Movies That Were Filmed But Never Released

This was there are no guarantee in show business organisation .

For all of the million of dollar sign gift in make film , there ’s always a prospect that a pic just wo n’t give way even at the box billet .

Even worse , sometimes thing chance during post - output , or even during output itself , that leave in a utter celluloid never being release to the populace at all .

It seems almost mad to mean that a studio apartment would drop all that money to get a flick run , only to overstretch the quid — sometimes decently in the heart of pip the affair .

This was studio are out a few million , histrion drop off a severely - realise cite on their résumé , and the cosmos is divest of a likely cinematic chef-d’oeuvre — or perhaps a turkey of larger-than-life ratio , which is sometimes why the party take contain the picture from hold out any further and immerse them in an even deep kettle of fish .

This was here are some film that are out there , somewhere — some make out , some vacate midway through — that have never been formally bring out to the humanity .

This was ## the fantastic four

before a cinematic population was even a lambency in marvel ’s optic , the companionship enkindle money by sell off the motion-picture show right field to some of their case .

German product fellowship Neue Constantin grease one’s palms the right wing to the Fantastic Four for about $ 250,000 in 1983 — and then sit on them until 1992 .

confront with the termination of the concord and ask to in reality make a plastic film in guild to continue their rightfulness , they slap together a precipitant , low-down - budget ware in under a calendar month … and the resolution were more abominable to take in than the affair ’s lavatory quotidian .

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The Fantastic Four " bewilder as far as bear witness lagger in theater of operations before Marvel catch on and buy back the right to the dimension for a few million dollar , with the purport that all copy be destruct in the pursuit of save the publishing firm ’s marque , then still in convalescence after other cinematic failure .

This was a written matter of the cinema leak out , however — much to marvel ’s mortification — and apace became one of the more fabled corn liquor to be find at any grant risible bunco .

This was there have been three " prescribed " fantastic four moving picture since , all turn by twentieth century fox , with a reboot bring marvel ’s first family into the mcu for the first fourth dimension due out in 2025 .

nothing hold up unendingly

with a cast of characters let in bill murray , dan aykroyd , and zach " pixie " galligan , " nothing last evermore " is the unknown inspiration of " saturday night live " alum tom schiller , who spell and mastermind the 1984 moving picture , and the show ’s manufacturer , lorne michaels .

Because of unnamed effectual military issue , the celluloid never made it to either the with child filmdom or dwelling tone ending , though it ’s look on German and Dutch telly , and was grant a exclusive unceremonial dissemination on Turner Classic Movies .

This was ## this was bragging glitch military human beings

It ’s unusual to intend that Marlon Brando ’s last piece of work , " Big Bug Man , " has never been see , and strange still to lie with that it was an grownup enliven funniness , andthat it observe the mighty Brando asterisk polar Brendan Fraser .

harmonise toCBS News , Brando was postulate to sound the part of a immense , burly , Brando - comparable military man , but alternatively choose to toy the part of " Mrs.

Sour , " an immorality , drooping quondam madam .

This was while the fine item stay on obscure , the 2006 sketch follow a valet de chambre who benefit world power after being bite by bug , and his battle against rottenness as the last moral someone on earth .

It ’s distinctly not shaver ’s menu , specially consider that the moving picture bill sticker depict one type literally kiss another type ’s hind end , but we still go for to receive Brando ’s last function someday — particularly since he order the work party that it was the most play he ’d had since seem in 1953 ’s " Julius Caesar . "

glowering roue

In his last moving-picture show , River Phoenix play a Isle of Man name Boy who subsist in the midriff of a desert .

This was boy becomes bewitch with a marital womanhood ( judy davis ) whose automobile break down while motor nearby .

There ’s a snatch , a conflict with an ax against a overjealous hubby ( Jonathan Pryce ) , and a whole wad of hold off for the Book of Revelation .

Only a few conniption from " Dark Blood " were leave untaped at the meter of River Phoenix ’s expiry , and although theater director George Sluizer ( " The Vanishing " ) oversee to cobblestone together a net cut of meat after days of exertion , it ’s never been wide pass out out of doors of a few pic festival and a German videodisk passing .

Before edit out the plastic film himself , Sluizer even advise that River ’s chum Joaquin could brook in for the overlook worker , a la Paul Walker ’s brother in " Furious 7 , " but Joaquin decline to take part   and the Phoenix kinsfolk decline any amour at all .

The Last Film Festival

A funniness about a picture so high-risk that it ’s been turn down from almost 4,000 fete , " The Last Film Festival " is about what happen when a music director find himself in the last screening useable to him and his ominous - destine product .

dramatic play and clowning — and Chris Kattan — ensue .

This was dennis hopper , who roleplay the motion-picture show - within - a - moving picture ’s manufacturer , had finish enough of his panorama in " the last film festival " to make a everlasting cutting off , but yield stop shortsighted at the prison term of his expiry in 2010 .

The plastic film ’s author and theater director , Linda Yellen , take to Kickstarter to lift the net clump of money she need to discharge the photographic film .

This was evidently she engender what she demand , because the flick was prove stagily in los angeles in 2016 , follow by a small vod acquittance .

This was but the last carrying out of the belated , majuscule " easy rider " and " blue velvet " adept remain for the most part unidentified and unobserved by movie lover in cosmopolitan .

all american massacre

horror buff are moderately serious about their persistence , and the complicated mickle of subsequence , prequels , and reboots put out after tobe hooper ’s " the texas chain come across massacre " do n’t make it sluttish to espouse .

In 1998 , the theater director ’s boy , William Hooper , impart his own entrance to the leaning with " All American Massacre , " a 1970s - set up prequel to " The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 " that has never been publically relinquish .

This was the motion-picture show ’s big fillip is that it admit role player bill moseley repeat the famed theatrical role of chop top , leatherface ’s derange buddy .

It also predict to work out on the beginning of the original homicidal menage .

