Movies that never got made that you wish did.

So what movies did you hear about potentially getting made that never did? Personally I wish there had been a Shanghai Dawn with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. I loved both Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights with the first admittedly being better than the second, but still, both were quality films in my opinion. There was discussion of it happening off and on for a while, but it never surfaced.

Anyways, what movies, sequels or otherwise, had you heard about that got you excited, but ultimately never came to be?

• Peter Jackson's Halo
• Joss Whedon's Batman
• Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman
• Film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Death

Rendezvous with Rama

A few obvious ones spring to mind. Buckaroo Banzai versus the World Crime League. The Adventures of Remo Williams II.

Another would be The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, which were the names of the other two books in the "His Dark Materials" series aka The Golden Compass series. The Golden Compass is actually the name of the first book, just like how the Game of Thrones series is actually the "Song of Fire and Ice" series but everyone just refers to it as GoT (which is actually the name of the first book). They made a movie based (mostly) on the first book but it was less than awesome and did poorly in the box office.

Another I really would have liked to see would be Luc Besson's originally planned sequel to Leon aka The Professional that would have focused on a now older Mathilda working as a hitman using the skills that Leon taught her.

-Byshop

Bio Dome 2

Half Baked 2

Dredd 2

A live action Voltron... and not directed by Michael Bay. I think Pacific Rim stole any chance of this happening soon.

Matrix reboot :(

@Byshop: Another I really would have liked to see would be Luc Besson's originally planned sequel to Leon aka The Professional that would have focused on a now older Mathilda working as a hitman using the skills that Leon taught her.

I'm not sure how this would work as a film as at the core of Leon was a buddy story about two lonely folks, living in highly tumultuous circumstances finding a kind of peace and light at the end of the tunnel. Plus a load of mazing action sequences and Gary Oldman.

You would need to find a central theme as strong with an older Mathilda which still resonates above just another action film. The question is, why is older Mathilda interesting?

Take Mad Max. The first film. Very original and strong concept. A road warrior ex highway cop now surviving alone in an apocalyptic dystopia. The second film. There is the beginnings of a new civilisation but the bandits want to pillage it for short term gains. Can Max save the beginnings of a new civilisation. Mad Max 3: Tina Turner. Peter Pan theme but it had a new but less orderly new civilisation of sorts in Bartertown which is imperfect but Tina Turner is a pragmatist and believes in Bartertown. Mad Max 4: errrm. Well there Max. He doesn't drive a car much, spends about 40 minutes of the film tied to the front of a car like jesus. There is a bad man and he has an evil slave town in a mountain. I honestly can't remember the rest. It was horrendously shit. That's what happens when you make a film just because you think it will make money. **** the story. They even ditched the driving. Better off with the game there as it's 90% driving around.

When I hear a movie is 'being made' I immediately tune out.

I try to stay in the now

Was going to say Dredd 2, but a tv series may end up being more beneficial.

I'm not sure how it would work either, but as I mentioned this was what Besson had originally planned to do. But then Portman got a bit too famous/expensive so it didn't end up happening. Yeah, it would be a very fundamentally different film without Reno and Oldman but I'd still have been curious to check back in on Mathilda to see how she ended up, especially after the first film left so many elements of her eventual fate uncertain.

As for Mad Max, you're in the minority not liking it although I get what you're saying about how different it was from the previous films.

-Byshop

The sequel to Treasure Planet (And its planned television series). At the time, Disney had nailed traditional animation to its core. It really was well done. But they completely blew it when the first film got released next to the behemoth known as Harry Potter (Which no surprise, destroyed everything in its path that year). The franchise could've been so much more... but wasn't.

English version......The Girl who Played with Fire with Rooney Mara.

Both versions of The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo were great.

First thing that came to mind.

I'd also love to see a Hulk vs Superman movie, with the obvious winner being Hulk this time.

Smack her sweaty ass.

A few year's ago I would have said no chance in Hell. But then Childhoods End actually got made, so maybe there is hope.

@judaspete:

Childhoods End got made? How did I miss that?

@AFBrat77: Sy Fy channel made a mini-series of it about a year ago. It turned out pretty well, but they did not give it the biggest marketing push.

