55 Unfortunately Unfinished Films - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep. 27)
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2013
- Unfinished films and movies that never made it to theaters headline this episode of The List Show. You'll learn what films never made it to cinemas for artistic, economic, and health-related reasons. Some movies never saw the light of the day.
The List Show is a weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John looks at 55 films that were started, but never made it to the silver screen.
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"The Day the Clown Cried was not released by Jerry Lewis for unknown reasons."
Hmmm, maybe because he realized that a movie about a clown that is hired by the Nazis to entertain children and then lead them into the gas chamber before ultimately ending his own life would have been the most depressing movie in the history of the world. Maybe he didn't want to be responsible for people committing suicide while still in the theaters.
What's so hilarious about the whole project was that he didn't realize this until AFTER it was filmed, edited, and ready for distribution.
it's sad, but not something to commit suicide over.
What about The Boy in The Striped Pajamas? That movie was still made and its pretty depressing
It wasn't his call. The film's producer didn't finish paying for the option on the script, and lost the rights. Whoever owns the screenplay has the prerogative to release the film or not-Lewis doesn't.
So what? There are plenty of dark and fucked up movies out there
Walt & Roy Disney planned to make an entire series of "Fantasia" films, But when WW2 happened, the US government asked the Disneys to make educational films for Army pilots. They were also in the middle of making Peter Pan at the time, so the Fantasia series was never made. Roy Disney Jr. found those plans in the Disney archives and began production on a 2nd Fantasia film (Fantasia 2000) to honor his family's wishes sometime in the 1990's. The film was finished and released to DVD in 2009-shortly after Roy Jr.'s death.
That cancelled Green Arrow movie was actually shaping up to be pretty awesome before it got the axe.
It was about Green Arrow breaking out of a prison full of super villains, so imagine the island flashbacks from the first season of Arrow crossed with Prison Break crossed with Die Hard.
The sequel to "Dude, Where's My Car" was going to be called "Seriously Dude, Where's My Car?" That's got to be one of the greatest sequel titles ever thought up!
+Tekrothebountyhunter needs new actors then ill agree im in...the first one wasnt funny but couldve been with a better comedy duo
Bidwellz9 Well, yeah, I was never too fond of the movie either. I just love the title of the sequel that never was.
@@Tekrothebountyhunter an den?
Have you heard of “Dude, Where’s My Dog?” It’s about the worst movie ever, but if you like “Dude, Where’s My Car”, I’m sure it’s right up your alley!
I would kill someone to have Robert Downey Jr. playing Edgar Allen Poe. Have you even seen him pull off Sherlock Holmes? It's a match made in heaven.
I love Robert Downey Jr., but you gotta admit that the best actor to play Poe in a movie would be Adrien Brody. Amirite?
APaleDot Maybe you should watch RDJ in Chaplin. He's seriously brilliant. But...Adrien Brody is as well...
APaleDot No you are not. Not at all. How did you even get that pair
Or Johnny Depp!! Both actors would do a decent job at playing Edgar Allen Poe
I think John Cusack did a pretty good job in The Raven.
you guys forgot my personal favorite, Space Balls 3 the: Search for Space Balls 2
Breakfast Club 2 *lip quivers*
Napoleon Dynamite 2 *quiet sobbing*
Beetlejuice 2 *anguished wailing*
I can't believe i just discovered this channel! I had no idea you were the author. Just read paper towns currently reading TFIOS, plan on reading all them. love this channel.
"Remember when I compared One Direction to The Beatles"
lol I was thinking more like remember when you compared your own novel to LOTR
They were making a movie of Paradise Lost??!?! I might actually cry about the fact that that didn't happen. 😢😢
Beetlejuice 2 is actually scheduled to be made.
It would figure that the stupidest movie in the entire list gets made...
mental floss rocks my internet rabbit hole
I want The Breakfast Club 2 made with the original actors. Now. Hurry up before it's too late!
I think the original plan was to revisit "the kids" every ten years in sequels as they grew up and went through life. I wish it had happened.
lol
Fortunately, sharks care mostly about fish blood. Mythbusters proved that sharks only react when they smell fish blood, but don't react at all when smelling human blood. So yay for that!
