The Possibles--Movies We Wish Could Have Been....

[tombitd]

What do you guys think of an episode where Derrick and I pick some film projects that never got made...that we wish did?

[grubl]

I'm sure that you guys will find a way to make that interesting.

[chrisj]

Sounds like a good episode to me.

[Eddie Love]

Sounds excellent. You could certainly cite the many aborted Hitchcock projects. I'd also throw out WARHEAD -- the first planned remake of THUNDERBALL that would have brought Connery back as 007 in the mid-70s. The script is on-line -- written by Len Deighton!

[Derrick]

The two movies that jump in my head right away is the same movie that had two well-known directors attached to it: a film adaptation of Frank Miller's BATMAN: YEAR ONE.

This was the movie Joel Schumacher actually wanted to do and according to a whole lot of people, Schumacher was going to be very faithful to the graphic novel which was something Warner Bros. most certainly did not want because it's kinda hard to sell Happy Meals with Catwoman figures to kids when Catwoman is a prostitute.

Darren Aronofsky was also very interested in directing BATMAN: YEAR ONE and if what has been said about it can be believed, Aronofsky's version was going to be bleaker, darker and more violent than Schumacher's vision. Again, Warner Bros didn't want this because they wanted to sell toys not pander to a director's vision. They'd done that with Tim Burton and got BATMAN RETURNS.

[chrisj]

Oct 24, 2010 19:02:58 GMT -5 Derrick said:

Darren Aronofsky was also very interested in directing BATMAN: YEAR ONE and if what has been said about it can be believed, Aronofsky's version was going to be bleaker, darker and more violent than Schumacher's vision. Again, Warner Bros didn't want this because they wanted to sell toys not pander to a director's vision. They'd done that with Tim Burton and got BATMAN RETURNS.

WARNER BROS.!