[Music]
if you think you struggle to finish
things on time just wait until you see
what these filmmakers went through
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movies that took the longest to make
don’t forget to thank the Lord for this
bountiful penis bountiful penis for this
list we’ll be looking at the films that
took an abnormally long time to get made
we’ll also be ranking our selections
based on each film’s origin story so if
the production’s context was especially
fascinating that bumps it up on our list
put the other one up which looks better
number 10
Sleeping Beauty years to make eight oh
no this is terrible with early script
work beginning in 1951 this Walt Disney
Classics suffered a number of rewrites
before finally making it to cinemas in
1959 four years after its planned
release date but what really took the
film eight whole years to produce was
its intricate animation process Stefan’s
castle after the immense success of
Cinderella Walt Disney strived for the
characters in his new project to appear
quote as real as possible near flesh and
blood
this is a pleasant surprise
to achieve this an entire version of the
film was recorded with real actors in
costume for the animators to model their
sketches upon meaning they practically
had to make the movie twice the spindle
touch as I say number 9 roar years to
make eleven build as the most expensive
home movie ever made this pic employed
an assortment of untrained animals
including elephants tigers and a pride
of lions whom director Knoll Marshall
and his wife
Hitchcock starlet Tippi Hedren had
adopted to live with on their
Californian ranch we’re really friendly
the shoot began in 1974 but was struck
by a setback when a flood destroyed
completed footage and took the lives of
several of the feline stars come on my
face what’s more 70 members of the cast
and crew were injured by the animals
featured in the film Oh what the hell’s
wrong with you all you got a few
scratches the final budget was 17
million dollars but the finished film
hardly spent a week in cinemas and
grossed only two million dollars
ouch you could have died dummy shut up
by almost guide number eight Apocalypse
Now years to make five my lessons unsung
there’s an entire documentary entitled
hearts of darkness of filmmakers
apocalypse which chronicles the lengths
to which Francis Ford Coppola and his
crew went in order to get this film made
just to offer an idea of how grueling
its long shoot was
I thought so of course it should be
noted that even though it was
notoriously drawn-out stanley kubrick’s
Eyes Wide Shut currently holds the
Guinness world record for the longest
unbroken shoot period at 46 weeks yet
this Vietnam War Adventure had to push
through production against all odds
notably after their sets were tarnished
by a storm
Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack and
Marlon Brando arrived on set overweight
horror has a face and you must make a
friend of horror
despite this flurry of issues that
threaten to shut the film down for good
Apocalypse Now went on to win the
prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes
Film Festival market civilians alright
you got the cigarettes and that’s what
I’ve been dreaming number seven the
simpsons movie years to make nine if you
had me everybody in this theater is a
giant sucker Simpsons creator Matt
Groening originally conceived a film
version of the hit comedy to be
developed after the series ended the
crew also attempted to turn the season 4
episode Camp Krusty into its own movie
ladies and gentlemen I’ve been to
Vietnam Afghanistan and Iraq and I can
say without hyperbole that this is a
million times worse than all of them put
together but ultimately in 1997 Fox
finally greenlit the project and in 2001
most of the voice cast gave their okay’s
the writers then spent six months
deciding on a plot even considering a
musical at one point with the screenplay
undergoing over a hundred revisions oh
that’s better
despite the delays the resulting
animated comedy was a success on the
silver screen with appearances from
almost every one of the show’s roughly
three hundred and twenty characters as
well as the introduction of an favorite
spider pig buy your pig spy your pink
does whatever a spider pig does number
six avatar years to make ten you will
have one chance shake
how would I know if he chooses me seeing
as how this sci-fi epic proceeded to
become the highest-grossing film of all
time it’s safe to say it’s ten year
production length was well worth it
I will stand and fight he knew I was on
the heels of his achievements with
Titanic director James Cameron worked
with world-class visual designers to
shape his alien race the knobby once he
realized how advanced his vision was for
his original 1997 production start date
he spent the following years developing
new 3d camera and CGI technology in
order to properly bring the fantasy
planet Pandora
to life come on come on over 230 million
dollars and a plethora of technical
breakthroughs later and avatar broke
records and changed the landscape of the
craft of cinema forever everything is
backwards now like out there is the true
world then here’s the dream number five
Mad Max fury road years to make 15
remember me George Miller the mastermind
behind the original Mad Max trilogy
spent years attempting to reacquire the
rights to his franchise it is by my hand