I think I read somewhere that we (humans) don't taste very good to sharks which is why the non-interest in our blood. They also claimed that was why there are mostly cases of people getting bitten, but then then eaten.
That's slightly comforting
I can't believe they didn't mention Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote movie. They even made a documentary about how it didn't get made called "Lost in La Mancha."
I had the same reaction and I just searched today to find that Terry Gilliam finally made the movie (2018) but oddly it is still unreleased in the US as I write this.
Hey John just wan't to say I LOVE YOUR.... I don't know... EVERYTHING! Seriously, never stop making these videos. I'm 12.
I would pay just for the Pink Floyd soundtrack of '70s Dune.
Looking for Alaska is an absolutely wonderful book, but I agree it shouldn't be made into a movie. If it is however, it shouldn't be trimmed and polished and censored to fit a PG-13 audience. It needs to be rated R in order to truly tell the story that is on the page. LFA is not a cutesy teen romance, and it should not be treated as if it is one.
Mental Floss Great video's! Love them!
but seriously dude, where IS my car?
Communist_Penguin It's right next to my car... duh! Right there. On the left. No, no... your other left... see, this is why you don't know where your car is!
Great. Now I can't find my car keys...
why was napoleon dynamite 2 never made whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because that movie is terrible. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Lies all lies
***** Watch it again, it gets better every time you watch it.
It probably would have sucked. I don't think you can do a sequel to ND. Sorry.
Because Tina choked to death on some ham.
A Batman vs. Godzilla film directed by Chris Nolan with the new incarnation of Godzilla? Just shut up and take my money.
Jeppo H You wanna know why Batman would beat Godzilla in a fight?
Tubbier Wombat BECAUSE I'M BATMAN!
Jeppo H NO I'M BATMAN!
+Jeppo H||||||| how about chuck norris?
I would go and buy tickets to batman vs. Dwight Eisenhower so fast my bank account would get whiplash
I NEED ALL OF THESE
The Beatles in Lord of the Rings, HELL YA!
8 Rings a Week!
We need to find whoever decided not to make Napoleon Dynamite 2 and crucify them.
So yeah, I did not realize that you were the same John Green who wrote The Fault in our Stars, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, etc. My mind is blown.
Also, you surprise me! I figured by the tones in your novels that you would be a less jovial person; glad to see I was wrong. :)
the run down of sequels at the end made me want to cry. I want all those movies
I want to see the Beatles lotr. That would be awesome.
One Direction ... the Beatles... never compare them again. :I
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Yeah, One Direction is way better. Seriously.
In 1966, Eric Fleming drowned in a canoe accident while filming High Jungle in Peru. After that incident, the film was never completed. This information would have been perfect for this episode of Mental Floss. It really should have been included. It was big news at the time.
I would love to see an adaptation of Paradise Lost! I think that would be amazing!
Mrs. Doubtfire 2 was gonna get made but you all know why it won't now.
TOO SOON, DUDE! TOO SOON.
Just wait until he finds out they are NOW working on a Beetlejuice 2.
YOU LIE. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU. YOU LIE.
I'm not. Tim Burton is in discussion with Winona Rider and Michael Keaton about doing another one.
all of my yes
michael keaton already says he will do beetlejuice 2 and on a side note they are also working on doing mrs doubtfire 2. robin williams is game but the actress who played the youngest daughter(also played matilda) has no interest what so ever to act again
Those The Clash jokes just might be my favorite thing.
Jodorowsky's Dune! My husband and I watched a fascinating documentary about that last weekend at the True/False Film Fest! Fascinating!!
A sequel would probably ruin the first Breakfast Club. Likely for the best that it never came to be.
I dont think it would be a bad idea to do a modern day remake. Even if it sucks we still have our old one.
Dear Mr. Green, I have been following you for a long time and I love your work, but comparing The Beatles with One Direction? Not cool.
Right? I mean, "they're both boybands"? I highly doubt fifty years from now any musician will claim he was influenced by one direction.
