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What If...? – DreamWorks / Original Film / K/O Paper Products (Ehren Kruger's Nightlife)
In the summer of 2006, it was announced that DreamWorks Pictures had tapped Arlington Road and The Ring screenwriter Ehren Kruger to pen the script for a thriller entitled Nightlife, based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Perry, whose story follows a female serial killer who changes her identity every time she commits a murder. Hot on her trail is a female police detective, and by the end, the two women grow close both in proximity and in identity. Attached to produce the film were Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe through their Original Film shingle and Transformers scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who would later collaborate with Kruger on the screenplay for that film's sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Alas, no further news ever came of the project. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"
Music: "Shadow of a Doubt" – Brian Tyler (Law Abiding Citizen)
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Music: "Shadow of a Doubt" – Brian Tyler (Law Abiding Citizen)
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In the summer of 2007, it was announced that reliable journeyman Joel Schumacher would be directing an English-language remake of the Johnnie To-helmed Hong Kong action thriller Breaking News, about a television news unit that broadcasts live the embarrassing defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers in a showdown. While on a separate investigation, a detective discovers the robbers' hideout, but the situation is complicated by an inspector who decides to turn the stakeout into a breaking news show in order to beat the media at its own game. Schumacher would've directed from a screenplay adapted by Alex de Rakoff, with Paul Brooks producing through his Gold Circle Films shingle for Paramount Pictures' now-dormant specialty label Paramount Vantage. No doubt many of Schumacher's frequent collaborators would've also joined in, including score composer Harry Gregson-Williams, costume designer Daniel Orlandi, film editor Mark Stevens, production designer Andrew Laws, and cinematographer Matthew Libatique. However, no further news would ever come of the project. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"
Music: "Will's Story" – Harry Gregson-Williams (Unstoppable)
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Set to begin filming next Thursday in Budapest, Hungary is the upcoming ninth installment in the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus. Directed by Fede Álvarez from a screenplay co-written with Rodo Sayagues, the film — said to be a standalone interquel, unconnected to previous installments in the franchise — stars Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn, and Aileen Wu as a group of young people on a distant world who find themselves in a confrontation with the Xenomorphs. Álvarez will also produce the film, alongside Michael Pruss and series veterans Ridley Scott and Walter Hill, with Brent O'Connor, Elizabeth Cantillon, and Tom Moran serving as executive producers. The production crew includes visual effects supervisor Eric Barba, costume designer Carlos Rosario, production designer Naaman Marshall, and director of photography Galo Olivares. A joint-venture production between 20th Century Studios, Scott Free, Bad Hombre, and Brandywine, the film will be released direct-to-streaming on Hulu next year.
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In the spring of 2011, it was announced that visionary filmmaker Robert Zemeckis would be developing a live-action/CGI-hybrid film adaptation of the Chuck Sambuchino humor book How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack: Defend Yourself When the Lawn Warriors Strike (and They Will), a tongue-in-cheek survival guide to help garden gnome-owners prepare for and ward off an imminent invasion from the menacing lawn statues. The project was set up at Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, intended to be the latter's first adult-themed film, complete with an edgy tone and a PG-13 rating. Two years later, Chad Damiani and J.P. Lavin would adapt the screenplay for Zemeckis to produce — through his ImageMovers banner alongside production partners Jacqueline Levine, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey — and potentially direct. No doubt many of Zemeckis' frequent collaborators would've also joined in, including casting directors Victoria Burrows and Scot Boland, score composer Alan Silvestri, costume designer Joanna Johnston, visual effects supervisor Kevin Baillie, film editor Jeremiah O'Driscoll, production designer Rick Carter, and cinematographer Don Burgess. Alas, no further news came of the project since then. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"
Music: "Travel Delays" – Alan Silvestri (Avengers: Infinity War)
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In the spring of 2005, it was announced that The Mummy helmer Stephen Sommers would be writing and directing a big-budget blockbuster remake of the classic 1950's sci-fi film When Worlds Collide for Paramount Pictures, about a group of scientists discovering that another planet is veering dangerously close to Earth, and together, they make plans for a small group of humans to leave the planet before the inevitable fatal collision. During the summer, Sommers had to bow out due to his commitment to directing Night at the Museum for 20th Century Fox, and to fill in the role of producer, Paramount brought onboard Steven Spielberg, fresh off of his re-adaptation of H.G. Wells' influential The War of the Worlds. However, during the wintertime, due to creative differences with Fox on Night at the Museum, Sommers departed that project and returned to When Worlds Collide, joining Spielberg as a producer alongside his production composer and go-to editor Bob Ducsay. Sommers planned to get started on giving the script a quick turnaround in early 2006. No doubt many of his frequent collaborators would've also joined in, including score composer Alan Silvestri, film editor Kelly Matsumoto, and production designer Allan Cameron. Alas, no further news came of the project, as Sommers would instead move on to produce The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and direct G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"
Music: "Arrival" – Alan Silvestri (The Avengers)
