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, which he cited on numerous occasions as his favorite book.

https://archive.org/details/hollywoodhallofs0000medv/page/185

Pearl, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern

The Fountainhead, Robert Redford Though this remains the only film adaptation of the novel, there were further attempts in later years. Michael Cimino pitched an adaptation to United Artists in the 1970s with Robert Redford eyed to star, but the studio turned it down in favor of Heaven's Gate (1980), which ended up bankrupting them and killing Cimino's career

https://archive.org/details/unclefrankbiogra0000katz/page/32

One Arm

Megalopolis ref

https://www.filmcomment.com/article/brief-encounters-francis-ford-coppolla-interview/

Diaries: Becoming a Director All I Wanna Do is Direct: My First Picture Shows, 1965–1971 Five American Icons

1. CHE Terrence Malick, who was to direct the film about Che Guevara, tells us that he is going to make The New World first. Except that Malick, at the time, made a film every twenty years, so that makes you imagine that yours will never be made. Eventually, Soderbergh took over the project, but it couldn't be announced publicly. That’s when Cimino called me to “apply”: “Hello, this is Michael Cimino, I would like to speak to you about Che. » He had a very interesting approach to the subject: the journey of Che and his soldiers is guided by a military strategy which depends on the geography of Cuba, the socio-cultural population of the different regions. For him, without working on the geography of a film, it is impossible to create antagonism. The enemy does not exist. And geography very little exists in American cinema because America believes itself to be the center of the world even though it has no history.

2. CREAM RISES This project was written like a book into which we slowly settle in, where nothing happens except the description of an environment, that of modeling in Los Angeles. It was the story of two girls a bit like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, who drink vodka at 10 a.m., who go shopping... In short, the daily life of two girls completely disconnected from reality . The more casual one drags the other a little into this life where they end up sleeping with guys just because they are rich. But finally, after an hour of film where nothing happens, the timid one is killed by one of these guys and the leader decides to return to the countryside with her uncle, an old cowboy farmer (Christopher Walken) with very strong values. western and there, the real plot begins, because she will abandon her superficial vision of life, of sex. It was something very contemporary, about the world of today and its confrontation with the world of yesterday, as if Cimino's cinema looked at the cinema of today. It was very moving. For the main role, Cimino had thought of Taylor Swift, but I told him that since her name was unknown to me, I didn't see how to make a film with her. A few months later, she became a global star. I should have given this project more priority to speed it up, because we were taking our time and finally it dies and then shit...

3. THE HUMAN CONDITION Gallimard had already made me read the script, they were crazy about it. They only gave the rights to Cimino because they loved his script. And it was indeed the script for a very great film. But putting it together would have been impossible without a major star with his name attached to “clear” Cimino’s. Otherwise, Hollywood would not have followed. You had to have DiCaprio. The other problem was not the budget, but the time. With him, quality combines with time. When he was preparing The Human Condition, he went to Beijing to see himself all the locations where he wanted to shoot and he wrote down extremely precise descriptions of the locations, like: "When you look out the hotel window, you see a lamppost at 70º to the west. »And I'm not exaggerating. He needs geographical knowledge, and that takes time. Except that time is money in cinema. This is why making small budgets with him is very difficult. When they saw that the film was not going to be made, Gallimard even wanted to publish the script, they loved it so much.

4.ONE ARM It was the story of a boxer who loses an arm in a car accident, and a boxer with only one arm, logically, ends up losing everything in his life. A very dark story that Chris Hanley had proposed to him and which he really liked, but the flow did not flow at all with Michael. He apologized and said to me: “Vincent, I cannot work with an illiterate person who makes a spelling mistake for every word he sends me. » Chris Hanley was a specialist in texting to go fast, a crazy indie producer who works on ten projects at the same time, and indeed not suited to an erudite intellectual who takes his time in his cinema and in his work.

5. THE SIOUX PROJECT During a dinner in Lyon, he begins to talk about this project, which is quite expensive, at 30 million. The idea was to tell the story of America from the perspective of Native Americans. A film about the genocide and then about a life both protected, on the reserves, and humiliated by the good American conscience confronted with the original crime. The film therefore had to be made in their language, otherwise it would have been like a betrayal, but it prevented him from counting on stars, which is why he couldn't do it. I always said to myself that this is a project that Mel Gibson could put together... Cimino was not someone who needed to confront the experience of filming to generate a film: he spoke in cinema everything the weather. He wrote all the time, lived surrounded by scripts that would be great to publish. For him, telling a film made the scenes exist, in a cinematic, unwritten way. I feel like I've seen them, all these films, just hearing it. And for him, these films existed. He died as a major filmmaker, he sweated directing. Cimino's career does not end with seven feature films but with around fifteen.

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/peter-bogdanovich-r-i-p

Picturing Peter Bogdanovich Peter Tonguette

Robert Dillon

Charlie Peters

1960s

Summer Holiday

Main article: Summer Holiday (1963 film)

Before he made his first feature, Russell was given the offer of directing the musical Summer Holiday (1963), with Cliff Richard. Russell later admitted that he regretted turning it down: "I nearly did Summer Holiday, I wish I had, my career would have changed," he said. "I would have made a good musical there's no doubt of that, and who knows what would have happened, because I don't think [Peter Yates] was a very good director." Russell would however later direct Richard in two music videos; "She's So Beautiful" and "All I Ask of You", in 1985 and 1986, respectively.

Vlad the Impaler

During the heyday of Hammer Films and the popularity of productions made on classic horror characters such as Victor Frankenstein or Count Dracula, Russell was slated to direct a film for the company on the life of Vlad the Impaler, the inspiration for the Dracula character.

A Clockwork Orange

In 1964, Russell planned to make an adaptation of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962) starring the Rolling Stones, but abandoned the film after the British Board of Censors advised it would not approve it.

Untitled Vincent Van Gogh biopic

In the DVD commentary for Always on Sunday Brian Hoyle says that Ken and British comedian Spike Milligan (the subject of a documentary by Ken) discussed a film on Van Gogh with Milligan in the title role. Ken decided to wait until he had the opportunity to film it in colour rather than in black and white.

Voss

Ken Russell and then Joseph Losey were first choice for director of the novel Voss by Patrick White. Donald Sutherland and Mia Farrow were lined up to act. A young Sutherland appeared in Ken's Billion Dollar Brain. The image is from here.

White himself wanted Voss to be produced for the cinema, directed by Ken Russell and, later, Joseph Losey, but the film was never made.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/09/patrick-white-voss-100-best-novels-robert-mccrum

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/ken-russell-and-aussie-film-never-was

https://patrickwhitecatalogue.com/vossfilm/

White wanted Voss to be produced as a film and Sydney musical promoter Harry M. Miller bought the rights. Ken Russell and then Joseph Losey were White's choice for director. Losey and scriptwriter David Mercer arrived in Sydney in 1977 but after a few days in the desert scouting locations the director was hospitalised with viral pneumonia. Miller wanted to cast Donald Sutherland as Voss and Mia Farrow as Laura Trevelyan but White disagreed saying that Farrow was too soft and of Sutherland, "That flabby wet mouth is entirely wrong. Voss was dry and ascetic – he had a thin mouth like a piece of fence-wire. I do think a whole characterisation can go astray on a single physical feature like that." Maximilian Schell was cast to play the explorer and the script was finalised but Miller was unable to raise sufficient capital for production and the film was never made.

