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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 3, 2024 6:34:06 GMT
Or never finished  From the Universal campaign book, 1940-1 |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 3, 2024 6:37:45 GMT
Intended as followup to Bird Of Paradise (c. 1934):  |
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Post by claudius on Mar 3, 2024 10:35:20 GMT
In terms of unfinished.
Korda’s I, CLAUDIUS
Flynn’s WILLIAM TELL
Marilyn’s SOMETHINGS GOT TO GIVE
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 3, 2024 12:03:02 GMT
Jaws 19 (2015)  
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Mar 4, 2024 18:41:12 GMT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 4, 2024 20:02:32 GMT
 TVoG obviously got made. However it was originally conceived decades earlier by Willis O'Brien (d. 1962) as a followup to King Kong. Some sources claim it dates back to 1934; per Wiki the earliest print mention of the project was in 1941. |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 5, 2024 0:49:23 GMT
Speaking of Karloff:  Suggested by an actual historical figure with some supernatural elements added, Cagliostro was to have been Karloff's 1932 follow-up to Frankenstein. From Grunge.com: "The film was going to be called Cagliostro, and Karloff was going to star as a 3,000-year-old sorcerer who kept himself looking fresh and lifelike by injecting his body with nitrates. During his original lifetime, he was betrayed by a lover, so he walked the Earth still fueled by rage, and killed anyone he found who happened to look like that original woman. That said, they didn't even need all that magical mumbo-jumbo — they could've just made a movie about the real Count Cagliostro. A forger, con artist, fake-magician, faker-alchemist, and one of the spirits Aleister Crowley claimed had reincarnated into him, he conned countless people out of their gold, co-founded Egyptian Freemasonry, and ultimately found himself exiled by the Pope."The concept eventually morphed into 1932's The Mummy. In 1949, Orson Welles starred in (and some say co-directed) Black Magic, in which Welles played the count and was released in some international markets as Cagliostro.  |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 5, 2024 2:06:09 GMT
Speaking of Karloff: No fair, I was gonna post that one. I'll have to settle for this, which was not made -- sorta:  |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 5, 2024 2:54:43 GMT
Speaking of Karloff: No fair, I was gonna post that one. I'll have to settle for this, which was not made -- sorta: Sorry 'bout that, Doc. Being an essentially lazy guy, I'd have been happy to wait and let you do the work if I'd known. That Frankenstein artwork has always bemused me. Years before King Kong, they've got this giant, dozens of feet tall, stomping around a cityscape while stylishly-dressed urbanites scatter on the streets below. What those rays coming from his eyes are supposed to represent, I've no idea. And as for the ad copy, "...no woman ever felt his white-hot kiss..." Well, we can say it finally got made, but nuthin' like that! |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 5, 2024 4:24:41 GMT
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Post by marianne48 on Mar 6, 2024 10:48:05 GMT
Brazzaville--the sequel to Casablanca that was not only a contrived follow-up to that film, but basically spoiled that film's premise. According to the preliminary script, Rick wasn't the isolationist he appeared to be in Casablanca, nor was Renault Strasser's lackey. They were both undercover agents the whole time! Then Ilsa comes back, because Viktor has been killed...but Rick's already got a new girl...but then...well, it's one script that was better off being undone.
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Post by amyghost on Mar 6, 2024 12:58:14 GMT
Brazzaville--the sequel to Casablanca that was not only a contrived follow-up to that film, but basically spoiled that film's premise. According to the preliminary script, Rick wasn't the isolationist he appeared to be in Casablanca, nor was Renault Strasser's lackey. They were both undercover agents the whole time! Then Ilsa comes back, because Viktor has been killed...but Rick's already got a new girl...but then...well, it's one script that was better off being undone. I recall reading about that one a few years back. Truly horrible idea. I always regarded 1944's Passage to Marseille as the sort of unofficial 'sequel' to Casablanca, even if it had not much more to do with that film than the re-teaming of Bogart/Rains/Lorre/Greenstreet. An interesting addition to the list would be Charles Chaplin's The Freak, begun in 1966: The Freak was a dramatic comedy from Charles Chaplin. The story revolved around a young South American girl who unexpectedly sprouts a pair of wings. She is kidnapped and taken to London, where her captors cash in by passing her off as an angel. Later she escapes, only to be arrested because of her appearance. She is further dehumanized by standing trial to determine if she is human at all. Chaplin began work in and around 1969 with his daughter Victoria in mind for the lead role. However, Victoria's abrupt marriage and his advanced age proved roadblocks, and the film was never made.May be the first and only case of surprise nuptials derailing a film, but it seems a pity it was never completed. |
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 6, 2024 17:56:28 GMT
My Biopic was never made. Apparently the script was too explosive for Hollywood. Rumor was that Sam Peckinpah had a nervous breakdown after reading it.
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Post by amyghost on Mar 6, 2024 18:10:12 GMT
My Biopic was never made. Apparently the script was too explosive for Hollywood. Rumor was that Sam Peckinpah had a nervous breakdown after reading it. Flipped his lid, eh? |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 7, 2024 4:08:18 GMT
Chaplin as Napoleon & Garbo as Josephine, directed by Jean Renoir. A few meetings were held c. 1947.
In the '20s Chaplin considered playing the title role in an adaptation of Papini's Life Of Christ.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 7, 2024 4:22:05 GMT
Maybe my all time fave example:
Paramount's production of Johnny Got His Gun, starring William Holden & directed by Mitchell Leisen. Permanently cancelled after Dec 7, 1941.
Here is a radio adaptation from the year before, starring Jimmy Cagney in a tour de force, mostly one man show. It gives an idea of how a film version might have been done at the time;
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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 7, 2024 7:32:00 GMT
I had read there was a proposed sequel to Dracula meant to be similar to Bride of Frankenstein with Karloff as the monster and Lugosi as Dracula. I think the Devil's Brood was the name proposed--and that ended up being used on the poster for House of Frankenstein.
This seems the closet to an actual Dracula - Frankenstein encounter (narrated by Joseph Cotten?)
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Post by ralfy on Mar 7, 2024 12:09:08 GMT
Kubrick's Napoleon
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 7, 2024 18:02:04 GMT
Brazzaville--the sequel to Casablanca that was not only a contrived follow-up to that film, but basically spoiled that film's premise. According to the preliminary script, Rick wasn't the isolationist he appeared to be in Casablanca, nor was Renault Strasser's lackey. They were both undercover agents the whole time! Then Ilsa comes back, because Viktor has been killed...but Rick's already got a new girl...but then...well, it's one script that was better off being undone. Per the book Inside Warner Bros, memos were sent re a proposed sequel to The Maltese Falcon. What hung this up was the studio not controlling all rights to the Sam Spade character. |
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 7, 2024 19:34:41 GMT
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