Never Made Movies that You Wish Had Been Made

The Chessmen of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs’s fifth John Carter book.

The Horse and his Boy. The fifth book of Clive Staples Lewis’s Narnia books.
 
Not sure how i feel about Jodorowski's Dune. I personally think it was all hyperbole and would never have gotten made. Still, if it hadn't have been for all his preproduction stills, i'd never have heard of him.

I wished that the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy was a lot different. Move away from the Jedi and Sith conflict, move away from the Skywalkers and the Solos. Disney needed to go their own way.

I'm not sure how i feel about the idea of Amazon's Culture TV series. On the one hand, i adore The Culture. I would watch it and i would enjoy it. But they do say, "never meet your heroes".
 
Serious adaptations of famous characters - like a Wolverine that isn't an angst filled, uniformed boob. Or a Spider-Man who made his own clothes and webshooters, has a real sense of humor, but is also bravely fighting for his life. Where did all the bad asses go?
 
Film adaptation of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern. There have been multiple announcements in the last 15 years of a studio picking up the rights and a screenwriter being assigned the project, but nothing further.

Barry Sonnenfeld's Dinosaurs vs. Aliens.

Star Trek 4 --I was intrigued by the idea of Kelvin Timeline Kirk meeting his dad in what I expected would have been an alternate timeline/reality crossover.
 
F.J. Hansen said:
Film adaptation of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern. There have been multiple announcements in the last 15 years of a studio picking up the rights and a screenwriter being assigned the project, but nothing further.
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And it going to be stuck in development hell for another 20 years. Very disappointed that this one hasn't happened :(



F.J. Hansen said:
Barry Sonnenfeld's Dinosaurs vs. Aliens.
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Wold make a terrific film franchise :)

F.J. Hansen said:
Star Trek 4 --I was intrigued by the idea of Kelvin Timeline Kirk meeting his dad in what I expected would have been an alternate timeline/reality crossover.
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Id love to see this happen . One gets the impression that Paramount is no longer interested in doing anymore Kelvin feature films. :(
 
I really wish Bakshi had finished off his LOTR story. There was a LOT wrong with the original movie, but the visual effects were spot on.
 
Swank said:
I have never heard anyone who liked the way that film looks. How refreshing.
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Although the animation wasn't 'Disney-standard' it didn't need to be. The animation of the character's faces and their body movements made them look and act realistically. Bakshi's Nazgul (and especially his orcs) are really quite scary, much moreso than Jackson's in my opinion.
 
paranoid marvin said:
Although the animation wasn't 'Disney-standard' it didn't need to be. The animation of the character's faces and their body movements made them look and act realistically. Bakshi's Nazgul (and especially his orcs) are really quite scary, much moreso than Jackson's in my opinion.
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That wasn't animation in the case of the orcs. That's just highly processed live film. Other parts are a mixture, like Gandalf on a horse, and the rest is largely rotoscoped animation where they paint over live actors.
 
Swank said:
That wasn't animation in the case of the orcs. That's just highly processed live film. Other parts are a mixture, like Gandalf on a horse, and the rest is largely rotoscoped animation where they paint over live actors.
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It looked bit like Rotoscope animation.
 
Swank said:
That wasn't animation in the case of the orcs. That's just highly processed live film. Other parts are a mixture, like Gandalf on a horse, and the rest is largely rotoscoped animation where they paint over live actors.
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I think that it's the combination of the different types that made the movie so unique and memorable for me. I certainly prefer it to CGI. And the characters such as Aragorn and Frodo were much closer to how I imagined them from reading the books than they were in Jackson's film.

As I said, it's far from perfect, but it's a shame that we didn't get a proper conclusion done by Bakshi.
 
paranoid marvin said:
I think that it's the combination of the different types that made the movie so unique and memorable for me. I certainly prefer it to CGI. And the characters such as Aragorn and Frodo were much closer to how I imagined them from reading the books than they were in Jackson's film.

As I said, it's far from perfect, but it's a shame that we didn't get a proper conclusion done by Bakshi.
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I wish he had gotten to all three part to LOTR because what he did achieve was amazing. :cool:
 
paranoid marvin said:
I think that it's the combination of the different types that made the movie so unique and memorable for me. I certainly prefer it to CGI. And the characters such as Aragorn and Frodo were much closer to how I imagined them from reading the books than they were in Jackson's film.

As I said, it's far from perfect, but it's a shame that we didn't get a proper conclusion done by Bakshi.
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You should watch the animated Hobbit and Return of the King. Gorgeous films.
 
The proposed sequel to Doc Savage the Man of Bronze (involving dinosaurs)
and (sticking to the precious metal theme)

I would have liked to see where the Golden Compass would have gone.
It was an interesting fantasy world (i.e. blacksmith polar bears).
 
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