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Sequels That Never Were (Thankfully).
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4 2012-02-27 17:37:33 (edited by Squiggly_P 2012-02-27 17:42:38)
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if you're morbidly curious enough to find a copy somewhere, I own and have read about half of an ET sequel novel called "ET: The Green Planet" which picks up immediately after ET's ship takes off. He goes to his planet and ... hangs out? ... talks to his weird talking 'pet' thing that is described as having a hundred or so tendrils that it walks on and can dig through dirt very well, apparently. He tries and fails several times to send Elliot brain messages that always miss and hit a radio or a TV or an arcade machine or whatever nearby and he never gets through...
I got halfway in and realized that there's literally no actual story going on by that point. You just meet a bunch of weird aliens who talk about how awesome their planet is cause of all the different types of plant life and shit. Whoever wrote it must have been stoned out of their minds...
As far as movies that were in the pipe but never got made... hmm...
Well, the Gladiator 2 script they mention in that article... That kinda already exists... sorta... in a comicbook form. There's a comic called "Mr. Blank" that's just about the most bad-ass action-comedy movie never made. It's got time travel, giant robot samurais, a big-ass zepplin, ninjabots, guys that are thousands of years old pretending to be businessmen, a clone of a guy with super powers, a mutant mime with super powers, a russian half-demon, a really smart alternate take on the christian theology, a nice puppy dog, a robotic copy of a clone of a guy, hover bikes and a really angry little german scientist guy.
And also some dude named "Sam". With moxie.
It's fucking awesome.
Tim Burton's Superman Lives? The guy was going to put nic cage into a translucent neon-glowing sparkle-suit (even redesigning the "S" symbol), have him fly around a dark... the concept art I've seen makes it look like some kind of cavern or something, but with sci-fi shit going on with the walls. Like an underground lair, but massive in scale. Fighting a giant spikey metal ball thing that was apparently supposed to be brainiac. The various concept art I've seen of the suit showed a variety of little doodads. Superman was rumored to employ some sort of firearm as well, like an arm doohickey that would shoot lasers or rockets or some such bullshit, tho that info isn't anywhere online that I can see. I swear to god there's an old issue of Wizard! Magazine that had an interview with someone who was talking about giving superman weapons and armor and shit.
It's the prequels I'm worried about. They're making two cabin fever prequels as we speak, and I've heard people whispering in hushed tones about a saw prequel and/or spinoff. I think Lionsgate misses getting a reliable $30 Million or so every October.
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Superman by Tim Burton starring Nic Cage.... haha, now that I would pay money to see.
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Short Circuit 3. They wrote a script where Johnny Five goes to college.
They almost took the Minority Report short story and made it a Total Recall sequel.
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The first script to Die Hard was originally written as a sequel to Commando.
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which in turn was based on a book, which in itself was written as a sequel to THE DETECTIVE.
Also. I'm not 100% sure I buy that story (that it started out as a commando sequel). I don't think the dates work... Unless there were two scripts going at the same time based on the same book as rival projects... And die hard beat it?
Who Knows.
As mentioned earlier. Die Hard 3 started out as a Spec called Simon Says. What wasnt mention was Silver picked up said spec with an intention to make it into LETHAL WEAPON 3. But Gibson turned it down for the clownfest we ended up with.
10 2012-02-29 10:59:16 (edited by Jimmy B 2012-02-29 11:00:55)
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hmm. Maybe it's just the Darabont revisions that came later then. Maybe trying to get the project up and running AFTER the success of DIE HARD.
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I'm sure there are thousands of these things that get close to being made and then get shelved because someone took a step back and said "whoa... this really isn't gonna work at all, is it?" But we'll probably never know about most of them because they don't generally announce movies until they're in production or if the project is big enough (like superman or a sequel to something huge) for anyone to care about them that early.
Akira is a project that they keep not shutting down. It needs to die. They wanted Keanu Reeves and Brad Pitt to play Tetsuo and Keneda, respectively. They're like 45. What in the name of all that is holy must they have done to the script that allowed for 45-50 year old versions of characters that are 15-18 in the books? Not to mention the weird "Americans playing americans with japanese names for no apparent reason" thing.
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