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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 9, 2017 16:19:48 GMT
kubrick's film on NAPOLEON sergio leone wanted to make a film based on celine's JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT FAT CITY with brando (though keach was amazing) francis ford coppola held the rights to vs naipaul's GUERILLAS and the two even met for a discussion (george lucas was also present and naipaul insulted lucas). obviously it never got made FEAR AND LOATHING starring brando and nicholson with scorsese directing. scorsese wanted to do it. but brando and nicholson grew too old.
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Post by london777 on Mar 9, 2017 17:03:17 GMT
Gilliam's "Quixote" is maybe the best known.
Orson Welles has a whole string of them. Some got quite a long way before being aborted, like "Heart of Darkness" and "It's All True".
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Post by shawshanked on Mar 9, 2017 17:51:50 GMT
Kubrick's Napoleon Kubrick's Aryan Papers Coppola's Megalopolis (still could happen but unlikely)
The last two would have been released in the early to mid 90s so not really classical but worth mentioning nonetheless.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 9, 2017 18:09:28 GMT
Johnny Got His Gun, starring William Holden and directed by Mitchell Leisen -- tentatively being prepared in late 1941, when an incident in Hawaii led to its permanent cancellation
Flashman, starring John Alderton and directed by Richard Lester (1970). Supposedly the company had assembled in Spain to begin shooting when financing was withdrawn. Too bad. IMHO Alderton was much better suited to the role than Malcolm McDowell, who did Royal Flash for Lester in 1975.
Eugene (1962). Alec Guinness had become friendly with Ernie Kovacs on the set of Our Man In Havana, and expressed interest when Kovacs suggested he play the title role in a film version of Ernie's silent character Eugene, made famous in legendary all-silent TV specials. Ernie's death ended the project.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, starring Warren Oates. In 1966 Oates played McMurphy in an LA little theatre production -- the play I most wish I could have seen. He seems so perfect for the role -- psychotic hillbilly, bohemian criminal, and petulant man-child all rolled into one. Kirk Douglas was completely wrong on Broadway, and Jack Nicholson was essentially the cleaned-up Warren Oates. Jack Klugman saw all three versions, and said Oates was the best.
Of Thee I Sing starring the Marx Bros (early '30s)
Lonesome Dove, starring john Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Henry Fonda (c. 1974). McMurtry would later rework his script into a novel.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 9, 2017 19:02:34 GMT
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Mar 9, 2017 20:18:06 GMT
A shelved 1952 Technicolor version of "Huckleberry Finn". When William Warfield appeared on an episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour, it was announced this was to be his next role, but it never happened.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 9, 2017 20:39:28 GMT
Sketches for the UPA animated version of Finian's Rainbow (1955) to have been directed by John Hubley, with Frank Sinatra voicing a role. More here
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Post by marshamae on Mar 9, 2017 20:48:27 GMT
Animation might have been the best medium for this fragile fairy tale.
I've been hearing about a Sinatra bio directed by Scorsese for some time. When I hear Leonardo DiCaprio is in it , i pray it never sees the light of day but with different casting I'd like to see it.
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Post by gadolinium on Mar 9, 2017 21:39:11 GMT
Jodorowski's Dune.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 9, 2017 21:54:31 GMT
Hammer's I Am Legend and Dracula in India
Late 70s Batman based on the Tom Mankiewicz script.
Harlan Ellison's Dinosaur Time Travel Star Trek film---as told by Stephen King, Michal Eisner had invited a friend to a Paramount production meeting --a former hairdresser-possibly Jon Peters--Ellison told his idea--an alien lizard race is visiting Earth and on a tour of a dinosaur museum--they then use time travel to change history so dinosaurs never went extinct. Can the Enterprise crew change history? Should they? After telling his idea, the associate of Eisner said: "can we put some Mayans in it? I was reading this book Chariots of the Gods and I think some Mayans should be in it." Ellison didn't like that suggestion, started swearing and thus ended his involvement with the first ST film.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 9, 2017 22:31:53 GMT
Every unproduced screenplay written by George MacDonald Fraser. The list on his wiki page sounds awesome.
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adaptation of The General Danced at Dawn commissioned in 1972
Prince of Thieves from the Alexandre Dumas' version of the Robin Hood story
Bulldog Drummond – adaptation of the novels
Hannah – adaptation of novel about the life of Helena Rubenstein with director Jack Clayton
Thirteen Against the Bank – true story about a man who leaned how to beat the bank at Monte Carlo
adaptation of the William Tell story set against the background of the Battle of Mortgarten
The Lone Ranger with director John Landis, circa 1990[15]
The Ice People – adaptation of a novel about the discovery of a man and a woman from an ancient civilisation trapped in ice
Berry and Co based on a story by Dornford Yates for director Lindsay Anderson
Stortebekker for director Wolfgang Petersen about the medieval German pirate Klaus Störtebeker
Quentin Durward from the novel by Sir Walter Scott
Stillwell, a biopic of Joe Stillwell for director Martin Ritt at MGM (early 1980s)[16]
adaptation of the James Clavell novel Tai-Pan, intended to star Steve McQueen (not used when the movie was made in 1986) – also a sequel
adaptation of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea for Dino de Laurentiis
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 10, 2017 2:00:29 GMT
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, starring Warren Oates. In 1966 Oates played McMurphy in an LA little theatre production -- the play I most wish I could have seen. He seems so perfect for the role -- psychotic hillbilly, bohemian criminal, and petulant man-child all rolled into one. Kirk Douglas was completely wrong on Broadway, and Jack Nicholson was essentially the cleaned-up Warren Oates. Jack Klugman saw all three versions, and said Oates was the best. oates would have been great. no question about it.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 15, 2017 18:05:04 GMT
From It's the Pictures That Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age:
The front page item in The Hollywood Reporter (June 30, 1942) is headed “Dietrich, Russell, Marx for Para. Pic” and reads, “Marlene Dietrich, Groucho Marx without his moustache and Rosalind Russell are slated for the star roles in Paramount’s ‘Men’s Wear,’ yarn by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, which is scheduled for early production.”