you will rise from the ashes
okay swirl he planned to begin shooting
the action film in 2001 but the 9/11
attacks caused the Australian dollar to
drop to significantly compared to the
American dollar and the project was
scrapped you want to get through this
do as I say Miller then turned his focus
to decidedly lighter subject matter
the musical penguin romp happy feet
after years of development Hell where
Heath Ledger was even briefly in talks
to play max principal photography
finally kicked off in the summer of 2012
with a fiery car chase film hitting
cinemas in 2015
unlike most films in the action genre
fury road received 10 Oscar nominations
and took home six statues number four
the man who killed don quixote years to
make 18 nobody sane along so Keanu
this pic is actually set for release in
2017 but following its whopping 18 year
production history it’s tough to say
whether this loose adaptation of Don
Quixote will ever see the light of day I
was going to say something today but
then I woke up this morning and got an
email so another bump in the road the
road is a very bumpy road centered on an
advertising executive who jumps back and
forth between 21st century London and
17th century La Mancha the film is
directed by Terry Gilliam who’s tried to
make the film eight times over the last
two decades my dream is to be shooting
donkey shot in September its newest
version stars Adam driver and Olga
Kurylenko and sees driver cross paths
with the eponymous hero played by
Michael Palin Auto Georgie issues like
equipment ruined by flooding actor Josh
Fogg having to leave the production due
to illness and long lasting trouble
securing funds have kept his ambitious
project in production he’ll so it’ll be
interesting to see how it all plays out
Oh me alone was Don Quixote born and I
for him
number three teef lend years to make
twenty
[Music]
world war two got in the way of this
movie and that’s because it’s director
Lee nee riefenstahl put the shoot on
hold to work on propaganda films for the
Nazi regime in fact you may know her
work from Hitler’s Nuremberg rally
documentary triumph of the will
I picked up a feeling at Isis jugen
wartime destruction displaced the
production several times
thus riefenstahl had to relocate to
Spain and the Czech Republic at several
points in order to finish her work
unable to pin down an actress of her
liking Riefenstahl even cast herself in
the lead role and later regretted it by
that point she had just turned 40 while
23 year old friends iceberg a played her
lover all in all the romantic picture to
two decades to get on screen still
holding the record for the live-action
movie with the longest production time
number two boyhood years to make 12 you
don’t want the bumpers life doesn’t give
you bumpers perhaps the most famous film
whose production relied on the passage
of time Richard Linklater’s
coming-of-age drama took 12 years to
shoot I just feel like there are so many
things that I could be doing and
probably want to be doing that I’m just
not IFC Films intrusted Linklater with a
budget of $200,000 and each year from
2002 to 2013
a young Ellar Coltrane would meet with
Linklater and crew to record a
time-lapse of his adolescence his
relationship with mother Patricia
Arquette and father
Ethan Hawke highlighting the very
essence of growing up so that was me my
car when I turned 16
what no I didn’t I never said that from
the world of vents captured in the
background like President Barack Obama’s
election to a soundtrack chronicling
evolutions in radio pop this cinematic
breakthrough is truly a time capsule
that can only exist because it took so
long to make I’m really happy that
you’re hanging out with us yeah you too
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions but
they know they’re facing the gas chamber
and they don’t care that’s
hold on understand they don’t
yo middlemen super 8 80 odd odd oniy
masochism – Towada khumba soya sauce
[Music]
Goody’s number one the thief and the
cobbler years to make 28 weight although
several versions of this film have been
released we’re going with the 1993 cut
that’s also known as the princess and
the cobbler this animated fantasy took a
lifetime of work before it reached
audiences since animator Richard
Williams took on outside jobs to raise
money for his dream project starting in
1964 gentlemen gentlemen who Etta didn’t
know after a stream of story revisions
and countless failures to secure funding
it wasn’t until the 80s that Williams
work caught the eye of Steven Spielberg
who hired him to helm the Academy
award-winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit
alright we go from sky right at the
judge Evan you had me I said rapid
although this helped him score a deal
with Warner Brothers a rough version of
the film was deeply unsuccessful leading
producers to pull out because of the
disastrous length of production loads of
completed animation ultimately hit the
cutting room floor and Williams was
eventually stripped of all control
leading to multiple versions of the film
being released this lowborn cobbler of
nowhere attacked me in the square today
shall we take his head away do you agree
with our list you don’t wanna know which
films do you think Hollywood took way
too long to make
for more persistent top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com right fly
[Music]
if you think you struggle to finish