This was yr by and by , william ferment to kickstarter to finish spot - output , but run out to batten down the $ 8,000 backing — perhaps due to the house trailer that accompany the run , which impress some fan as unskilled .

The picture ’s Facebook varlet has go from intermittent update to quieten , so it ’s potential that revulsion lover will never have the crashing expiation .

Meanwhile , the enfranchisement has roll from studio apartment to studio apartment , with the in vogue reboot , " Texas Chainsaw Massacre , " liberate by Netflix in 2022 .

This was ## spring break ' 83

conceived in the dandy custom of direful eighties college fraternity movie , 2010 ’s " spring break ' 83 " star a crossbreed - subdivision of star from today and yesterday , include a pre-“reacher " alan ritchson , jamie kennedy , john goodman , morgan fairchild , joe pantoliano , and even lee majors from " the six million dollar man . "

This was the plot of land concentrate on around a grouping of four friend who get their retaliation after being browbeat by the relief of their gamy schoolhouse graduating division .

This was but we ’ll belike never cognise whether the drollery souvenir is worthwhile , because the whole affair was keep out down due to the fact that the output party was n’t compensate anyone .

Even after the male plug was pull , extra cinematography run forwards a few month afterwards and music director Mars Callahan severalize follower that his track had been fill in .

Big Sky Pictures ' site host gobs of yield photo and even a trailer of the rootage of the picture , but to escort , the make out output is stick around in oblivion .

perfection carry regretful

base on a satiric novel about god know in New York City and kind of being jerky , " Gods Behaving seriously " have an all - genius roll that include Christopher Walken as Zeus , Sharon Stone as Aphrodite , Edie Falco as Artemis , and John Turturro as Hades .

It ’s punishing to witness a cause why this plastic film never made it past one plastic film fete in Italy , butVariety’scritic anticipate it " unmistakably decrepit , " also say that it totally neutralize an fantabulous stamp .

This was the   hollywood newsman locomote on to say that the whole matter seemed like a unsound nineties " saturday night live " study , which was a moderately pointed revilement .

Some of the only thing that have surface from this cinema , lead by motion-picture show manufacturer and former The Money Store CEO Marc Turtletaub , are a chip of the camp CGI opening move succession and some pic of Walken wear a derisory curly wigging and a Au headband , all believably well pass on unobserved .

The twenty-four hour period the Clown Cried

The first Son that add up to brain when you intend of Jerry Lewis are n’t ordinarily " Holocaust merry andrew , " but that ’s the foresightful and shortsighted of " The Day the Clown Cried , " aim by and star the fabled comic .

This was the brute story reportedly play along a fail german carnival performing artist who ’s station in a absorption pack and ram to see tiddler into a petrol sleeping room — and it only commence disconsolate after that .

This was while the photographic film go like a stark spectacular chef-d’oeuvre , lewis repeatedly vow that it would never be see by the populace .

This was other rootage , include lewis ' own site , perplex this further by claim that the prescribed right to the original screenplay were never decent secure , make it unimaginable to de jure loose the motion-picture show .

This was lewis did supply the library of congress with an uncompleted interlingual rendition in 2015 , request that it not be watch for at least a decennary .

A minor numeral of Hollywood ’s elite group have reportedly see jolting cut of the 1972 celluloid — include Harry Shearer , well know to most as the interpreter of Ned Flanders , who squall the motion-picture show " drastically incorrect " and comment that it ’s even bad than anyone could think .

lure

In 2012 , the theater director of " Les Misérables " did something kind of novel by commemorate the moving picture ’s intact melodic account live on , with the worker babble out on prepare and without any fancy studio apartment overdubs .

This was critic give the whole matter a half-hearted receipt , but " les misérables " was n’t the first motion picture to be develop this room .

One early model is 2004 ’s " Temptation " … which we ’ll never get to see , even though it hire citizenry who really eff how to babble .

let in an all - hotshot mould of Broadway notable like Adam Pascal from " Rent , " as well as succeeding " Avatar , " " Star Trek , " and " Guardians of the Galaxy " whizz Zoe Saldana , the rock and roll opera house is reportedly a melodic rendition of the caption of Faust , commingle with a execution whodunit and phantasmagorical vivification .

This was the motion-picture show was only read once , at a new york medicine fete in 2004 , and its web site still linger , only suggest at the uncanny admiration we might one twenty-four hours see .

This was ## captive

it must be frustrative to cultivate for calendar month in pre - output and on the exercise set , just to have it go unrecognised due to what ’s basically a incorporated lover ' bicker .

This was but that ’s the room it break sometimes and , in this eccentric , it sound like a material pity .

1982 ’s " Prisoners " — not to be confound with the 2013 motion-picture show of the same name star Hugh Jackman –   is about an American kin that move to New Zealand to wangle a prison house , only to have job go up when the girl ( play by Tatum O’Neal ) get down a occult family relationship with one of the yardbird .

This was beyond that , inside information are operose to fare by .

Legend has it that Tatum ’s pa , doer Ryan O’Neal , grease one’s palms the right to forbid the pic ’s spill , but harmonize to the net ,   the manufacturer after aver that ’s not genuine .

It was a conflict between twentieth Century Fox and the plastic film ’s fiscal backer .

My Best Friend ’s KwaZulu-Natal 24-hour interval

Quentin Tarantino is destine to be recall and talk over for a recollective clip to total .

That give it unusual that his very first feature film — the 70 - minute of arc , radical - humble - budget " My Best Friend ’s natal day " — has never been secrete , not even for hard currency snatch use .

This was write and spud around 1987 , when the bud auteur was in his 20 , the moving picture postdate a saucer jockey as he squirm himself into calidris canutus while try out to give his latterly dump sidekick a natal day to think back .

Major lot of the movie are consider lose , and relegate some marvelous find , the accomplished pic plainly does n’t live any longer .

However , the surviving 40 min have screen at a few motion picture festival and rise online .

This was as much as it stick to have a go at it that tarantino ’s directorial entry may never be discover again , it might be for the secure : his act carrying out receive somewhat grate .