A boy band highly idolised by teenage girls who wrote mainstream pop music? Sounds pretty much the same to me...
Liam Harders But at least the Beatles wrote their own music, worked up to the top the hard way (instead of just bending over for Simon Cowell) and actually played the instruments while singing. Other than that, good point.
sellos I think he was joking.
Even a fan like me thought it was an amusing point, because The Beatles started off as a pop act mainly marketed to teenage girls more than anything. In hindsight, most of their pop hits are fairly simple songs, though effective in how they stand out from much blander variants of the same ideas present in the zeitgeist of the time. I even saw a few reviews of them as a musical group when they were still relatively new as a worldwide pop act, and many critics at the time were convinced that they would ultimately be another temporary blip on the pop culture radar that would be forgotten completely within a year or so. I can see that in terms of how The Beatles presented themselves as a band prior to mid-1965 that critics might think that. The reason why we remember even The Beatles' earlier songs more than other songs popular at the same time is because there was more passion to their material at the end of the day, in spite of not being much of a musical trendsetter until the aforementioned year. Before then, they were another pop-rock band musically speaking. But, their unprecedented level of commercial success pushed far enough that they could later get away with being more concerned about the artistic side of things.
Mental Floss and John Green. Is there a formal list or location of references or citations available publicly where readers or viewers of Mental Floss content (in this case UA-cam videos) may find where the information presented was found and located? Thank you.
BFI has all of Kubrick's notes and all of the drafts of the script for Kubrick's Napoleon film, and it's pretty amazing how much research he had prepared.
You didn't mention Ghost busters 3! That's a big one. And The Mask 2; that movie had a lot of hype.
There is a Mask 2. Unfortunately.
THAT DOESN'T COUNT
So fucking Hollywood will make movies like The Smurfs 2, Son of the Mask, The Happening, and Avatar the Last Airbender (movie), but they won't turn out an R Rated animated movie?! WTF?!!! Another Heavy Metal movie would be awesome!
and the avatar one was sooooo horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They changed just about everything except the basic storyline, cut out MONTHS of their travels, changedpersonalities, even the lead character's name was changed! It was supposed to be "Aang" like rhyming with "yin-yang" instead they made it sound long it rhymed with "Gong" who does that!
Alright John, I am an aspiring Author/UA-camr. I have been looking for the right, "thing" I was wondering if you have any pointers on a good place to start. I figure start with what I enjoy. But that is a spiral I enjoy watching you guys. Other UA-camrs, reading books. and can't think of something I want to talk about. That isn't already being talked about. :) Any ideas? I just jumped onto Amazon and purchased a couple of your books. To both support you and learn from you. Thanks for being awesome. You to Hank!
and I guess you to Dave. . .
MY LIFE WOULD BE SO MUCH MORE ENRICHED IF ALL OF THOSE SEQUELS WERE MADE
Beetlejuice 2 will be happening soon, which is great. I just found out why a sequel to The Breakfast Club never happened and I'm incredibly sad now.
why?
John Hughes and Judd Nelson didn't get along on set, and I think it was with TBC that Hughes said he never wanted to work with him again. I think he had conflicting issues with Molly Ringwald too when she said she wanted to move on from high school movies or something. Kind of sad.
Yeah. They had originally planned to make a new breakfast club every 10 years
Snazzy That sounds very similar to the documentary series: "7 up" It follows about 10 kids, starting at age seven and interviews them every 7 years. They are on age 49 now
Still waiting for Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.
No John please give me a Looking for Alaska movie!! It's my favorite book and you're my favorite author!
I think that it's a good thing some of the movies that he mentioned at the end didn't get made like Forrest Gump, Napoleon Dynamite, and Elf. Wow. Those choices really show how old I am now that I read them.
"Here's some other A-number one ideas Hollywood, Batman vs yadder Batman vs yadder Batman vs yadder" and WONDER WOMAN IS STANDING RIGHT THERE.
How come the Forrest Gump sequel never made it?
Because life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.
The author to the book wouldn't sell the movie rights because he lost a lot of money when the first one was made. Or something like that.