things on time just wait until you see
what these filmmakers went through
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movies that took the longest to make
don’t forget to thank the Lord for this
bountiful penis bountiful penis for this
list we’ll be looking at the films that
took an abnormally long time to get made
we’ll also be ranking our selections
based on each film’s origin story so if
the production’s context was especially
fascinating that bumps it up on our list
put the other one up which looks better
number 10
Sleeping Beauty years to make eight oh
no this is terrible with early script
work beginning in 1951 this Walt Disney
Classics suffered a number of rewrites
before finally making it to cinemas in
1959 four years after its planned
release date but what really took the
film eight whole years to produce was
its intricate animation process Stefan’s
castle after the immense success of
Cinderella Walt Disney strived for the
characters in his new project to appear
quote as real as possible near flesh and
blood
this is a pleasant surprise
to achieve this an entire version of the
film was recorded with real actors in
costume for the animators to model their
sketches upon meaning they practically
had to make the movie twice the spindle
touch as I say number 9 roar years to
make eleven build as the most expensive
home movie ever made this pic employed
an assortment of untrained animals
including elephants tigers and a pride
of lions whom director Knoll Marshall
and his wife
Hitchcock starlet Tippi Hedren had
adopted to live with on their
Californian ranch we’re really friendly
the shoot began in 1974 but was struck
by a setback when a flood destroyed
completed footage and took the lives of
several of the feline stars come on my
face what’s more 70 members of the cast
and crew were injured by the animals
featured in the film Oh what the hell’s
wrong with you all you got a few
scratches the final budget was 17
million dollars but the finished film
hardly spent a week in cinemas and
grossed only two million dollars
ouch you could have died dummy shut up
by almost guide number eight Apocalypse
Now years to make five my lessons unsung
there’s an entire documentary entitled
hearts of darkness of filmmakers
apocalypse which chronicles the lengths
to which Francis Ford Coppola and his
crew went in order to get this film made
just to offer an idea of how grueling
its long shoot was
I thought so of course it should be
noted that even though it was
notoriously drawn-out stanley kubrick’s
Eyes Wide Shut currently holds the
Guinness world record for the longest
unbroken shoot period at 46 weeks yet
this Vietnam War Adventure had to push
through production against all odds
notably after their sets were tarnished
by a storm
Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack and
Marlon Brando arrived on set overweight
horror has a face and you must make a
friend of horror
despite this flurry of issues that
threaten to shut the film down for good
Apocalypse Now went on to win the
prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes
Film Festival market civilians alright
you got the cigarettes and that’s what
I’ve been dreaming number seven the
simpsons movie years to make nine if you
had me everybody in this theater is a
giant sucker Simpsons creator Matt
Groening originally conceived a film
version of the hit comedy to be
developed after the series ended the
crew also attempted to turn the season 4
episode Camp Krusty into its own movie
ladies and gentlemen I’ve been to
Vietnam Afghanistan and Iraq and I can
say without hyperbole that this is a
million times worse than all of them put
together but ultimately in 1997 Fox
finally greenlit the project and in 2001
most of the voice cast gave their okay’s
the writers then spent six months
deciding on a plot even considering a
musical at one point with the screenplay
undergoing over a hundred revisions oh
that’s better
despite the delays the resulting
animated comedy was a success on the
silver screen with appearances from
almost every one of the show’s roughly
three hundred and twenty characters as
well as the introduction of an favorite
spider pig buy your pig spy your pink
does whatever a spider pig does number
six avatar years to make ten you will
have one chance shake
how would I know if he chooses me seeing
as how this sci-fi epic proceeded to
become the highest-grossing film of all
time it’s safe to say it’s ten year
production length was well worth it
I will stand and fight he knew I was on
the heels of his achievements with
Titanic director James Cameron worked
with world-class visual designers to
shape his alien race the knobby once he
realized how advanced his vision was for
his original 1997 production start date
he spent the following years developing
new 3d camera and CGI technology in
order to properly bring the fantasy
planet Pandora
to life come on come on over 230 million
dollars and a plethora of technical
breakthroughs later and avatar broke
records and changed the landscape of the
craft of cinema forever everything is
backwards now like out there is the true
world then here’s the dream number five
Mad Max fury road years to make 15
remember me George Miller the mastermind
behind the original Mad Max trilogy
spent years attempting to reacquire the
rights to his franchise it is by my hand
you will rise from the ashes
