films they wanted to/said they'd make but didn't make/complete.

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following mrs. edna welthorpe's mentioning of a missing film by orson welles. you always hear about welles's prolonged 'don quixote' thing. he shot some? I reckon. and. kubrick's 'A.I.'. GONE. plus. kubrick's much researched and beloved napoleon project thing put on hold after that steigers starrer 'waterloo' was released.

like it said. which films do you wish had been made or completed by people who...urgh...which films?

― richard john gillanders, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hum the animated lord of the rings springs to mind, but i haven't seen that. i'd want to see it more, though, if it was complete.

― katie, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Woooooohoo! ROTOSCOPIC BABY! Animated LOTR is rubbidge but the Rotoscoping was TOP NOTCH - should have been more of that in the movie - would have made the Ring Wraiths even scarier.

There's also this mad piece of anime called GUNBUSTER which starts all, tra la la GURLIE wants to become a fighter like her DEAD DAD, and by the end, they've run out of money, had mad physics lessons interludes between each episode and are ahem 'shooting' (yes I know that is not the term) in black and white and lots of stills. It's absolutely MENTAL! Gunbustaaaah Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeck! Yaaaaaaah!!!

― Sarah, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Animated Lord Of The Rings = k-rubbish, to the extent it would be even worse if it were complete, the rubbishness of its incompleteness being outweighed by the sheer density of other rubbishness per minute.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Didn't David Lynch have an epic he was working on before he got roped into making Dune?

― Nicole, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah. that finished about half way through the second book. I reckon. would've been nice to have had it complete. still good as it is though.

yes. think I'll be in the minorty saying I prefer the animated one to the new one. I liked the new one but. um. there were a few things I disliked about it. and I guess I just compared it to the images I had in my mind. ones based upon the other one.

MORE?

― richard john gillanders, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wow. I took time typing that. my opinion remains the same.

― richard john gillanders, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Terry Gilliam was supposed to be directing the movie of "Watchmen" which never happened. Apparently the scripts are quite easy to get hold of online, and by all accounts it's just as well they knocked it on the head...

― Andrew Williams, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does anyone know if Terry Gilliam is/is going to do "Good Omens". I heard that a while ago.

― Sam, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wasn't Gilliam also supposed to have started filming Don Quixote only for the project to go bust after 3 days?

― RickyT, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

has anyone ever made a film abt don quixote?

animated lotr doesn't even (quite) get to rivendell: hobbits and gandalf = rubbish; black riders = GRRRATE (well they have squiggly red eyes)

― mark s, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the guy playing quixote died, but i think there's still a film coming out called "the man who killed don quixote".

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are you sure about that Mark? ISTR Galadriel making an appearance in the animated film.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quixote - why there's Man of La Mancha. Irritatingly enough Pete owns the soundtrack and even more irritatingly he sometimes plays it.

― Emma, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

animated LotR, you say. oh, it gets beyond rivendell...

― richard john gillanders, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maybe *i* didn't get beyond rivendell!!

Frodo: "Go back to Mordor!"
Black Riders: "Haha we will take you to Mordor!"
Mark S: "No, take *me* to Mordor. Look I have some quite rare Pokemon cards."
BR: "That will do nicely matey"

― mark s, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

omigod. i *have* to come to BriXt0n tonight, don't i??

― katie, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I am I, Don Quixote, The Lord of La Mancha, My destiny calls, and I go! And the wild winds of fortune Shall carry me onward ... To wither so ever they blow ... Wither so ever they blow ... Onward to glory I go!"

I could listen to that for hours. The Peter O'Toole version though is a bit stinky (too stagey).

The Gilliam film was called "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" and was indeed scuppered after five days of very bad weather and the lead falling off his horse and doing his back in. However news has recently come that Gilliam has bought his script back and intends to make it after Good Omens.

Say one thing about Gilliam, his films may be patchy but theyre are always good stories about 'em.

― Pete, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

b-b-but GOOD OMENS!?!? as in, the Terry Pratchett/Neil Gaiman GOOD OMENS??!?? PLEASE TELL ME IT IS SO!!!!

*is v. excited*

― katie, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Check it out. Joseph Fiennes and Christopher Lambert? I'm a bit worried now.

― Sam, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clear winner for most insane film ever proposed in Hollywood: Richard Brautigan's The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western. According to Stephen Bach's fine book on the Heaven's Gate fiasco, Final Cut, this was on United Artists production schedule in 1978, with Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood meant to star. It's hard to begin to describe how impossible it would have been to film: start with the fact that the Monster is a shape-shifting chemical cloud with thoughts and feelings and go on from there...

― Mark Morris, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

marlon brando's agent to thread!!

― mark s, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can i say i enjoyed both Heavens Gate and Ishtar greatly ?

― anthony, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no. no you can't.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All for them finishing off Strange Brew's sequal, Home Brew.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes. think I'll be in the minorty saying I prefer the animated one to the new one.

Can I take your brain and grind it into fine powder and snort it to test its efficacy as a drug? All in the name of research, you see, so I hope you don't mind. :-)

Gilliam just needs to do Defective Detective and get it over with. And Lynch needs to do One Saliva Bubble.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fanks.

― richard john gillanders, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Paramount Pictures acquired adaptation rights for "Ada" by Nabokov but has thankfully never used them.

― felicity, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kubrick was all set to make 'Napoleon' and then 'Waterloo' was a flop and the backers got cold feet.

― N., Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Blue Movie" was never-made big-budget porn flick based on the Terry Southern book (which was based on a Kubrick idea for... a movie about... a director who gets so famous and powerful that he makes... a big-budget porn flick). The rumor was that Kubrick had Julie Andrews all lined up. Ga ga going!!

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whoa! Sounds like "S.O.B." to the nth.

― felicity, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Then in terms of finished films that have never seen the light of day, there's Jerry Lewis' 'heartwarming' saga of Holocaust death, The Day the Clown Cried. The legend about this has sparked up enough that recently a full shooting script popped up on the Net; I'm reading my way through it this weekend. Pretty sorry stuff -- doesn't help that Lewis' character is called Herman Doork or some other weak-ass name.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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