by Andy Kaufman and Bob Zmuda The story of Andy Kaufman and his alter ego. The film would have contained numerous comedy skits, as well as a key moment when Andy would break the “fourth wall” to announce the death of Tony. Download the script and read the backstory at Subterranean Cinema.
Category: Never Produced
Alien 5
Treatment by James Cameron and ??? After Alien Resurrection, Ridley Scott and James Cameron discussed doing another sequel. Cameron and another writer (name?) worked up some ideas, but the project was scrapped when Alien Vs. Predator moved forward. Cameron mentions his involvement briefly in an Ain’t it Cool interview here.
The Thing 2
Treatment by Garry A. Piazza I’m not crazy about this one. Leave The Thing alone. It had a great ambiguous ending that would be undercut by a sequel. Download treatment
Asylum / Batman Vs. Superman
by Andrew Kevin Walker and Akiva Goldsman After several failed attempts to get a new Superman off the ground, this crossover was proposed by Andrew Kevin Walker. It was designed to relaunch both the Superman and Batman franchises. I think it’s a great idea. Sure, they’re both good guys, but as anyone who reads the…
Superman: Man of Steel
by Alex Ford After Kevin Smith’s Superman Lives was dropped, Alex Ford wrote this script for Warner Brothers. He pitched it as the first of seven movies, which was intriguing, but Ford eventually split with Warners due to creative differences. This “Man of Steel” is independent from Man of Steel (the proposed sequel to Bryan Singer’s…
Superman Lives
by Kevin Smith Smith has been pretty vocal about the horrors of development. For all the hype, I’m not too keen on this script. It has some interesting elements: the death and rebirth of Superman, the presence of both Lex Luthor and Braniac. I liked the way the story just starts without explaining who Superman…
Roger Rabbit Two: The Toon Platoon
by Nat Mauldin As Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a parody of film noir, this movie would have taken on the war genre, with Roger involved in WWII. This was one of the first “Almost a Movie” scripts I collected in hard copy form, and I’m happy to have found a PDF of it online….
Neuromancer
by William Gibson Did you ever see Johnny Mnemonic? Ignore the overall quality of the movie for a moment… Did you at least like the idea of jacking your brain into the internet? Gibson’s novel Neuromancer conveyed that in a fun and exciting way. The book was optioned, and Chuck Russell turned in a draft….
The Killer (Remake)
by Walter Hill The Killer was a break-out film for director John Woo and actor Chow Yun-fat. After the Hong Kong movie made the film festival rounds, Tri-Star became interested in doing an English language remake, with Richard Gere as the hitman and Denzel Washington as the cop. But because the relationship between the two…
Kaleidoscope/Frenzy
by Benn Levy Alfred Hitchcock was intrigued by the style of French and Italian “new wave” directors of the late 60s. He devised a story of a sexual predator, to be shot in a dressed-down documentary style. Some test footage (which can be seen in Dial H for Hitchcock) was shot, but the studio balked….