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In 2012, in an interview on CNN, Coppola stated that

EW: So what are you working on now, given your new offices next year at Paramount?

Coppola: I have a secret investor that has infinite money. I learned what I learned from my three smaller films, and wanted to write a bigger film. I’ve been writing it. It’s so ambitious so I decided to go to L.A. and make a film out of a studio that has all the costume rentals, and where all the actors are. My story is set in New York. I have a first draft. I’m really ready for a casting phase. Movies are big in proportion to the period. It starts in the middle of the ’20s, and there are sections in the ‘30s and the late ‘40s, and it goes until the late ‘60s.

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The following year, The Hollywood Reporter announced^[2]

By 2014, ^[3]

In 2024, following the release of Megalopolis, Coppola announced plans to finish the film^[4]^[5]^[6]

Always felt that Sutherland should have done MUCH more comedy. He was great at it. Nevertheless, he was one of a kind. An incredible, often transcendent of the form itself, dramatic actor (ORDINARY PEOPLE, DON'T LOOK NOW, KLUTE, Fellini's CASANOVA, and many, many more).

Hot take: Anderson needs to stop making films set in L.A. He reached his peak at Punch-Drunk Love, his best film IMO. I'll also give credit to Inherent Vice, an underrated gem. Lately, it seems, and I think certainly with this next film he's trying to fulfill a sense of idyllic nostalgia, but with no substance, and lack of style, or just somewhere where the two don't meet. Anderson is best when the style is the substance, and vice-versa, again I cite PDL. Essentially I feel now, he's making "movies", not "films", to use that pretentious turn of phrase. But I feel it's true. Making cinema is truly what he's best at, and he needs to go back to it, and to stop trying to make the next blockbuster and be the next Spielberg (events films - which aren't Anderson's thing - Battle of Batkan Cross) or Lucas (American Graffiti = Licorice Pizza). I think also this recent shift is a product of himself (as he's of middle-age now, and has a family, and is quite likely less willing to 'invent'), and he insists on only writing his own material, rather than hiring someone. It doesn't matter who the idea comes from, as long as it relates to what you're trying to do. If you choose to limit yourself to what you can only think as a writer in that moment, as you are creating more than words and descriptions but IMAGES that MOVE in TIME and SPACE, then your film will never grow and transcend behind yourself. Some directors can get too lost in this idea, and only write for the page, not the screen, ex.: Tarantino. Name a single master director (besides Bergman), who has done that. Anderson, Chazelle, these guys know better. They are capable of great films! They just need a great subject/story/milieu to sink their teeth into. They are too close to Hollywood I think to be able to create with a more imaginative and wild mindset.

If you are a director, you are a master/commander. Anderson has been doing this for 30+ years, he is very well capable of dictating and delegating. By middle-age, you should be at the master of your helm, and you should be hiring help. He has a film, he doesn't have time to go back to writing the novel. What he needs to do is direct more. Hire others to find out what's personal to him. "Oh, I like that idea, let's put that in," and on and on. Eventually, what you've done is you've crafted a personal piece of work, that is not of your own, therefore you've had distance from it. You've had people to help you sculpt and mold YOUR VISION! It's still yours.

Can you rewrite these so my portions (on [], [], and []) don't read like shit? I'm not eloquent enough, nor do I have the capabilities to do so myself. Thanks.

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Michael Cimino's unrealized projects
Akira Kurosawa's unrealized projects
Frank Lloyd Wright's unrealized projects
Stephen King's unrealized projects
Roman Polanski's unrealized projects
George Cukor's unrealized projects
Michelangelo's unrealized projects
John Ford's unrealized projects
Man's Fate (film)
[additions to]: Michelangelo Antonioni
[additions to]: Orson Welles's unrealized projects

Work in progress UNREALIZED PROJECTS pages:

Alan J. Pakula
Brett Ratner
Joe Carnahan
Terrence Malick
Mark Rydell
Penny Marshall
Richard Linklater
Le Corbusier
John Boorman
Charlie Kaufman
Fritz Lang
Luchino Visconti
Federico Fellini (bio only)
Howard Hawks (bio only)
John Huston (bio only)
Bob Fosse (bio only)

Hallelujah the Hills

Tough Guys Don't Dance (Picturing Peter Bogdanovich pg. 88)

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/jonas-mekas

Diaries: Becoming a Director

All I Wanna Do is Direct: My First Picture Shows, 1965–1971

Five American Icons

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

Picturing Peter Bogdanovich Peter Tonguette

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

^[9] ^[10] Orson Welles' The Unthinking Lobster

^[11] 290 for index

^[12] Big Deal, 241-242, 556-561, 563-565, 549-550, 381 Ending, 434-435, 557 Winchell, 566-568

^[13]index for Reel to Reel

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

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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.

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Robert Dillon

Charlie Peters

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/

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Unrecorded Night

In 2021 it was announced that Lynch was working on a new project for Netflix under the working titles Wisteria and Unrecorded Night. He was set to write and direct 13 episodes with an $85 million budget. Production was set to begin in May 2021 in Los Angeles.^[23]^[24] The project was later announced to be either abandoned or postponed by a unknown insider, with no reason given.^[25]

In April 2022, Variety reported that Lynch had a film set to premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, possibly featuring Laura Dern and Naomi Watts. It was unclear whether this was related to the Wisteria project Lynch was linked to in 2021.^[26] Lynch denied the reports in an interview with Entertainment Weekly the next day, saying, "I have no new film coming out. That's a total rumor. So there you are. It is not happening. I don't have a project. I have nothing at Cannes."^[27] No new Lynch projects debuted at the Cannes Film Festival the following month.