EnigmaNL It's actually, " Life was like a box of chocolates"
Hannah Overton Thanks for such an informative answer! I'd hope the author had been compensated his just due, and would change his mind and allow it after all.
Egao No Genki The story goes that the author was never paid the royalties he was owed for Forrest Gump, so he would not sell the rights to the second book.
i love your channel
That 'Dune' sounds amazing!
...there *was* a sequel to Chinatown. It's just that it was so bad no one remembers it.
+IoEstasCedonta Oh, I remember it. I just don't want to.
The Two Jakes wasn't bad....
there is Chinatown (Water)
the Two Jakes... (Oil) and
There was 3rd film featuring Gittes that would have dealt with the LA Freeway system
- the 'freeway plot' was used, in of all places, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, before Nicholson had rounded up the money/rights to get 'Two Jakes' ... so even IF it had been good enough to generate #3 any attempt to make it in the 90s would have required major re-writes
What would Kill Bill 3 be about? Bill's dead.
Or is he? Seriously, it's not like she chopped his head off or anything. Maybe she missed a beat on that pokey pokey magic hand thing and left Bill only mostly dead. The third movie could mirror the first movie but with Bill being the one waking from a long coma and seeking revenge.
I heard something about it a while back where maybe Vivica Fox's kid was going to grow up and go after Uma Thurman.
Both good points
James huber It didn't occur to me when I first read the thread, James Huber, but even if they intended for that sort of reversal that plot twist would probably be out the door at this point, since Carradine got his freak on and went and hanged himself.
nacoran
Yes, Vernita Green's kid would grow up and seek revenge on the Bride. I can see maybe the Bride training Bebe how to fight and we could have had a "next generation" movie of sorts. Taratino once considered shooting some scenes with these girls early to catch them while they were still young. I guess he lost interest in the idea and moved on to other things.
I'm procrastinating by watching mental floss videos which are educational. So does that count as procrastination?
You are absolutely spot on..."Castaway" was great until the end.
Every time I remember that Halo almost had a movie, it makes me sad... Come on! It's perfect for an action movie, why hasn't it been made yet?!?!?
i have good news for you in regards to a halo adaptation
6:26 yet sausage party is a thing
Studios and people in general are soyboy pussies and shitwads.
I am in serious need of that Edgar Allen Poe movie. EAP is my favourite poet and his short stories are pretty much my limit for horror (although some of his stuff is incredibly terrifying).
Not to mention how amazing RDJ would be as Poe!!
I love it when John green and hank green make music references like the one in the beginning:)
Forest grump 2!!!
I've read the book Gump and Co. Very odd. Don't want to see a movie of it.
Julian Diaz GRUMPIES BACK
Game of Death by Bruce Lee
12treeGoldfisher
That was not the true game of death, not that lame version.
speaking of the lee family I cant believe they continued filming the crow after Brandon lee died!!!
soniekchanel4ever the movie was great and im glad they finished it, but i hear they wish to do a remake and i think that is unacceptable. no one will pull off eric draven as well as brandon lee did plus as a testament to his memory they should never redo the original story again. they already fucked it up once with the stairway to heaven t.v. adaptation of the movie they did.
Should I stay or should I go and then they went? I love you, John Green.
There was planning for a Beatlejuice 2 and it did't happen?! I wonder if it's too late to do a Kickstarter of THAT.
Matrix 4? Bring it, I will pay, for my ticket to see it.
It makes sense now. That part where Neo dies and is just carried off.... that wasn't an attempt at a mysterious ending, just bait for a sequel! At least 3 didn't end as badly as 2.
i will sell my soul for seriously dude, where's my car?. no. fucking. joke.
not to mention elf 2 and beatlejuice 2 =p
I just cannot stay focused when there's this beautiful blue Tardis on the shelf, behind John.
Personally I feel like the greatest loss for humanity when it comes to films that weren't made must be when Hayao Miyazaki did not get permission to make an adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's "Pippi Longstockings".
I think Johnny Depp could pull off Poe!