1970s

Little Sparrow

In 1971, Russell wanted to direct a film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf, entitled Little Sparrow. This was originally to be a Warner Bros. production with the title role played by Liza Minnelli. In the end, Warner decided it was too risky financially and left the project to a French director, Guy Casaril. (Edith Piaf: A Cultural History pg. 157)

Untitled King Ludwig II biopic

Also in 1971, Russell had pursued a biopic on Ludwig II, "the Mad King of Bavaria", before deciding to make Savage Messiah (1972) instead, using his own money.

The Legend of Sarah

Around 1971–72, Barbra Streisand contacted Russell about directing her in a proposed biopic of Sarah Bernhardt, to have been titled The Legend of Sarah. Russell liked the idea and began to work on a screenplay while still in England, corresponded with Streisand about the project, who would have co-produced the film through her First Artists company.

Untitled Sergei Diaghilev biopic

Russell and writer Melvyn Bragg planned a film about the Russian ballet maestro Sergei Diaghilev, to be directed by Russell. Bragg's script and copious paperwork for the project were later archived in the Brotherton Library in [[Leeds University[] in 2010.

The Rose

Main article: The Rose (film)

Given a choice between The Rose, based on the life of Janis Joplin, and Valentino, Russell says "I foolishly chose Valentino". The Rose with Betty Midler and Alan Bates was directed by Mark Rydell in 1979.

Hair

Main article: Hair (film)

In the mid-70s, producer Robert Stigwood wanted Russell to direct the film version of the rock musical Hair. Instead, Miloš Forman would go on to direct.

Dracula

A “sex-propelled” comic script was written in 1978 as a star vehicle for Mick Fleetwood. The aesthetic was to draw on Aubrey Beardsley (an artist admired by this version of the Count, an arts philanthropist).

https://www.filmcomment.com/article/unproduced-and-unfinished-films-a-ongoing-film-comment-project/

His screenplay was later published in 2012, by Bear Claw Publishing.

1980s

Evita

Main article: Evita (1996 film)

In 1981, after Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to produce and finance an adaptation of the musical Evita, Russell was then hired by producer Robert Stigwood to direct the film on the basis of their collaboration on Tommy. Russell wanted to cast Liza Minnelli for the role of Eva Perón, but Stigwood and Evita lyricist Tim Rice favored Elaine Paige, who played the character in the London stage production. To convince them, Russell flew Minnelli to London, fitted her with an expensive blond wig and custom period gowns and filmed a series of celluloid tests, costing six figures. He began working on his own screenplay without seeking approval, and was ultimately fired from the production after telling Stigwood he would not do it without Minnelli. A separate script by Alan Parker later resurfaced and was made into a film in 1996 starring Madonna as Eva.

Cleopatra TV miniseries

In 1984, Russell was set to write and direct a mini-series for HBO documenting the events of the production of the 1963 film Cleopatra with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which famously almost bankrupted 20th Century Fox. Producer Bernie Sofronski hired film scholar Brad Geagley to serve as historical consultant on the series. The project stopped at the writing stage.

Moll Flanders

Ken Russell was sued for failing to complete this film adaptation of the Daniel Defoe novel. He won the court case. As payment Russell did a pop video for his lawyer. A cast of Lucinda Rhodes Flaherty, Steven Berkoff and Barry Humphries. To be filmed in Croatia with a multi-million budget. Russell would also do the script and possibly appear in the film. The lawsuit would later become the subject of the 1987 documentary Your Honour, I Object!.

In 1985, model Janice Martin was announced as the title heroine in an updated version by Ken Russell and Penthouse's Bob Guccione.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/nov/28/ken-russell-cinema-dies

https://secretpandablog.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/he-is-my-lawyer-ken-russell-and-the-lawyer-who-wanted-to-be-a-singer/

https://www.screendaily.com/ken-russell-to-shoot-moll-flanders-in-croatia/4027642.article

The Beethoven Secret

I knew about Russell's aborted Beethoven movie. In his autobiography, A British Picture, a new edition of which is published this week, he describes a project called The Beethoven Secret, a film that would use the unknown recipient of a letter Beethoven wrote to his "immortal beloved" as a mechanism for telling his story. Russell also describes a colourful character called Denny, a man who built a shrine to Russell's movies in the backyard of his LA home. Denny is in fact Leonard Pollack, a costume designer I worked with on Candyman. There was a copy of H C Robbins Landon's biography of Beethoven in Pollack's shrine, the copy Russell had used to research his planned version. I...#65279; read it, and became hooked on the idea of making a film about Beethoven.

So, although I didn't have the courage to say so, I did steal Immortal Beloved from him. I even tried to hire Anthony Hopkins, and I did hire Peter Suschitzky (who shot Russell's Lisztomania) to be my director of photography. But when I was shopping the idea around with studio executives, I constantly had to promise the movie would be nothing like one of Russell's. Under the table my fingers were firmly crossed. The execs wanted the new Amadeus, little realising that that film owes something to Russell. A scene in his Song of Summer, where the blind and paralysed Delius dictates music to his young amanuensis, Eric Fenby, is exactly replicated in Amadeus, when Mozart, sick and dying, dictates his Requiem Mass to Salieri.

Scriabin

Russell calls composer Aleksandr Scriabin "a man after my own heart- a true mystic who many saw as a charlatan". The film did not go ahead, but it was converted and broadcast as a radio play. According to imdb.com Scriabin contributed (uncredited) the music The Divine Poem in Ken's film Savage Messiah. Director Bernard Rose recalls talking to Ken- "He tells me about a planned biography of Russian composer Scriabin. "I want giant bells hanging from clouds. A couple making love on a giant bed. Of course, it's too expensive to do. I did it as a radio play with Oliver Reed"

St. Mawr

In 1987, Russell planned to direct a film of D. H. Lawrence's novella St. Mawr, which he wanted to shoot in New Zealand and Australia. Ann-Margret, Glenda Jackson, and Raul Julia were to star in the adaptation. (https://www.filmcomment.com/article/unproduced-and-unfinished-films-l-through-z-a-ongoing-film-comment-project/

The Eleventh Commandment

A film about Moses was reported to be in development in 1989 with Russell directing, titled The Eleventh Commandment.

1990s

All-American Murder

Main article: All-American Murder

A script by Ken Russell´s friend Barry Sandler, it was finally filmed by tv director Anson Williams and starring Christopher Walken (info from Ken Hanke´s White Haired Filmmaker article). Barry Sandler also wrote Crimes of Passion.

is an interview with actor Charlie Schlatter, who initially reveals that "All-American Murder" was originally going to be directed by Ken Russell, recalling a meeting with the filmmaker, where they discussed the working parts of "Tommy.

Momentous Events: Russia in the '90s

Russell was among six directors who, in 1992, agreed to contribute a segment as a part of a six-hour documentary feature bankrolled by Cecco Films and Worldvision Enterprises about life in what used to be the Soviet Union, titled Momentous Events: Russia in the '90s. Peter Bogdanovich, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard and Werner Herzog also signed on to direct individual segments for the project.