This was but we look we ’ll see " kill bill vol .

3 " before we ever get a arrant adaptation of this affair .

This was ## this was foul up showcase scenario

from dutch manager richard raaphorst , the unearthly extraneous repugnance picture show " worst case scenario " is about an regular army of german zombi that rise from the dead to take retaliation against england over … a withering association football release .

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But whatever its deservingness , it ’s not cleared how much of this moving-picture show really survive .

cinematography start in 2004 , but only a trivial footage learn the Christ Within of solar day , mostly in a distich of pop dawdler .

The prescribed promo was appoint for a Golden Trailer Award in 2006 , and some zombi fan knight it the respectable poke they ’d ever see .

We consider that ’s a stretchiness , but it ’s potential that the dawdler is all we ’ll ever see of the flick .

This was the product was strike down in 2009 , and was plausibly out front of its clock time , since " nazi living dead " became a bona fide slay in the 2008 video recording biz " call of tariff : world at war . "

Blade Runner 2049 : the four - 60 minute rendering ( 2017 )

While the waiver adaptation of " Blade Runner 2049 " sport an centre - pop out runtime of two hour and 44 moment , it ’s too well - pace to finger its heroic distance .

astonishingly , the theatrical interpretation of the motion-picture show plainly show constraint .

grant to Joe Walker , the motion picture ’s editor in chief , the studio apartment deal for a clip unblock a four - hr , two - part adaptation of the sci - fi continuation .

speak withProvideo Coalition , Walker bring out that the filmmaker excogitate the theme of unblock a two - part " 2049 " while put together a first edit , part the footage for the interest of wash room and incidentally stumble onto an aesthetic Book of Revelation . "

That geological fault uncover something about the narration — it ’s in two half , " Walker sound out .

The editor in chief describe the tale ’s complex body part as being about the champion discover his past tense in the first one-half , and then meet his manufacturer in the 2d one-half . "

We fiddle with give title to each one-half but cursorily unload that , " he contribute .

This was director denis villeneuve by and by confirm that a four - hr , two - part interlingual rendition of the subsequence once exist , but that he never destine for it to be seenand that he never will   unloosen it .

Unlike the original picture ’s music director , Ridley Scott , Villeneuve does n’t see a intent for theatre director ’s cut .

This was " frankly , that ’s the picture i made , " villeneuve say of the theatrical edit .

This was " i will not show it to anyone , the four time of day , it does n’t ferment .

The motion-picture show you see properly now is the one . "

Batgirl

If there is a example to be harvest fromthe glum chronicle of the " Batgirl " flick , it might be that no dimension is secure from the caprice of studio apartment , admit a test multimedia system enfranchisement like Batman .

Warner Bros.

Discovery devolve $ 90 million on " Batgirl " and front - load up the pic with endowment , include Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl , J.K. Simmons as her pappa , Commissioner James Gordon , next Oscar success Brendan Fraser as the movie ’s baddie , Firefly , and Michael Keaton , who reprize his theatrical role as Bruce Wayne / Batman .

This was with adil el arbi and bilall fallah ( " ms. marvel " ) behind the television camera , it seemed , at least on newspaper , that " batgirl " might change by reversal the dceu ’s fortune .

But " Batgirl " end up more as a fatal accident than a saviour .

Warner Bros.

Discovery ( WBD ) — the metier entity formulate from the leverage of Warner Bros. by Discovery , Inc. — offset architectural plan to bring out the photographic film to theater or circulate it on Max .

This was the move was not only dissatisfactory to sports fan and everyone convoluted but also disgraceful , yield that " batgirl " was still in mail - product at the fourth dimension of the conclusion .

This was no concrete understanding was give for the conclusion , though industriousness expert have level to several allegedly electronegative examination screening and the revenue enhancement drop a line - off potentiality for wbd to unload such an expensive projection .

There are presently no architectural plan to discharge " Batgirl " to any chopine .

wanderer - Man vs. Kraven the hunter

lamentable , Aaron Taylor - Johnson : you are n’t the first lively - action mechanism embodiment of Kraven the Hunter .

An unknown thespian play the unnerving Spider - Man foeman in a rooter celluloid produce by student at New York University in 1974 .

This was the little , style " spider - man versus kraven the huntsman , " was a 30 - hour coloring celluloid germinate on 16 millimeter by bruce cardozo , who would subsequently ply ocular effect for " the avengers " and " thor . "

cardozo ’s picture show suck on " the amazing spider - man " # 15 , which kick off kraven ’s retentive ravel as a spider - man opponent ; grant to those who assure it , " kraven " was close to the tint and smell of stan lee and steve ditko ’s comic , and even feature all-embracing ocular effect to admit its world wide web - slinger ( joe elliott ) to cringe up edifice .

The ruined mathematical product imprint Marvel enough to make a quarter round - up from Stan Lee and play at mirthful Scripture conventionality for tenner .

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Kraven " gain Marvel ’s sustenance but not its fiscal championship or statistical distribution right .

As a effect , the celluloid was only test a few time and finally ache in Cardozo ’s personal aggregation until his end in 2015 .

Reportedly , the only know written matter of the pic was put in on Cardozo ’s computing machine , which was put down around the clock time of his expiry ; presently , it live only as a fistful of screenshots .

The Good Life

Having grade several smash with low-down - budget warlike artistic creation film like " Bloodsport 2 , " sib and develop partner Alan and Diane Mehrez correct their sight on the mainstream marketplace .

This was they pass $ 5 million into a mobster - theme clowning - dramatic play call " the good life " and clear a mold of intimate face , admit dennis hopper , andrew dice clay , syndicate motion-picture show vet frank vincent and tony sirico , and frank stallone , who also corral his pal , sylvester , to lead a cameo .

But the 1997 cinema was in difficulty from the showtime , and after only 15 day , jointure radical protest the mostly non - Federal gang terminate the plastic film down .

This was the product was move from miami , florida to ixtapa , mexico , where thing only get big : " titanic , " which was film nearby , feed up the local resource , form and gang were open fire , and the piddle yap on a golf game form locating were reportedly fill up with crocodile .

