Imagine a Howard Hughes biopic starring Jim Carrey, or a James Dean drama with a young Leonardo DiCaprio playing the Hollywood icon.
Here are 20 of the best movies never made.
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Before Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” Christopher Nolan wrote a script for a Howard Hughes biopic that he wanted Jim Carrey to star in. Nolan has called it his best screenplay and the role Carrey was “born to play.”
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Luca Guadagnino wanted to make a sequel to #Suspiria with a story “layered in five different time zones,” including 1200 Scotland. The first movie’s box office failure killed the plan: “How [can I make a sequel]? The movie made absolutely nothing.”
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Quentin Tarantino wanted to combine “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs” for “Double V Vega,” with John Travolta and Michael Madsen reprising their sibling characters Vincent and Vic Vega: “I had a premise. It would’ve taken place in Amsterdam.”
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Sofia Coppola spent a year developing a live-action “The Little Mermaid” movie, but the studio refused to move forward with a darker take on the story: “It wasn’t the Disney version...It became too big of a scale. I wanted to shoot it really underwater.”
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Sylvester Stallone tried to get an Edgar Allen Poe movie off the ground for over two decades, even courting Robert Downey Jr. to star as the writer. Downey Jr. said in 2009 that Stallone wrote “a great script,” but the film never got made.
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#SouthPark creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker spent years developing a movie starring a deepfake version of Donald Trump: “It was about this guy who looked exactly like Trump because we deepfake Trump’s face onto him.”
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