Epic action drama movies that were never made

Thanks to Art of Motion Pictures, which has made a collection of failed projects, let’s now examine the little information that is known about the great and epic action and drama films, which prestigious directors would have made, but due to their ambitions some have finished. until the cancellation, or the production companies have decided to set them aside to never see them again.

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea

There have been many failed projects in the history of cinema, yet few have been as ambitious as’Twenty thousand leagues under the sea’, an action-adventure movie ever made. David Fincher was directing the production, based on the classic Jules Verne story about a biologist looking for a mysterious sea monster. Disney was ready to provide a budget of $ 200 million, but problems with casting canceled the production.

The prisoner

Before Christoher Nolan embarked on “Inception” and “The Dark Knight” Returns, there was a science fiction drama film that was canceled and that he would work on. ‘The Prisoner’, the story of a spy captured and imprisoned in a strange seaside village. The story was written by David and Janet Peoples, who worked on “Twelve Monkeys” and “Blade Runner”, but Nolan decided to abandon it at the last minute.

Double V Vega

‘Pulp Fiction’ was one of Quentin Tarantino’s and 90’s most undeniable classics. And for a long time the director was planning ‘Double V Vega’, a canceled spin-off that would bridge the worlds of ‘Reservoir Dogs. ‘and’ Pulp Fiction ‘. The story would focus on the characters of Vincent and Vic Vega, played by John Travolta and Michael Madsen, who would be brothers and their adventures in Amsterdam. But as the actors grew up, the story was left in the inkwell.

The Aryan cards

Stanley Kubrick is known for great films that were never made, but one of the most interesting was ‘The Aryan Papers’, an adaptation of Louis Begley’s novel ‘Wartime Lies’. In the early 1990s, the director of “The Shining” began production of this story of a boy and his uncle hiding from the Nazi regime during the Holocaust, but the premiere of “Schindler’s List” caused the project did not go on.

Gershwin

In the early 1980s, Martin Scorsese and his “Taxi Driver” screenwriter teamed up again to work on the script for “Gershwin”, a film about the personal life of composer George Gershwin. Everything was going well with the production, and even Robert de Niro would be starring again, but it all fell apart when Warner Bros got their hands on it.

Company of Angels

Acclaimed director and Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow was about to shoot “Company of Angels,” an epic action film with its own signature stamp, in which Martin Scorsese appeared as a collaborator. Mila Jovovich would have been the protagonist, while Bigelow and Claire Danes would have had a secondary role, but Luc Besson used certain parts for his film, causing a lawsuit from the director, who ended up burying the film.