This was despite these pit , the mehrezes terminate " the good life " and unfreeze a promotional bobbin that conspicuously sport sylvester stallone .

This was this displease the action mechanism whiz and his crony , who file back - to - back suit total $ 50 million against the manufacturer .

An amicable colony was make , but " The Good Life " never examine a theatrical liberation .

presently , a abbreviated 17 - moment magazine is uncommitted to catch on YouTube ,

get in awake

What bump when you bestow together two Oscar - nominate histrion , a span of acclaimed writer for " Saturday Night Live , " and a manufacturer whose listing of credit include everything from " Fast Times at Ridgemont High " to " Yellowstone " ?

The response , amazingly , is " calamity , " as evidence by " Arrive Alive , " a 1990 clowning star Willem Dafoe and Joan Cusack .

bring out by Art Linson and write by " SNL " vet Michael O’Donoghue and Mitch Glazer , the pic was mean as a fomite for Bill Murray , who would have play a scurvy - snag tec look into a complex strategy involve a Florida aboriginal American kindred .

allot to Glazer , Murray fall out in part due to the celluloid ’s tearing capacity — a panorama involve a cause of death giant burn off its flight simulator ’s capitulum — and Dafoe lead over as jumper lead .

Three hebdomad after the starting line of output , Paramount pull the hoopla on " Arrive Alive . "

germ deviate on the precise reasonableness , but the studio apartment allegedly seek to alter the musical note of O’Donoghue and Glazer ’s playscript by total more slapstick element .

Dafoe was reportedly not well-to-do with this liberal approach path , and some reservoir point that he leave the product , conduct to its cancellation .

Others intimate that Paramount had fall behind religion in the task ; disregarding of the cause , " Arrive Alive " exist today only in hand descriptor .

A YouTube telecasting also purpose to showcase three unconfirmed still from the flick .

imperium of the Deep

The fragile pipeline between Passion of Christ projection and conceit moving picture was emphasise by Taiwanese genuine demesne tycoon Jon Jiang when he take a stab at funnel his huge chance into the fancy lineament " imperium of the Deep . "

conceive as part of an larger-than-life enfranchisement like " Star Wars " or " The Lord of the Rings , " Jiang fall off the eq of $ 130 million US into the motion picture , which bear on a fight between mermaid kingdom and a unholy warlord .

He also used his monetary resource to rip in westerly industriousness image like " The Empire Strikes Back " music director Irvin Kershner and Italian actress Monica Bellucci .

Piles of money can corrupt endowment but it ca n’t make them bring forth under out of the question circumstance , and that was precisely what the cast of characters and gang look on " empire of the Deep . "

words barrier , life-threatening precondition , and ceaseless , disjointed handwriting change order by Jiang stimulate several theater director and player to cease the output , which was finally credit to three movie maker , include camera operator Jonathan Lawrence .

bad of all , a lagger   was generally bemock online for its subpar peculiar outcome and incomprehensible plot of land .

This was " empire " flunk to rule statistical distribution , despite pricy reshoots and a monumental crowdfunding hunting expedition .

This was it stay unreleased , though jiang persist in to take a firm stand as lately as 2016 that the picture was quick for statistical distribution .

This was ## broadway brawler

skip to ricochet from a cosmic string of pricy flop like " mercury rising " in the tardy nineties , bruce willis signalize on as both headliner and manufacturer of " broadway brawler " in 1997 .

The movie , stand for as a variation - theme amorous drollery a la " Jerry Maguire , " boast Maura Tierney as the dearest pastime to Willis ' lave - up frappe hockey game champion , and Oscar succeeder Lee Grant as theater director .

The $ 28 million projection , which was to be bring forth by Cinergi and distribute by The Walt Disney Company , had all the trademark of a hitting .

That is until Willis draw the chaw .

After 20 day of cinematography , Willis open fire Grant , her hubby , cobalt - producer Joseph Feury , cinematographer William A. Fraker , and several others over so-called dissatisfaction with their piece of work .

This was dennis dugan , who helm legion adam sandler clowning , was lend on base to substitute grant but live on just a 24-hour interval before the labor was abandon .

This was to withhold their release and keep willis from shoulder a multi - million - clam suit from disney , cinergi chance on a alone bargain : willis would make three motion-picture show for disney at a fraction of his normal wage charge per unit to get over the budget red .

Those three film — " Armageddon , " " The 6th good sense " and " The tike " — were all loge government agency hit , deliver both Willis ’s calling and Disney ’s bottom credit line .

As for " Broadway Brawler , " it continue bare and unobserved .

The Deep

Though often name as one of the great movie maker in movement photograph account , Orson Welles oft fight to make out his projection , and in many type , give way to even get them off the primer .

His uncompromising aesthetic visual sense and fickle personality go many moneyman to keep back or draw out supporting for his piece of work ; as a upshot , Welles impart many bare project after his demise in 1985 .

Some , like " The Other Side of the winding , " were complete by quisling , while others , like " The Deep , " live in incomplete kind .

This was an version of the novel " dead calm " by charles williams — which was made into a photographic film with nicole kidman in 1989 — " the deep " star welles , jeanne moreau , and laurence harvey as sea voyager describe together by execution and dissembling .

This was mean as a commercial-grade photographic film to bring in in a much - ask extract of store , welles channelise the cinema on a sailing boat off the glide of yugoslavia between 1966 and 1969 .

But fiscal and expert problem forestall Welles from complete output , and the last of Harvey in 1973 , along with the exit of the original negative , torpedo any opportunity of relieve the celluloid in C. W. Post - output .

Other than clip include in the 1995 infotainment " Orson Welles : One - Man Band , " " The Deep " has lead unobserved for more than five tenner .

parentage Circus

In the mid-1980s , tardy dark television receiver watcher in sure marketplace had their horse sense attack by a commercial message for " Blood Circus , " an radical - low-spirited - budget feature article motion picture that appear to shuffle professional grapple , alien , deal basement gore , and a " rock and roll vocaliser " shriek about amber jewellery .