I know you guys only have so much time, but there are so many things that could have been tacked on to these stories. I'm thinking Terry Gilliam's trials with Don Quixote and the Soviet produced version of Napoleon that totally lived up to many of those expectation, but... you know... in a very Soviet Russia kind of way.
I spent the whole time of this list punching my leg because some of these are TOO AWESOME TO BE REAL! Beatles LOTR, Spiderman 4, Seriously dude, where's my car, Breakfast club 2 just WHY
I think I'm in love with this guy....
I can't believe you didn't mention that there was ANOTHER film adaptation of Don Quixote that famously went nowhere. Terry Gilliam's "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" as chronicled in the documentary "Lost in La Mancha"
Can't believe you left out Terry Gilliam's Man from La Mancha.
Years ago, I remember telling people "Seriously Dude Where's My Car" was going to be a real thing, and I was so excited about it.
D:
You missed Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. It was supposed to be the first of a trilogy before the director, Pier Paolo Pasolini, was murdered. It was going to be called the Trilogy of Death.
Oh my god, I actually got and laughed at all of his Clash jokes at the beginning! xD I am not ashamed!
Did you know that when Ray Bradbury spoke of his book, he called it Fahrenheit 4 5 1 instead of Fahrenheit 451. Interesting how everyone says it wrong.
I'm surprised "The Mask II" wasn't mentioned. Nintendo Power held a contest with first prize being a walk-on role in the movie, but Jim Carrey turned down a then-record $10,000,000 to reprise the titular role because he wanted a more challenging role, and the movie didn't get made. The contest winner's prize ended up being an apology. 9 years later came a completely different sequel, "Son of The Mask", the quality of which may warrant a bigger apology.
Gladiator stands up great on its own, though I'm curious about what the sequel would be like.
I expected the Spider-Man movie wherein Peter was an ID badge photographer who was bombarded with radiation intentionally and turned into a literal Spider-Man, fur and all
I was wondering if you knew that there were further attempts to make a Don Quixote film by Terry Gilliam in 2000 but failed several weeks into production (the experience became the subject of a doc titled 'Lost in La Mancha', pretty sure it's here on youtube) with Gilliam trying to revive the project in 2008 but still postponed in 2012?
Lost in La Mancha is a great film about the making of Terry Gilliam's never released version of Don Quixote
WAIT. hold up.
you're telling me, there was almost a sequel to dude were's my car?
why the fuck isn't there a sequel? i'd pay 100 bucks to see that shit.
As of 2016, the little prince is officially a film on Netflix, not to mention the justice league films are coming (minus green arrow).
I count five Doctor Who references behind him. Mucho respect.
I'm convinced John just started saying "Menopause" instead of "Mental Floss" at the end of every video.
I vaguely remember hearing of "Seriously Dude, Where's My Car" and being so hyped about it. Until I casually let it drift to the back of my mind and into oblivion, as I'm sure it did with the people who's responsibility it was to make the film.
The Movie I want to see the most is Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote, the movie about it's failure was also interesting but I would love to have. Seen it finished
But dude, seriously... where's my car?
Read it, it was beautiful. I have yet to read either of the books he mentioned in the video, but they're next (cue ominous music).
Not only did he compare One Direction to the Beatles, he compared himself to JRR Tolkien.
+Matthew Richardson The current version of The Lord of the Rings is the second version but the best so far. I hope when they remake it in 40 or 50 years they stick to the book.
Having read and written a paper on Blood Meridian, I would agree that it should probably remain a novel, though I would go see a movie adaptation of it if it ends up happening.
your clash jokes were hilarious
All of those sequels must be made!
When mentioning Pink Floyd (4:48), thank you for posting an early picture with the original lead singer Syd Barrett. I'm sure copyrights had something to do with that, but still...
Ferris Buellers day off 2. That car commercial ticked me off. I want to see the three of them back together.
what about the last old pink panther move? peter sellers passed away mid production. a sad end to an amazing classic of british wit and comedy
seriously dude where's my car, matrix 4. I would be so stoked if those two came out..
There was also going to be a Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2, which was never made.