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.^{[citation needed]}

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

 - Waiting for Godot (1966)
 - Downhill Racer (1967)
 - This Perfect Day (1968)
 - Paganini (1968)
 - Donner Pass (1969)
 - Day of the Dolphin (1969)
 - Papillon (1970)
 - The Two Jakes (1974)
 - King Kong (1975)
 - White Dog (1975)
 - The First Deadly Sin (1976)
 - The Hurricane (1977)
 - Handcarved Coffins (1984)
 - Schindler's List (1986)
 - The Adventures of Tintin (1988)
 - M. Butterfly (1988)
 - The Master and Margarita (1989)
 - Mary Reilly (1989)
 - Sliver (1993)
 - The Double (1994)
 - The Picture of Dorian Gray (1995)
 - The Count of Monte Cristo (1997)
 - Master Class (1998)
 - Pompeii (2007)
 - Aryan Papers (2009)
 - Untitled WWII film (2011)
 - Untitled 2020s film (2024)

https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59588 M. Butterfly

https://ew.com/article/1993/05/21/troubled-making-sliver/ Sliver

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1996/07/01/roman-polanski-abandons-production-of-the-double/ The Double

https://variety.com/1995/voices/columns/evans-polanski-talk-new-shades-of-gray-1117862617/ The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

https://variety.com/1998/voices/columns/polanski-to-enter-american-gate-1117467600/ Master Class

Pompeii (Search: roman Polanski variety 2007)

Worthpoint:

Day of the Dolphin Hurricane Mary Reilly

Waiting for Godot

Before he made Cul-de-sac, Polanski proposed a film adaptation of Waiting for Godot to playwright Samuel Beckett, who politely refused to allow it. Beckett insisted that the play was not cinematic material and that an adaptation would destroy it.^[28]

Papillion

In early 1970, after the film rights to cusjbw's 1973 novel Papillon were purchased by Walter Reade’s Continental Distributing, Inc., Polanski was reportedly set to direct the adaptation, with Warren Beatty starring. The role eventually went to Steve McQueen, who was cast alongside Dustin Hoffman in the resulting 1973 film, which was directed by ________.

https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/55041

Schindler's List

Years prior to making The Pianist, Polanski had wanted to make a film on the subject of the Holocaust and his youth, and, in the mid-1980s, was offered by Steven Spielberg the chance to direct an adaptation of Schindler's Ark; "a very generous offer but not right for me." Spielberg ultimately directed the story himself as Schindler's List, released in 1993.^[29]

The Adventures of Tintin

In the late 1980s, Polanski became attached to a proposed film adapting the Adventures of Tintin comics, after Steven Spielberg initially left the project, dissatisfied with the scripts at the time.^[30] However, Polanski quickly abandoned the idea as well, later stating that the "actors and natural settings could not work as well as comics."^[31] Spielberg would eventually return to the helm later on his career with The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, produced using motion capture technology.

The Master and Margarita

In 1989, Polanski adapted and was set to direct a film version of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Communist Moscow.^[32] The project was subsequently dropped by Warner Bros. due to budgetary concerns and the studio's belief that the subject matter was no longer relevant due to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Polanski has described his script as "the best thing I ever managed to adapt."^[29]

Untitled pre-WWII film

In an October 2011 interview with French newspaper Le Figaro, Polanski announced his intention to next make a pre-WWII film about ageing. "It would follow the stages in the life of a woman who would not have at her disposal the resources of today like cosmetic surgery, creams and pills."^[31]

Untitled film

In 2024, it was revealed to film critic Joseph McBride that Polanski was at work on a new film, following the release of The Palace.

In 2024, film critic Joseph McBride, after being informed, passed along the news that Polanski was at work on his next film, following the release of The Palace.

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/2/7/rekougsks37oamvx70492jw1rzfj4o

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

Burn Offerings (1969)^[33]
The Goodbye People (1973)^[34]
Ending (1979)
Annie (1980)^[35]
The King of Comedy (1982)
The Bad and the Beautiful remake
Dick Tracy (1985)^[36]
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.

In 1986, Fosse would stage what would be his last Broadway musical in a production called Big Deal that was based on the 1958 Mario Monicelli film Big Deal on Madonna Street. The musical was well-received as Fosse another Tony Award for Best Choreography as well as four more nominations yet the show only lasted for 69 performances as Fosse was already considering about focusing more on films rather than musical theatres. While he had been attached to direct The King of Comedy, he passed on it despite its subject matter as he was also approached to do a remake of The Bad and the Beautiful but it never materialized. Other projects Fosse turned down was a film version of Dick Tracy and a bio-pic on cult actress Edie Sedgwick that was to star Michelle Pfeiffer in the role with Al Pacino as Andy Warhol.

