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Last night I read that the Beatles had hoped to adapt THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

George - Gandalf
Paul - Frodo
Ringo - Sam
John - Gollum

Stanley Kubrick - director

If they had actually made it, it could well have been my favorite movie ever!

Have you ever heard of any legendary movies that were planned, but never got made?

I heard that Jamie Uys, the director of The Gods Must Be Crazy planned a film called Rip MacDonald about this guy who falls asleep in 1960 and wakes up at the Palace Of The Lost City in 2000.

In college my friends and I wrote a screenplay entitled EXPLODING COWS FROM MARS.
We only got as far as filming a trailer, but it would have been EPIC!

Something like this?

(https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1317791347l/6400049.jpg)

I forgot about Sir David Lean's Nostromo which was in pre-production before he passed away.

My friend and I worked on a screenplay for a "lost Elvis movie," ROMAN FEVER. It would star an Elvis impersonator in Roman times. He was still willing to do it until very recently until I told him the intellectual property issues would be a nightmare.

He did write a brilliant theme song:

"They've got girls at the baths
And they've got girls at the Forum,
They've got girls at the temple,
And the vomitorium..."

According to legend Prince actually shot footage on two occasions, intended for possibly two movies but no one really knows. He began filming in early 1982 starring himself, and featuring Vanity (RIP) and an unknown woman. The crew involved recall that Prince was secretive about the plot and that he pulled a Kubrick by taking endless takes of single scenes. This went on for weeks, until Prince dismissed the crew to continue on his own.

Prince shot footage again in 1986, a comedy type project starring his back then two bodyguards clashing with members of his band The Revolution playing a fictitious rock group. The shooting also featured a couple of local actors, and was filmed at a warehouse district somewhere in Minneapolis.

None of the footage ever surfaced. It is believed that Prince kept it for his private collection.

There's a lot of unmade films I'd like to see. Willis O'Brien's Creation and George Pal's adaption of The Hobbit are the 1st which come to mind.

this is a cool book

https://www.amazon.com/50-Greatest-Movies-Never-Made/dp/031220082X (https://www.amazon.com/50-Greatest-Movies-Never-Made/dp/031220082X)

Howard Sterns Fartman wasn't made because of disagreements over Fartman mugs or something I can't remember

Micheal Jackson wanted to star in a Phantom of the Opera movie at one point. 

There were talks of an Batman vs Godzilla movie back in the Adam West days. 

Bruce Campbell was supposed to be the superhero Plastic Man.

Hammer was working on a movie called Zeppelins vs Pterodactyls.  I know nothing about that but the title, but that's enough to make me want to see it.

Before George Peppard died, they were going to make an A-Team made for TV movie where the team finally got pardoned for the crimes they didn't commit. 

The 70s Spider-man was going to meet up with the Lu Ferigno Hulk in a movie (not sure if it was going to be a made for TV or an actual movie.) 

THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED ?  I guess it was made, but unreleased...

Hammer was going to do VAMPIRELLA in 1975 with Peter Cushing, and I think her name was Barbara Leigh ? But Hammer went belly up.

That would have been so much better than the Vampirella movie we did get... then again, most things would have been.

What a unique casts that you have there?  :cheers:

Alejandro Jodorowsky could have made Dune.  With HR Giger on character design!

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0cJNR8HEw0#)

@Trevor - if you think Andy Griffiths books are funny, you should see him do a presentation for kids.  He kills them every time.

My Best Friend's Birthday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Best_Friend%27s_Birthday

Here's a list of films planed for Bela Lugosi-(who else?  :lookingup:) that never got made-

.the SUICIDE CLUB (1933) with Lugosi and Karloff for Universal Pictures.

.CAGLIOSTRO (1935)Lugosi planed on forming his own production company and this was to be the first film. Due to lack of funds-never happened. Oddly-Universal ran an ad for Karloff as Cagliostro in 1932-which also never happened.

.VAMPIRE OF THE SKIES (935) for Embassy Pictures

.The MYSTERIOUS ABBY (1935)This was to be a series of films  (kinda like the Chan or Mr. Moto movies) in which Lugosi was to play a French Clergyman who solved crimes. Wardrobes tests were photographed-no films.

.the CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1935) Concordia Films considered this with Lugosi as Caligari.

.the RETURN OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) was what the BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN became when Lugosi was considered for a role like that given to Ernest Thesiger.

.BLUEBEARD (1936) a Karloff/Lugosi team up. Never happened.

