What shelved film project do you wish had been made?

Chicago with Liza, Goldie and Fosse directing.

Haven't several projects about the Tate - Labianca murders been shelved? I don't count the most recent.

The Day The Clown Died With My Sister.

Sunset Boulevard

Remake of Lady Scarface a follow-up to Pacino's remake of Scarface, directed by DePalma, starring Lucille Ball. Unfortunately she was advised by someone in her inner circle to pass and made Life with Lucy instead.

Paul Newman was supposed to star and possibly direct The Runner Stumbles

Take Me Out.

"Jackpot" with Himanshu Malik.

Gypsy with Streisand.

A biopic of Janis Joplin with Sia was in the works, would have been interesting.

Just look at those thick thighs and huge ass on Himanshu!

Stanley Kubrick's 'Napoleon'. Also, his version of 'A.I.', a script that he bestowed upon Spielberg.

A Confederacy of Dunces, starring John Belushi.

Citizen Kane ii

I think the Nicholas Cage Superman thing would've been good.

r15, he was also supposed to do Willy Wonka and dropped out, sadly he seems unstable.

^Big news! Tear out the front page!

Pretty Conductor: The Harriet Tubman Story.

Are we talking only about projects that never made it to being filmed or worse--movies that were made and are never coming out?

Vicki about suffragette Victoria Woodhull with our Faye directed by George Cukor.

Stompanato with Sharon Stone as Lana Turner and Antonio Banderas as Johnny.

There are a few movies that were actually made that will not see the light of day. That's much worse.

Jodorowsky's Dune would have been insane.

The next season of Mindhunters

R23 has it right. The sheer quantity of quality talent associated with Jodorowsky's "Dune" was mind-boggling: H.R. Giger, Mobius, Dan O'Bannon, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, Alain Delon, Mick Jagger, Pink Floyd...it may well have ended up being a mess, but it probably would have also ended up being the ultimate cult film.

R12 I'm not a huge Kubrick fan, but even if one were to stipulate to his genius or whatever, he would run into the same problem anyone trying to do a Napoleon film would: his life and career would be impossible to adapt with any satisfaction into a feature-length film. Even a three-hour film would be insufficient, as Ridley Scott's 205-minute abomination makes abundantly clear. "Barry Lyndon" is as much as we need from Kubrick on the pre-Industrial blackpowder age of Europe, I think.

Jim Carrey is very needy as a dramatic actor, I would not have liked it.

Then again, I did not like Aviator. Cate Blanchett and Leo chowing down on the scenery.

What r21 said. Long overdue

The biopic of Janis Joplin starring Courtney Love. The biopic of Janis Joplin starring Renee Zellweger. The biopic of Janis Joplin starring Zooey Deschanel. The biopic of Janis Joplin starring Brittany Murphy. The biopic of Janis Joplin starring Amy Adams. The biopic of Janis Joplin starring Pink. The biopic of Janis Joplin starring Nina Arianda. The biopic of Janis Joplin starring Michelle Williams.

R19 Both

The Gore Vidal story, starring Kevin Spacey. This was, in fact, filmed for Netflix but quickly shelved when the Spacey scandals broke. I still want to see it.

The rumored 3rd Joel Schumacher Batman movie starring Madonna as Harley Quinn. I know how DL feels about Madonna's acting ability but I think this would have been a good role for her. She would fit into Schumacher's campy version of Gotham.

That sounds good r30. Despite my dislike of this predator he could be could in this.

A proposed 1976 film starring Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis. Hepburn would have played a senator and Bette a taxi driver. Another never-done Bette project was the film version of "Follies". Bette would have sung "I'm Still Here".

So many failed attempts at bringing 'A Confederacy of Dunces' to the big screen has led to some calling the ambition cursed.

Nick Offerman did successfully play the lead role in a Boston theater production in 2015.

R13 Comment 34 was in response to yours.

