Unfinished films Unfinished films A Woman of the Sea, also known by its working title Sea Gulls, was an unreleased 1926 film produced by the Chaplin Film Company. The film starred Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Eve Southern and Charles French, and was directed by Josef von Sternberg. The production company burned the negatives in June 1933 for tax purposes. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Woman of the Sea"
Batman vs. Superman is the title to a cancelled American film based on the DC Comics' superheroes Batman and Superman. The film was greenlighted by Warner Bros. in 2002 with Wolfgang Petersen directing from a script by Andrew Kevin Walker and Akiva Goldsman. The film was expected to film in 2003 with a release in 2004. The project collapsed when Petersen left the project to direct the historial epic Troy. As of 2005, producer of Batman Begins, Chuck Roven believes the two men in tights will meet one day. "It all depends on the success of ...more on Wikipedia about "Batman vs. Superman"
Dark Blood is a film which remains unfinished. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dark Blood"
Revenge of the Old Queen is the title of the intended third film in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) comedy- horror musical trilogy. The script was written by Richard O'Brien in the late 1980s who had also written RHPS and its sequel, Shock Treatment. The script features original songs, composed by O'Brien and Richard Hartley. Despite being the third storyline, it is often called The Rocky Horror Picture Show Part Two. ...more on Wikipedia about "Revenge of the Old Queen"
In the film industry, a film is considered shelved if it is not released for public viewing after filming has started, or even completed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shelved"
Something's Got To Give is one of the most notorious unfinished films in Hollywood history. The light bedroom comedy, a remake of My Favorite Wife, was produced in 1962 by a then-foundering 20th Century Fox and directed by George Cukor. It was to feature an all-star cast, including Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, and Phil Silvers. Monroe was to play a woman returned to her husband after the Navy rescues her from six years on a deserted atoll in the Pacific. Martin was to play the husband, and Charisse the new wife whom Martin's character marries the day Monroe's character returns home. ...more on Wikipedia about "Something's Got to Give"
Superman Lives was the title of a cancelled American superhero film based on the DC comics character Superman. It was going to a movie version of the Death and Life of Superman storyline, and was slated for release in the summer of 1998 before being put into development hell and cancelled. ...more on Wikipedia about "Superman Lives"
The Day the Clown Cried is an unfinished film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It is based on a book by the same name by Joan O'Brien who had co-written the original script ten years earlier. Lewis plays a German clown who is arrested by the Gestapo for mocking the Führer, and interred in a Nazi prison camp for political prisoners. He ends up accidentally accompanying Jewish children to Auschwitz, and is eventually used, in almost Pied Piper fashion, to help lead Jewish children to their deaths. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Day the Clown Cried"
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the doomed feature film from visionary director Terry Gilliam, commenced filming in 2000, but shooting stopped within a week when star Jean Rochefort was injured. The only result of the production that was ever released was the documentary Lost in La Mancha ( 2002), chronicling the attempt at making this "film that didn't want to be made". ...more on Wikipedia about "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote"
The Works was to be the first entirely 3D computer animated film, created by the Computer Graphics Lab, but was never completed. The name was inspired by the original meaning of the word "robot", which means "work" in Czech. It was started in 1979, some say 1978, and was worked on to 1986. It was supposed to be around 90 minutes long, but only a few minutes was actually made. These sequences of film were on the other hand very impressive considered the time they were created. A trailer of the movie was shown on SIGGRAPH in 1982. The project also resulted in famous computer animations such as "3DV", " Sunstone", "Inside a Quark" and some segments of the short movie "The Magic Egg" from 1984. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Works"
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