The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made - Softcover

Hughes, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840234288 ISBN 13: 9781840234282

Publisher: Titan, 2002

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

About the Author:

David Hughes has written about sci-fi and horror for numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, Empire, SKY, GQ, SFX, Dreamwatch, Fangoria and Cinefantastique. He is the author of Virgin's The Complete Kubrick and The Complete Lynch, and co-wrote Titan Books' Farscape: The Illustrated Companion.

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: Titan
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1840234288
• ISBN 13: 9781840234282
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255