Images from the test shoot for Alan Rudolph's unproduced 'The Far Side' movie, featuring John Larroquette and Dirk Blocker. Discussed in our latest episode with
@paulscheer
.
Concept art by visual designer Thom Enriquez for the never made SEQUEL to WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT discussed in our NEW EPISODE w/ the project's screenwriter Nat Mauldin.
In honor of Josh’s
#sonicmovie
hitting blu ray this week, here is an almost-was element that didn’t make it into the film: the Burger Princess; a long-suffering drive-thru operator that Sonic liked to ask questions of, and then run off without ordering food.
Test footage for the canceled MARVIN THE MARTIAN Christmas movie. Mike Myers (voice not in footage) would have voiced Marvin, and Christopher Lee was rumored to play Santa Claus.
New episode! We're joined by
@PureCinemaPod
to trip through the brain-melting script and history of David Lynch's long unrealized musical RONNIE ROCKET. And
@PureCinemaPod
is currently doing a retrospective of Lynch's career. (Poster by
@frodesignco
)
We’re incredibly saddened to hear about the loss of Scott Wampler. Every time his Creature From the Black Lagoon icon graced our feed, it was always followed by something insightful and hilarious. He was the real deal. He will be deeply missed.
Dan Harmon's complete list of episode ideas for his and
@RobSchrab
's hilarious but doomed TV series HEAT VISION AND JACK, as discussed by Schrab in our current episodes.
William Stout’s storyboards for
GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS 3D
Getting excited for
#godzilla2
, check out our previous interview with writer Fred Dekker who joins us to discuss his 1983 abandoned film:
At one point, one of the many unused drafts of Super Mario Bros contained a Bruce Willis, Die Hard cameo. As discussed with
@Pat_Kc
(
#sonicmovie
) &
@AlanTheWriter
(
#sonicboom
) on our latest episode.
This is believed to be a still of Pennywise in a 1600s flashback in which he eats a baby, as discussed in our current episode with
@Kingcast19
. The scene was purportedly shot by Andy Muschietti for IT, but was not used in the film.
The unused Second Stage "Guild Navigator" prototypes created for David Lynch's DUNE, as discussed in our current episode about the script for Lynch's unrealized sequel DUNE 2.
#Dune2
#DunePart2
New episode! This week we continue our walk without rhythm into the uncovered script for David Lynch's DUNE 2 (Dune Messiah), sequel to his 1984 sci-fi epic. We’re joined by Mark Bennett (
@DuneInfo
), & Max Evry (
@maxevry
), author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune
I‘m humbled to announce I've been directing a documentary on the world of Shark Cinema & its cultural impact & honored to have it be part of
@FantasiaFest
@frontieresmrkt
.
Excited to have a great team including Josh Miller, Jim Kunz &
@KerryDeignanRoy
.
After the release of Monkey Shines, George Romero's next project was supposed to be Apartment Living.
@Fangoria
described it as an apartment building that eats people.
Join us and
@RobSchrab
for the wild saga of HEAT VISION AND JACK, Rob and Dan Harmon's failed TV pilot that became so famous it almost became a feature film too! HEAT VISION AND JACK: THE MOVIE Part 1 is now live!
Storyboards from a 1990s SILVER SURFER movie / Mike Myers' DIETER, based on his SNL character. Just two of the many almost-was movies discussed in our new ep with storyboard artist
@gabrielhardman
Teaser for Joseph Zito’s Spider-Man
As discussed with
@ashmasterzero
&
@EdGreerDestroys
who join us for Part 2 of our epic 4-part exploration into the unmade
#SpiderMan
movie universe.
New episode! This week we spin a web back into the world of unmade SPIDER-MAN movies, exploring b-movie maverick Albert Pyun's almost-was adaptation in the late 1980s with screenwriter DON MICHAEL PAUL (Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man).
A deleted scene from Hellraiser: Bloodline where Angelique entertains a group of gamblers with the Lament Configuration, as discussed with screenwriter Peter Atkins (
@limeybastard55
) on our latest episode.
Teaser for Alexandre Aja's Cobra: The Space Pirate.
This 130 million budgeted unproduced feature was to be a live-action adaptation of Buichi Terasawa's manga Space Adventure Cobra.
New episode! This week we are joined by Robocop co-creator Michael Miner and artist/filmmaker Marc Lafia to talk about their almost-was early 1990s IRON MAN movie, which was to be directed by genre legend Stuart Gordon.
James Cameron's Spider-Man
(fan poster from Wizard Magazine
#81
May 1998)
We’ve finally reached the end of our
#marvel
#spiderman
journey.
@ashmasterzero
&
@EdGreerDestroys
join us for the final part of James Cameron’s unproduced Spider-Man.
New episode is up. Director, David Bruckner (The Ritual) joins us to discuss Friday the 13th: 3-D, a brutal and riveting reboot that could have taken the franchise back to its roots.
Before
#SnyderCut
we almost had George Miller's JUSTICE LEAGUE: MORTAL, which was canceled shortly before production. We tangle with the bold project in our latest episode, and have assembled our own super team of former guests to help us
@clarkewolfe
@EdGreerDestroys
@Pat_Kc
The 90s console wars are alive again!