Among the projects Fosse was interested in helming to the big screen was a bio-pic on the gossip columnist Walter Winchell as it played into Fosse’s fascination with the dark side of fame and celebrity. The other project that Fosse wanted to make into a film was a film version of his most celebrated musical Chicago just as it had returned to Broadway to great success. Sadly, neither projects would materialize as Fosse died of a heart attack on September 23, 1987 at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

John Boorman's unrealized projects

1960s

The Diamond Smugglers

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

1970s

The Lord of the Rings

I Hear America

Labour of Love

The Last Run

Broken Dream

1970s

Sharky's Machine

The Bodyguard

Final Analysis

1990s

David Lean's Nostromo

Alice and Lucien

A Simple Plan

Memoirs of Hadrian

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Sea Wolf

2000s

Knight's Castle

Halfway House

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

2010s

Mr. Ping Pong

Underground

2020s

The Honey Wars

References

https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/ben-kinglsey-john-hurt-and-neil-jordan-work-on-john-boormans-broken-dream-119911209-237382361

https://www.notstarring.com/actors/boorman-john

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

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

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/

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

The Master and Margarita

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/

David Cronenberg's unrealized projects

Frankenstein

London Fields

Basic Instinct 2

The Singing Detective

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/

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

Money Talks (1997)

Rush Hour (1998)

The Family Man (2000)

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

Red Dragon (2002)

After the Sunset (2004)

Josiah's Canon (2006)

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

Tower Heist (2011)

Midnight Run 2 (2013)

Hercules (2014)

The Fat Lady Sang (2015)

Beverly Hills Cop IV (2016)

The Libertine (2017)

Playboy (2019)

Girl You Know It's True (2023)

Rush Hour 4 (2025)

Superman: Flyby

Soul Soul Soul: The Murray Murray Story

The Killing of Chinese Bookie remake

Josiah's Canon

Across the Bridge remake

The Fly remake

Sticky Fingers

Ocean's Eleven

Die Another Day

The Red Circle

Paycheck

Memoirs of a Geisha

Superman: Flyby

Mission: Impossible III

Breaking Vegas (21)

The Boys from Brazil remake

God of War

The Fat Lady Sang

Playboy

Escape from New York remake

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Beverly Hills Cop IV

Conan the Barbarian

Youngblood

The Reluctant Communist

The 39 Clues

Untitled John DeLorean biopic

Wicked

Untitled Eddie Murphy project

Hunting Eichmann

The Last American Virgin remake

Midnight Run 2

The Golden Age: The Lost Treasure of Zheng He

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

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https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/ratner-rolls-vegas-dice-1117909667/

https://variety.com/1999/film/news/fox-bridges-ratner-for-pic-1117492056/

https://variety.com/1999/film/news/u-jones-ratner-get-sticky-1117502910/

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/ratner-escapes-from-escape-from-new-york/

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/2005/film/features/levy-plays-some-21-with-sony-1117928460/

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/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/movies/03john.html

https://www.slashfilm.com/504080/james-toback-and-brett-ratner-move-forward-with-delorean-biopic/

https://www.thewrap.com/thewrap/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=N2SSFCDj&full=true#display

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/sean-connery-called-brett-ratner-a-fraud/

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

Cutter and Bone

No Small Affair

Nuts

Starman

Children of a Lesser God

The Mrs.

Fertig

Manhattan Ghost Story

Untitled Abbie Hoffmann biopic

An Unfinished Life

Survivors

The Locked Room

Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Story

Jumpshot

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/67015-CUTTER-AND-BONE?cxt=filmography

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57284-CHILDREN-OF-A-LESSER-GOD?cxt=filmography

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58853-DECEIVED?cxt=filmography

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

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)
Mason & Dixon (2014)
Pinocchio (2015)
Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
The Apprentice (2018)
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."^{[citation needed]}

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

https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/ali-abbasi-paul-thomas-anderson-et-clint-eastwood-ont-decline-the-apprentice-20241008

The Apprentice

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.

In 2014, Anderson stated that, as well as Vineland, he would love to someday adapt Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.

Richard Linklater's Unrealized Projects

Friday Night Lights

Rivethead

Untitled high school football documentary

The Smoker

School of Rock 2

Liars (A-E)

College Republicans

The Incredible Mr. Limpet remake

A Walk in the Woods

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/

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https://variety.com/2002/film/news/linklater-quarterbacks-texas-tale-1117866373/

https://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/paramount-lighting-up-with-smoker-romance-1117906747/

https://www.slashfilm.com/504742/richard-linklater-to-tackle-road-trip-movie-liars-a-e/

https://www.slashfilm.com/517331/paul-dano-karl-rove-richard-linklaters-college-republicans/

https://www.slashfilm.com/525668/richard-linklater-goes-for-a-walk-in-the-woods-with-robert-redford-and-nick-nolte/

