# Movies they promised us! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748 "2010-01-13T02:55:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/21 "2010-01-13T04:54:24Z")
[The Devil In The White City](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_in_the_White_City) has been promised for ages and keeps going into turnaround with rights bouncing back and forth. Katheryn Bigelow was scheduled to direct it and decided to direct **The Hurt Locker** instead. Considering how edge-of-the-seat-teeth-clenched harrowing and tense The Hurt Locker is, I’m sure she would have done a magnificent job. Now there’s talk of David Fincher directing, which would be ok too. This is one story I wouldn’t mind seeing two different version of. Whichever, I won’t believe it until the lights go down and the credits roll. Edit to add, we were supposed to get a film of T **he Lamb Lies Down on Broadway** , possibly even with Ken Russell directing. Someone could still do it, just not with the actual members of Genesis. Peter Gabriel’s a little too old to be playing a wiry Puerto Rican punk. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/22 "2010-01-13T04:56:59Z")
Here’s the cover of Noah II – note that it’s “Soon to be a Major Motion Picture” Aside from the book cover, I’ve never seen or heard a thing about this project. [http://www.shoporium.com/shops/SciFiBuys/view\_item.php3?id=174616](http://www.shoporium.com/shops/SciFiBuys/view_item.php3?id=174616) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/23 "2010-01-13T05:00:44Z")
I was going to say a film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ _A Princess of Mars_ – [so long](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352073&highlight=burroughs) [promised](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440056&highlight=burroughs) [to us](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=460216&highlight=burroughs) – but it turns out that [it finally came out](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1531911/) . . . kindasorta . . . Would you believe Traci Lords as Dejah Thoris?! 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MitzeKatze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@MitzeKatze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MitzeKatze)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/24 "2010-01-13T05:02:20Z")
[Kung Pow 2](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339271/) now has a “release date” of 2010 but we were told it would be in 2004, then in 2005, then in 2006, etc. and now this. So it may yet materialize but I think it will be another [Duke Nukem Forever](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever). ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/25 "2010-01-13T05:06:24Z")
The _American Idiot_ movie. That one really needs to be made. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/26 "2010-01-13T05:06:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Speaking of Doc Savage, there was a rumor that Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to play him in 1999 or 2000. Another Arnold Schwarzenegger film that never got off the ground was an action film during the Crusades. And my favorite never developed film to star Arnold Schwarzenegger was Sgt Rock, as Sgt Rock. Think about that one for a second if you haven’t chuckled yet. Schwarzenegger was also in talks at one point to do a version of _I Am Legend_. I don’t know if this was the script that Will Smith eventually ended up doing. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/27 "2010-01-13T05:09:10Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > I was never certain that Mel Brooks ever considered making a part 2 in the first place. wiki “\*At the very end of the film, there is a teaser trailer for History of the World: Part II, narrated by Brooks, which promises to include Hitler on Ice, a Viking funeral, and Jews in Space. Despite the preview, no sequel has been released, and the “Part I” of the film’s title is merely a historical joke…” \* ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/28 "2010-01-13T05:11:45Z")
One movie I wish had been made was Orson Welles’\* Heart of Darkness\*. This was the movie that Welles originally wanted to make as his first film. But the studio wanted him to make something more commercial so he made _Citizen Kane_ instead (after considering making the movie version of the then current thriller _The Smiler With a Knife_). ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/29 "2010-01-13T05:12:23Z")
“The Sparrow” by Mary Doria Russell. I remember reading YEARS ago that Brad Pitt was interested in making the movie version. Also that it was put on hold until the CGI special effects were advanced enough, which should be around, oh, say, 2010. Well, I guess Avatar used up all the ‘Sparrow’ special effects! And whatever happened to the live-action “The Last Unicorn” by Peter Beagle??? Was supposed to star Mia Farrow and Jonathan Rhys Myers. Was in development and then - nothing. I know there’s an animated version made in the 70’s that fans just love, but there is NO EXCUSE for not making a live version. None. With all the crap Hollywood churns out… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/30 "2010-01-13T05:20:16Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > " > > And whatever happened to the live-action “The Last Unicorn” by Peter Beagle??? Was supposed to star Mia Farrow and Jonathan Rhys Myers. Was in development and then - nothing. I know there’s an animated version made in the 70’s that fans just love, but there is NO EXCUSE for not making a live version. .. The animated version _is_ the one “starring” Mia Farrow. > **[The Last Unicorn (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn_(film))** > > The Last Unicorn is a 1982 animated fantasy film directed and produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, from a script by Peter S. Beagle adapted from his 1968 novel of the same title. The plot concerns a unicorn who, upon learning that she is the last of her species on Earth, goes on a quest to find out what has happened to others of her kind. It was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions for ITC Entertainment and animated by Topcraft. > Voice performers include Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Fa... I have not heard of any other. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/31 "2010-01-13T05:25:57Z")
I so want to see [_Grayson_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUmzR1J_C3s), though a miniseries would probably be needed. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/32 "2010-01-13T05:28:17Z")
_Still Goin’ with the Wind_ ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/33 "2010-01-13T05:37:12Z")
I seem to recall that Monty Python was supposed to do another movie called _The Meaning of the Meaning of Life_. But I have never found anything to verify that. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Baldy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Gary\_Baldy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/34 "2010-01-13T05:41:55Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > _Still Goin’ with the Wind_ A sequel to “Gone with the Wind” was made as “Scarlett”–a miniseries in 1996 starring Timothy Dalton and Sean Bean. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/35 "2010-01-13T05:43:00Z")
Spider-Man 4 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/36 "2010-01-13T05:43:46Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > And whatever happened to the live-action “The Last Unicorn” by Peter Beagle??? Was supposed to star Mia Farrow and Jonathan Rhys Myers. Was in development and then - nothing. I know there’s an animated version made in the 70’s that fans just love, but there is NO EXCUSE for not making a live version. None. With all the crap Hollywood churns out… [Nothing heard of that since 2006, apparently.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn#Film.2C_TV_or_theatrical_adaptations) ---
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/37 "2010-01-13T05:44:18Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned: Spaceballs 2 - The Search For More Money I would so love to see that movie. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/38 "2010-01-13T05:48:13Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > The animated version _is_ the one “starring” Mia Farrow. > [The Last Unicorn (film) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn_(film)) > > I have not heard of any other. I got my information from the message boards for The Last Unicorn at [IMDB.com](http://IMDB.com). There has been discussion there about a live version for years, and fans were very excited when Mia Farrow (who did voice work on the animated one) was going to be cast as Molly. The deal fell through and a lot of the threads were deleted, but there are dreamers who still post there, making casting suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/39 "2010-01-13T05:50:43Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > One movie I wish had been made was Orson Welles’\* Heart of Darkness\*. This was the movie that Welles originally wanted to make as his first film. But the studio wanted him to make something more commercial so he made _Citizen Kane_ instead (after considering making the movie version of the then current thriller _The Smiler With a Knife_). [Welles had a **lot** of unfinished projects.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles#Unfinished_projects) The most interesting, IMO, is [_It’s All True_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_True_(1942_film)) – what’s interesting is not so much the film itself as the story of how it was killed, as told in the [1993 documentary](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107233/) of the same name. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Baldy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Gary\_Baldy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Baldy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748/40 "2010-01-13T05:51:26Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Schwarzenegger was also in talks at one point to do a version of _I Am Legend_. I don’t know if this was the script that Will Smith eventually ended up doing. To add another Arnie project that never happened, “Tooth Fairy” starring the Rock was originally written for Arnie in 1992. Imagine: “It’s not a mo-lar!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-they-promised-us/524748.md?page=3)