The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made - Softcover

Hughes, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556524498 ISBN 13: 9781556524493

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 2002

Synopsis

Steven Spielberg's sci-fi horror movie Night Skies. David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket. Terry Gilliam's Watchmen. Philip Kaufman's Star Trek: Planet of the Titans. Ridley Scott's I Am Legend. Tim Burton's Superman Lives. These are just some of the legendary unmade films covered by this groundbreaking book. Drawing on dozens of exclusive new interviews with the writers, designers, and directors involved, David Hughes charts the tortuous stories of these films and reveals the fascinating details of what might have been.

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About the Author:

David Hughes has written on film for numerous newspapers and magazines. He is the author of The Complete Kubrick, Farscape, and The Complete Lynch. H. R. Giger is the Oscar-winning designer of Alien. Harry Knowles is the webmaster of Ain'tItCoolNews.com, the biggest movie news site on the Internet.

From Library Journal:

From Tim Burton's Superman Lives to Steven Spielberg's Night Skies, the litany of uncompleted films presented here lends credence to the notion of Hollywood as a city of broken dreams. Hughes (The Complete Kubrick) draws on numerous exclusive new interviews with the disappointed filmmakers for this compendium of good intentions gone awry. Not surprisingly, the intricate machinations of business and financing tend to play the primary role in the demise of promising projects, together with healthy doses of petty bickering and infighting. Whether a prospective film might have turned out to be great cinema is usually a minor consideration. For instance, the proposed Terminator 3 faded away largely because the legal rights to produce the film were bogged down with the failing production company responsible for Terminator 2, writer-director James Cameron's interest was drifting away to other ventures, and Arnold Schwarzenegger insisted that he would not do another Terminator without Cameron. Serious sf fans and those fascinated by the inner workings of the film industry will be intrigued by the complexity of events that thwart these often promising projects. Recommended for academic libraries. Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib., Reno
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1556524498
• ISBN 13: 9781556524493
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256