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/

Damien Chazelle's Unrealized Projects

The Claim (2010)
Marseille (2010)
Paranormal Activity 4 (2011)
Ouija (2012)
The Cellar (2013)^[39]^[40]
Untitled Apple TV+ drama series (2018)
Untitled Matthew Vaughan musical (2024)
Heart of the Beast (2024)
Untitled prison film (2024)
Untitled "other" film (2024)

https://scriptshadow.net/screenplay-review-marseille/ Screenplay Review – Marseille February 27, 2024

https://scriptshadow.net/screenplay-review-the-claim/ Screenplay Review – The Claim February 4, 2015

https://variety.com/2010/film/news/2010-black-list-best-unproduced-screenplays-1-7099/ Stuart Oldham 2010 Black List: Best Unproduced Screenplays December 13, 2010

https://deadline.com/2017/03/damien-chazelle-the-claim-movie-screenplay-oceanside-route-one-1202042649/ Patrick Hipes March 13, 2017 Damien Chazelle-Penned ‘The Claim’ Staked By Oceanside Media & Route One

https://deadline.com/2017/08/ericson-core-directing-thriller-the-claim-damien-chazelle-1202140726/ Anita Busch August 2, 2017 Ericson Core To Direct ‘The Claim’; ‘La La Land’ Oscar Winner Damien Chazelle Scripting

https://deadline.com/2024/01/argylle-matthew-vaughn-marv-films-breaking-baz-1235803584/ Baz Bamigboye January 24, 2024 Breaking Baz: Matthew Vaughn On The Thrills And Spills Of Making ‘Argylle’, Why Marv Films Is Not For Sale & How Claudia Schiffer Saved His Career

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/damien-chazelle-write-direct-straight-series-drama-apple-1078192/ Lesley Goldberg January 25, 2018 Damien Chazelle to Write, Direct Straight-to-Series Drama for Apple

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

https://deadline.com/2017/06/damien-chazelle-produced-by-panel-ageism-1202111085/

https://captimes.com/entertainment/movies/it-took-a-while-for-la-la-land-director-damien-chazelle-to-like-musicals-too/article_42711de6-97b8-5924-8de7-f8f0be525810.html

One of Chazelle's earliest screenwriting efforts, Marseille, is a

In September 2024, in a Vanity Fair interview promoting the ten-anniversary of Whiplash (2014), Chazelle revealed that he was working on another project simultaneously as his prison-set film. "My mind is all still figuring itself out in terms of what's next. I've definitely been working on this thing that I might be jumping into—but there's another thing I might be jumping into. There's two things that I'm toying with, so I need to commit to one lane or the other fast." In the same article, actor Miles Teller stated that he and Chazelle were discussing what was next in terms of their creative partnership for future projects.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/whiplash-anniversary-damien-chazelle-miles-teller-jk-simmons

Noah Baumbach's Unrealized Projects

Highball

Prep

The Emperor's Children

Mr. Popper's Penguins

The Corrections

Flawed Dogs

Barbie

Untitled autobiography

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

Denis Villeneuve's unrealized projects

The Darling

Footnotes in Gaza

The Son

Cleopatra

Dune: Messiah

Rendezvous with Rama

Untitled James Bond film

Nuclear War: A Scenario

I'm Waiting for You

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/

Scott Frank's unrealized projects

Lily

Bye Bye Brooklyn

Houdini

Hell's Angels (Tony Scott)

Unforgiven TV miniseries

Laughter in the Dark TV miniseries

The Sparrow TV miniseries

Untitled Queen's Gambit follow-up film

Dustland opera

Faker novel

Red Harvest

https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/matthew-goode-kelly-macdonald-chloe-pirrie-scott-frank-netflix-department-q-1235899538/

https://deadline.com/2011/11/scott-frank-to-write-and-direct-gk-films-adaptation-of-british-miniseries-unforgiven-191929/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/queens-gambit-creator-scott-frank-to-tackle-the-sparrow-for-fx-4116532/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/01/how-a-script-doctor-found-his-own-voice

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

Unfinished projects

1976—78 Conceives a number of film projects, all of which are ultimately abandoned at one stage or another: The Crew, co-written with Mark Peploe, which would have been shot in Australia; The Color of Jealousy; a science-fiction film titled L’aquilone (The Kite), with a script by Tonino Guerra, which was to have been filmed in the southern Asiatic part of the Soviet Union; and Patire o morire (Suffer or Die), with a script by Guerra and Anthony Burgess, which was first to star Richard Gere and then Giancarlo Giannini.

The White Sheik

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Your second film should have been The White Sheik, which Fellini ended up directing. Why didn’t you do it?

The White Sheik should have been my first film. While I waited for Ponti and his associate Mambretti to approve the script I went to Bomarzo, the “villa of the monsters,” to make a documentary. I got sick at Bomarzo and had to stay in bed with an intense headache. I was very ill. I could not even tolerate the daylight. It was a situation which was horrible for me, but turned out to be great for Ponti and Mambretti’s company. They told me that they were in trouble because Lux [the production company] had refused a script on Miss Italy by [Alberto] Lattuada, and they needed another story. Ponti really liked The White Sheik and proposed to buy it from me, promising to accept another film of mine. I did not know Ponti, then. It was the first time I had even been in contact with him and so I sold him the subject for practically nothing. Later he sent me a novel to read, but it was all a pretense. I made a film with Ponti sixteen years later, Blow-Up.

Was your version of The White Sheik much different from the one Fellini made?

Not very much, but the structure was different. I have to say one thing, and I hope Fellini doesn’t mind. The opening titles did not say that the story was entirely mine, as it really is. However, in my script there was no precise plot, just a series of interconnected events. It was a rather free narration, a little like Federico’s own films today. At the time, Fellini and [Tullio] Pinelli criticized the fragmentary quality of my stories.

Thematically, The White Sheik seems to develop some elements of your short film Lies of Love.