Son of Man

In December 1997, it was reported in the Variety trade papers that Russell was planning a film on the life of Christ titled Son of Man, that which would be depicted "with a lot of joy and humor". The film was to have been produced by John Daly and was expected to begin shooting in Istanbul in March the following year.

2000s

Charged: Tesla & Katherine

https://www.smh.com.au/world/sparks-fly-over-portrayal-of-edison-20020328-gdf5g4.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1388719/Ken-Russell-film-casts-Edison-in-a-poor-light.html

The Pearl of the Orient

"Set in the Philippines of World War II, a headstrong and aristocratic young woman yearns to leave the islands and travel the world, only to fall in love with an American missionary and thereby come to terms with her heritage as a Filipina". Script was by Richard A. Lasser, screenwriter Peter J. Bartels. Click on the image for more details, thanks to Peter for the link. Ken and the film came together via this website!!! There were problems with financing and rumours of money disappearing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/ken-and-elize-russell-their-extraordinary-love-story-351456.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-428263/Ken-Russell-How-Jade-Baddy-drove-Big-Brother.html

Kings X

Scriptwriters are Chris and Peter Cleverly and it is described as "A London professional woman takes revenge on gangland hardman after he destroys her life." Emily Lloyd was to be the star.

Legendary British director Ken Russell, is set to helm the thriller Kings X, starring Robert Carlyle, Kevin Spacey and Ray Winstone. Chris Cleverly's script is set in a bustling inner city area where everyone is on the make. The King of Kings X is Colin Manks a sharp, smooth talking up-market low life whose narcissism leads him to record his life on his camera phone for posterity. He falls for Hattie an Essex girl property agent whose crooked boss has her doing dodgey deals she's too naive and self important to question. When they cheat Colin Manks he wants revenge, with interest. Drugs, Prostitution Murder everything goes in the urban jungle. The film currently in pre-production also has Leslie (Twiggy) Lawson in a co-starring role.

Bravetart Versus the Loch Ness Monster

He is planning Bravetart Versus the Loch Ness Monster.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/cult-filmmaker-ken-russell-makes-1035914

Eccentric film director Ken Russell is making a bizarre movie about Scottish myths.

The cinema legend will appear in front of camera as the Loch Ness Monster in his "Jocksploitation" feature, which will also include a giant, man-eating haggis and a hero called MacHaddock. His wife, Shirley Ann, will play a prostitute called Bravetart.

Russell opted to shoot the film close to his base in Southampton.

A source close to Russell said: "Ken has got a sense of mischief and it's going to upset a few Scots."

2010s

Alice in Wonderland remake

Nijinsky A film project with dancer Rudolf Nureyev. Russell later filmed Nureyev in Valentino. In 1980 Herbert Ross directed Nijinsky with George de la Pena and Alan Bates. Hetty Baynes has a small role, but she went on to marry Russell in 1992.

The Gershwin Dream David Puttnam commissioned six music films on Mahler, Liszt, Gershwin, Vaughan Williams and two others to be decided. Mahler and Lisztomania were made, the rest were not. Neil Diamond was to star as Gershwin (much as I love Russell, I am glad this did not go ahead!!). https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/19/archives/ken-russells-film-studies-of-composers-brilliance-gone-berserk.html

The King´s Man  A script by Oliver Reed who would play Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury murdered on the steps of his cathedral in 1170. TS Eliot´s play Murder in the Cathedral covers the same event. The image is from here. The most famous Beckett film is based on Jean Anouilh's play and directed in 1964 by Peter Glenville with Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole and John Gielgud. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/howwe-met-1612956.html

The Angels The story of a ghost in the afterworld. It is based on Georges Neveux´s play Juliette which was made into an opera by Martinu, but Russell´s treatment would centre on commercialism (the beans advert, reappearing in a different form in Tommy). The script was completed but filming never started. https://thebedlamfiles.com/nonfiction/ken-russell-a-director-in-search-of-a-hero/

Skeletons A thriller with Christopher Plummer, James Coburn and Rod Silver, promoted as "Beneath the surface nothing is what is seems". Russell was fired from the film and David DeCoteau took over. DeCoteau says "I felt so bad for Ken, though; I mean Ken Russell was a visionary. But he did not leave Skeletons on a friendly basis. He was fired and, well, it was great for me because, looking back, I’ve just finished my hundredth movie and Skeletons is certainly one of the better ones. It’s certainly the biggest budget I’ve had. It’s just so odd how I got the job in the first place.” You can read the interview with David DeCoteau by Matty Budrewiczis here https://iainfisher.com/dis/index.php?topic=24721.0

Kiplinger's Syndrome There were attempts to film it (without Russell) starring Malcolm McDowell but nothing has resulted. "There is a picture named Kiplinger's Syndrome shooting in Seattle around the end of the summer (pending financing) and I've already spoken with the producers a few times this year about working on it. It would be great to work there since I just moved into my new house and there is no better time of year than summer in the Great Pacific Northwest" (from Joyce Wankable here).

The Wishing Tree William Faulkner's childrens story. Twiggy says "I first met Ken when I was 17 when he was looking for a young character to appear in a film based on William Faulkner's The Wishing Tree and although it didn't happen, we became friends. Then, three years later, he cast me in The Boy Friend." ---- "They also had a couple of projects they were interested in. One was a William Faulkner story about a rather twee girl who goes off with pixies. Paul McCartney was going to write the music and I met him to chat it over but it felt like a non-starter" (Russell quoted in An Appalling Talent, John Baxter, 1973 chapter 16). The film could have had similarities with Bernard Roses' Paper House.

Shrine/The Dark In Ingrid Pitt´s interview for Shivers, Russell says "James Herbert [horror writer] gave me two of his books. One was called Shrine. It was about this girl who becomes a kind of second-hand Virgin Mary and there were things in the book that I thought were terribly good...but I think it had something like 2000 people at the end." Maybe the second book was The Dark: Ingrid Pitt reveals in her introduction to the biography of James Herbert (Devil in the Dark by Craig Cabell, 2004) "I was asked to write a screenplay based on his novel The Dark". The biography itself says of the possible filming of Shrine "perhaps some of this would be lost in a movie version, unless directed by somebody like Ken Russell: a girl floating in the air, her once pure white dress now soaked in blood and dripping over the faces of her smiling disciples".

Two-Way Romeo "The plot is a true story of two conjoined twins who were the frontmen in a rock band in mid seventies London. It follows their rise and fall through sex drugs and pub rock, playing alongside the likes of Kilburn & The Highroads". You can hear Ken talking about the film here. Thanks to Deborah for the information. The basis was Brian Aldis' novel Brothers of the Head. The book was eventually filmed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, with the original title. Ken appears in the films, along with some scenes from 2 Way Romeo. In the DVD extras Ken says that he paid £50,000 for the rights to the novel, but didn't realise that Brian Aldiss had based his novel on living people. So after Ken started filming Two way Romeo, he was faced with a lawsuit from the real-life people.

The Living End American comic writer Stan Elkin. A shopkeeper is killed in a robbery and ends up in hell because he opened his shop on Sunday. A wordy novel, with long monologues and characters either in Hell, or buried and unable to move. Difficult to visualise on film, so a filmscript would be especially interesting. The paperback version of the novel from 1977 has the label "soon to be filmed by Ken Russell". (In 1977, Russell intended to film an adaptation of the horror novel The Living End, as was suggested on the cover of its publication.)

