In 2009, it was announced that Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum's Spyglass Entertainment had acquired the rights to develop a remake of visionary director David Cronenberg's acclaimed 1979 body horror film The Brood, about a man and his mentally ill ex-wife, who has been sequestered by a psychiatrist known for his controversial therapy techniques. Telepathically, she communicates with her group of mutant children, instructing them to act out violently. The screenplay was penned by Cory Goodman, whose take on the property aimed to stay true to the original film while still making changes that would enhance the story and update it for a newer generation of moviegoers. Martyrs helmer Pascal Laugier was initially attached to direct, but in December of that year, it was reported that Breck Eisner would be directing instead, fresh off of the remake of George A. Romero's The Crazies. However, the following year, Eisner passed on the project, stating that he loved the original too much to ever attempt to remake it. In a recent interview with Bloody Disgusting, Goodman stated that executives at Spyglass were uncomfortable with the material and didn't quite understand it, having found it "too weird." Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?" Music: "Uncle Charlie" – Clint Mansell (Stoker) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6PlhCHBGSM

A section of composer Alf Clausen's original musical score for Atlas Belched, the ninth episode of the second season of the beloved television series Moonlighting, created by Glenn Gordon Caron and starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mOsolk6p1U

Before it was retooled into a micro-budget $5 million horror film for the Blumhouse library, a live-action feature film adaptation of the classic Hasbro board game Ouija had been in development at Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes as a four-quadrant supernatural fantasy adventure in the vein of Indiana Jones, Jumanji, The Mummy, and Pirates of the Caribbean, with certain rules of the game — i.e. never use it alone, never use it in a graveyard, and always say goodbye — figuring into the plot. Elf and The Haunted Mansion scribe David Berenbaum was initially hired to write the script, which would later be retooled by the Tron: Legacy duo of Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Charlie's Angels helmer McG was hired to direct, having beaten out the likes of Breck Eisner, Pierre Morel, John Moore, Scott Stewart, and Sylvain White for the job. No doubt some of McG's frequent collaborators would've also joined in, including production designer Martin Laing and cinematographer Shane Hurlbut. When Kitsis and Horowitz were too busy with their commitments to ABC's Once Upon a Time, Evan Spiliotopoulos was brought on to rewrite their draft. Further revisions were provided by X-Men: The Last Stand and Mr. & Mrs. Smith scribe Simon Kinberg, who had previously worked with McG on the romantic action comedy This Means War. Kinberg's draft would've cost $125 million to produce; this didn't sit well with the higher-ups at Universal Pictures, which led to the studio abandoning this incarnation in the summer of 2012. The producers then had talks with Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox about tackling the film, as the former had established relationships with Bay and Hasbro and the latter had established relationships with McG and Kinberg. Buffy the Vampire Slayer veteran Marti Noxon was also brought on for further rewrites in order to scale the budget down, increase the horror elements, and make the story more intimate. Alas, a big-budget blockbuster take on the property was ultimately not meant to be. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?" Music: "Runner Runner" – Christophe Beck (Runner Runner) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btcPI_cCy2o

Attempting to get a film based on the popular Marvel comic book character Doctor Strange off the ground prior to 2016 was a lengthy and troubling development, with numerous studios, writers, directors, and producers coming and going on the project, such as Wes Craven, David S. Goyer, Bob Gale, Neil Gaiman, Guillermo del Toro, Michael France, Stephen Norrington, and Chuck Russell. One of the great what-ifs of the development process was a version that was to have been directed by cult auteur Alex Cox — best known for such films as the punk rock sci-fi comedy Repo Man, the gritty music biopic Sid & Nancy, and the darkly satirical historical western Walker — from his own screenplay, based on a story he conceived with the character's co-creator, Stan Lee. Cox's film would've seen the titular master of the mystic arts traveling to the Fourth Dimension before facing off against the villainous Dormammu on Easter Island in Chile, where Lee had always wanted a showdown. Cox considered the character to be his favorite superhero and the film was almost produced by Arnon Milchan's Regency Enterprises, whose films at the time were distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. However, also at the time, Warner Bros. was in a dispute with Marvel over merchandising, and because of this, Cox's take on the sorcerer supreme would forever remain unproduced. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?" Music: "Interstellar Overdrive" – Pink Floyd (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVCJMO1KCvQ