Development Hell thread

[CyberCubed]

The new Star Trek 4 has been in development hell since 2016...they've gone through like 5 different directors and pitches and all of them have been abandoned one after another. Eventually it'll get to the point where the actors get too old or Chris Pine just won't want to do another one, and the reboot timeline will be over.

[frank_one]

Wasn't at least one new Alien movie in development at some point?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by frank_one

Wasn't at least one new Alien movie in development at some point?

Kind of. Scott was going to jump onto Alien: Awakening about 4 weeks after Covenant hit... but Fox pulled the plug on that when nobody liked Covenant.

Blomkamp's movie got pretty far into pre-production before Scott pulled rank at Fox to kill it. Before doing Covenant, which re-killed the franchise.

[Turo602]

Originally Posted by sdp

I think both Nightmare on Elm Street & Friday 13th remakes are good tributes
, they give you a taste of what that is. Perhaps not enough to revitalize the franchise but then again I do think those franchises are too much of a certain era and can't be brought back successfully. They just can't be taken seriously in todays era anymore.

I don't know, letting Freddy and Jason loose on bright colored haired SJWs and inbred anti-SJWs sounds f*cking entertaining.

[sdp]

Originally Posted by frank_one

Wasn't at least one new Alien movie in development at some point?

I think it's fair to assume that any major franchise has something stuck in development hell at all times. If it was already successful as a franchise that had more than one movie, there will always be someone trying to develop something. Clearly you don't even hear about any of those ideas since it's not really a priority but there has to be some guy who keeps telling people to come up with ideas for X franchise knowing that most of those ideas will never become anything.

[Andrew NDB]

"Robocop Returns" seems pretty firmly in development hell. Blomkamp surfaced as the director of it after Ridley Scott f***ed him out of his Alien movie, only to leave it in a hurry when TPTB wanted to roll on it very quickly and he wanted to do another movie that never happened either in the meantime... and then for TPTB also to not roll on it very quickly after all. Unless Blomkamp was lying. I had a suspicion based on really nothing but, well, suspicion and a couple of articles... that maybe Blomkamp was super keen to do the movie with Peter Weller, then Peter Weller was like "nah!" and then maybe Blomkamp was not so keen to do the movie anymore. Because why bother, at that point?

They announced the new director like a year ago now but still nada after that.

[The Deadman]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

"Robocop Returns" seems pretty firmly in development hell. Blomkamp surfaced as the director of it after Ridley Scott f***ed him out of his Alien movie, only to leave it in a hurry when TPTB wanted to roll on it very quickly and he wanted to do another movie that never happened either in the meantime... and then for TPTB also to not roll on it very quickly after all. Unless Blomkamp was lying. I had a suspicion based on really nothing but, well, suspicion and a couple of articles... that maybe Blomkamp was super keen to do the movie with Peter Weller, then Peter Weller was like "nah!" and then maybe Blomkamp was not so keen to do the movie anymore. Because why bother, at that point?

They announced the new director like a year ago now but still nada after that.

Actually Weller said he was in talks to do it
https://calgaryherald.com/entertainm...enaissance-man

[Jephael]

The Deadman already mentioned Austin Powers 4, though for me I kind of fear it's never going to happen, especially after the death of Verne Troyer. Can you imagine an Austin Powers film starting with Dr. Evil mourning the loss of Mini-Me? I don't think my poor heart could take it.

[newfan]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

"Robocop Returns" seems pretty firmly in development hell. Blomkamp surfaced as the director of it after Ridley Scott f***ed him out of his Alien movie, only to leave it in a hurry when TPTB wanted to roll on it very quickly and he wanted to do another movie that never happened either in the meantime... and then for TPTB also to not roll on it very quickly after all. Unless Blomkamp was lying. I had a suspicion based on really nothing but, well, suspicion and a couple of articles... that maybe Blomkamp was super keen to do the movie with Peter Weller, then Peter Weller was like "nah!" and then maybe Blomkamp was not so keen to do the movie anymore. Because why bother, at that point?

They announced the new director like a year ago now but still nada after that.

When Blomkamp left I think he said MGM wanted to push the movie out quickly.. yeah.. Ownership has now changed hands too.


On another note, I had forgotten about Austin Powers 4, was that ever more than an announcement?

[sdp]

Well didn't the whole trend of "let's make a sequel to the last good movie of the franchise" end? Studios were jumping on it and were using that Halloween and Mad Max movies as evidence it was what people wanted. But I think it hasn't been as successful so they've stopped. Ghostbusters 4 is likely going to be the make it or break that trend. I've never watched Robocop, maybe I should, I remember the cartoon from the late 90s but not much.

Austin Powers 4 I don't see happening just because of the humor, by the time the current PC wave ends all the actors would be too old and hell even by the time Austin Powers 3 came out it already felt childish to me. Austin Powers only seemed cool and edgy to me when I was 13 which is when the second movie came out.

I definitely think both TMNT movies the CG and live action one are stuck in dev hell. I won't believe they exist until we get actual evidence that they're moving along.

[CyberCubed]

I think some of you are also confusing sequel rumors with development hell. Not every franchise needs endless sequels, they just get speculating from even if there's no intention of making them.

I mean look at Terminator. There's now like 6 Terminator films and we didn't even need half of them. Or most of them. There will always be new Alien movies but they more or less reboot them or soft reboot them each time.

[drgon78]

At The Mountains of Madness would have been awesome...too bad it never got made.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

Actually Weller said he was in talks to do it
https://calgaryherald.com/entertainm...enaissance-man

He said he was in talks then, yeah... and that was BEFORE Blomkamp left. Which makes me wonder if the studio was like, "We want to start NEXT MONTH... oh, and we can't afford what Weller is asking." And then Blomkamp gave them a big "no thanks."

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

How about ET II?

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Original TMNT Cartoon Fan

How about ET II?

I don't think that counts. They had a concept, came up with a script, and then immediately decided that the original should be left alone (a wise decision).

As far as I know, that's where any plans or ideas for an ET sequel ended. And that was literally decades ago. I'm not aware of Spielberg or anyone else actively pursuing such a thing past that point.

[sdp]

Anything new in development hell?


Wow, looking at this thread at least my first post...well apparently Rush Hour 4 is still "finally going to happen". The Crow remake did finally come out, i don't know how it is, i'm guessing it was bad I guess i'll watch it one day.

Voltron movie we still get updates from time to time as if it's going to happen. Gamera reboot didn't happen though I guess we did get a cool animated series. Riddick 4 I think was shooting a while back but we know nothing since so it's still in development hell I guess.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

Riddick 4 I think was shooting a while back

Super unclear. It was supposed to be shooting in August of 2024 but... it's not clear that that ever actually happened? And then Vin Diesel started posting fat pictures and hasn't said much at all about it.