The Revenge of the White Worm Ken Hanke says "there was talk of a sequel [to Lair] Revenge of the White Worm, but the idea largely collapsed with Vestron [the film company which went bankrupt]". Some parts of the script took place in Buckingham Palace involving Prince Charles.

A Clockwork Orange

Nijinsky

The Gershwin Dream

The Beethoven Secret

The King's Man

The Angels

Scriabin

Skeletons

Kiplinger's Syndrome

Alice in Wonderland remake

Gargantua

The Wheels of Chance

The Quest for Corvo

The Great Twentieth Century Music Revue

Strachey

King of the Crocodiles

To the Lighthouse

The Living End

The Revenge of the White Worm

The Wishing Tree

Shrine/The Dark

Two-Way Romeo

Ken Russell/Derek Jarman collaboration

Ludwig Little Sparrow Clockwork Orange Sarah Bernhardt Alice in Wonderland Kings X The Pearl of the Orient Moll Flanders

David Lynch's unrealized projects

https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/60969/1/unpicking-myths-misinformation-david-lynch-wisteria-new-rumours-netflix-project

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2021/10/david-lynch-may-be-starting-production-on-netflix-mini-series-titled-wisteria

https://www.instagram.com/kyle_maclachlan/p/CM_YAe1JZzt/

Unrecorded Night

In 2020, a new Lynch project was rumored to be in the works, via an issue of Production Weekly that listed it as an upcoming Netflix series. The rumor had Netflix greenlighting 13 hour-long episodes and a budget of $85 million with the working title of Wisteria. The listing also stated that production was due to begin in May 2021 and that it would be filming in The Calvert Studios. Following this announcement, frequent Lynch collaborators Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern both dropped hints that a new project was in the works. On March 31, MacLachlan posted a cryptic photo of some flowers on Instagram, which he tagged #wisteria. Two months later, Dern teased in an interview that “fans should expect more and more radical, boundary-less art from David Lynch”. In 2022, another rumor circulated that he would be premiering a new film at Cannes, though this was quickly debunked by Lynch.

https://welcometotwinpeaks.com/news/david-lynch-wisteria-netflix-series-2021/

https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/51255/1/david-lynch-is-reportedly-working-on-a-new-netflix-series-wisteria

https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/55902/1/a-secret-david-lynch-film-is-set-to-premiere-at-cannes-film-festival-laura-dern

https://www.elle.com/culture/a36412630/laura-dern-on-jurassic-world-coffee-with-david-lynch-and-working-with-the-american-lung-association/

https://thefilmstage.com/david-lynch-has-more-ideas-for-twin-peaks-unrecorded-night-cancelled-by-netflix/

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/5/3/confirmed-netflix-scrapped-david-lynchs-unrecorded-night-right-before-it-was-supposed-to-shoot

Miscellaneous

Lynch was offered directing the films Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Return of the Jedi, Frances, Tender Mercies, American Beauty, The Ring and Motherless Brooklyn.

https://unobtainium13.com/2020/01/20/7-films-that-david-lynch-turned-down/

Dino De Laurentiis offered him the chance to direct "Handcarved Coffins" based on the Truman Capote story, but Lynch turned it down. To date, the project has not been filmed, by any director.

In 2009, Lynch signed on to produce Alejandro Jodorowsky's King Shot.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/30/movies/a-writer-so-angry-he-plans-to-direct.html

Roman Polanski's unrealized projects

 - Knife in the Water remake
 - Waiting for Godot (1966)
 - Downhill Racer (1967)
 - This Perfect Day (1968)
 - Paganini (1968)
 - Donner Pass (1969)
 - Day of the Dolphin (1969)
 - The Two Jakes (1974)
 - King Kong (1975)
 - White Dog (1975)
 - The First Deadly Sin (1976)
 - The Hurricane (1977)
 - Schindler's List (1986)
 - The Master and Margarita (1989)
 - Mary Reilly (1989)
 - Sliver (1993)
 - The Double (1994)
 - The Count of Monte Cristo (1997)
 - Pompeii (2007)
 - Aryan Papers (2009)

https://www.nytimes.com/1969/02/09/archives/polanskis-new-babies.html Paganini & Donner Pass

https://variety.com/2009/film/columns/1969-polanski-vs-censors-1117999260/ Donner Pass

https://variety.com/1997/film/news/polanski-confirms-count-pic-111661045/ The Count of Monte Cristo

https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2015/great-directors/roman-polanski-2/ This Perfect Day

Worthpoint:

Day of the Dolphin Hurricane Mary Reilly

Robert Altman's unrealized projects

Another City, Not My Own

A Confederacy of Dunces

https://playbill.com/article/bewitched-weisslers-explore-rodgers-and-harts-pal-joey-with-director-robert-altman-com-116081

Bob Fosse's unrealized projects

 - Ending (1979)
 - The King of Comedy (1982)
 - The Bad and the Beautiful remake
 - Dick Tracy (1985)
 - Edie Sedgwick biopic
 - Winchell (1988)
 - Good Morning, Vietnam
 - Big Deal
 - Chicago

Fosse was going to direct an adaptation of the book Ending, but opted not to, due to its. The director would instead tackle All That Jazz, which delt with similar themes.

At the time of his death, Fosse had wanted to direct a film version of Chicago.

Sydney Pollack's unrealized projects

Boys and Girls Together

Valdez Is Coming

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Dirty Harry

Victory (Conrad)

Us

First Blood

The Dead Zone

Rain Man

Presumed Innocent

Schindler's List

Mission: Impossible

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir remake

The Night Manager

The Bridges of Madison County

Wild Bill

The Saint

The Ice Queen

For Love of the Game

Untitled HBO Western miniseries

An Equal Music

Peeper

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Rackets

Recount

Shockproof Sydney Skate

Bronx Country Ferrari Untitled romantic comedy Cheet Time Between Trains Silver Linings Playbook

Us (Sydney Pollack)

Written by Eric Roth, this was to star Jane Fonda as an archaeologist who discovers what might have been the Garden of Eden at a dig in Machu Picchu, alongside Robert Redford.

https://www.filmcomment.com/article/unproduced-and-unfinished-films-l-through-z-a-ongoing-film-comment-project/

One, entitled "Us," for example, was written in the early 1980s as a vehicle for Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, hot on the heels of their success in "The Electric Horseman." The screenplay tells the story of a dig at Machu Picchu, through which a female archaeologist discovers the origins of man in what might be construed as the Garden of Eden. "She's suffering the loss of her mother and has a need to fill a broken place in herself," Mr. Roth explained. "She meets a priest in Peru who has lost his faith and is trying to understand the meaning of his own life without faith. Both find what they are looking for, but for each a different meaning. It was originally set up at Columbia for Sydney Pollack, but once a year someone pops up that wants to do it."

