we’ll never get to know whether or not
we would have loved them or hated them
that’s a damn shame
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movies that were never made the company
do on the bridge ASAP
better follow me for this list we’re
taking a look at films or rather
proposed films that never made it all
the way to theaters I’d be Vic Vega from
dogs yes you would John would be a
Vincent than we were supposed to be
brothers and then make a picture
together called the Vega brothers these
are the movies that were either pitched
to studios or even entered production
before the plug was pulled entirely
considering the types of projects and
the individuals involved there stands a
chance that these movies could have
either been iconic or major flops you’ll
be the judge you don’t have any idea
what you’re talking about these people
bust their ass this is a hard job number
10 Tim Burton’s Superman lives I gotta
find a job where I can keep my ear to
the ground it was 1996 when kevin smith
of clerks fame pitched a script for a
superman movie and i will not allow
anyone to prevent me from carrying it
out and while his original idea was
bastardized into some bizarre star wars
wild wild west hybrid wherein the Man of
Steel would fight a giant spider the
project moved forward Tim Burton was
signed as director with Nicolas Cage as
the Big Blue Boy Scout you know I’m not
gonna stop and we gotta admit with their
dark and wacky ways a burton cage joint
may have been a good fit but yadda yadda
yadda thirty million dollars later the
project just faded into obscurity do you
think of anything else you’d rather
spend it on oh my gosh that is cool here
number 9 Quentin Tarantino’s the Vega
brothers but you know what’s on my mind
right now it ain’t the coffee in my
kitchen Tarantino is no stranger to
interconnected universes or production
problems is that a fact with his Western
follow-up to Django Unchained the
hateful eight going through ups and
downs on its way to fruition
however he’d also planned but failed to
tie together two of his most famous
films Kotori double V Vega would have
focused on the Vega brothers Vic played
by Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs and
Vincent played by John Travolta in Pulp
Fiction Marvin what do you make all this
man I don’t even have an opinion we got
to have an opinion but considering their
respective character arcs and the
current ages of the actors
this one’s likely shelved permanently to
the right here
number eight Jerry Lewis’s the day the
clown cried I was broken sharing a room
with 12 people I didn’t know laughter
laughs though completed this film never
made it to theaters and by all accounts
that’s a good thing
Lewis reluctantly plays a German clown
in a concentration camp during World War
two we say reluctantly because he
worried his humor wouldn’t work with the
dark subject matter he was right those
who have seen the film say it’s a
disaster from start to finish with
misplaced jokes hitting all the wrong
notes legal stickiness and Lewis’s
embarrassment about the film where the
final nail in its coffin and it’s never
been released
number seven Paul Verhoeven’s crusade
assembly
it would have been a gritty
action-packed look at the Crusades
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger me and
with Total Recall director Paul
Verhoeven at the helm all preparation
everything you have done before is
nothing in comparison to shooting a
movie it said that sets were already
being built on location in Spain when
Vera Elvin suffered a breakdown at a
budget meeting for the film effectively
nixing any prospects of the project
moving forward and with a budget of 100
million dollars back in 1994 who can
blame him sheesh another theory suggests
Carroll Co Pictures pulled funding to
pay for another of their blockbusters
instead the mega flop cutthroat island
you shame me less I don’t like that
number 6
oh babe whistles Genesis how blessed are
the sorrowful they shall find
consolation referred to as the patron
saint of cinema renowned French director
Bob Ellis all set his sights on creating
an extravagant expansive epic film
version of the Bible’s Book of Genesis
and he was the perfect man for the job
as he was known for his impact on the
art of filmmaking and for his penchant
for Catholic subject matter ends up
Olaus who don’t want to be crucified
here next but after securing financing
once and then a second time the sole
scrapped the project for good partly
because he was unable to make the
animals onset do his bidding
snakes – honey – all the calls all the
chills number five alfred hitchcock’s
frenzy also known as kaleidoscope Oh him
you dust enough I hope he’s a bastard
though Hitchcock did make a film called
frenzy it was not this movie one of many
Hitchcock films that didn’t make it to
the big screen this one was a little too
risque for the studio Lew Wasserman felt
that kaleidoscope frenzy would do
irreparable harm to the Hitchcock
franchise that Hitchcock the director
and the marketable entity would
basically come to an end if he made this
film told through the eyes of a
bodybuilder who just so happens to be a
serial killer the story would have
revolved around his sexual escapades
murder spree and eventual downfall
Hitchcock even got some silent test
footage down before the studio pulled
the plug altogether due to its explicit
material but I hate to even think about
it
number 4 Alejandro Jodorowsky’s dune he
who controls the spice controls the
universe 10 years before David Lynch’s
1984 version of Frank Herbert’s novel
was complete there was a more
psychedelic vision of the story in the
works
Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky
had lofty aspirations for the material
and wanted the film to be reminiscent of
an hallucination I want to create the
profit to change the young minds of all
the world and with Mick Jagger and
Salvador Dali on the roster and Peter
Gabriel and/or Pink Floyd handling the
music he was on the right track however
after over one-fifth of the budget was
expended during pre-production of what
would have been a 14-hour film
production stalled permanently please
excuse me if I can’t talk about it
number three Peter Jackson’s halo we
have three survivors I’ve alerted
command let’s go