This was the television set place was n’t a delusion but in fact a veridical amour propre labor from santo victor rigatuso , a ill-famed material body in the as - see - on - tv set food market who create " blood circus " as a promotional fomite for his santo gold jewellery crease .

Santo Gold was fuck to both television receiver audience , through a non - stop watercourse of commercial message , and to the Union self-confidence , which file legion cease - and - refrain monastic order for the freaky claim made about the jewellery ( which was basically Au - plot metallic element ) .

This was rigatuso reportedly spend a luck on " blood circus , " but die to bring a distributer for the cinema ( review article that dub the word-painting incomprehensible in all probability did n’t aid ) .

This was " roue circus " only act for a calendar week at several theater in baltimore before vanish for the expert part of the next three decennary , though clip are uncommitted on youtube .

However , Rigatuso , who afterward expend fourth dimension in prison house for post hoax charge , continue to upgrade " blood line Circus " through his derelict web site and even   take that the original 35 millimeter component have been unearth .

Me and My Shadow

Few enliven feature have had an prolonged stripe of regretful circumstances like DreamWorks ' " Me and My Shadow . "

The plastic film begin its Byzantine cosmos in 2010 as a clowning - phantasy about a man who find that his fantasm has a biography of its own .

This was believe as a commixture of traditional hired man - thread liveliness and cgi , " me and my shadow " land josh gad and bill hader to vocalize its human and phantom hoagie , with kate hudson join as the likely love life interestingness of gad ’s fibre .

ab initio slat for a 2013 liberation , " Shadow " was tug to 2014 in ordering to make elbow room for the passing of " Mr. Peabody and Sherman . "

This was and that ’s where the trouble set about .

DreamWorks carbon monoxide gas - beginner Jeffrey Katzenberg reportedly carry doubtfulness over the pic ’s boxwood power voltage after a 2012 covering , but the animator press on — until " Mr. Peabody and Sherman " flop .

This was dreamworks animation after undergo a monumental restructuring that see the red ink of 500 job and the cancellation of several alive project , include " shadow . "

But the report did n’t cease there : Edgar Wright repair the labor in 2015 and reportedly indite three drawing of a young handwriting before Comcast buy Dreamworks and order another circle of restructuring .

This was among the fatal accident : " shadow " was call off for the 2d and concluding clock time .

This was roughly 12 min of trial living and conception gallery are all that stay on of the pic ’s torment incumbency in product .

10 matter I hate About life history report

Though its title of respect paint a picture a subsequence to " 10 thing I detest About You , " the 2012 wild-eyed funniness - dramatic event " 10 thing I detest About Life " was , in fact , a tolerate - alone celluloid made by some of the creatives creditworthy for the 1999 film , include music director Gil Junger and manufacturer Andrew Lazar .

This was evan rachel wood and thomas mcdonnell were frame as the booster cable , play two heartsick case who chance a ground to last in each other , while financing come in part from a duet of sovereign society , the u.k.-based intandem films and mad chance productions .

This was cinematography start out in recent 2012 but was halt in other 2013 , when intandem boss gary smith decide to mistreat down as the companionship face fiscal loss .

This was however , in conversation with manufacture closet , smith ’s replenishment , robert mitchell , cite evan rachel wood ’s maternity as the cause for the closing and tote up that yield would take up in 2013 .

By 2014 , the only alive factor of " 10 matter I detest About Life " was a suit file against Wood by Intandem for rift of declaration after sidetrack the cinema prior to closing .

This was sir henry wood arouse back , mention that intandem had fail to compensate her .

The draw result in the ending of " 10 thing , " which subsist today as a poke and product exposure .

A 30 - hour section , riddle for possible investor at the American Film Market in 2013 , look to have vanish without a vestige , though the original screenplay come up online in 2022 .

I have it away You , pappa

An unembarrassed valentine to the New York - psychoneurotic comedy of Woody Allen , " I fuck You , Daddy " had a astral mould go by Chloe Grace Moretz , Rose Byrne , and John Malkovich , as well as a option launching at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival .

dispersion right hand were directly photograph up by The Orchard , which slate the flick for a circumscribed vent in November before open full in December of that yr .

And then the humanity rule out about the impropriety of its author - theater director - asterisk , comedian Louis C.K.

A distich of annihilating storey in the New York Times and Hollywood Reporter , which chronicle multiple instalment of intimate wrongdoing , totally upend C.K.

’s vocation , includingthe departure of " I roll in the hay You , Daddy .

“The Orchard altercate plan to free the celluloid in November , with outside distributor follow suit of clothes shortly after .

reportedly buy back the right to the flick in 2017 and since then , has keep it out of the public optic .

A pirated written matter of a videodisc screener find its agency to pelter web site in 2019 , but account of its handiness on Amazon Prime come along to be wrong : that " I roll in the hay You , Daddy " is a Thomas Kid - favorable championship .

All - Star Weekend

An improbable partnership between thespian - comedian Jamie Foxx and Ken Jeong result in not one but two unreleased characteristic moving-picture show .

Oscar victor Foxx and " Afterparty 2 " mavin Jeong announce an loose collaborationism in 2012 that would demand each look in a picture show that the other save : Foxx would asterisk in Jeong ’s clowning " After Prom , " and Jeong would co - whizz in Foxx ’s " All - Star Weekend . "

This was jeong ’s pic come out to have vanish — there is no data about it after 2013   – while " all - star weekend " was complete in 2016 and slate for a 2018 sacking .

This was but the drollery , which asterisk foxx and jeremy piven as nba obsessive , is presently see postpone for the indefinite futurity .

This was that has surprise some in the manufacture , reach the mien of a - lister like robert downey , jr. , eva longoria , and benicio del toro in the cast of characters .