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/19/movies/eric-roths-screenplays-get-made-except-the-ones-that-dont.html November 19, 2006 Kristopher Tapley Eric Roth's Screenplays Get Made, Except the Ones That Don't

https://www.scmp.com/article/75708/top-team-plots-espionage-film May 27, 1994 South China Morning Post Top team plots espionage film

https://variety.com/1994/film/news/connery-set-for-cause-120324/

https://variety.com/1999/tv/news/pollack-to-head-west-with-hbo-1117750043/

https://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/pollack-pfeiffer-thaw-ice-1116680682/

https://variety.com/2000/voices/columns/pollack-eyes-peeper-gopnik-books-moon-1117789195/

https://variety.com/1995/film/features/pollack-packs-full-bag-99130283/

https://variety.com/1999/voices/columns/rudin-pollack-will-be-par-s-music-men-1117750452/

https://variety.com/2003/film/markets-festivals/mirage-morphs-1117884637/

https://variety.com/2000/film/news/pollack-joins-grant-on-col-pic-1117779749/

https://variety.com/2002/voices/columns/minghella-pollack-to-cheet-in-blighty-1117860640/

https://variety.com/1998/tv/news/par-tv-sets-three-pilots-1117467387/

https://variety.com/2002/scene/markets-festivals/abc-pollack-in-rackets-1117875437/

John Boorman's unrealized projects

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead The Lord of the Rings I Hear America Labour of Love The Last Run The Diamond Smugglers Sharky's Machine Final Analysis Nostromo (David Lean) Alice and Lucien A Simple Plan Memoirs of Hadrian Broken Dream The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe The Sea Wolf Knight's Castle The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Halfway House Mr. Ping Pong Underground

https://davidkoepp.com/script-archive/the-sea-wolf-unproduced/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01439685.2021.1976913#:~:text=In%20drafting%20the%20contract%2C%20extensive,America%20and%20Labour%20of%20Love.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-06-ca-narnia6-story.html

Ivan Reitman's unrealized projects

Ivan reitman Creature from the Black Lagoon

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Laser Orgy Girls

https://theplaylist.net/animal-house-director-john-landis-talks-charles-manson-in-high-school-origins-cast-the-legacy-of-the-comedy-classic-20130129/

Offers

Additionally, Landis has received offers directing , but has turned them down.

Beverly Hills Cop

https://www.youtube.com/live/JJQET_yFN9E?si=9HFTt5PO_EX-R6vl

License to Kill

Main article: License to Kill (film)

https://hmssweblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/29/landis-tells-author-he-turned-down-directing-licence-to-kill/

Howard the Duck

Meatballs

Vacation

Big

Follow That Bird

Problem Child

The Nutty Professor

Nothing but Trouble

Men in Black

Steven Spielberg's unrealized projects

Leopoldstadt Long Lost My Magical Life Powerhouse The Bully Pulpit The Mother Code Bee Gees Untitled Walter Cronkite biopic Aleister Arcane

https://deadline.com/2023/05/tom-stoppard-leopoldstadt-series-patrick-marber-script-stephen-daldry-direct-amblin-steven-spielberg-ep-1235375758/

https://deadline.com/2024/01/steven-spielberg-universal-simon-kinberg-colin-bannon-thriller-short-story-long-lost-2024-first-big-deal-1235696688/

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/steven-spielberg-amblin-zach-king-my-magical-life-1201902957/

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/steven-spielberg-colin-trevorrow-powerhouse-1201776995/

https://deadline.com/2013/10/dreamworks-picks-up-rights-to-new-teddy-roosevelt-book-by-team-of-rivals-author-doris-goodwin-kearns-623561/

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/the-mother-code-movie-steven-spielberg-amblin-1203158903/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/steven-spielberg-added-paramounts-bee-gees-movie-development-snafu-1251831/

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/walter-cronkite-vietnam-movie-steven-spielberg-1201795645/

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/jim-carrey-eli-roth-aleister-arcane-1201800579/

William Friedkin's unrealized projects

Last Warrant, Act of Vengeance, Bump City, The Man Who Killed Versace, Gangster (Stallone, Paul Attanasio)

Throughout his career, Friedkin has turned down various offers to direct films. "If I can't see it in my minds eye, I won't do it." (Last interview) Some of these include Gunn; M*A*S*H; All the Presidents Men; Superman: The Movie; an early version of Born on the Fourth of July starring Al Pacino; Child's Play, then under the title Blood Buddy; and the second season of True Detective. He also rejected offers to direct the sequels to his films The French Connection and The Exorcist. In the 1970s, he was approached by Albert Broccoli to direct a James Bond film...

https://www.bigissue.com/culture/film/william-friedkin-on-rip-off-exorcist-sequels-scorsese-selling-out-and-dressing-as-ali-g/

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski's unrealized projects

The Jetsons

Untitled Howard Hughes biopic (Milos Forman)

Untitled Marx brothers biopic

Monopoly (Ridley Scott)

Untitled Robert Ripley biopic

Untitled Patty Hearst biopic (James Mangold)

Shoe Dog

King of the Jungle

Untitled Grateful Dead biopic (Martin Scorsese)

Federico Fellini's unrealized projects

Sixty-four minutes with Rebecka

Momentous Events: Russia in the '90s

The Journey of G. Mastorna

Untitled documentary (Scorsese)

The Thousand Miles

Trip to Tulum

Flash Gordon

Mandrake the Magician

Don Quixote

Voyage au bout de la nuit

https://thefilmstage.com/unused-ingmar-bergman-script-to-be-turned-into-feature-film/

https://www.filmcomment.com/article/unproduced-and-unfinished-films-l-through-z-a-ongoing-film-comment-project/

Akira Kurosawa's unrealized projects

• A German at the Daruma Temple (Daruma-dera no Doitsujin)
• All Is Quiet (Shizukanari)
• Snow (Yuki)
• A Thousand and One Nights in the Forest (Mori no sen'ichiya)
• The Story of a Bad Horse (Jajauma monogatari)
• The Lifted Spear (Dokkoi kono yari)
• The Sampaguita Flower (Sampaguita no hana)
• Beautiful Calendar (Utsukishiki koyomi)
• The Third Harbor (Daisan hatoba)
• The People of Kanokemaru (Kanokemaru no Hitobito)
• The Runaway Train
• Tora! Tora! Tora!
• Sixty-four minutes with Rebecka
• The Mask of the Black Death (mid '70s)
• Momentous Events: Russia in the '90s
• Modern Noh (Gendai no No)
• Silvering Spear

https://thefilmstage.com/unused-ingmar-bergman-script-to-be-turned-into-feature-film/

https://www.filmcomment.com/article/unproduced-and-unfinished-films-a-ongoing-film-comment-project/

https://www.filmcomment.com/article/unproduced-and-unfinished-films-l-through-z-a-ongoing-film-comment-project/

https://collider.com/akira-kurosawa-new-screenplays-discovered/

https://akirakurosawa.info/2010/10/29/three-kurosawa-or-related-scripts-discovered/

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general/new-screenplays-by-akira-kurosawa-discovered-in-japan-122045/

https://variety.com/2010/biz/news/kurosawa-scripts-discovered-1118026567/

https://akirakurosawa.info/the-men-who-tread-on-the-tigers-tail/

https://www.flixist.com/unproduced-kurosawa-scripts-to-see-the-light-of-day/

https://akirakurosawa.info/other-movies-involving-kurosawa/

https://www.screendaily.com/unfinished-kurosawa-film-to-be-completed/4037570.article

https://akirakurosawa.info/2008/03/02/unfinished-footage-by-kurosawa-to-be-released/

https://akirakurosawa.info/biography-part-3/

http://thebigpicturemagazine.com/the-beauty-of-free-movement-akira-kurosawas-uma-no-uta/

First article

Shizukanari

This early screenwriting effort Shizukanari (All Is Quiet) won Kurosawa the 1942 Nihon Eiga contest for best scenario, but never proceeded to filming due to production constraints during wartime.