George Romero was gonna make a Resident Evil movie, whatever he wanted to do was surely miles better than the movies we got

The Lensmen Series by E.E.(Doc)Smith

Well not a movie but a TV series.

A TV series based on Urban Cowboy set in modern day.

I want a prequel to 'Watchmen' or a "League of Extra Ordinary Gentleman 2". Also looking forward to Universal pictures' 'Dark Universe'.

I think King of the Hill would've been nice to see for a movie.

Ah Denis robman for having the balls to dip.

A good Dune movie. I love Star Wars, more than most people I know, but it would be nice to see it dethroned.

The Dune novels are my favorite books ever, though.

I mean "space opera" is a term used too often imo--not every large-scale sci-fi movie needs to be called a "space opera" simply because it's grand--but Dune could easily be turned into a six-movie kind of deal to rival Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, etc.

And all the Dune stuff outside of the books has sucked majorly; I mean the sci-fi miniseries was all right, but you need to treat it as an actual opera to take it remotely serious (small set design, overacting, etc).

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Dear god, not that version of Dune. It'd basically be "Barbarella" except worse because you would have to take it serious, since it's Dune.

The Foundation, by Isaac Assimov. I hear they've started making it.

I'm still distraught that Guillermo Del Toro abandoned his At the Mountains of Madness project due to bickering about the R rating.

It's a Lovecraft story that doesn't feature any "on screen" violence, for crying out loud. It would have been perfectly fine - perhaps even preferable - to not show what he believed would push it over that rating threshold.

Sequel to 2003 dawn of the dead

After seeing what their final product was with The Mummy, maybe it's for the best that the rest of this planned cinematic universe is now dead.

But I really love fantasy teamups like in 'The League of Extra Ordinary Gentlemen'.

I remember there being rumours of a Heavy Rain movie a while back. Game-based movies usually suck but considering Heavy Rain was pretty much an interactive movie, I thought it would've worked well.

Can't say that I've read it, but I've heard that the script got leaked and it seems like it would have been a pile of crap anyway.

A Star Trek movie that featured the casts from ST:TNG, DS9, and Voyager. Make it an epic in 3 parts.

Also have space travel breakthroughs that link the Alpha and Delta quadrants, similar to Borg transwarp conduits.

Aliens 4 blomkamps

Stanley Kubrick wanted to make a movie about Napoleon. That would've been awesome. Also, for years, Martin Scorsese was planning to make a biopic of Frank Sinatra, but unfortunately the Sinatra estate objected to the panned portrayal and the project was canceled. What a bummer.

Shanghai Dawn: Yes. While each Rush Hour sequel became worse, Shanghai Knights was nearly as good as Shanghai Noon. It would have been interesting to see a third adventure with the Jackie Chan / Owen Wilson duo.

28 Months Later: Many thought 28 Weeks Later was not as good as 28 Days Later, but I thought it was an intense and action-packed sequel (like how Aliens was a more action-packed sequel to horror film Alien). The cliffhanger ending left me wanting more.

Mortal Kombat Devastation: MK Annihilation sucked, but the next film would have ignored the events of that film and would have followed on the events of the much better original film.

Spider-Man 4: Spider-Man 3 did not live up to its hype, but it was not all that terrible and I didn't feel that the franchise was beyond redemption that warranted a reboot. I also didn't feel that SM3 provided a satisfying closure to the series and that Tobey's Peter Parker still had room to develop as a character.

Honestly, I always thought that that idea just seemed like expensive fan-fiction. Like, if that's what's going on, why bother?

but then having seen Prometheus and Alien Covenant, I started thinking, "shit, might as well do it." I mean, I'm sure that the proposed Neil Blomkamp Alien Sequel Retcon would probably be a pile of crap, but it's not as if Ridley Scott's recent Alien-related movies were worth a damn either. As far as I can see, Neil Blomkamp's Aliens movie would just be a case of swapping out one pile of shit for a different pile of shit. So hey...why the hell not?

The Alien, a 1960s film written and directed by Satyajit Ray that was going to star Peter Sellers and Marlin Brando. The film was cancelled, but its script later inspired Stephen Spielberg's ET in the 1980s. Would've been interesting to see Satyajit Ray's original vision from the 1960s (although that would mean erasing ET from history).