Yes, in fact I wanted to make the film with the same two actors who played in the documentary

Ida e i porci

In 1956, Antonioni completed the script for the planned film Ida e i porci (English translation: Ida and the Pigs), which was not made.^[42]

Le allegre ragazze del 24

Also in 1956, Antonioni wrote Le allegre ragazze del 24 (English translation: The Happy Girls from 24), which also was not produced, and he went on to direct Il Grido instead, the year following.^[42]

Makaroni

In 1958, Antonioni and Tonino Guerra prepared Makaroni, a screenplay based on Ugo Pirro's novel Le soldatesse, but their hopes for production fall through at the last minute.^[42]

Peter Pan

After the success of Blow-Up, Antonioni received an offer from an American producer to direct Peter Pan. "He called me into his office, and on the one side there was Mia Farrow, who was to take the lead role, on the other side was the composer and the artistic director (the music and scenery were all ready), and in front of me there was this producer with his check book out, offering one million and three hundred thousand dollars. And then I just asked: 'Since everything is ready, what do you need me for?' Those guys never understood why I turned them down. So many of my colleagues would have accepted."^[43]

Technically Sweet

In 1966, Antonioni drafted a treatment entitled Technically Sweet, about a man lost in the Amazon wilderness after surviving a plane crash.^[44] The title had been inspired by J. Robert Oppenheimer's remark on the atomic bomb because of the "technically sweet" theoretical problems it created. Antonioni later developed it into a screenplay with Mark Peploe, Niccolo Tucci, and Tonino Guerra, with plans to begin filming in the early '70s with Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider. On the verge of production in the Amazon jungle, the producer, Carlo Ponti, suddenly withdrew support and the project was abandoned, with Nicholson and Schneider going forward to star in The Passenger instead.^[45]^[42] In 2008, Technically Sweet, became an international group exhibition curated by Copenhagen-based artists Yvette Brackman and Maria Finn, in which the creations of artists, working in multiple mediums and based on Antonioni's manuscript, were displayed in New York.^[46] One of these was the short film "Sweet Ruin", directed by Elisabeth Subrin and starring Gaby Hoffmann.^[47] Antonioni's widow Enrica and director André Ristum announced plans to produce a film based on the screenplay, with filming in Brazil and Sardinia set to begin in 2023.^[48]^[49]

https://variety.com/2023/film/global/gullane-vivo-michelangelo-antonioni-fernando-coimbra-1235624231/

Silence

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Yes, that’s true. I really like keeping quiet and watching the world go by, and in films I like the moments when, apparently, nothing is happening. I also wrote a story, “Silence,” in which an entire film was based on silence. It’s the story of a husband and wife who tell each other just a few very intimate things, at the beginning, and after that they have nothing left to say to each other.

The Crew

Antonioni and Mark Peploe co-wrote the screenplay about a wealthy man out on his yacht, which is taken over by gangsters mid-voyage. He’s forced to rely on his native intelligence to get himself to safety.

https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2015/feature-articles/the-crew-antonionis-australian-film-that-was-not-to-be/

Why are you about to shoot another film in the United States? After Zabriskie Point you said you’d have some reservations about doing it again.

This time there will be no problems. The story takes place mostly at sea, on board a yacht. The theme will be the relationship between one character and his crew. I met some producers who asked if I had any projects in mind. I made a proposal and it was accepted. In Italy I had been asked to do an adaptation of a novel which I didn’t like, and besides that, the producer was terrible, I couldn’t work with him. So I accepted, for practical reasons, but I have to say that I also wanted to shoot a second film in the United States. I like America a lot; I don’t want to start any polemics. I will shoot in [Miami,] Florida – rather a nice place where everything is static, where everybody is wealthy, and the poor are there too, but they are Cubans and Puerto Ricans.

Why Miami?

Because it’s right for the story. Anyway, I’ll be filming very little on land.

Is it a major production company or an independent one?

It’s a French-American production company with a budget of nearly eight million dollars. It’s the most expensive film I’ve done to date. In America, with the unionized system you can’t make films cheaply. The actors are Robert Duvall, Joe Pesci, perhaps [Vittorio] Gassman, and another famous actor whose name I can’t reveal. There will also be a woman. The title is The Crew. It will be quite a crude film, but humorous, too – a strange story

The Color of Jealousy

Will you tell us something about the latest projects you are hoping to complete? We can begin, if you don’t mind, with The Color of Feelings.

This film was intended to be a kind of small treatise on jealousy, viewed from an obsessive standpoint – that is, it was the story of a man obsessed by jealousy. The story developed on three levels: the level of reality, the level of memory, and the level of the imagination. This structure gave me the opportunity to, let me say, “color” the events in three different ways, according to each of the different levels they belonged to. I wanted to make this film with video cameras so as to have a wider range of effects. In agreement with Barthes, I also used fragments of his book A Lover’s Discourse. Fragments. I sent him the script and he wrote me a very nice letter, with pertinent and flattering observations. One day I hope to pick up this project again, if someone doesn’t do it before me.^[41]

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L'Aquilone

L'Aquilone (translation: The Kite)