Daruma-dera no Doitsujin

In 1941, Kurosawa was set to make his directorial debut with Daruma-dera no Doitsujin (A German at the Daruma Temple), his first screenplay. The project was selected by the studio but shut down during preproduction by government censors.

Second article

Dokkoi kono yari

Similarly to Kagemusha, Kurosawa's screenplay Dokkoi kono yari (The Lifted Spear) would have climaxed with a grand battle involving the 16th-century warlord Nobunaga Oda. Due to wartime shortages no horses were available for the crucial scene, and the project was subsequently abandoned.

Yuki Snow

Another award-winning, early screenplay by the director.

Jajauma monogatari The Story of a Bad Horse

Kurosawa wrote the script before his career as a filmmaker took off.

In addition, Kurosawa wrote the following unproduced scripts, composed during the pre-war period in the 1930s and also the wartime period in the 1940s, either when he was still an assistant director or had just graduated to full director. Some of these won prizes in screenwriting contests, establishing his reputation as a promising talent even though they were never filmed.

Deruma-dera no doitsujin – A German at Daruma Temple Shizukanari – All Is Quiet Yuki – Snow Mori no senichia – A Thousand and One Nights in the Forest Jajauma monogatari – The Story of a Bad Horse Dokkoi kono yari – The Lifted Spear San Paguita no hana – The San Pajuito Flower Utsukishiki koyomi – Beautiful Calendar Daisan hatoba – The Third Harbor

David Cronenberg's unrealized projects

Total Recall

Frankenstein

Basic Instinct 2

The Singing Detective

Untitled TV series

Roger Pagan, Gynecologist

Eastern Promises sequel

Return of the Jedi Flashdance Top Gun RoboCop True Detective

https://www.slashfilm.com/867790/the-projects-you-didnt-know-david-cronenberg-turned-down/

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/david-cronenberg-early-stages-tv-series-venice-film-festival-1202924185/

Bernardo Bertolucci's unrealized projects

Red Harvest

The White Hotel

Man's Fate

Heaven and Hell

Bel Canto

The Echo Chamber

Terrence Malick's unrealized projects

 - Q (1978)
 - Untitled Joseph Merrick biopic (1979)
 • Untitled Louis Malle film (1983)
 • Countryman (1983)
 • The Desert Rose (1984)
 • Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
 - Tartuffe (1988)
 - The English Speaker (1992)
 - The Moviegoer (1994)
 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2002)
 - The Catcher in the Rye (2006)
 - Che (2008)
 - Held by the Taliban (2010)
 - Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (2011)
 • Untitled Harmony Korine film (2023)

Turned Down:

 - In the Boom Boom Room (1979)
 - The White Hotel (1988)

Brighton Rock (1991) Untitled Richard Linklater documentary (2002) Aloft (2003) Untitled television series (2007)

https://theplaylist.net/the-lost-projects-and-unproduced-screenplays-of-terrence-malick-20110712/

https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/58098

Brett Ratner's unrealized projects

The Killing of Chinese Bookie remake

Josiah's Canon

Ocean's Eleven

Die Another Day

The Red Circle

Paycheck

Memoirs of a Geisha

Superman Returns

The Boys from Brazil remake

God of War

The Fat Lady Sang

Playboy

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Beverly Hills Cop 4

Conan the Barbarian

Youngblood

The Reluctant Communist

The 39 Clues

Wicked

Untitled Eddie Murphy project

Hunting Eichmann

The Last American Virgin remake

Midnight Run 2

The Golden Age

I Want My MTV

Jersey Boys

Once Upon a Time in Russia

Enter the Dragon remake

The Libertine

Soul Soul Soul: The Murray Murray Story

Rush Hour 4

Untitled Mill Vanilli biopic

https://variety.com/2007/film/features/ratner-juggles-a-handful-of-projects-1117969376/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/eddie-murphy-brett-ratner-teaming-848643/

https://variety.com/2012/film/markets-festivals/bret-ratner-cj-team-on-golden-age-1118054540/

https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/connery-loads-canon-1117904080/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-johnny-depp-brett-ratner-891688/

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/brett-ratner-talks-roman-polanksis-weekend-of-a-champion-rush-hour-4-his-version-of-superman-more-91325/

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/brett-ratner-eyes-directing-adaptation-of-i-want-my-mtv-the-uncensored-story-of-the-music-video-revolution-112160/

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/brett-ratner-working-on-new-project-with-eddie-murphy-admits-he-lied-about-banging-olivia-munn-255209/

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/brett-ratner-says-hes-remaking-the-last-american-virgin-255174/

https://deadline.com/2011/10/ann-peacock-signs-on-for-brett-ratner-helmed-hunting-eichmann-189270/

https://deadline.com/2012/03/universal-hires-new-scribes-for-midnight-run-2-and-brett-ratner-will-direct-it-246204/

https://deadline.com/2011/05/brett-ratner-signs-to-direct-the-39-clues-129974/

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/movies/brett-ratner-directs-tower-heist.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/09/once-upon-a-time-in-russia-oligarchs-movie

https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/brett-ratner-boards-youngblood-1117999799/

https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ratner-guns-for-crime-pic-1117908445/

https://variety.com/2001/film/news/regen-joins-the-circle-1117791347/

https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ratner-on-col-s-laff-track-1117908414/

https://www.today.com/popculture/brett-ratner-goes-seasoned-pros-wbna6394425

https://variety.com/2007/film/markets-festivals/brett-ratner-to-direct-playboy-1117967550/

https://variety.com/2010/film/markets-festivals/brett-ratner-turns-communist-1118024792/

Joe Carnahan's unrealized projects

Miami The Surrender of Washington Hansen The Town Live Bait A Cold Case Quantico Death Wish remake Narco Sub Nemesis Daredevil Narc TV series White Jazz Killing Pablo https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/movies-joe-carnahan-stretch-mission-impossible-the-grey-tom-cruise-white-jazz-daredevil-unproduced-movies/

The Raid https://variety.com/2017/film/news/joe-carnahan-frank-grillos-xyz-films-on-raid-reimagining-1201989573/

Bad Boys for Life https://variety.com/2015/film/news/joe-carnahan-will-smith-bad-boys-3-1201516017/

Uncharted https://variety.com/2016/film/news/uncharted-movie-joe-carnahan-video-game-adaptation-bad-boys-3-1201826553/

Leo from Toledo https://variety.com/2019/film/markets-festivals/mel-gibson-frank-grillo-joe-carnahan-leo-from-toledo-1203392691/

Dine and Dash https://variety.com/2012/tv/news/carnahan-binder-to-dine-and-dash-1118060787/

Five Against a Bullet https://variety.com/2016/film/asia/jackie-chan-joe-carnahan-five-against-a-bullet-1201934154/