.the ELECTRIC MAN (1936) with Karloff and Lugosi. The idead was scrapped-until Universal brought it back in 1940 with Lon Chaney Jr. and Lionel Atwill as MAN MADE MONSTER (1940).

.JACK THE RIPPER (1938) with John Barrymore,Lugosi and Karloff.

. the VAMPIRE (1939) was announced by England's Argyle Films.

.the MONSTER OF ZOMBOR (1941) with Karloff / Lugosi. A poster exists-but no film does.

.BRIDE OF THE VAMPIRE (1943) Columbia was to do a sequel to Lugosi's RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE. Alas...

.RETURN OF THE WHITE ZOMBIE (195?) Lugosi told reporters he was to star in a sequel to WHITE ZOMBIE soon-of course....never...

.DR.ACULA  (1953) TV show. He announced this while on YOU ASKED FOR IT in 1953.

.the VAMPIRE'S TOMB (1954) Test footage was shot by Ed Wood. It ended up in PLAN 9.

.the GHOUL GOES WEST (1955) It was to star  Gene Autry, Lugosi,Lon Chaney Jr.,Tor Johnson and John Carradine. Another Ed Wood brainstorm that fizzled.

-and this his is just a partial edited list!

I like King Kong vs Godzilla as much as any G-Fan, but I would love it if the original idea of King Kong vs Frankenstein had gotten made. Especially with Willis O'Brien stop motion.

http://www.angelfire.com/film/unmadekaiju/ (http://www.angelfire.com/film/unmadekaiju/)

Interesting old Anglefire site about unmade monster movies. Turn on your pop up blocker, or turn off Jscript.

James Cameron was going to do a Spider-man movie with Leo DiCaprio as Spider-man and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dr. Octopus.  

Batman and Robin was going to be followed up by a movie that went back to the darker feel of the Tim Burton movies and would feature Scarecrow and Harley Quinn.  Nicholson was going to return as the Joker in a series of hallucinations.  

Gladiator 2 had a plot so crazy it would have been great.  Maximus is constnatly reincarnated throughout history and involved in almost every conflict from trying to kill Jesus to the Vietnam war.  

There was going to be a sequel to E.T. and it was going to be  a horror movie.  

I'm just going to quote a description I've read about this one.  

 :wink: :wink:

(https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.iZgyGmmel3lRoh1y-0bwNQEsDI&pid=15.1)

Reminds me of my sequel screenplay that never got picked up, SEVEN MORE SAMURAI.

 :teddyr: :teddyr:

The sequel to "District 9" could have been good.

OTOH there have been attempts to do a remake of forbidden planet , which I hope remains an unmade movie.

Guillermo del Toro's version of  H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Maddness.  I think he's one of the few directors that could have pulled it off.

Unmade Ray Harryhausen films like Force of the Trojans or People of the Mist

There was talk of another Godfather movie (focusing on Sonny as a younger man). But Mario Puzo died, so they put the kibosh on it.

There have been rumors of a Doc Savage movie for several years, with Shane Black at the helm. At one point, it seemed like Chris Hemsworth was on board to play Doc. Other stories pointed to Vin Diesel. Not sure Vin is the right guy, but he couldn't be as silly as Ron Ely was (or could he?) I think Dwayne Johnson is in the running now.

I'm not sure that the silliness of Ron Ely wan't the way to sell it.

Of course, Ralf Möller would have had the perfect look if the show could have been made during his prime. Not sure if he could have suppressed his accent enough.

I have little idea who could pull off the Man of Bronze today. Might have to bring in a promising newcomer.

Actually, Ely wasn't a bad choice. But his performance (and the entire tone of the movie) missed the mark for me. It was obviously aimed at a Saturday matinee audience of 10-year-olds (who probably had no idea who Doc Savage was - - although, I did because I started reading the books when I was around 8). I would have preferred it if it had the look and feel of an Indiana Jones movie. The books are silly, but that's mostly because they are poorly written. I still read them.

Anne rice wanted interview with the vampire to be done years earlier with rutger hauer.

 :buggedout: +  :bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:

George Romero's original version of Day Of the Dead. 

The version that we see on screen is very different and scaled way back compared the original script he wrote.  If I remember correctly, he couldn't get the funding required to make it the way he originally intended unless he went with an R rating.  He wanted to make it Unrated, so he accepted a smaller budget and made the movie as we know it.

Here is the original script:
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Day-of-the-Dead.html (http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Day-of-the-Dead.html)

I read it many years ago.  I need to reread it sometime.

On that note, George Romero's Resident Evil script. 

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html (http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html)

Interesting.  I didn't know about that.