think it was the title itself that killed that possible franchise.

I’d happily see another Addams Family sequel with Raul Julia and Angelica Huston. Bonus points if they could find a role for Christina Ricci.

Spaceballs Part II: The Search For More Money

Also, History of the World, Part II.

(Mel Brooks was pretty lazy on the follow-through)

Protector. I liked Niven and I think the characters are more interesting in this one. And I’d love to see that spacesuit.

I wanted to see Justin Bieber in the remake of Back to the Future.

D&R

I initially misread this as “Riverworld” and thought someone tried twice to make it into a TV series. I really would like someone to make a good adaption of Philip José Farmer’s book series.

As far as Larry Niven’s “Ringworld” it definitely has potential for the makings of a great movie or TV series. His novel “Footfall” also has an interesting premise which would make for a good movie.

One of my favorite books is a time travel novel by Ken Grimwood called “Replay”. Apparently it was in production to made into a movie with Ben Affleck in talks to play the lead but development on it is apparently stalled at this point.

This apparentl happens to a lot of movie projects. It’s known as “Development Hell”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_hell

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DevelopmentHell WARNING: Tv Tropes Link.

Alas, Raul died in 1994, far too young.