Umbra https://variety.com/2010/film/news/carnahan-to-write-direct-umbra-1118025652/

Mission: Impossible III https://variety.com/2003/film/markets-festivals/carnahan-to-lead-mission-3-1117881199/

Angel Face https://deadline.com/2013/09/cbs-to-adapt-ann-rices-seraphim-novels-as-drama-project-with-timberman-beverly-memphis-beat-creators-joe-carnahan-596340/

Continue https://collider.com/joe-carnahan-continue-fox/

Blood, Sweat & Tears https://deadline.com/2013/06/ae-buys-amateur-bull-riding-drama-from-joe-carnahan-timberman-beverly-520634/

Cross Brothers https://deadline.com/2012/02/jason-bateman-forms-aggregate-label-gets-first-look-film-tv-deal-at-universal-224474/ https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/joe-carnahan-to-direct-cross-brothers-ralph-fiennes-bryan-singer-sought-for-imitation-game-david-yates-takes-a-reliable-wife-253945/

Graves Pound for Pound Thorn Wheelman 2 https://collider.com/frank-grillo-joe-carnahan-interview-wheelman-2-upcoming-movies/

Motorcade https://deadline.com/2015/03/joe-carnahan-motorcade-dreamworks-1201390975/

Untitled Will Wright biopic https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/helmer-high-on-drug-pic-1117930524/

Bunny Lake Is Missing Remarkable Fellows Preacher Taskmaster

Mark Rydell's unrealized projects

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

The Thing of It Is...

The Exorcist

A Star Is Born

The White Hotel

Something Wicked This Way Comes

No Small Affair

Nuts

Starman

Fertig

Manhattan Ghost Story

Untitled Abbie Hoffmann biopic

An Unfinished Life

Survivors

The Locked Room

Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Story

Jumpshot

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/a-star-is-born-previous-films-judy-garland-barbra-streisand-1202969451/

https://variety.com/2000/voices/columns/journal-follows-in-i-variety-i-s-footsteps-1117779260/

https://variety.com/1997/voices/columns/60s-revivals-spur-rivals-1116679932/

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jamie-foxx-to-star-in-ray-charles-bio-pic-75864/

https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/05/07/foxx-unchains-his-heart

https://variety.com/2006/film/markets-festivals/a-lot-of-white-noise-1200341788/

https://variety.com/1994/film/news/rydell-castle-rock-ink-deal-for-fertig-120485/

https://variety.com/1993/film/news/stone-woos-rydell-for-a-ghost-pic-106995/

https://variety.com/1999/voices/columns/rydell-sets-his-sights-on-molina-s-survivors-1117750232/

https://variety.com/2002/film/markets-festivals/rydell-locks-up-gig-to-direct-rko-room-1117869536/

https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/rydell-finds-jumpshot-1117916116/

Paul Thomas Anderson's unrealized projects

Unrealized Projects:

 - Knuckle Sandwich (1993)
 - Rule of the Bone (1996)
 - Untitled feuding families film (2004)
 - A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
 - Metal Gear Solid (2008)
 - Power Play (2008)
 - Untitled "full-blown" comedy (2012)
 - Vineland (2014)
 - Pinocchio (2015)
 - Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
 - Untitled daughter collaboration (2018)
 - Untitled Teen Titans film (2018)
 - Untitled 1940s L.A.-set jazz epic (2021)
 - Untitled film "about veterans in their 50s" (2023)

Paul Thomas Anderson Was Working on Another Movie Before Filming ‘Licorice Pizza’ https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2021/11/5ure30j78cq7rgyqq85kb9tqu7az1e November 8, 2021 Jordan Ruimy

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Next Film is 1940s L.A-Set Jazz Epic? Denzel Washington Rumored to Star https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/10/lj1wvb248n2tzn33bh5188v5r4svca October 23, 2022 Jordan Ruimy

Is Paul Thomas Anderson’s Mysterious New Movie an Adaptation of Pynchon’s ‘Vineland’? https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/cwpt4b84a0geai0nno95vp9659bhoq Jordan Ruimy March 3, 2023

https://www.timeout.com/film/paul-thomas-anderson-interview-it-was-like-getting-the-keys-to-your-dads-car Paul Thomas Anderson interview: ‘It was like getting the keys to your dad’s car’ December 11, 2014 Time Out

https://www.slashfilm.com/499510/rumor-paul-thomas-andersons-power-play/ June 7, 2008 Peter Sciretta Rumor: Paul Thomas Anderson's Power Play?

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-mn-paul-thomas-anderson-phantom-thread-oscars-20180220-htmlstory.html

Untitled daughter film

https://collider.com/robert-altman-paul-thomas-anderson-prairie-home-companion/

A Prairie Home Companion

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/paul-thomas-anderson-pta-knuckle-1792618750 https://movieweb.com/knuckle-sandwich-paul-thomas-andersons-unmade-movie/

Knuckle Sandwich

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/paul-thomas-anderson-pta-rule-bone-1787255627 http://cigsandredvines.blogspot.com/1997/11/interview-creative-screenwriting-paul.html https://quotefancy.com/quote/1068681/Paul-Thomas-Anderson-It-felt-like-the-first-thing-but-when-I-first-started-out-I-got-a

"It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called ‘Rule Of The Bone.’ I didn’t do a very good job. I didn’t really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book."

Rule of the Bone

https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-movie-update-5008812

Metal Gear Solid

https://www.vulture.com/2012/11/p-t-anderson-wants-to-make-a-full-blown-comedy.html

https://www.vulture.com/2012/11/paul-thomas-anderson-wants-to-make-a-comedy-loved-ted.html

Untitled full-blown comedy

Denzel Washington Leonardo DiCaprio Tiffany Hadish Nicolas Cage

A Rage in Harlem

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2022/2/h9gvz365acdeldwxiy1knxh4nmimf0

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/7/hpjdtib2fdaoqcvjmk7rib2gw6fwn0

In 2018, Anderson teased the notion of possibly directing a live action Teen Titans feature.

...Anderson expressed his interest in [someday?] directing a "full-blown" comedy in the style of films like Ted...blah blah blah

...that he hoped to one day direct a "full-blown" comedy

in a 2014 Time Out interview he even insinuated that he tried to script it: “I'd wanted to adapt “Vineland”, but I never had the courage. It seemed to be a great way to translate [Pynchon] into a movie.

