Movies that never were

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Usually I hate top 10 lists - this one (http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2304&pageid=1)is an exception. Some of these I'd heard of, most I hadn't, and in every case I learned something about these ill-fated projects. Read both pages!

[Not Afraid]

There's at least one on the list I would like to have seen made into a film, but not with the proposed star. Although, "Dunces" was a great book, I'm not sure it would translate successfully into a film. Granted, it's been about 20+ years since I've read it.

[mousepod]

I'd add a few: Stranger In A Strange Land, from a script by Daniel Waters; David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket; Kubrick's Napoleon; Hitchcock's No Bail For The Judge with Audrey Hepburn; and of course, Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind.

[Ghoulish Delight]

And then there's Gilliam's Man of La Mancha (hmm, now I'm forgetting if that would actually have been the title) staring Johnny Depp, which turned into Lost in La Mancha, a documentary about how it never got made.

[CoasterMatt]

I'd like to see Time Bandits.

[JWBear]

Rama was an awsome book, but I just can't see it on the big screen.

[wendybeth]

And then there's Gilliam's Man of La Mancha (hmm, now I'm forgetting if that would actually have been the title) staring Johnny Depp, which turned into Lost in La Mancha, a documentary about how it never got made.
First movie I thought of when I saw this thread.

Did anyone make Ayn Rand's "We the Living"? I love that book and always thought it would make a great movie, albeit a depressing one if they stayed within the actual storyline.

[Strangler Lewis]

There's at least one on the list I would like to have seen made into a film, but not with the proposed star. Although, "Dunces" was a great book, I'm not sure it would translate successfully into a film. Granted, it's been about 20+ years since I've read it.

I think the movie to be made there is a Charlie Kauffmanesque intersection of life and art thing focusing heavily on Toole's life, his weird domineering mother and the speculation of some that she actually wrote the book.

[Alex]

And a healthy dose of asking why people think the book is so great.

Maybe I was overhyped for it but when I finally got around to reading it I was extremely disappointed.

[Capt Jack]

Halo's dead? Im crushed beyond words

[innerSpaceman]

I'd have loved there to be an "Unbreakable 2," though I hardly agree with the premise that the first film was merely getting the origin story out of the way.

[Kevy Baby]

Another one that belongs on the list: "Gigli II"

[Not Afraid]

I'd add a few: Stranger In A Strange Land, from a script by Daniel Waters; .

Now, that might have been interesting!

Gronk.

[JWBear]

AThere are a number of Arthur C Clarke's novels that would make interesting movies - Childhood's End, A Fall of Moondust, Songs of Distant Earth, Imperial Earth....