fans of this popular video game series
have been waiting since 2005 for the
film adaptation of their beloved
franchise to finally make it to screen
and come on it’s meant to happen
the battle between aliens and humans
will never get old
am I right marine damn right I am
unfortunately the project was hampered
by an escalating budget and Microsoft’s
iron grip on the creative output as well
as the company’s upfront financial
demands with Peter Jackson signed on to
produce halo could have potentially been
a blockbuster
instead it fell victims to the politics
of the industry number 2 Orson Welles
heart of darkness never give me anything
I really care about
while his retelling of Don Quixote also
remains unfinished it swells take on
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness that
intrigues us rosebud
before he revolutionized the film
industry with his legendary Citizen Kane
Welles had another film in the chamber
unfortunately he never got it off the
ground you may have you conformed such a
committee put me down for contribution
of $1,000 after tests were shot and the
film was planned heart of darkness was
cancelled by studio executives due to an
overinflated budget wouldn’t work
of course audiences did get to see
Conrad’s novel modernized in Apocalypse
Now but we wonder what could have been
you’re fired
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions though the only
way you can fail in life the only risk
you can take is that when you die you
say oh I wish I had done that it’s been
picked at over the years people to
borrow a lot of stuff from it but the
essence of rendezvous with Rama is still
there said this to a few different
people have enough I’ve said it to
everybody but do you think it’s going to
be great I think everybody got a good
sense of humor everybody’s smart
everybody’s good at their job and you
with any luck will protect me from
making other fools myself it’s about a
really big fat guy naming nations who’s
stubborn he’s got a medieval perspective
he thinks the entire world is doing it
incorrectly and his way is the highway
number 1 Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon so
there’s the great thief of Europe rinser
fresh off his triumph 2001 a Space
Odyssey director Stanley Kubrick set his
sights on developing a sweeping story
about the notorious French Emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte that’s good news this
stuff on the walls of Venice he surveyed
locations wrote a script draft
cultivated extensive background info
settled on actors and got all his ducks
in a row before hitting a wall
in production the film was ultimately
shelved for a number of reasons
including financial limitations and the
poor response to another Napoleon based
movie
it’s too bad too because Cooper claimed
this would have been the best movie ever
made uh I wonder what history will say
with him do you agree with our list what
do you think is the greatest film that
was never made
yeah hey are we happy for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
I’d make my promises now if I weren’t
too busy arranging to keep them
we would have loved them or hated them
that’s a damn shame
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movies that were never made the company
do on the bridge ASAP
better follow me for this list we’re
taking a look at films or rather
proposed films that never made it all
the way to theaters I’d be Vic Vega from
dogs yes you would John would be a
Vincent than we were supposed to be
brothers and then make a picture
together called the Vega brothers these
are the movies that were either pitched
to studios or even entered production
before the plug was pulled entirely
considering the types of projects and
the individuals involved there stands a
chance that these movies could have
either been iconic or major flops you’ll
be the judge you don’t have any idea
what you’re talking about these people
bust their ass this is a hard job number
10 Tim Burton’s Superman lives I gotta
find a job where I can keep my ear to
the ground it was 1996 when kevin smith
of clerks fame pitched a script for a
superman movie and i will not allow
anyone to prevent me from carrying it
out and while his original idea was
bastardized into some bizarre star wars
wild wild west hybrid wherein the Man of
Steel would fight a giant spider the
project moved forward Tim Burton was
signed as director with Nicolas Cage as
the Big Blue Boy Scout you know I’m not
gonna stop and we gotta admit with their
dark and wacky ways a burton cage joint
may have been a good fit but yadda yadda
yadda thirty million dollars later the
project just faded into obscurity do you
think of anything else you’d rather
spend it on oh my gosh that is cool here
number 9 Quentin Tarantino’s the Vega
brothers but you know what’s on my mind
right now it ain’t the coffee in my
kitchen Tarantino is no stranger to
interconnected universes or production
problems is that a fact with his Western
follow-up to Django Unchained the
hateful eight going through ups and
downs on its way to fruition
however he’d also planned but failed to
tie together two of his most famous
films Kotori double V Vega would have
focused on the Vega brothers Vic played
by Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs and
Vincent played by John Travolta in Pulp
Fiction Marvin what do you make all this
man I don’t even have an opinion we got
to have an opinion but considering their
respective character arcs and the
current ages of the actors
this one’s likely shelved permanently to
the right here
number eight Jerry Lewis’s the day the
clown cried I was broken sharing a room
with 12 people I didn’t know laughter
laughs though completed this film never
made it to theaters and by all accounts
that’s a good thing
Lewis reluctantly plays a German clown
in a concentration camp during World War
two we say reluctantly because he
worried his humor wouldn’t work with the
dark subject matter he was right those
who have seen the film say it’s a
disaster from start to finish with
misplaced jokes hitting all the wrong
notes legal stickiness and Lewis’s
embarrassment about the film where the
final nail in its coffin and it’s never
been released
number seven Paul Verhoeven’s crusade
assembly
it would have been a gritty