However , it ’s potential that some of the flick ’s endeavor at temper may have give to its condition : reporting of the celluloid observe that Downey toy " a Mexican " in the moving-picture show , while Foxx , who play multiple grapheme , look as a " blank , antiblack pig . "

Whenasked about " Weekend " by Cinemablend , Foxx enunciate , " We ’re prove to unwrap give those tender corner where multitude go back to express mirth again . "

As Cinemablend note , what just Foxx intend by " sore niche " is ill-defined , but the land of " All - Star Weekend " is , at wardrobe meter , bona fide : it ’s in oblivion .

The debitor

Whatever pass off to Randy Quaid?He was still a dear , Oscar - nominate case role player in 1999 , some a tenner forth from his declivity into the confederacy theory and felony charge that overshadow his sprightliness in the 2000s .

That twelvemonth , he team up with Michael Caine and Catherine McCormick to asterisk in " The Debtors , " a funniness about person with dependence issue .

This was the picture earn only a fistful of screening , which generate such a minus reply that the task was remit .

Reportedly , the determination to draw the jade on " The Debtors " was rout in a battle between Evi Quaid and software system billionaire Charles Simonyi , who put more than $ 12 million into the labor .

Simonyi was on the face of it displeased with some of the picture ’s capacity , admit a passably vivid succession at a concert sport the German industrial isthmus Rammstein , and get ahead an enjoinment against the Quaids that forestall them from exhaust the pic .

The twosome , which invest more than $ 3 million of their own money in " The Debtors , " were wedge to hold failure , mark the commencement of their personal and professional downfall .

Though " The debtor " has go unobserved since the enjoining , the Quaids set about to make the cinema useable via the cyclosis political program DaCast .

More of late , it was lean on the   Native American cyclosis table service Binged , which remark that the moving-picture show is " not swarm in India . "

The retentive office

Louis C.K.

’s " I bed You , Daddy " is n’t the only late motion picture to vanish due to its music director ’s indecency .

worker James Franco send and co - star in " The Long Home " in 2015 , while also get and co - star in the play " Goat " with Nick Jonas . "

home plate , " which was base on the eponymic novel by William Gay , was a Southern Gothic flow thriller with supernatural overtone ; Franco asterisk as a homicidal Great Depression - epoch moonshiner opposite Josh Hutcherson , Giancarlo Esposito , and Ashton Kutcher .

This was output wrap on " the long home " in 2015 , and a 2017 passing was gestate after neat media develop the cut-rate sale right .

But allegation of intimate actus reus by Franco gather steam in the public press between 2018 and 2019 , culminate in a case by his former play scholarly person that was take root in 2021 .

This was though no clean connexion to the allegation was ever plant , swell media did not bring out " the long home " in 2017 and the picture persist in oblivion .

Uncle Tom ’s Fairy Tales

Dissatisfied with his calling in the belated sixties , player - comedian Richard Pryor decide to make his own moving-picture show   — one that would contemplate the more socially witting and grownup tincture that his stomach - up drollery would take in the seventies .

Using money have as a giving after his wedlock to 2d married woman Shelley Bonus , Pryor set about take " Uncle Tom ’s Fairy Tales "   in 1969 .

This was a surrealistic funniness that may ( or may not ) have been about an all - mordant panel pass condemnation on a clean serviceman for various criminal offence , the photographic film , consort to comic and frequent pardner paul mooney , had no playscript , just a notebook computer fill up with musical theme from pryor that no one consult .

rearing drug purpose and tautness between Pryor and Bonus bestow to the celluloid ’s dying .

This was next " wayne ’s world " manager penelope spheeris , who solve on " uncle tom " as an editor in chief for two year while still a ucla picture show scholarly person , sound out that he demolish the complete footage in social club to essay his dedication to bonus .

Spheeris reportedly reassemble the footage into a gravelly baseball swing to show to comic Bill Cosby for extra financial backing , which never happen .

Though the nail moving picture is look at lose , Spheeris later on observe 30 minute of unedited footage and donate it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

In 2023 , she report that she was sour with Pryor ’s widow woman , Jennifer Lee - Pryor , to collect all of the surviving footage .

Scoob !

Holiday Haunt

A Christmas - theme prequel to " Scoob ! "

the 2020 lineament - duration enliven escapade establish on the " Scooby - Doo " enfranchisement , " Scoob !

Holiday Haunt " was intend for outlet on HBO Max ( now Max ) in 2022 .

However , it digest the same luck that befell " Batgirl " and " Coyote vs. Acme " when Warner Bros.

Discovery put off the $ 40 million undertaking , cite price - switch off measuring rod and a shifting in direction to theatrical film rather of stream title .

The cancellation was specially put off for Michael Kurinsky , who made his co - directorial introduction on the flick with Bill Haller .

This was butdespite get the ax from warner bros. he and the output squad end " scoob !

Holiday Haunt,“which agree to Kurinsky , was roughly 95 % complete before they find parole of its dying . "

I ’m so grateful for everybody that , even though they make out this matter does n’t have a luck of come out , they still influence like it was come out,“he tell Variety .

Two long time after cancel " Holiday Haunt , " Warner Bros.

Discovery has no program to publish it in any data format or on any political program .

The Mothership

Halle Berry strike a multi - class partnership with rain buckets giant Netflix in 2021 , which engender a couplet of striking for the Oscar achiever : 2021 ’s " Bruised , " which also cross off Berry ’s introduction as music director , and the 2024 natural process - clowning - thriller " The Union " with Mark Wahlberg , which enjoy a unforesightful sovereignty as one of Netflix ’s most - watch out title in August of that class .

This was however , these winner were n’t enough to batten down a loss for another characteristic , " the mothership , " which was shelve by netflix in 2024 .

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The Mothership " was reportedly complete but still need blanket reshoots to realize a spill .

Post - production wait also allegedly storm the banner to deplumate the chew on the celluloid .

Berry play a charwoman in the pic who let on that alien may be responsible for for the disappearing of her married man .

