in Hollywood terrible ideas can get the
green light for the silliest of reasons
and promising projects can gain momentum
only to fall apart leaving disappointed
fans wondering why Tinseltown is such a
tease sometimes there are perfectly
legitimate reasons for the cancellation
of an in development project but some
exciting projects in hindsight work and
for no good reason at all
Tim Burton's Catwoman most fans agree
that Michelle Pfeiffer's turned his
Catwoman was the best part about 1992's
Batman Returns Tim Burton's uneven
follow up to 1989's
genre redefining Batman we almost got
more of it in the form of a standalone
Catwoman features starring Pfeiffer and
directed by Burton but it was Joel
Schumacher's Batman Forever the neon
drenched 1995 sequel to Batman Returns
had killed the idea for good yep in 1993
Variety reported that Catwoman was
rumored to be conspicuously absent from
Batman Forever specifically so she could
be spun off into her own film
however as den of geek notes Batman
Returns screenwriter Daniel waters
delivered his script for his Catwoman on
the very day that forever hit theaters
and became an instant box-office success
and later the highest-grossing film of
the year all while sporting a noticeably
lighter toned in the previous two films
Warner Brothers decided that dark and
gritty just wasn't the way to go and
scrapped Catwoman which eventually
morphed into the light goofy and
supremely terrible 2004 Halle Berry
vehicle of the same name having learned
it's lesson the studio then swung super
hard in the dark and gritty direction
with 2005 s reboot Batman Begins and
never really looked back
Hellraiser origins Clive Barker's 1987
horror masterpiece Hellraiser launched a
franchise that is widely considered to
get worse and worse with each entry
after 2011 s Hellraiser revelations the
ninth film in the series delivered the
final insult by replacing beloved
pinhead actor Doug Bradley fans had
little reason to be excited about the
future of the series until that is a
screaming nightmare of a trailer showed
up on YouTube on Halloween 2013 and blew
everybody's hair back
the genuinely eerie trailer dubbed
Hellraiser origins was created to aid in
pitching to reboot the Hellraiser
franchise by director Mike Lohan concept
artist Paul Gerard and dozens of
passionate Hellraiser fans but a week
before the trailer was uploaded Barker
himself wrote on his Facebook page that
he too was working on another unrelated
Hellraiser reboot the legendary director
as of the making of this video hasn't
even publicly acknowledged the promising
Hellraiser origins concept which is now
unfortunately defunct to make things
worse Barker's planned reboot never
happened either
instead fans are getting yet another
low-budget direct-to-video entry in late
2017 Hellraiser judgement boo Paul
Verhoeven's crusade Dutch director Paul
Verhoeven is responsible for Robocop and
Starship Troopers which makes him one of
the greatest filmmakers of our time in
certain circles he's fond of mixing
social commentary with crazy B movie
tropes knows his way around an action
sequence and loves to provoke all of
which make his Lost epic crusade one of
the more disappointing canceled projects
ever the film reportedly would have
started in his prime Arnold
Schwarzenegger who also starred in
Barron's Total Recall the sure to be
controversial project about the medieval
religious wars was budgeted at a cool
hundred million bucks a ridiculous
amount in the early 90s ver Hoeven was
asked by the studio to guarantee he
wouldn't exceed that amount but as
Schwarzenegger later told Empire he just
wouldn't and that was it that was the
end of that movie instead
Kuroko Pictures decided to dump the
funds into the 1995 Pirate epic
cutthroat island a famous flop that sank
the studio John Lasseter's where the
wild things are today John Lasseter is
the big enchilada and not only Pixar but
all of Walt Disney Animation Studios
but in 1983 he was just an up-and-coming
animator at Disney which was in a bit of
a slump at the time Lasseter was
convinced he was on to the wave of the
future he came back to executives with a
30 second test animation based on
Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book
where the wild things are which blended
hand-drawn and computer-generated
imagery in a revolutionary way den of
geek reports the Disney executives at
the time weren't really into any new
process that didn't make animation
faster or cheaper they would eventually
come around incorporating CGI elements
into Renaissance classics such as Beauty
and the Beast but they probably should
have cashed in on Lasseter sorcery a
good
cade sooner instead they waited for him
to build Pixar into the most trusted and
beloved brand and CGI animated features
before purchasing it in 2006 for more
than 7 billion dollars 10 things I hate
about life 1999's wry romantic teen
comedy 10 Things I Hate About You is
possibly the most late 90s film of all
time it was also well received by
critics and moviegoers alike helping to
bolster the movie star credentials of
Heath Ledger Julia Stiles and Joseph
gordon-levitt
according to denim geek in 2012 at
pretty much precisely the moment the
film's target audience started to get
nostalgic about it belated spiritual
sequel 10 Things I Hate About Life went
into production and then vanished faster
than your old letters to Cleo CDs after
several weeks of filming enough to make
this teaser trailer production halted
for reasons that are still completely
unclear and just never started again a
lawsuit filed by the film's production
company accused star Evan Rachel Wood of
simply changing her mind about finishing
the film during a break in production
while would insisted that the producers
had run out of money and needed a
scapegoat much like the film's
production the litigation seems to have
simply petered out and tin things fans
were left in the lurch with nothing but
a tantalizing sneak peek at what could
have been another generation capturing
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