Movies That Were Filmed But We Disappointingly Never Saw 

Which of these would you be most interested in seeing?

These films that are cancelled can be heartbreaking. I was an extra on a film called Vampire Wars, where I got to work with Robert Englund. Principle photography was completed, but when he special effects company wanted more money, the film company elected not to do post production, so I never got to see a frame of it.

I love how people think Batgirl was going to save the DCEU. As if it was going to be infinitely better than the rest of the busts of the DCEU.

DC comics Batgirl is one of the Most unexpectedly unfortunate shocking cancellation in the history movie production from DC comics company decision.

Me and my shadow looks like a great premise. I'd love to see a final version

Damn...I'm EARLY!! I might have to try to find some of these movies

Thank you so much 😊

hey looper you forget to mention how Broadway Brawler lead to Willis started in 3 touchstone pics films after it got cancelled!

The Munich Filmmuseum has screened a work print of Welles THE DEEP. The last information I had was they were trying to secure the rights to complete the film.

Van Damme's passion project The Eagle Path. It was shown once in Cannes, then went on a loop of reedits and name changes, shown once in Shanghai Film Festival and almost 15 years later, remains unseen to anyone who didn't attend those screenings.

Two films you should have on your list are: 'Shortcut To Happiness' (2001), based upon the book 'The Devil And Daniel Webster' which languished on the shelf for many years but was eventually released to cinemas in 2007. The reason: Financial difficulties caused the film to go into receivership, and the government shelved the film. It starred Jennifer Love Hewitt, Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin (who also directed it). Then there is 'The Fantastic Four' (1994), produced by Roger Corman, this film starred Alex Hyde-White as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Rebecca Staab as Sue Storm-Richards/Invisible Woman, Jay Underwood as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, Michael Bailey Smith as Ben Grimm and Carl Ciarfalio as The Thing and Joseph Culp as Victor von Doom/Doctor Doom. It was shelved by the film company and Marvel who were in negotiations to have a higher quality film made, which eventually turned out to be the 2005 release by 20th Century Fox. The studio did not want to "cloud the waters" with a low budget release, so decided to shelve it. It too did the convention circuit for years until after the disaster that was the 2015 reboot movie, where upon the Corman film suddenly found release on DVD and BluRay. There is another two Marvel projects that have to date never seen the light of day. The first is 'Marvel's Most Wanted', this was a completed pilot television movie that was shelved and never released, which was a spin-off from the 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' television series and starred Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood, two very popular characters who were removed from the AOS series just for this spin-off, which essentially killed their characters off altogether. Then there was a Movie/television pilot made of the Marvel team of characters called 'The New Warriors'. It was supposed to be a sitcom style series, 30 minutes in length, and although a pilot film was made (according to some sources) it was shelved when Disney/Marvel began terminating all their outside MCU series and projects due to the launch of what eventually became Disney+. The team was going to consist of Milana Vayntrub as Doreen Green / Squirrel Girl, along with her squirrel TippyToe, Derek Theler as Craig Hollis / Mister Immortal, Jeremy Tardy as Dwayne Taylor / Night Thrasher, Calum Worthy as Robbie Baldwin / Speedball, Matthew Moy as Zach Smith / Microbe, Kate Comer as Deborah Fields / Debrii, and Keith David as Ernest Vigman, a character who would have become the series' version of MODOK. Neither of these two pilots has even been seen outside of the studios making them. I am hopeful that they will eventually find release. Relating to DC Comics, There was the much publicised Wonder Woman TV pilot movie (2011) starring Adrianne Palicki (yeah she gets about), which was shelved for whatever reason..., and then there was a college/university stage play made of Wonder Woman, featuring Brooke Shields as the titular character, which was supposedly filmed either on VHS or by a cheap cinecamera, that has never actually seen the light of day. Several photographs from the play exist, but of the filmed version there is no news. Speaking of plays, a play was made of Terry Pratchett's novel 'Nation' which was performed live on satellite around the world. There is a snippit somewhere on You Tube, but of the full play there is no sign. Great video, by the way, but it could be expanded upon.

Kraven the Hunter first film has got moved release date and NEVER ever cancellation. I already and always loved and liked SMCU's, SMSCU's, or SMSMCU's Kraven the Hunter first film debut.

AVI ARAD ruined KRAVEN THE HUNTER the same way he ruined TASM2 and MORBIUS

The new Kraven will be as bad as "Transformers: The Last Knight" They're both made by the same writers

Darn good question!

I don't know if the lost film The Day The Clown Cried was filmed fully I believe it was but I defiently want to see that.

No disappointment regarding Batgirl. Relieved. It's gonna be released eventually and I'll ignore it.

A 35mm film print of BLOOD CIRCUS survives, I have seen it twice in recent years. Even as a lover of pro wrestling and bad movies, wow, it is terrible.

i remember those santo gold commercials growing up!!!