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 16, 2017 3:05:36 GMT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 16, 2017 13:36:22 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Mar 16, 2017 19:52:01 GMT
Reading through this interesting subject, I came to think about some movies I read about in "The Films of Rita Hayworth" movies that to my knowledgde never been done since that book came out. Offcourse I can't guarantee that If they had been made, they would have been classics.
- Untitled musical biography about The Duncan Sisters, produced by George Jessel and made at 20Th Century Fox, starring Hayworth and Bette Grable, cancelled because Jessel was unable to obtain legal clearance. The property is still owned by 20th, and has never been filmed.
- Lona Hanson, a large scale Technicolor western prepared for filming in 1947, then postponed to 1949, and eventually cancelled. It was to have been directed by Norman Foster, with Hayworth, William Holden and Randolph Scott.
- Joseph and His Brethren, a big biblical spectacle scripted by Clifford Odets and produced independently by Louis B. Meyer and released via Columbia Pictures, starring Hayworth, Orson Welles and Dick Haymes (!). Cancelled by Harry Cohn who refused to co-finance a movie with those special request of co-stars by Hayworth. The 1961 Italian movie bearing the same name and directed by Irving Rapper has nothing to do with this movie.
- I Want My Mother!, directed by James Hill (Hayworth's 5th husband), cancelled just 24 hours before filming should start late 1962. Hayworth was to play a mother of a psychopathic killer awaiting execution at San Quintin.
- There Must Be a Pony, Hayworth a fading movie star from a novel by James Kirkwood, cancelled when it's stage production starring Myrna Loy had failed to generate audience interest. A TV movie though was made in 1986 starring Elizabeth Taylor, but it doesn't state any stage production origins.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 16, 2017 21:24:10 GMT
Joseph and His Brethren, a big biblical spectacle scripted by Clifford Odets and produced independently by Louis B. Meyer and released via Columbia Pictures, starring Hayworth, Orson Welles and Dick Haymes (!). Cancelled by Harry Cohn who refused to co-finance a movie with those special request of co-stars by Hayworth. The 1961 Italian movie bearing the same name and directed by Irving Rapper has nothing to do with this movie. Welles and Haymes were both Rita's husbands at various times. Haymes was very bland in his '40s musicals, but I recently listened to a Suspense radio drama he did in the '50s, an excellent thriller about a man trapped in a home's private elevator while killers burglarize the house, and he's not bad. Was this project connected to Thomas Mann's book series? In the '40s Columbia owned the film rights to Porgy and Bess. Harry Cohn intended to make it as a vehicle for... Rita Hayworh. At one point Cohn was going to film it in blackface, with Al Jolson as Porgy. When he he realized the absurdity of that idea, he changed the characters to white, and cast Fred Astaire as Porgy. That's right, Cohn planned to have the screen's most celebrated dancer play a crippled beggar. Eventually Cohn realized he could not cast current stars in any P&B adaptation. This and the story's dependence on censorable plot devices such as drug use and cohabitation convinced him to abandon the project.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 16, 2017 23:16:55 GMT
I would have loved to have seen Orson Welles's Dracula. He was (passively, not actively) planning it for years, did the radio adaptation with Mercury Theatre, and wanted desperately to make a version loyal to the book.
As Orson himself put it (in Bogdanovich's This is Orson Welles), "Dracula would make a marvelous movie. In fact, nobody has ever made it; they've never paid any attention to the book, which is the most hair-raising, marvelous book in the world. ... And all the movies are based on the play, not the book. Nobody has ever gone back to the book."
That last part isn't actually true, but Orson was certainly correct about the '31 Bela Lugosi version, which is still enjoyable, though creaky, but flawed by its basis in the play.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 17, 2017 17:56:38 GMT
Joseph and His Brethren, a big biblical spectacle scripted by Clifford Odets and produced independently by Louis B. Meyer and released via Columbia Pictures, starring Hayworth, Orson Welles and Dick Haymes (!). Cancelled by Harry Cohn who refused to co-finance a movie with those special request of co-stars by Hayworth. The 1961 Italian movie bearing the same name and directed by Irving Rapper has nothing to do with this movie. Welles and Haymes were both Rita's husbands at various times. Haymes was very bland in his '40s musicals, but I recently listened to a Suspense radio drama he did in the '50s, an excellent thriller about a man trapped in a home's private elevator while killers burglarize the house, and he's not bad. Was this project connected to Thomas Mann's book series? In the '40s Columbia owned the film rights to Porgy and Bess. Harry Cohn intended to make it as a vehicle for... Rita Hayworh. At one point Cohn was going to film it in blackface, with Al Jolson as Porgy. When he he realized the absurdity of that idea, he changed the characters to white, and cast Fred Astaire as Porgy. That's right, Cohn planned to have the screen's most celebrated dancer play a crippled beggar. Eventually Cohn realized he could not cast current stars in any P&B adaptation. This and the story's dependence on censorable plot devices such as drug use and cohabitation convinced him to abandon the project.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 17, 2017 18:03:29 GMT
Dick Haymes was also,as you say, a husband of Hayworth the 4th maybe? I knew that. But seeing him in a biblical movie.Mmmmmm. Only seen Dick Haymes in State Fair. He was a good crooner though.
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