A Straw Dogs remake starring the cast of Superman Returns is grinding into production.
Which, we're sure you'll agree, is a terrible idea.
So here's 9 amazing/awful movies that fell apart before they hit our screens.
Fingers crossed that the Straw Dogs rehash goes the same way...
1. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2000)
The Victims: Johnny Depp, Jean Rochefort, Vanessa Paradis, Terry Gilliam (director).
The Gist: A stressed-out modern-day ad executive finds himself transported back in time to the age of Cervantes’ eccentric, windmill-tilting hero.
The Death Blow: First of all, there were scheduling conflicts. Then there were set-destroying flash floods. Then there was Rochefort’s nasty prostate problem that made it impossible for him to sit astride a horse – a bit of a problem given that his Quixote is on horseback for most of the movie.
This proved too much for the insurance adjusters, who shut the production down.
Were We Denied Or Saved? If the footage revealed by 2003’s on-set documentary Lost In La Mancha is anything to go by, it’s very much the former. Hopefully, Gilliam’s dream of buying the film back from the insurers and starting again will one day come true.
Next: The Bells Of Hell Go Ting-A-Ling-A-Ling
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Desperation
Jul 17th 2009, 17:28
What happened to stop Mata Hari then?
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UberGeek
Jul 18th 2009, 12:22
@Desperation - Well Carradine died didn't he, that’ll ground any production to a stop when it's your main star. Shame about Dark Blood too - sounds like it would have been a sleeper hit. Plus I’ve seen what little footage of My Best Friends Birthday there is, and it's cheesier than your grannies feet!
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Desperation
Jul 18th 2009, 18:00
Carradine died this year, the article states that he was going to start making the movie in 1978. So that tends to suggest that his death had nothing to do with why this movie was never made.
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Agent69
Jul 19th 2009, 19:24
Jodorowsky's Dune is the greatest movie never made.
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lpatterson
Jul 20th 2009, 11:33
Mata Hari was supposed to span 20 years, so should have been finished in 1998. It was generally agreed that Carradine had either run out of money or lost interest when the film didn't appear. His most recent claim was that the film still wasn't "quite finished." So... who knows?!
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Desperation
Jul 20th 2009, 19:47
Shame. As the article states, it was a brilliant idea and could have been something really special. A quick look on wiki tells me that the subject matter probably wouldn't have interested me, but i would have loved to watch it anyway just to see cinematic history in the making. No-one these days will ever have the balls to even consider such an idea.
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Schwin
Jul 20th 2009, 23:26
Halo: The Movie should be mentioned. Gutted thats no longer getting made, especially as Peter Jackson was involved
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