Another project was a film I was going to make in the U.S.S.R. It was called L’aquilone [The Kite]’ I traveled all over Russia scouting for locations, and in the end I stopped in Uzbekistan, in a city called Khiva, with a medieval historical center that is practically untouched. It was supposed to be a very costly film (it was a science-fiction fable), and although the Russians were prepared to give me all I needed, they could not have given me what they did not have: a special-effects crew like the Americans and the English could provide. So I had to give it up.^[41]

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https://variety.com/1995/film/features/antonioni-s-clouds-in-b-o-heaven-99123636/

Suffer or Die

Scripted by Tonino Guerra and Anthony Burgess, it was to star Debra Winger alongside Mick Jagger or Richard Gere or Giancarlo Giannini as an architect. Amy Irving was cast at one point as a Catholic novice.^[44]

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Francis of Assisi

https://www.archivioantonioni.it/en/approfondimento/san-francesco/

In 1982 | "They asked me to do a film about St. Francis of Assisi, but for bureaucratic reasons I don’t think it will be possible. At RAJ [the Italian state TV], they’re late with their contracts, and in any case, I have signed up to do two films, so at least for the moment I can’t do anything about it. We’ll see." | "And then, I was supposed to do a film about St. Francis of Assisi – but probably nothing will come of it. I thought of doing a period St. Francis, a St. Francis of his own time – which, by the way, was an extremely violent, crude age; at the time there was a war between the people of Assisi and the nobles of Perugia. With his ideas about peace, St. Francis was everyone’s enemy. He was alone, a voice crying in the wilderness. That’s how I wanted him to come across – ahead of his time."^[51]

In 1985 | "And then I’m also working on a film for Italian TV about St. Francis of Assisi. In any case, real Franciscans don’t like “The Flowers” because they think they are too saccharine, too romantic – in short, not authentic. Instead, I have followed some of their suggestions and have stuck closely to documented facts. (I made an in-depth study before I wrote the screenplay). Those same Franciscans appreciate that I have represented the character of Francis in opposition to the corruption of the Middle Ages and the atmosphere of violence on which it fed."^[43]

Just to Be Together

In 1985 | How many projects do you have in hand at the moment? "Four! Destination Verna, The Crew, Two Telegrams (its plot is taken from a story in That Bowling Alley on the Tiber – in the story there is just the basic situation, but in the film there will be a complete narrative with characters)." | "However, my next film, Two Telegrams, will still be about feelings."^[43]

Adapted by Rudy Wurlitzer from the director’s 1974 short story, “Two Telegrams.” The $11 million English-language drama was to start shooting on Los Angeles locations in February 1998. Robin Wright Penn was to play a successful urban-planning architect who divides her affections between her husband (Sam Shepard) and her lover (Andy Garcia). Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp would also be featured. Wright Penn withdrew for personal reasons.^[50]

https://variety.com/1997/film/news/antonioni-set-for-together-1116678758/

https://variety.com/1998/film/news/nicholson-may-back-up-antonioni-in-together-1117469422/

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Destinazione Verna

In 1985 | I’m working on another one, with Ponti and Sophia Loren. The film is based on a beautiful story by an America writer, Jack Finley, and is called Destination Verna. It’s the story of a middle-aged woman who doesn’t expect anything more out of life. And then, one fine day, they say to her: “There’s a seat in a spaceship going to the planet Verna, a marvelous place, a sort of earthly Paradise.” And she asks: “But how do you get there?” The planet Verna is outside the solar system and the distance is such that the woman decides not to go. It is the last big opportunity of her life, but she lets it go by because it would be a one-way trip and she’s afraid of burning her boats behind her. It’s a very understandable reaction. If you asked the average man: “What are you doing here? Wouldn’t you like to go to a Heaven-like place? This is a golden opportunity for you” – very few would have the courage to confront the unknown and drop everything, even though they might complain about their condition down here on Earth. They prefer to live with despair down here rather than confront the unknown. That’s a very human feeling.^[43]

1999, A woman buys a ticket to live on a planet called Destinazione Verna, in Antonioni’s story written with Tonino Guerra, to be produced by Felice Laudadio. The cast included Anthony Hopkins, Sophia Loren, Naomi Campbell, Laura Morante, Stefania Rocca, Kim Rossi Stuart, Carlo Cecchi, and Chiara Caselli.^[50]

https://variety.com/1999/film/news/return-destination-1117491888/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/oct/03/news1

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Alan J. Pakula's unrealized projects

Desire Under the Elms

The Wapshot Scandals

The Martian Chronicles

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

St. Urbain's Horseman

One More Song

Superman

Brubaker

Terms of Endearment

Children of a Lesser God

Nuts

Spring Moon

Three Ways Home

The Mrs. (Deceived)

The Significant Other

Sleeping Arrangements

Friday Night Lights

CDC

Cover Story

Green River Rising

Secret Santa

Brainstorm

The Secret History

A Tale of Two Strippers

No Ordinary Time

The Wapshot Scandals The Martian Chronicles The Drowning Pool That Championship Season Taxi Driver Rich and Famous The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper Blade Runner Cutter's Way A Long and Happy Life

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/52528-DESIRE-UNDER-THE-ELMS?cxt=filmography

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/02/18/archives/2-cheever-novels-to-make-one-film-pakula-and-mulligan-acquire.html