@AlanTheWriter
and
@Pat_Kc
join us to journey through a mushroom kingdom of
#SuperMarioBros
content that never made it to the big screen. Part One!
First ep is live!
@GrahamSkipper
@markaaltman
join to discuss NIGHT SKIES the nutso Spielberg/John Sayles horror movie, plus the aborted concept for a deeply disturbing E.T. PART 2. Pic is of
@TheRickBaker
fantastic test designs for NIGHT SKIES aliens.
Sc-Fi writer Leigh Brackett was not only known as the “Queen of the Space Opera” but she was also the first woman to ever write a Star Wars film. Join us and our guests
@bonniegrrl
&
@kyle_newman
as we delve into her first draft of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Weta’s workshop built a fully-functioning Warthog in six weeks in preparation for the HALO live action movie. As discussed on our latest episode with writer
@joshuarolson
.
King Koopa concept art for Greg Beeman's never made Super Mario Brothers movie. Before Dennis Hopper took the role, Arnold Schwarzenegger was approached to play the film's villain. (Photo from
@smbmovie
)
This week we dig through the ditches and burn through the witches of Rob Zombie's THE CROW: 2037, a wild unproduced installment in The Crow film franchise from the late 90s. We're joined by Crow and Zombie aficionados
@JonOnAString
&
@kimmikillzombie
the hosts of
@NOFSpodcast
.
Now that Dune Messiah is officially in development - great time to listen to our episodes about David Lynch's script for his never-to-be DUNE 2.
#DuneMessiah
#Dune
#DunePartTwo
Hear about the movie adaptation of SCUD: THE DISPOSABLE ASSASSIN for Oliver Stone's company that never happened in our fantastic current episode with SCUD creator
@RobSchrab
about the unproduced HEAT VISION AND JACK movie.
What if you crossed the Justice League with Friends? In 1997 CBS tried to answer that question with the failed TV pilot JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA. To cut their loss they instead aired the pilot as a TV movie. Hear more on our current episode!
We’re joined by
@EricVespe
@ScottWamplerBMD
of the
@Kingcast19
for a two part journey under the standpipe of unmade adaptations of Stephen King’s IT!
🤡 🎈 🤡
Pic here of David Kajganich’s copy of the novel while writing his screenplay, as discussed in our current ep.
Vehicle concept art from the SUPER MARIO BROS movie which was released 27 years ago today.
Check out our epic 4 part journey through the mushroom kingdom of unmade Mario Bros movies w/
@Pat_Kc
(
#sonicmovie
) &
@AlanTheWriter
(
#sonicboom
):
Ralph McQuarrie’s early concept art from RETURN OF THE JEDI when there were two orbiting Death Stars, as discussed on our latest podcast with author
@jwrinzler
(The Making of Star Wars).
This week we journey into the funny pages with comedian, actor, filmmaker, podcaster and now author
@paulscheer
(Unspooled) to discuss the script for the almost-was adaption of Gary Larson's classic newspaper comic THE FAR SIDE by arthouse filmmaker Alan Rudolph (Choose Me).
New episode! This week we walk without rhythm into the recently uncovered script for DUNE 2, David Lynch's intended sequel to his 1984 sci-fi epic. We’re joined by Mark Bennett (
@DuneInfo
), & Max Evry (
@maxevry
), author of “A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune”
New Episode! This week we are joined by veteran film and TV writer Barney Cohen (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter; Sabrina the Teenage Witch) to talk about his time working on the infamous Cannon Films' attempt to adapt Spider Man for the big screen in the 1980s.
@DevonESawa
Preach brother. It hurts our brain/soul to realize that SCREAM is now 25 years old, and that when we saw SCREAM in the theaters THE SHINING (which felt like an old classic) was only 16 years old.
As our show makes abundantly clear, getting any movie into production is a minor miracle. Even a sequel. So Josh is pretty stoked that cameras got rolling today on
#SonicMovie2
Would have been a huge bummer if this had turned into a future episode!
New Episode! This week we salute the late-great Stuart Gordon by juicing up his almost-was Arnold Schwarzenegger horror film BERSERKER, with the help of two people who knew Gordon well, filmmaker Joe Begos (Bliss,VFW) and actor/director
@GrahamSkipper
(Re-Animator: The Musical).
New episode is up.
This week we are joined by
@RebekahMcKendry
&
@JesseMerlin
to discuss Guillermo del Toro’s unproduced
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
(Poster by David Graham)
Get yourself pumped for
#GodzillaVsKong
by listening to our old episode w/ Fred Dekker talking about the 3-D GODZILLA movie he wrote for Steve Miner to direct in the 80s.
New episode! This week we discuss the failed attempts to get a BEVERLY HILLS COP 4 off the ground, and discuss a BHC4 script that was to be directed by Brett Ratner. We're joined once again by writer
@Pat_Kc
(Sonic the Hedgehog) and comedian
@EdGreerDestroys
(The Greatest Pod).
Early storyboard for Spider-Man 3 shows The Vulture, aided by Sandman, making his escape from prison using a set of wings he constructed from found objects. This scene was later omitted when Venom replaced The Vulture.