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Films may not be completed for several reasons, with some being shelved during different stages of the production. Some films have been shut down days into production. Other unfinished films have been shot in their entirety but have not completed post-production where the film is edited and sound and score added.
- Revenge of The Nerds
- Empires of The Deep
- The American
- Bogart Slept Here
- Divine Rapture
- The Overcoat
- Hippie Hippie Shake
- The Shadow King
- The Freak
- Grizzly II: Revenge
You probably remember the original Revenge of the Nerds from 1984 as a raucous comedy about a group of frat brothers who bully the geek brain trust of the fictional Adams College and where a character nicknamed “Booger” helped the titular revenge take place. What you may not know is that a remake was partially filmed in 2006 before production was h...
Hailed as China’s answer to James Cameron’s epic Avatar (2009), Empires of the Deep may be the single most expensive movie never to see the light of day. Apparently centered on a war between underwater kingdoms with mermaids and crabs, the effects-heavy 3D feature went through at least four directors—at one point, Empire Strikes Back director Irvin...
Director J. Stuart Blackton told press that The American, which was also known as The Flag Maker, was a film suggested to him by none other than President (and Blackton's neighbor) Theodore Roosevelt. However it came about, the silent Western was filmed but never released. The movie was made using a novel process known as Natural Vision, which was ...
Robert De Niro is widely considered to be one of the 20th century’s best film actors. But in 1975, he was getting fired from Bogart Slept Here, a light comedy-drama directed by Mike Nichols and written by Neil Simon. De Niro was playing an actor who stumbles into superstardom; Marsha Mason portrayed his wife. From all accounts, De Niro—who had just...
It seems a sure bet to mount a production starring Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, and Debra Winger. But Divine Rapture, shot in 1995, needed divine intervention to succeed. Shot on the small island of Ballycotton in Ireland, the film was to tell the storyof a woman named Mary (Winger) who “rises” from the dead during her own funeral. (In fact, she had...
Directors like Stanley Kubrick are often noted as perfectionists, but not even Kubrick can compare to Yuri Norstein. The Russian animator has been working on a film titled The Overcoat for 40 years and appears to be in no great hurry to complete it. Based on a short story by author Nikolai Gogol about a man’s obsession with a particular piece of ap...
Filmed in 2007 with an impressive cast including Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller, Hippie Hippie Shake details the emergence of counter-culture 1960s magazine Oz. Murphy played Ozco-founder Richard Neville; Miller was his girlfriend, Louise Ferrier. Director Beeban Kidron and her husband, screenwriter Lee Hall, both left the project before it was c...
Directed by Henry Selick (2009’s Coraline), The Shadow King promised a darkly humorous tale of a boy named Hap Dagger who can summon shadow creatures with his hands and must confront a monster using his newfound army. It was intended to be Pixar’s first foray into stop-motion animation. But Selick and Disney reportedly clashed over the movie’s deve...
Intended to be the final movie from silent film star and director Charlie Chaplin, The Freak never got past the pre-production stage owing to the actor’s death in 1977. But what was left behind seemed to offer a great deal of potential. The Freaktells the story of Serapha, a woman born with wings who sees her physically unique trait used by others ...
Filmed in Hungary and featuring future stars Charlie Sheen, Laura Dern, and George Clooney, this bearsplotation sequel to 1976’s Grizzly had all the makings of a drive-in success. The three play friends who set out for an outdoor music festival and instead run afoul of a grizzly. Despite this promising plot, the project never seemed to coalesce int...
- Don's Plum. Before Leonardo DiCaprio won his first fabled Oscar, he was part of a group of Hollywood bros dubbed “the P**** Posse” by an infamous New York Magazine piece.
- The Day the Clown Cried. Something of an urban legend in the film industry, The Day the Clown Cried is a 1972 film starring Jerry Lewis as a clown at a German World War 2 internment camp.
- Black Water Transit. While Tony Kaye directed Black Water Transit, his reportedly volatile behavior is not the reason why cinema-goers have never heard of it.
- Hippie Hippie Shake. Based on the memoir of Australian publisher Richard Neville, Hippie Hippie Shake is a period drama focusing on 1960s counter-culture.
Dec 26, 2019 · 10 completed movies that were never released and the murky reasons why. Including a "lost" Quentin Tarantino movie. By Hugh Armitage Updated: 26 December 2019. For every movie that is...
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Apr 14, 2014 · Completed movies that still haven’t been released. They've been shot, edited, and completed, but you still won't see these films at a cinema near you any time soon, or maybe ever... By Simon...
Jun 25, 2016 · These movies weren't finished, but that doesn't mean you never saw them. Sometimes a release date just has to be kept, regardless of the consequences.
Feb 5, 2016 · Sometimes movies stop production due to financial problems, script issues, or just plain bad luck. Here are 12 movies that were shot, but never completed, and remain unfinished and abandoned. 1....