R6 - the title was The Front Runner (based on the Patricia Nell Warren novel)

David Cronenberg's Frankenstein

Brian DePalma's The Demolished Man (based on the 1953 Alfred Bester science fiction novel)

Garbo as "The Duchess of Langeais" to be directed by Max Ophuls, 1949. They got as far as shooting a few lighting tests (on YouTube).

That was one I was also going to mention, R30. There's also a movie called Rich Man's Burden that was apparently shelved, though nude shots of the main actor still made it onto various male nudity sites. Another movie that got shelved was Peter Greenaway's Walking To Paris with Emun Elliott, who was also apparently nude in it. Nudity abounds in most Greenaway movies.

The Montgomery Clift biopic

Speaking of Alfred Bester above, there's the science fiction novel The Stars My Destination that was originally planned for director John Carpenter.

Mike Myers' Sprockets.

No Bail For the Judge

Napoleon by Kubrick.

R43 - another Hitchcock film would have been The Short Night, which he would have made had he not gotten ill.

Among the male leads he considered were Walter Matthau, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen.

And among the female leads he considered were Catherine Deneuve and Liv Ullmann.

Julie and Dick's SHE LOVES ME.

House of Leaves, although it seems as though pieces of The Navidson Record from the book have been used in movies about houses that have mismatched interior and exterior dimensions.

The Merry Widow - starring Barbra Streisand, directed by Ingmar Bergman (was expected to start production in late 1972). Based on the Lehar operetta.

Stardust Ballroom - based on the 1978 stage musical, starring Barbra Streisand, directed by Rob Marshall, music by the Bergmans who were to write all new music for this movie. Marshall was pushing for this in 2003, but shelved it. He tried again in 2006, with Bette Midler instead of Streisand (who was no longer interested), but it didn't go forward.

Tarantino’s Star Trek movie.

The sequel to Jupiter Ascending. Without the Russian family crap.

5 years ago, America's favorite gay "bro" on the street rom-com star announced he was developing "Man in the Box." Oh, Sammie!

Diana Ross in 'Josephine'.

Diana Ross and Liza in 'Jazz Babies'.

What?

The movie "Pay The Girl", (about Heidi Fleiss) starring Nicole Kidman. When she became too old, it went to Hillary Swank. Now she's too old so I'm not sure who it will be offered to next.

Saturday the 14th

I actually think a Paul Lynde biopic would be interesting

Neill Blomkamp's 'Alien: Zeno' starring Sigourney Weaver which would have been a direct sequel to Jim Cameron's 'Aliens' and disregarded the storylines in the already made, subsequent sequels. Fan favorite characters Newt and Hicks would have survived and been in Blomkamp's film. Weaver seemed genuinely excited about the project.

20th Century Fox chose to go with Ridley Scott's prequel 'Alien: Covenant' instead and when it didn't do well at the box office, it was years before interest was shown in another addition to the franchise.

Orson Welles' "Heart of Darkness."

Glamorama

The Auntie Mame remake with Tilda Swinton.

Orson Welles’ “It’s All True”

It started as The History of Jazz, which would have had music by Duke Ellington and starred Louis Armstrong but morphed into a a Latin American anthology that included The Story of Samba when Orson was appointed a good will ambassador to Latin America and cajoled into making a documentary of Brazil’s Carnaval in 1942 as part of the Good Neighbor Policy. A regime change at RKO terminated the filming and years later much of the footage that had been shot was dumped into the Pacific Ocean.

"Mame" starring Cher.

"DIVA" starring Diana Ross.

All the projects Gary Morton talked Lucy out of

Dancer From the Dance.

Will it ever transpire?

There was supposed to be a movie made about b-movie actress Susan Cabot starring Rose McGowan like 20 years ago and if you know that woman’s story you know it was make for a WILD story — maybe even too wild? It might be one of those examples of truth being so much stranger than fiction it couldn’t land. But Rose would’ve been great casting especially now that we know she’s truly unstable

r65 Dancer from the Dance deserves to be a six- or eight-part series.