Episode 121:
That Fellow In The Coat: The Top 10 Greatest Films Never Made That Fellow In The Coat counts down the most promising film productions that ultimately were never finished, released or even started filming. Title Card Drawn by: dookyIKRdooky.
Date And Time: 2011-06-28 14:06:34
Comment: @ Annie. Actually, John Lasseter said that "Newt" was cancelled simply because the plot was way too similar to "Rio".
Name: John Pannozzi
Date And Time: 2011-06-20 18:33:31
Comment: You can download the Night Skies script at http://www.mypdfscripts.com/unproduced/night-skies
Name: Ebalance
Date And Time: 2011-02-12 13:31:16
Comment: Poor Terry... I REALLY WANT TO SEE ANOTHER FANTASIA FILM!!! DESTINO IS AWESOME!!! (Saw it at the Dali exhibit at LACMA a few years ago) I am very curious to see "The Sweatbox"... it's too bad Disney is so image crazy... and after all... they put that whole long documentary about Walt (including some quite bad business practices) on the Cinderella DVD, so you'd think they'd have gotten past viewing themselves as totally beneficent... my opinion is that if they released it the only people interested already know/don't care that much that Disney has a bit of a "dark side"... kids aren't gonna want to watch this thing... so... I don't know...
Name: John Pannozzi
Date And Time: 2011-01-25 14:40:12
Comment: Judging from your comments on Red State, it seems that your still keeping tabs on Kevin Smith. That's cool. Some many people online (particularly on the TGWTG forums) seem to view Smith as a washed up hack, when I can't help but feel contrary when I regularly read the News Askew website. Oh, I don't think Smith was ever particularly serious about making Dogma 2 beside the basic idea, though I could be wrong. More substantial unrealized film projects from Smith would include a Fletch sequel with Jason Lee in the lead role, a Green Hornet movie (Smith even managed to adapt his script into a ten-issue comic book series published recently by Dynamite Entertainment, interestingly enough) and the Clerks: Sell Out animated DTV feature. And when they were making Mallrats, Universal was so enthusiastic about the film, they asked Smith to come up with an idea for a sequel. Smith (half-jokingly, I assume) came up with the title "Mallrats 2: Die Hard In a Mall". When Mallrats flopped at the box office, the sequel obviously never saw the light of day. A few years later, when Smith began his career in the comic book industry and was doing Clerks and Jay & Silent Bob stories published by Oni Press, he announced that he would make Mallrats 2: Die Hard in a Mall as a comic book. A few months ago, he said that Mallrats 2 the comic wasn't going to be made, but that the Dogma prequel detailing the backstory of Bartleby & Loki that he had announced way back when is still a possibility.
Name: Devon
Date And Time: 2011-01-22 11:32:25
Comment: It's such a pity to not include "The Thief and the Cobbler" in this countdown. And YES, that movie was *finished* (and I use this term very loosely) by Miramax, the same company that screwed up the Tom and Jerry movie and Roberto Benigni's Pinnochio. Let us never speak of it again.
Name: Weirdproq
Date And Time: 2010-12-01 11:20:00
Comment: I wish Don Bluth's "Jawbreaker" was finished and released. There's even a trailer for it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6uUMPoynRc
Name: Zexoguy
Date And Time: 2010-11-30 16:13:12
Comment: I would've loved to see "Kingdom of the Sun" and "Fraidy Cat" doesn't sound half bad. I love "The Little Match Girl" segment too. Also with "Night Skies," it sounds like one movie was divided into many famous ones, which is pretty amazing. One thing I would've added to this list is the live-action "6teen" movie. I heard about it back in 2008 and expected it to be out around this time, but since I haven't heard anything since, it looks like they scrapped it. Oh well.
Name: Ken Murray
Date And Time: 2010-11-30 15:53:05
Comment: sorry for all the spamming. I just don't get the show is so reviled, especially since it's been dead for four years.
Name: Ken Murray
Date And Time: 2010-11-29 18:48:35
Comment: good video.
Name: Jaimetud
Date And Time: 2010-11-29 00:49:30
Comment: I saw a list like this not too long ago on Cracked.com. It was called "The 20 Greatest Movies Hollywood Ever Killed," or something of that nature. I was initially afraid that this would mention some of the same movies, but It's good to see a fresh list from the ground up. And you're right, Stefan, a lot of these projects do look like they had Great potential. I'd like to see "Fraidy Cat."