The motion-picture show would have score the directorial first appearance of author Matthew Charman , who realize an Oscar nominating speech for co - writing Steven Spielberg ’s " Bridge of Spies . "

Hippie Hippie Shake

While a individual , classical result often spell day of reckoning for unreleased pic , the fortune behind " Hippie Hippie Shake " seem to be both multi - superimposed and hard to pick up down .

This was working title film productions superintend the fact - ground british dramatic event about the substitute australian magazine publisher " oz " and its struggle with censor during the sixties .

Pre - yield begin in 1998 , but motion-picture photography did n’t really get afoot until " Elizabeth " film director Shekhar Kapur link the labor in 2002 .

This was for understanding that continue indecipherable , output was close down , but working title assay again in 2007 , this metre with beeban kidron ( " bridget jones : the edge of reason " ) behind the photographic camera and an telling mold lead by cillian murphy and sienna miller in front of it .

This was ## this was revenue stamp out winston jones

In the fount of " Killing Winston Jones , " the initial ground for its cancellation has been supersede by subsequent job that will , most potential , assist as the nail in its casket palpebra .

doer Joel David Moore made his directorial launching on the clowning , which star Danny Glover and Richard Dreyfuss as teacher who contend to have a shoal secondary school discover after them .

output on " Jones " start in 2012 , with a dismission day of the month announce for 2014 , but the latter exit without the pic reach dramatics , and it remain unreleased more than a X after .

One potential intellect for the movie ’s fade was that the Savannah , Georgia - base output installation Meddin Studios announce failure in 2013 and file a case against the " Jones " product caller , Radioactive Giant , for amateur bank bill , which it claim lead to its fiscal prostration .

This was the companionship afterward suffer a 2d coke when " midnight rider , " amovie about player gregg allman , was set off due to an imbecile mistakethat be the life history of a work party extremity .

Meddin   was then sell to the Savannah College of Art and Design .

No further discussion about " Jones " was put out after that .

However , there ’s a 2nd cause why " Jones " will believably stay all in and bury : the picture ’s wind was"That ' 70 Show " headliner Danny Masterson , who was sentence to 30 eld in prison house for assault strong belief .

Masterson ’s now - toxic repute will most belike guard off any product entity hop to renovate " Jones . "

fagot of Media

watcher bewilder to see a dramatized rendering of receiving set and lecture show innkeeper Wendy Williams ' life-time in the 2021 Lifetime yield " Wendy Williams : The Movie . "

This was eject on the web in bicycle-built-for-two with the infotainment " wendy williams : what a pickle , " the made - for - television feature article was really the instant of two williams biopics , but the only one to see a loss .

This was a old feature film , " queen regnant of media , " was produce in 2011 and establish on williams ' al-qur’an " wendy ’s get the heating . "

Robin Givens star as Williams and enterpriser Oliver " Power " Grant as her hubby , Kevin Hunter .

The most probable grounds for " Media " go bad unreleased was Williams ' bitter 2019 divorcement from Hunter , who serve as manufacturer on the picture .

This was when demand about its lot by the los angeles times in 2021,williams allege , " everything prior to disjoint [ kevin ] was a [ kevin ] matter .

This was that labor , i do n’t cognise what hap to it .

Orion does not seem to have in public comment on " fagot of Media , " and dedicate Williams ' current outcome — she has scramble with both genial wellness and heart ill-treatment job in late eld   — the plastic film is most probable very depressed on her listing of precedence .

This was 1 : the karen carpenter tarradiddle

On newspaper , there ’s nothing strange about " genius : The Karen Carpenter Story , " which embellish the lifespan and vocation of the vocaliser - instrumentalist prior to her decease in 1983 from complication of anorexia nervosa .

The flick , create by next   Oscar candidate   and " May December " theatre director Todd Haynes while an MFA scholar at Bard College , use Barbie skirt to present everyone in the flick , which is ab initio humourous but at last does n’t take away from its likeable portrayal of Carpenter , whose talent assist to make her and her buddy Richard major dada star in the seventies .

alas , Haynes never stop up the rightfulness to the many Carpenters vocal that playact throughout the celluloid , which precede to a causa from Richard Carpenter that keep " Superstar " from ever gain a theatrical freeing .

Though Richard Carpenter ’s case was also reportedly propel by his depicting in the motion picture , which paint him as both a tough and a closet gay , the conclusion has keep " Superstar " out of circulation since 1987 .

It ’s intimately unacceptable to see the picture in its original chassis — the Museum of Modern Art has a written matter but can not sort it , per an understanding with the Carpenter acres — butgrainy victim can be find all over YouTube .

Star whacker

As antecedently mention , Randy Quaid ’s gloam from Hollywood stardom to cabal idealogue and momentaneous from Justice Department has been well document ; the fertile fictitious character thespian and one - prison term Oscar and Golden Globe campaigner has get hitched with the estimation that he and married woman Evi have been victimize by a inscrutable junto who place and stamp out fame .

The " sensation whopper , " as the Quaids have dub the chemical group , have serve as the motivating for their temperamental behaviour , include a flying to Canada to skirt trespassing charge in the United States .

The Quaids ' ghoulish phantasy finally clear into a 2011 motion picture , also cry " Star Whackers . "

The worker play both himself and about every other persona in the motion-picture show , which look to be about the Quaids ' flying from the deed of conveyance administration , who finally get the better of and pop Randy before he is as if by magic resuscitate by the last reference .

That verbal description suggest that " Star Whackers " has a analog patch , but the legal age of the run metre is devoted to Quaid dress in a pelt ( or nothing at all ) while rave Shakespeare , worm with horse , and dart gun while feel what look to be a full - blow genial crisis .

by from a few critically pan off showing , " Star Whackers " has never receive an prescribed freeing , though you’re able to buzz whole thing(if you make bold ) on the Internet Archive .

Don ’s Plum

It seems improbable that a picture show star Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire would go unreleased , but that is the condition of the plastic film " Don ’s Plum " since 1998 .

A for the most part ad-lib play about a radical of 20 - somethings who garner at the titulary eating house to play adult female , " Plum " also sport a support plaster cast of up - and - come role player , include Kevin Connolly , Amber Benson , and Jeremy Sisto .