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In early 2005, Universal Pictures acquired the film rights to author Terry Brooks' fantasy novel series Magic Kingdom of Landover, with plans for a live-action film franchise starting with Magic Kingdom for Sale. The Mummy helmer Stephen Sommers was hired to direct, from a screenplay adapted by veteran comedy scribes Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, with the story concerning a widowed attorney who leaves his old life behind when he responds to a mysterious advertisement and spends his fortune to purchase a magical kingdom, but he and his two children get more than they bargained for when they find the kingdom on the verge of chaos. Sommers would also produce alongside his production partner and go-to editor Bob Ducsay. Several years later, it was announced that Warner Bros. Pictures had picked up the rights to develop the film, enlisting Akiva Goldsman to co-produce through his Weed Road Pictures banner and Craig Wright to perform a rewrite on the script, with Steve Carell starring in the lead role. No doubt many of Sommers' frequent collaborators would've also joined in, including score composer Alan Silvestri, film editor Kelly Matsumoto, and cinematographer Mitchell Amundsen. However, no further news would ever come of the project, with Sommers instead moving on to direct Odd Thomas. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"
Music: "The Oasis" – Alan Silvestri (Ready Player One)
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The screenplay that initially got the attention of Hollywood concerning visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan is a grounded, heartfelt emotional drama entitled Labor of Love, which tells the tale of a Philadelphia book store owner named Maurice Parker, who loses his beloved wife Ellen in a tragic car accident caused by a drunk driver. Never big on words, he becomes haunted by the notion that he never properly told his wife just how much he truly loved her. Since she once asked if he would walk across the country for her, he decides to show her posthumously how much he did love her by doing just that, venturing forth on a trek from Philadelphia to Pacifica, California, which was her favorite place in the world. The script was acquired by 20th Century Fox, where it was in varying stages of development since 1993, with stars such as Dustin Hoffman and Denzel Washington and directors such as Sydney Pollack and Wolfgang Petersen coming and going, along with studio-commissioned rewrites by several in-demand scribes including Allison Burnett, Mary Agnes Donohue, and Ron Koslow. Shyamalan fought repeatedly to direct it himself, but the studio wasn't biting. After the commercial disappointments of The Last Airbender and After Earth, Shyamalan returned to the project in early 2014, intending to direct with Bruce Willis starring in the lead role, reteaming with the filmmaker following their collaborations on The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. Joining as producers on the film would be Randall Emmett and George Furla of Emmett/Furla Films, alongside Shyamalan and his Blinding Edge Pictures partner Ashwin Rajan, while Stuart Ford would serve as an executive producer via IM Global. Alas, no further news ever came of the project, as Shyamalan would instead move on to direct the found-footage horror comedy The Visit. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"
Music: "Concussion" – James Newton Howard (Concussion)
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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)
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The art of cinema was done a great injustice when the world denied it a film that would've paired up producer-star Nicolas Cage with visionary director John Carpenter. In the mid-to-late 2000's, the two were to team up on a prison riot action-thriller entitled Scared Straight for New Line Cinema and Millennium Films, based on the Academy Award-winning documentary about a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts — "lifers" — who berate, scream at, and terrify the young offenders in an attempt to "scare them straight," so that the teens will avoid prison life. Scripted by Joe Gazzam and revised by Ron L. Brinkerhoff, the film would see a troubled youth being sent to the Scared Straight crime prevention program, but when a riot breaks out and the prisoners take him hostage, one of the lifers — to be played by Cage — is forced to help the young man out. The film was slated to be released sometime in 2009, but Cage unfortunately ended up pulling out as he was too busy with other projects, as well as having recently signed a two-picture deal with Millennium Films, making Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans and Drive Angry with the company. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"
Music: "Prison Montage" – John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies (Halloween); "Vortex" – John Carpenter (Lost Themes)
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A re-adaptation of William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson's classic sci-fi novel Logan's Run, about a dystopic Malthusianism future society in which both population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by requiring the death of everyone reaching a certain age, has been in the works at Warner Bros. Pictures since the mid-1990's, with a variety of writers, producers, and directors coming and going on the project, including the likes of Skip Woods, Bryan Singer, Joel Silver, Akiva Goldsman, Simon Kinberg, Greg Berlanti, Ken Levine, Peter Craig, Ryan J. Condal, Carl Erik Rinsch, Robert Schwentke, Christopher McQuarrie, Michael Dougherty, James McTeigue, and Joseph Kosinski among many, many others. One of the great what-ifs of the development process was a version that was to have been helmed by visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn, from a screenplay adapted by Alex Garland, Andrew Baldwin, and Will Beall, with Ryan Gosling starring as Logan 5 — the Sandman charged with enforcing the rule, as he tracks down and kills citizens who "run" from society's lethal demands, only to end up "running" himself — and Rose Byrne cast in the role of Jessica 6. It was to be Gosling's third collaboration with Refn following their work together on Drive and Only God Forgives. Refn was an obsessive fan of the initial 1976 film adaptation and planned on his version being more faithful to the source novel. However, in the fall of 2013, Refn announced that his tenure on the project had ended, stating that the quality of the original film kept getting in the way and that he didn't want to trade off creative freedom for a big budget. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?"
Music: "West Coast's Favorite Bank" – Cliff Martinez (Hotel Artemis)
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