Steven Spielberg's sci-fi horror movie "Night Skies"; David Lynch's "Ronnie Rocket", Terry Gilliam's "Watchmen"; and Ridley Scott's "I am Legend" - these are just some of the legendary sci-fi films covered in this book. Legendary because none of them ever actually made it to the screen. Drawing on many interviews with the film-makers involved, this volume tells the tortuous stories of the films that never were, and reveals the details of what we could have seen. The "Thunderbirds" movie; "Aliens versus Predator"; James ...
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Steven Spielberg's sci-fi horror movie "Night Skies"; David Lynch's "Ronnie Rocket", Terry Gilliam's "Watchmen"; and Ridley Scott's "I am Legend" - these are just some of the legendary sci-fi films covered in this book. Legendary because none of them ever actually made it to the screen. Drawing on many interviews with the film-makers involved, this volume tells the tortuous stories of the films that never were, and reveals the details of what we could have seen. The "Thunderbirds" movie; "Aliens versus Predator"; James Cameron's "Spider-Man" and "Avatar"; Stanley Kubrick's "Childhood's End"; Kevin Smith's "Superman Lives"; and Philip Kaufman's "Star Trek: Planet of the Titans" - all these projects and more are covered in this book.
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This work provides an insight into the movie industry and the development of movies. While the original idea comes from a short story or novel, the movie script can be dramatically different. As executives in the industry change jobs the movie companies change priorities and views. New script writers and graphic artists are brought in as new ideas are pushed by the new executives. Thus the proposed movie will have many different drafts, many differing dramatically from each other. As the scripts float around the business, they are often cannibalized for their ideas and as a consequence the originally proposed movie may never get made.