action-packed look at the Crusades
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger me and
with Total Recall director Paul
Verhoeven at the helm all preparation
everything you have done before is
nothing in comparison to shooting a
movie it said that sets were already
being built on location in Spain when
Vera Elvin suffered a breakdown at a
budget meeting for the film effectively
nixing any prospects of the project
moving forward and with a budget of 100
million dollars back in 1994 who can
blame him sheesh another theory suggests
Carroll Co Pictures pulled funding to
pay for another of their blockbusters
instead the mega flop cutthroat island
you shame me less I don’t like that
number 6
oh babe whistles Genesis how blessed are
the sorrowful they shall find
consolation referred to as the patron
saint of cinema renowned French director
Bob Ellis all set his sights on creating
an extravagant expansive epic film
version of the Bible’s Book of Genesis
and he was the perfect man for the job
as he was known for his impact on the
art of filmmaking and for his penchant
for Catholic subject matter ends up
Olaus who don’t want to be crucified
here next but after securing financing
once and then a second time the sole
scrapped the project for good partly
because he was unable to make the
animals onset do his bidding
snakes – honey – all the calls all the
chills number five alfred hitchcock’s
frenzy also known as kaleidoscope Oh him
you dust enough I hope he’s a bastard
though Hitchcock did make a film called
frenzy it was not this movie one of many
Hitchcock films that didn’t make it to
the big screen this one was a little too
risque for the studio Lew Wasserman felt
that kaleidoscope frenzy would do
irreparable harm to the Hitchcock
franchise that Hitchcock the director
and the marketable entity would
basically come to an end if he made this
film told through the eyes of a
bodybuilder who just so happens to be a
serial killer the story would have
revolved around his sexual escapades
murder spree and eventual downfall
Hitchcock even got some silent test
footage down before the studio pulled
the plug altogether due to its explicit
material but I hate to even think about
it
number 4 Alejandro Jodorowsky’s dune he
who controls the spice controls the
universe 10 years before David Lynch’s
1984 version of Frank Herbert’s novel
was complete there was a more
psychedelic vision of the story in the
works
Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky
had lofty aspirations for the material
and wanted the film to be reminiscent of
an hallucination I want to create the
profit to change the young minds of all
the world and with Mick Jagger and
Salvador Dali on the roster and Peter
Gabriel and/or Pink Floyd handling the
music he was on the right track however
after over one-fifth of the budget was
expended during pre-production of what
would have been a 14-hour film
production stalled permanently please
excuse me if I can’t talk about it
number three Peter Jackson’s halo we
have three survivors I’ve alerted
command let’s go
fans of this popular video game series
have been waiting since 2005 for the
film adaptation of their beloved
franchise to finally make it to screen
and come on it’s meant to happen
the battle between aliens and humans
will never get old
am I right marine damn right I am
unfortunately the project was hampered
by an escalating budget and Microsoft’s
iron grip on the creative output as well
as the company’s upfront financial
demands with Peter Jackson signed on to
produce halo could have potentially been
a blockbuster
instead it fell victims to the politics
of the industry number 2 Orson Welles
heart of darkness never give me anything
I really care about
while his retelling of Don Quixote also
remains unfinished it swells take on
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness that
intrigues us rosebud
before he revolutionized the film
industry with his legendary Citizen Kane
Welles had another film in the chamber
unfortunately he never got it off the
ground you may have you conformed such a
committee put me down for contribution
of $1,000 after tests were shot and the
film was planned heart of darkness was
cancelled by studio executives due to an
overinflated budget wouldn’t work
of course audiences did get to see
Conrad’s novel modernized in Apocalypse
Now but we wonder what could have been
you’re fired
before we unveil our top pick here are a
few honorable mentions though the only
way you can fail in life the only risk
you can take is that when you die you
say oh I wish I had done that it’s been
picked at over the years people to
borrow a lot of stuff from it but the
essence of rendezvous with Rama is still
there said this to a few different
people have enough I’ve said it to
everybody but do you think it’s going to
be great I think everybody got a good
sense of humor everybody’s smart
everybody’s good at their job and you
with any luck will protect me from
making other fools myself it’s about a
really big fat guy naming nations who’s
stubborn he’s got a medieval perspective
he thinks the entire world is doing it
incorrectly and his way is the highway
number 1 Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon so
there’s the great thief of Europe rinser
fresh off his triumph 2001 a Space
Odyssey director Stanley Kubrick set his
sights on developing a sweeping story
about the notorious French Emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte that’s good news this
stuff on the walls of Venice he surveyed
locations wrote a script draft
cultivated extensive background info
settled on actors and got all his ducks
in a row before hitting a wall
in production the film was ultimately
shelved for a number of reasons
including financial limitations and the
poor response to another Napoleon based
movie
it’s too bad too because Cooper claimed
this would have been the best movie ever
made uh I wonder what history will say
with him do you agree with our list what
do you think is the greatest film that
was never made
yeah hey are we happy for more
entertaining top 10s published every day
be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com
I’d make my promises now if I weren’t
too busy arranging to keep them
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