The Best Movies Never Made
We've seen a bunch of movies in our time. But what about the ones we really want to see but never will?
Dark Blood, starring River Phoenix, was started in 1993 but never finished. We guess that sort of thing is pretty difficult when your star collapses and dies a week and a half before the end of shooting.
Far be it for us to be disrespectful, but this is one of those flicks that would be good by measure of its sheer insanity. For those who don't know, Dark Blood involves a character named Boy (Phoenix) living the life of a hermit on a nuclear testing site. (Stay with us, it gets better.) He whiles away his lonely hours making dolls that are most definitely magical – until a couple's car breaks down and he decides to hold them prisoner so he can get jiggy with the lady.
Remember when Francis Ford Coppola made really awesome movies? Us too; even though we weren't actually alive then. That's what DVDs are for, innit? Back before the dark days of Dracula and Keanu Reeves' unfathomably bad Brit accent, FFC was planning to make Megalopolis, a future-set New York flick that had all the makings of a classic.
Russell Crowe was doing it. Nicolas Cage was doing it. Kevin Spacey was doing it. Even Robert deNiro was in the frame at one point, but the bloody thing just never got off the ground. About three minutes of film were shot in the early Noughties, but then the distributor went bust. Now that Frank is 73 and has only made 6 movies in the last 20 years, we're calling this one shelved forever.
Nor is Francis F-C the only iconic director to fail at getting a movie made. If you make a flop, no one will then let you make something weird - Alfred Hitchcock learned this the hard way after Marnie bombed and he spent a million years trying to get the experimental Kaleidoscope off the ground.
The story of a guy with a fetish for both rape and serial murder, it was always going to be a hard sell. Add in the acid baths, Psycho-style stabbings and necrophilia subplot and we can kinda see why this one never saw the light of day. There is an hour of silent footage knocking about though, so if watching murderers have their way with victims is your bag you should totally check it out.
Stanley Kubrick nerd alert! Turns out that Kuzza thought Napoleon was the most interesting man ever to walk the Earth, and started work on a movie of his life in the mid-1960s. He sent an assistant all over the world following in the main man's footsteps and gathered together thousands upon thousands of snaps for locations and other gubbins. Alas, ‘twas not to be. Waterloo got there first and the studios backed out in their droves. Kubrick died in 1999 without ever seeing it made…sob.
On a lighter note, chances are Stan wouldn't have made 2001 if he was busy with Bonaparte. Every cloud and all that.
Dark Blood, starring River Phoenix, was started in 1993 but never finished. We guess that sort of thing is pretty difficult when your star collapses and dies a week and a half before the end of shooting.
Far be it for us to be disrespectful, but this is one of those flicks that would be good by measure of its sheer insanity. For those who don't know, Dark Blood involves a character named Boy (Phoenix) living the life of a hermit on a nuclear testing site. (Stay with us, it gets better.) He whiles away his lonely hours making dolls that are most definitely magical – until a couple's car breaks down and he decides to hold them prisoner so he can get jiggy with the lady.
Remember when Francis Ford Coppola made really awesome movies? Us too; even though we weren't actually alive then. That's what DVDs are for, innit? Back before the dark days of Dracula and Keanu Reeves' unfathomably bad Brit accent, FFC was planning to make Megalopolis, a future-set New York flick that had all the makings of a classic.
Russell Crowe was doing it. Nicolas Cage was doing it. Kevin Spacey was doing it. Even Robert deNiro was in the frame at one point, but the bloody thing just never got off the ground. About three minutes of film were shot in the early Noughties, but then the distributor went bust. Now that Frank is 73 and has only made 6 movies in the last 20 years, we're calling this one shelved forever.
Nor is Francis F-C the only iconic director to fail at getting a movie made. If you make a flop, no one will then let you make something weird - Alfred Hitchcock learned this the hard way after Marnie bombed and he spent a million years trying to get the experimental Kaleidoscope off the ground.
The story of a guy with a fetish for both rape and serial murder, it was always going to be a hard sell. Add in the acid baths, Psycho-style stabbings and necrophilia subplot and we can kinda see why this one never saw the light of day. There is an hour of silent footage knocking about though, so if watching murderers have their way with victims is your bag you should totally check it out.
Stanley Kubrick nerd alert! Turns out that Kuzza thought Napoleon was the most interesting man ever to walk the Earth, and started work on a movie of his life in the mid-1960s. He sent an assistant all over the world following in the main man's footsteps and gathered together thousands upon thousands of snaps for locations and other gubbins. Alas, ‘twas not to be. Waterloo got there first and the studios backed out in their droves. Kubrick died in 1999 without ever seeing it made…sob.
On a lighter note, chances are Stan wouldn't have made 2001 if he was busy with Bonaparte. Every cloud and all that.
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