okay swirl he planned to begin shooting
the action film in 2001 but the 9/11
attacks caused the Australian dollar to
drop to significantly compared to the
American dollar and the project was
scrapped you want to get through this
do as I say Miller then turned his focus
to decidedly lighter subject matter
the musical penguin romp happy feet
after years of development Hell where
Heath Ledger was even briefly in talks
to play max principal photography
finally kicked off in the summer of 2012
with a fiery car chase film hitting
cinemas in 2015
unlike most films in the action genre
fury road received 10 Oscar nominations
and took home six statues number four
the man who killed don quixote years to
make 18 nobody sane along so Keanu
this pic is actually set for release in
2017 but following its whopping 18 year
production history it’s tough to say
whether this loose adaptation of Don
Quixote will ever see the light of day I
was going to say something today but
then I woke up this morning and got an
email so another bump in the road the
road is a very bumpy road centered on an
advertising executive who jumps back and
forth between 21st century London and
17th century La Mancha the film is
directed by Terry Gilliam who’s tried to
make the film eight times over the last
two decades my dream is to be shooting
donkey shot in September its newest
version stars Adam driver and Olga
Kurylenko and sees driver cross paths
with the eponymous hero played by
Michael Palin Auto Georgie issues like
equipment ruined by flooding actor Josh
Fogg having to leave the production due
to illness and long lasting trouble
securing funds have kept his ambitious
project in production he’ll so it’ll be
interesting to see how it all plays out
Oh me alone was Don Quixote born and I
for him
number three teef lend years to make
twenty
[Music]
world war two got in the way of this
movie and that’s because it’s director
Lee nee riefenstahl put the shoot on
hold to work on propaganda films for the
Nazi regime in fact you may know her
work from Hitler’s Nuremberg rally
documentary triumph of the will
I picked up a feeling at Isis jugen
wartime destruction displaced the
production several times
thus riefenstahl had to relocate to
Spain and the Czech Republic at several
points in order to finish her work
unable to pin down an actress of her
liking Riefenstahl even cast herself in
the lead role and later regretted it by
that point she had just turned 40 while
23 year old friends iceberg a played her
lover all in all the romantic picture to
two decades to get on screen still
holding the record for the live-action
movie with the longest production time
number two boyhood years to make 12 you
don’t want the bumpers life doesn’t give
you bumpers perhaps the most famous film
whose production relied on the passage
of time Richard Linklater’s
coming-of-age drama took 12 years to
shoot I just feel like there are so many
things that I could be doing and
probably want to be doing that I’m just
not IFC Films intrusted Linklater with a
budget of $200,000 and each year from
2002 to 2013
a young Ellar Coltrane would meet with
Linklater and crew to record a
time-lapse of his adolescence his
relationship with mother Patricia
Arquette and father
Ethan Hawke highlighting the very
essence of growing up so that was me my
car when I turned 16
what no I didn’t I never said that from
the world of vents captured in the
background like President Barack Obama’s
election to a soundtrack chronicling
evolutions in radio pop this cinematic
breakthrough is truly a time capsule
that can only exist because it took so
long to make I’m really happy that
you’re hanging out with us yeah you too
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions but
they know they’re facing the gas chamber
and they don’t care that’s
hold on understand they don’t
yo middlemen super 8 80 odd odd oniy
masochism – Towada khumba soya sauce
[Music]
Goody’s number one the thief and the
cobbler years to make 28 weight although
several versions of this film have been
released we’re going with the 1993 cut
that’s also known as the princess and
the cobbler this animated fantasy took a
lifetime of work before it reached
audiences since animator Richard
Williams took on outside jobs to raise
money for his dream project starting in
1964 gentlemen gentlemen who Etta didn’t
know after a stream of story revisions
and countless failures to secure funding
it wasn’t until the 80s that Williams
work caught the eye of Steven Spielberg
who hired him to helm the Academy
award-winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit
alright we go from sky right at the
judge Evan you had me I said rapid
although this helped him score a deal
with Warner Brothers a rough version of
the film was deeply unsuccessful leading
producers to pull out because of the
disastrous length of production loads of
completed animation ultimately hit the
cutting room floor and Williams was
eventually stripped of all control
leading to multiple versions of the film
being released this lowborn cobbler of
nowhere attacked me in the square today
shall we take his head away do you agree
with our list you don’t wanna know which
films do you think Hollywood took way
too long to make
for more persistent top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com right fly
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