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You probably noticed that the worst thing in the world happened this week. That’s right, Jurassic Park 4 was put “on hold.”
Sorry to bring it up when your emotions are still so raw. Universal’s official statement is that the film is being pushed from its 2014 release in order to give time to make it the best it can be (given it hasn’t even started filming yet, 2014 was always going to be a tight turnaround).
But we’ve been here before. Previous attempts to continue Jurassic Park have come and gone, including that one about weaponized dinosaurs that sounded terrible.
But please, Universal, don’t let it go extinct. Don’t let it die like these movies that sounded incredible and then collapsed like Jenga on a see-saw.
'Halo' the movie was done in by greed.
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Aliens! Guns! Space! A man in a helmet! Amazing! All the ingredients were there, but it was greed that did in Halo.
Microsoft, a company not used to the movie world, pitched a film of the blockbuster video game in a bizarre way: They commissioned a script by Alex Garland and then took it to all the movie studios, delivered by people in costume as Master Chief, and instructed them that they wanted $10 million versus 15% of the movie’s gross.
Even with District 9’s Neill Blomkamp attached to direct and Peter Jackson producing, that’s not a very attractive deal for a studio that then has to pony up all the cash to make the film. It could still happen and there’s a brutal alien war movie to be made from it, but it’ll require various people to stop dick-swinging and agree to less lucrative deals in order to get it done. Until that day, just keep mashing the X button.
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'Batman: Year One' would have been a much bleaker take on the beloved franchise.
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While few people have any complaints about what Christopher Nolan did with the Batman series, the great joy of a property like Batman is how he can be interpreted a million different ways.
For a long time, Darren Aronofsky was developing a movie based on Batman: Year One, alongside its writer Frank Miller. Theirs would have been a much bleaker take on Batman, with Bruce Wayne not the billionaire we know but an unhappy young man growing up among the filth of Gotham City.
Jim Gordon would have played a larger role and have been on the permanent cusp of suicide, and Catwoman featured in a sense, in the form of dominatrix hooker Mistress Selina.
Warner Bros. ultimately found the whole thing a bit too gloomy for family audiences and went another route. Even more intriguing: Aronofsky’s first Batman idea was to do an older take on the hero, with Clint Eastwood beneath the cowl.
Morgan Freeman has trying to bring 'Rendezvous With Rama' to life since the early 2000s.
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It could have been David Fincher’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Based on an Arthur C. Clarke story about a vast alien vessel that enters Earth’s solar and the crew who go to find out its secrets, it’s long been a passion project of Morgan Freeman, who’d planned to play the captain of the ship.
He’s been trying to get it made since the early 2000s and had Fincher signed to direct since about 2003, but the pair have never managed to find a script that everyone’s happy with. Freeman still insists it will happen every time he’s asked about it, but there now seems about as much likelihood of it happening as a giant alien craft entering the earth’s solar system.
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