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/54493-THE-EFFECT-OF-GAMMA-RAYS-ON-MAN-IN-THE-MOON-MARIGOLDS?cxt=filmography

https://thewalrus.ca/2007-10-film/

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https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57040-SUPERMAN?cxt=filmography

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/56379-BRUBAKER?cxt=filmography

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies_tv/article/terms-of-endearment-james-brooks-houston-mcmurtry-18494206.php

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57284-CHILDREN-OF-A-LESSER-GOD?cxt=filmography

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57769-NUTS?cxt=filmography

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/14/movies/at-the-movies.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-25-ca-194-story.html

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58853-DECEIVED?cxt=filmography

https://variety.com/1991/film/features/pakula-consents-to-more-pix-following-adults-99126618/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-09-ca-1957-story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/25/arts/at-the-movies.html

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1991/01/28/pakula-working-on-two-movies/

https://variety.com/1994/film/news/pakula-options-cullen-s-story-117953/

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/book-review-river-of-blood-sweat-and-fullfrontal-filth-green-river-rising-tim-willocks-cape-pounds-14-99-1423171.html

The short was purchased by Warner Bros and developed into a feature film with Huffman writing and Alan J Pakula to direct. (IMDb)

https://leoadambiga.com/tag/richard-dooling/

https://variety.com/1998/film/news/filmmaker-pakula-dies-in-accident-1117488719/

Spring Moon^[53]

The Secret History/No Ordinary Time^[54]^[55]

Orson Welles' unrealized projects

The Sacred Beasts

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One of the driving figures in the “New Hollywood,” Bogdanovich adored Welles as a director, like many other young directors breaking free from the predominant studio tastes. In fact, the meeting gave Welles some hope that he could start up yet another project, an original story of his that at that time was called The Sacred Beasts. This was a tale about the film industry, the 1960s art house crowd, bullfighting, and the interplay between machismo and film directing.252 It reflected current cultural trends and revolutions for which it was unclear how long they would last. (https://www.wellesnet.com/sacred-beasts-lost-other-side-wind/)

Midnight Plus One

Welles toyed with the idea of adapting Gavin Lyall’s thriller Midnight Plus One, to star Robert Mitchum and Jack Nicholson. Would have been produced by Bert Schneider, who Welles would later act for in the 1972 horror film, Necromancy. The rights to Lyall's novel could not be secured. No evidence of a script.

https://www.wellesnet.com/memories-shared-at-evening-with-oja-kodar-in-woodstock-illinois/

Surinam

Welles wrote an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Victory with Oja Kodar. It was to be made for Peter Bogdanovich’s The Directors Company and star Kodar and Ryan O’Neal. But Bogdanovich had a couple of flops, money became short and the project was dropped. Conrad's novel is frequently described as an modern-day variation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Several drafts are at UM's Kodar collection.

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Crazy Weather

https://www.wellesnet.com/crazy-weather-script/

https://www.wellesnet.com/exploring-hemingway-welles-connection/

https://brightlightsfilm.com/the-shadow-of-ernest-hemingway-on-crazy-weather-orson-welless-unpublished-1973-bullfighting-screenplay/amp/

https://amp.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/16/what-orson-welles-really-thought-about-ernest-hemingway

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/welles-and-hemingway-how-two-titans-clashed-over-spain/

The Assassin

According to Matthew Asprey Gear, the trailer Welles wanted to show at the AFI tribute wound up being shown to Michael Selsman a few months later. This was when Selsman wanted Welles for the project Sirhan, Sirhan, to be rewritten by Welles as Assassin: “Welles told Selsman the film [The Deep] was ‘in Europe in final cut – except for a sort of prologue I would like to shoot before the main titles,’ some ‘underwater second unit shots,’ and some post-syncing by Jeanne Moreau. The trailer may have simply bolstered Selsman’s belief that Welles didn’t finish his films.”349 Selsman, of course, passed on The Deep. More frustratingly, though Welles increased his involvement in Assassin, Selsman didn’t even have the money to film that project. As Asprey Gear writes, “there is little chance Assassin could have been made even if Welles hadn’t increased his financial demands.”350351 (350: https://brightlightsfilm.com/orson-welles-and-the-death-of-sirhan-sirhan-part-ii-the-safe-house/)

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https://matthewasprey2.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/orson-welles-and-the-death-of-sirhan-sirhan-part-i-the-conspirators/

https://matthewasprey2.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/orson-welles-and-the-death-of-sirhan-sirhan-part-ii-the-safe-house/

The Assassin

Based on a book by Donald Freed, the story speculates on the possible brainwashing techniques used on Sirhan Sirhan to prepare him for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Screenplay drafts are at UM's Kodar collection.

https://www.wellesnet.com/university-of-michigan-acquires-orson-welles-papers-unproduced-scripts-from-daughter-beatrice-welles/

Authorship and exact titles will have to be verified, though they appear at first glance to be Welles original stories and adaptations. Titles include Operation: Cinderella, Two By Two (Noah’s Ark), Treasure Island, Great Leaders (aka Brittle Glory), Caesar, Christmas Shopping, Beware of Greeks, Saladin, The Big Question from Affair of Antol, The Honorary Counsel, The Heroine, The Cherry Orchard, The Little Prince, Because of the Cats, Inherit the Wind, Green Thoughts, Beatrice and Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing, Sirhan, The Bishop’s Beggar, Fair Warning, Mendelman Fire, China, Casanova, Ulysses, The Dreamers and Spain, which would have included parts for his wife and youngest daughter.