James Toback's unrealized projects

Proud Dreamer Untitled Victoria Woodhull biopic (George Cukor) Shrink Love in Paris Gotti

Edie

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/html/1999/03/alumni.toback.html

https://variety.com/1998/film/news/toback-finds-love-in-paris-1117489013/

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/35-years-in-the-making-james-toback-may-finally-shoot-his-victoria-woodhull-movie-is-cool-with-the-gambler-remake-now-92305/

Walter Hill's unrealized projects

Sudden Country Red White Black and Blue St. Vincent What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? remake To Live and Die in L.A. TV series Goliath season 2

https://variety.com/1994/film/news/par-hitches-hill-n-hildy-118035/

https://variety.com/1997/film/news/u-taps-hill-to-helm-red-1116675890/

https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/mickey-rourke-to-star-in-st-vincent-1117999737/

https://variety.com/2010/film/markets-festivals/stars-visit-st-vincent-1118019339/

Richard Kelly's unrealized projects

Holes Cat's Cradle Untitled 3D film Corpus Christi Amicus Soulmates Untitled Rod Serling biopic Southland Tales prequel Untitled Donnie Darko film

Mississippi Mud For Thom Yorke

Richard Linklater's Unrealized Projects

Friday Night Lights Untitled high school football documentary The Incredible Mr. Limpet remake Larry's Kidney The Rosie Project Untitled John Brinkley biopic Untitled Bill Hicks biopic Untitled body-swap film

https://variety.com/1997/film/news/linklater-linked-to-imagine-pigskin-pic-1116679215/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120702150236/https://variety.com/article/VR1117866373?query=malick+linklater

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/glen-powell-comments-on-justin-hartley-mixup-thr-1235794675/

Mark Pellington's Unrealized Projects

Harvest One for the Ages Electric God The Wrong Element The Orphanage remake The Trap MOM

Garden of Gods Rated

https://variety.com/1999/film/news/d-works-plants-pellington-for-gerritsen-s-harvest-1117492971/

https://variety.com/1999/film/news/pellington-gets-ages-pages-1117503492/

https://variety.com/2000/film/news/propaganda-seeks-electric-god-1117786511/

John Dahl's Unrealized Projects

Meltdown A Simple Plan It Take a Thief Blackout Rounders sequel

https://variety.com/1997/film/news/dahls-in-heavy-demand-111662442/

Gore Verbinski's Unrealized Projects

Mission to Mars The Sky Is Falling The Lighthouse Where the Wild Things Are The Big Ticket The Light Princess Bioshock The Host remake Black Hole Clue The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Bitterroot Gambit Sandkings Spaceless Cattywumpus Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

https://variety.com/1998/film/news/verbinski-reaches-for-nl-s-sky-1117469289/

https://variety.com/1998/film/news/gerber-nabs-lighthouse-1117479102/

https://variety.com/1999/film/news/u-and-hanks-going-wild-1117491368/

https://variety.com/1999/film/news/inside-moves-117-1117503436/

https://variety.com/1999/film/news/fox-taps-princess-scribe-1117756014/

Bert and Bertie's unrealized projects

Dance Camp Troop Zero

 - The Beast Is an Animal (2017)
 - Eurydice (2018)
 - A Special Relationship (2019)
 - Queen Bitch & the High Horse (2021)
 - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (2022)
 - Moxie (2023)

Damien Chazelle's Unrealized Projects

 - The Claim (2010)
 - Marseille (2010)
 - 10 Cloverfield Lane (2013)
 - Untitled Apple TV+ drama series (2018)
 - Untitled Matthew Vaughan musical (2024)
 - Heart of the Beast (2024)
 - Untitled prison film (2024)

https://deadline.com/2024/03/david-ayer-heart-of-the-beast-damien-chazelle-1235865835/

Noah Baumbach's Unrealized Projects

The Emperor's Children Mr. Popper's Penguins The Corrections Flawed Dogs Barbie Untitled autobiography Jay Kelly

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/4/keit97ag0ouj6ehodo4jlow1s3roc2

Sam Mendes' unrealized projects

This Must Be the Place Preacher Butcher's Crossing Middlemarch Flavia de Luce Oz the Great & Powerful Beautiful Ruins Voyeur's Motel James and the Giant Peach Pinocchio My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Hamlet Untitled Beatles biopics

Cary Joji Fukunaga's unrealized projects

Untitled musical film

https://theplaylist.net/cary-fukunaga-may-do-musical-wi-20090324/

The Wolverine

Main article: The Wolverine (film)

The Black Count

In 2014, the biography The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo was optioned by John Legend's film company Get Lifted for production as a movie and was to be directed by Fukunaga.

(Alexandre Dumas biopic)

Spectre

Main article: Spectre (2015 film)

It Chapter One and It Chapter Two

Main articles: It (2017 film) and It Chapter Two

In June 2012, Warner Bros. chose Fukunaga as the director of its adaptations of Stephen King's It, the first of which was initially due to start shooting in summer 2015. Fukunaga was set to direct the first film and was expected to co-write the second. Three weeks before production was slated to begin, Fukunaga left the project.

Untitled war film

https://deadline.com/2014/02/fox-preempts-feature-pitch-for-true-detective-helmer-cary-fukunaga-688692/

Napoleon TV miniseries

Since May 2016, it was reported that Fukunaga, alongside Spielberg, could finalize the long-sought epic film about Napoleon that Stanley Kubrick worked on until the last days of his life. In September 2018, Fukunaga confirmed the reports, saying that he is already working with HBO on the film. In the same interview he said he was working on a project based on a book written by Alexandre Dumas.

Shockwave

In February 2017, it was reported Fukunaga was in talks to direct Shockwave, a drama about the lead-up to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

The Alienist TV series

Main article: The Alienist (TV series)

Fukunaga was originally slated to direct the 2018 TNT TV series The Alienist. However, due to scheduling conflicts he was replaced by Jakob Verbruggen, although he retained a "created by" credit and remained as an executive producer.

The American

https://deadline.com/2018/05/jake-gyllenhaal-leonard-bernstein-the-american-movie-cary-fukunaga-directing-bron-studios-cannes-1202380700/

The Last of the Mohicans TV series

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/last-mohicans-tv-series-lands-at-hbo-max-1267900/

Tokyo Ghost

In March 2021, he signed on to direct and produce Tokyo Ghost, based on the science fiction comic book series of the same name.

77 Blackout

In May 2024, it was announced that Fukunaga was directing a crime thriller titled 77 Blackout that's produced by Charles Roven and stars Mahershala Ali and Tom Hardy in the lead roles. The story is about five rogue police officers who formulate a plan to rob three criminal strongholds – the Hong Kong Triads, the Italian Mafia, and the Harlem Mob – all in one night while dealing with the effects of a blackout in the city.

https://variety.com/2011/film/news/fukunaga-focus-team-for-civil-war-heist-pic-1118037550/

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/cary-fukunaga-says-civil-war-heist-flick-no-blood-no-guts-no-glory-is-next-compares-film-to-the-general-but-from-the-yankee-side-253396/

https://deadline.com/2014/03/scott-silver-to-script-noble-assassin-for-true-detectives-cary-fukunaga-to-direct-700818/

https://deadline.com/2014/04/cary-fukunaga-black-count-of-monte-cristo-movie-john-legend-sony-720657/

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/cary-fukunaga-noble-assassin-writers-adam-cooper-bill-collage-1201759992/

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2009	Sin nombre	Yes	Yes	No
2011	Jane Eyre	Yes	No	No
2014	No Blood, No Guts, No Glory	Yes	Yes	No	Co-written with Chase Palmer
2015	The Black Count	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	The Noble Assassin	Yes	No	Yes
2019	Shockwave	Yes	No	Yes

Nicolas Winding Refn's unrealized projects

Batgirl

Wonder Woman

The Avenging Silence

The Equalizer

Spectre

Barbarella

Billy's People

Jekyll

The Dying of the Light

Magic Mike

The Bringing

Maniac Cop

Logan's Run remake

Button Man

Untitled heist film

The Famous Five

Witchfinder General

https://theplaylist.net/nicolas-winding-refn-to-helm-modern-20090907/