Movies that never were
 

Usually I hate top 10 lists - this one 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!

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'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.

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.

I'd like to see Time Bandits.

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

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.

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.

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.

Halo's dead? Im crushed beyond words

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.

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

Now, that might have been interesting!

Gronk.

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....