Name: Liz B
Date And Time: 2010-11-28 15:06:03
Comment: Disney was going to do The Snow Queen, but they returned it to the shelves. If they DO however plan to make it, I hope to go see it:)
Name: Sarah:)
Date And Time: 2010-11-28 12:30:57
Comment: Well, if they ever do make another Fantasia sequel, I hope it has Goofy in it! :D
Name: Jordan
Date And Time: 2010-11-28 09:33:18
Comment: Why didn't you mention they made a spirit movie 2 years ago directed by Comic Book legend Frank Miller and how did dislike or hate it?
Name: Isabella
Date And Time: 2010-11-28 08:54:50
Comment: 10)i never heard of the 1st dogma movie 9)it might have been good 8)i would have seen it 7)that looks cool 6)i wish i could see that 5)i would have seen it 4)i would LOVE to see this movie 3)that does look cool 2)seems interesting 1)WOW!
Name: TheForbiddenDBag
Date And Time: 2010-11-28 00:26:31
Comment: Nice video, of course "Kingdom of the Sun" has to be on there, having been mentioned twice in the earlier videos on the site. I don't think I've ever heard of "Fraidy Cat" until this video. "Tramp's New World" sounds strange to me, the idea of the Tramp living in a post-apocalyptic New York kind of sounds like a light hearted version of "The Road". Fun factoid; I've never seen "Lorenzo", as much as I want to. I heard back in 2004 that it was going to be attached to "Raising Helen", so I went to see it just for that short, and what did I get? Nothing but an utterly forgettable Kate Hudson comedy.
Name: Keshia
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 23:22:25
Comment: I think you should've put the prequal to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "Who Discovered Roger Rabbit," as an honorable mention. Then again, I did here that it's back in production and will be released in 2012.
Name: Meg
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 22:31:05
Comment: It's too bad that these movies were never finished; some of them sounded pretty good. I would've gone to see Fantasia 2006.
Name: Pan-Pizza
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 21:48:07
Comment: Didn't know there was going to be a Dogma 2. I can understand Kevin Smith wanting to protect his family by not making it. Same goes for South Park wanting to censor certain refrences. There making a Discworld movie? I thought that was a PC game, didn't it was a book. It had one sweet song about death. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczjCi73So8&feature=related Also, it really sucks to be Terry Gilliam. Having all these movies to get screwed up
Name: The Wax Badger
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 21:25:33
Comment: These were really good finds, Fraidy Cat would have been so so cool. So so so so cool. So so so so so so so so cool. Okay, you get the point. Fantasia 2006 however I think would have been a flop, not that it was a bad idea but with the way Disney was at the time I wouldn't trust their marketing for it. Tramp's New World, you know what, I'm not sure Charles Chaplain would dare bring the Tramp back in the late 1940's for a good reason, not only did Hitler have a similar mustache but that mustache contributed to why he thought "The Great Dictator" was a great idea but was later embarrassed by it, so I don't blame him for passing on it.
Name: JW
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 20:59:59
Comment: What about Newt?
Name: Msky
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 20:59:12
Comment: This video was really well done. Interesting and entertaining.
Name: Golden Fox
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 20:51:03
Comment: So I'm guessing that Fantasia 2006 was hold off when Traditional Animation was ended until the Princess and the Frog.
Name: Annie
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 20:42:35
Comment: There is also Disney Pixar's Newt that shoulda been on the list. They cancelled it because Pixar wanted more money to make Monsters Inc 2.
Name: Jacob
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 20:33:11
Comment: Can you believe that the Fantasia is going to be released on dvd as a censored cut on tuesday? Ugh!!!
Name: Morgan
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 20:32:34
Comment: Actually, "Night Skies" was brought to life in the late '80s. Steven Herek gave us Critters. The idea of mini-hedgehog aliens that terrorize a farming family is there. The only difference is that a subplot about a group of alien bounty hunters is included and the movie goes for a comical tone but still manages to be horryifing.
Name: Devon
Date And Time: 2010-11-27 20:22:14
Comment: In my opinion, the completed version of "The Thief and the Cobbler" does NOT exist! So to me, that qualifies as unfinished. Great list you put on there, but I think you left something out "Creation". To be produced by RKO, this ambitious production was supposed to be the magnum opus of stop-motion pioneer Willis O'Brien after the success of "The Lost World". In 1931, he made 20 minutes of test footage, though only 4 minutes of it survives today. Though ultimately never made, many key scenes in "Creation" were put into the classic "King Kong". All the dinosaur models made for "Creation" were also put in "King Kong".On the 2-disc DVD of "King Kong", you can find the test footage (with commentary by Ray Harryhausen) and a presentation of the film with narration of the script, sketches, concept art, and production stills to get an idea of what "Creation" would have been like if made at all. Also, I think you should have mentioned Ray Harryhausen's "Evolution" project.