Surprised Jerry Lewis' attempted tragi-comedy about the Holocaust "The Day the Clown Cried" (1971 or 72) was not included. (Has it finally been released without my knowing...?)

I'm surprised 2018's Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker's City of Lies didn't made the cut in this. LAPD fought tooth and nail not to get released and what's with the intro cover still shot of Ana de Armas being pink, what movie is her mugshot from?

I wonder how many more movies are like this?

Technical issue-when you say 'we disappointingly never saw', you should stick to it. You mention several of these films have been previewed or seen at least once. So they shouldn't count. 'Never saw' means 'NEVER saw', which means NO ONE has EVER seen them AT ALL.

They forgot Swamp Thing. Recent movie that I don't even think it was in theaters for more than 12 hours..

Of all thumbnails… why did you choose that one?

It doesn't look like we will be seeing Salem's Lot (2023) either.

Is it true that Independence Day 2 & 3 were filmed back-to-back, but because of the poor takings for number 2, number 3 is on a shelf minus the expensive special effects?

Based on the description and scenes, it's good those were never released.

10:58 Coming up the stairs is fine, but the straight on shot Orson Wells looks far more like Benny Hill... 😳

Most of these are not films to be disappointed by missing but relief at not having paid to see them.

Pretty weird movies. Though Nothing Lasts Forever looks really cool. Tempation looks good. Worst Case Scenario looks completely screwed up. Really. Spiderman vs Kraven looks good. Broadway Browler looks good. it's great they canceled Batgirl. It's stupid. Me and My Shadow looks nice. 10 things I hate about life looks really nice too. The Debtors looks really good too. Hope we see it some day. Good video

Rigatuso was a wild dude😂😅😂

I still wanna see all star weekend

I’m glad non of these movies came out, we have enough crap out already!

I wanted to see the spin-off of the rules from attraction glitterati

Spider-Man vs. Kraven the Hunter (1974)... I'd never heard of this before. You say it was filmed on 16mm Film, but that "the only copy" was on his PC and that was destroyed, but what happened to the 16mm film version? Even if he had it transferred to digital (ie. his computer) then the 16mm film must still exist. The man was a film-maker, and if he's a good one, as you say he is, then it is likely he kept the film stock in case he ever needed to make another copy. That is logical. So where is it? Likely stored in his personal effects or at a storage unit (a good archivist will always store his film stock in several locations so as to avoid the chance of destruction by accident (ie. acts of god.. fire and rain etc.). Why is it nobody is protecting these things?

i wanted to see Batgirl

Some of these sound better [more fun] that the stuff they're releasing.

I'm glad they cancelled Batgirl. The casting of Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon was pointless and nonsensical race swapping of yet another classic redheaded/ginger character. There are several very capable actresses that could have played that role perfectly that actually looks like the character from the comics. Abigail Cowen and Madelaine Petsch, just to name a couple. The Batgirl suit also looked like bad cosplay. Leslie Grace revealed a picture of the high tech Batgirl suit from the end of the movie, and it also looked like bad cosplay. That movie never seeing the light of day was for the best.

Bro is drunk before writing the tittle lmao 😅

You forgot "The day the clown died" of Jerry Lewis.

The Day the Clown Cried.

I say, take all the films that are collecting dusk, and show them.

Come on , be cool . Put out these movies . Me and my shadow sounds good . 😊

And we wonder why we have the SAG strike. Makes sense. I’m loyal enough to the motion picture industry to do better. It’s like the pandemic all over again. But I’m patient. That’s why we have the classics that’ll never die. Do better Hollywood!

I'm glad batgirl got ditched. I have no interest in seeing Keatons batman ruined. They already wasted him in Flash.

Troma's Terror Firmer.

lol Disappointment would only come by releasing BATGIRL...............

"Never been released" should be "hasn't been released yet". There are movies that were shelved for years, until someone has a breakthrough role. Nicole Kidman starred in Moulin Rouge, which got Birthday Girl released; Jared Leto got an Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club, suddenly Mr. Nobody shows up in video stores. It's only a matter of time before someone decides these movies should be out there in the world.

You claim in your title that it is disappointing that we never got to see these films. Yet even the people who made them considered them too awful to release shouldn't their opinion carry a heavier weight than those of us who have not seen them?

Most of these unfinished films do NOT qualify as "Movies That Were Filmed", ffs!

I do hope to see Batgirl someday. The flash was not the greatest 😞

I doubt anyone is 'disappointed' to see yet another race swapped Batman spin off movie, so glad they cancelled Batgirl. If you can't be accurate to the source material, WHY BOTHER AT ALL?

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Batgirl was dropped for two reasons, the pre-release screenings had abysmal reviews and they needed a tax write-off. Nobody wanted this film, as it was just another, woman is better than man, woke-fest (and that was part of the review feedback).

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is crap all of them.

The Day the Clown Cried gets released June of 2024.