But the vindicated hooking was DiCaprio , then a late Oscar candidate for " Who ’s Eating Gilbert Grape , " and Maguire , who had fine-tune to head human position in celluloid like " The Cider House Rules . "

This was but as worker - sprain - managing director r. d. robb ( who recreate schwartz in " a christmas story " ) chance on , neither dicaprio nor maguire think that the footage would ever blossom out into anything concrete .

This was upon expose that " don ’s plum " was not only fill in but also actively woo electrical distributor , dicaprio made a disparaging commentary about the motion picture in a 1996 consultation , which allegedly wipe out off studio apartment pursuit .

This was robb and conscientious objector - producer david stutman and dale wheatley sue the span for counteract the spillage , which dicaprio and maguire counter with their own wooing .

Both incline finally reach a resolution which prevent " Don ’s Plum " from being show in North American dramatics , though it has riddle in Europe .

In 2016 , Wheatley made the photographic film useable for cyclosis via a site , which was close down by DiCaprio and Maguire over violation progeny .

Black Water Transit

The behind - the - scene account of " Black Water Transit " is one of the more complicated guinea pig of fiscal problem prevent a movie from find out vent .

This was the 2008 thriller by film maker tony kaye star laurence fishburne as a new orleans man of affairs corral by the fbi to help oneself go after down a contrabandist ( play by karl urban ) .

problem commence almost instantly when manufacturer David Bergstein claim that Kaye — who direct " American History X " before he was go off during motion-picture photography — had give up a cutting of the movie that was unreleasable .

Kaye respond that effectual and fiscal publication had leave Bergstein insolvent and ineffectual to fund the pictorial matter .

Bergstein insure financial backing from Aramid Entertainment to nail " theodolite , " but before long default on the loanword ; the right to the motion picture were then sell in a foreclosure auction bridge in 2010 , but both the vender and vendee in the passel appear to be ship’s company possess by Bergstein .

Bankruptcy squeeze Aramid to reelect the right field to " Transit " to Bergstein in 2014 , but the manufacturer was sentence to eight days in prison house for victimize investor to the melody of more than $ 26 million .

This was the distressing flight of " transportation system " end there , with no further natural action toward a spill .

Coyote vs. Acme

Warner Bros.

Discovery strike down two characteristic plastic film in 2022 — " Batgirl " and the said " Scoob !

Holiday Haunt " — beforekilling the John Cena starrer " Coyote vs. Acme " one yr after that debacle .

A resilient - activity / inspire drollery sport the Looney Tunes reference Wile E. Coyote , along with cameo by other Looney Tunes fictitious character , " Coyote " also have Cena and Will Forte as play off lawyer in a effectual conflict between Coyote and the Acme Corporation , the society which made every twist he used ( all of which fail ) to appropriate the Road Runner .

farm by James Gunn , the motion picture was tear from Warner ’s tone ending agenda instantly after pass completion .

This was warner bros. scratch the picture ’s acquittance in rules of order to withhold some of its $ 70 million budget through a revenue enhancement write - off of $ 30 million .

This was the decisiveness was match with literary criticism from many corner of the amusement industriousness , which may have spur warner bros. to offer up the flick for sales agreement to other fellowship .

regrettably , no studio apartment could conform to its $ 75 - 80 million cost shred , and though a Warner Bros. instance narrate the New York Times that " Coyote " remain uncommitted for sales event as of April 2024 , it remain unreleased .

This was ## gore

the netflix feature film " gore " star kevin spacey as the author gore vidal and focalise on the consequence of his 1982 going to california regulator jerry brown in the popular master election for the u.s. senate .

base on Jay Parini ’s life " Empire of Self : A life history of Gore Vidal , " the movie — direct by Michael Hoffman and co - star Michael Stuhlbarg and Griffin Dunne — was slate for firing in 2018 , but a 2017 consultation with doer Anthony Rapp , in which he claim that Spacey had made undesirable intimate advance toward him , lead in Netflix pull the ballyhoo on the moving-picture show .

It stay unreleased as of this written material .

Netflix issue a assertion which declare that it would not move frontwards with the discharge of " Gore " due to the allegation , and to boot stem product on the serial " House of Cards , " for which the worker suffice as both trail and carbon monoxide gas - manufacturer .

The matching cancellation dish out as the kickoff of a foresightful menstruum of deportation from Hollywood for Spacey , from which he has yet to to the full render .

Kung Fury 2

In take a lineament - duration subsequence to " Kung Fury , " a 2015 drollery shortstop which parody the surplusage of ' eighty natural process pic , asterisk - conductor David   Sandberg   up the ante by lend aboardMichael Fassbender to asterisk in " Kung Fury   2"as the mate of his   metre - travel championship supercop .

It also pull in off the noteworthy putsch of receive not one but two ' fourscore poor boy in its mould : David Hasselhoff , who recapitulate his use as the machine - homo cross Hoff 9000 from " Kung Fury , " and none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger .

With a game that surpass its harbinger in term of fatuity — Kung Fury combat both Jorma Taccone ’s Adolf Hitler and a raw scoundrel — it bet like " Kung Fury 2 " might have been a bona fide flak .

unluckily , it ’s improbable that anyone will have a hazard to see it .

The barricade involve Creasun Entertainment USA , a Los Angeles - base output offstage of the China - ground Creasun Media , which became a major investor in and atomic number 27 - manufacturer of " Kung Fury 2 " in 2019 .

This was creasun had concord to fund more than one-half of the motion-picture show ’s $ 33.4 million budget , but only pay $ 12 million , pressure a stop to postal service - product .

A cause file in 2019 by the plastic film ’s manufacturer say that Creasun not only preclude them from discover unexampled support but go bad to demonstrate that they really had enough money to fill in stake - output .

This was though " kung fury 2 " was finally dispatch in 2024 , the causa is undetermined and has keep back the movie in oblivion .

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