BECAUSE OF THE CATS

THE BLIND WINDOW (Mercedes)

BLACK MEDICINE

SOLDIER, SOLDIER

SURINAM (Conrad's Victory)

https://www.wellesnet.com/turin-museum-orson-welles/

THE UNTHINKING LOBSTER

ULYSSES

OPERATION CINDERELLA

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/movies/orson-welles-missing-scripts-found.html

The Method

Welles directed a 1961 documentary on the Actors Studio for BBC TV.

Mercedes

[LAST FILM] A few months before his death, Mercedes is the adaption of Oja Kodar's story Blind Window and takes place in Spain.

https://www.wellesnet.com/exploring-hemingway-welles-connection/

True, but don't feel like finding info for...

THE SACRED BEASTS

TARAS BULBA

THE UNTHINKING LOBSTER

UNE GROSS LEGUME

Full list...

https://everything2.com/title/The+broken+dreams+of+Orson+Welles

http://wellesnet.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2932

Henry IV In Europe in the late 1940s Welles scripted a loose adaptation of Pirandello's play, changing the central character into a young American who believes that he is the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. Welles was to play the central role and he claimed it was his finest script, but there is no evidence of it's existence.

The Autobiography of Cellini Bret Wood's Bio-bibliography of Welles claims that there was a project based on the life of 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini knocking around during the late 1940s and 1950s. There is no evidence of a script.

Enrico Caruso Wood's book indicates that Welles was also interested in a film about opera legend Enrico Caruso. How far it got is unknown. There is no evidence of a script.

The Odyssey While he was working on Othello Welles ‘hired’ Ernest Borneman to write a script based on Homer about Ulysses. Welles envisaged the equivalent of one of Robert Graves’s historical novels. Borneman stopped working when he wasn’t paid...although eventually he received his promised money. Shortly afterward, an Italian film version was made starring Kirk Douglas. There is a script called "Ulysses" in the Beatrice Welles archive.

Two By Two A screenplay was written based on the Noah story, but updated to modern times. The screenplay exists in the Beatrice Welles archive recently sold to UM.

The Mendelman Fire Mendelman's Fire, based on a 1957 short story by Wolf Mankowitz, concerns an unscrupulous scheme to insure Mendelman's fortune for his daughter and how its ramifications are traced by Botvinnik, an accountant whose wily activities delight in, but are horrified by, the course of the plotting. A script is part of the Beatrice Welles collection

Green Thoughts Welles's proposed followup to his TV pilot for Desilu, The Fountain of Youth, Green Thoughts was a "spook story with a seasoning of giggles", as he called it. When Fountain was rejected as a pilot, Welles went back to Europe. When Fountain was shown on TV the following year, it received great acclaim, and there was interest in continuing the series, but by that time Welles was involved in other things and decided not to come back for it, much to Desilu's anger. The script for Green Thoughts is part of the Beatrice Welles collection at UM.

Beware the Greeks A comedy that Welles was supposed to have written or revived in the mid-1960s. There is a screenplay by that name in the Beatrice Welles archive.

Because of the Cats A script based on one of Nicolas Freeling’s Van der Valk detective novels was written. A complete shooting script, with some camera directions, is at UM.

Crazy Weather Oja Kodar and Welles adapted her own short story, which concerns a married couple traveling through Spain, whose lives are disrupted by a mysterious young hitchhiker. Fragmentary screenplay drafts are at UM's Kodar collection.

https://www.tonybarrell.com/the-lost-batman-masterpiece/

Orson Welles' Batman

Jim Jarmusch's unrealized projects

The Garden of Divorce

Coming Through Slaughter

Zebulon

Three Moons in the Sky

Ghost Dog sequel

https://jimjarmusch.tripod.com/unfinished.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20090412094818/http://www.jim-jarmusch.net/films/unmaderumored_films/

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/men-looking-at-other-men/

https://web.archive.org/web/20040910153306/http://www.thefifthnight.org/detail.asp?ReadingID=186

https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/jarmusch-shows-the-money

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general/jim-jarmusch-speaks-on-evolution-of-broken-flowers-78098/

John Ford's unrealized projects

(Revenge (1947), The Creighton Story (1960), Alias Whispering White, Operation Seventy-Three, Our Brother John, Slowsure, Wits and the Woman/The Demon Dragon)

1930s

La Grande Illusion remake

I'll Give a Million

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/7431-ILL-GIVE-A-MILLION?cxt=filmography

1940s

Man Hunt

https://catalog.afi.com/Film/27026-MAN-HUNT?cxt=filmography

The Eagle Squadron

(1941)

Battle of Midway footage

The Family

(1947)

Pinky

1950s

The Demi-Gods

(1952)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

(1952)

The Valiant Virginians

(1954)

Mister Roberts

(1955)

The Last Frontier

(1959) (Cheyenne Autumn)

1960s

The White Company

In 1963, toward the end of his career Ford was attached to film The White Company, based on a book by Arthur Conan Doyle set in England, France, and Spain during the Hundred Years' War. In a letter disclose to Alec Guinness, it was revealed that Ford wanted to cast him for a role in the planned production. However, Guinness would decline the offer.