In the spring of 2004, it was announced that Cabin Fever helmer Eli Roth would be directing an original hard-R teen sex comedy for Universal Pictures and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura entitled Scavenger Hunt, which was inspired by true events that occurred during Roth's own high school years. Described as The Cannonball Run meets Caligula, the story — scripted by Roth and revised by The Dukes of Hazzard scribe Jonathan L. Davis — concerns a group of overachieving teenagers, some of the best and brightest students in their classes, who are all set to graduate and go to prestigious Ivy League colleges such as Harvard and Yale, but when the enormous amount of pressure they're already under becomes too much for them to possibly take, they suddenly snap and go berserk. The kids embark on a senior scavenger hunt, partaking in an insanity-fueled night and trashing both themselves and their hometown, participating in a variety of balls-out pranks and challenges such as breaking out into impromptu orgies in front of judges, drinking shots of seminal fluid, defecating in public, and causing massive amounts of property damage. Roth's goal was to make the most twisted, over-the-top teen sex comedy in the history of the sub-genre, deliberately pushing the boundaries of good taste and paying homage to earlier entries in the genre such as Bob Clark's Porky's. No doubt many of Roth's frequent collaborators would've also joined in, including score composer Nathan Barr, production and costume designer Franco-Giacomo Carbone, film editors George and Ryan Folsey, and cinematographer Milan Chadima. However, Roth eventually pushed the project aside to instead make Hostel, and no further news would ever come of the project. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?" Music: "Party Out of Bounds" – The B-52's (Wild Planet) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr9IosQIN-8

The feature film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's inexplicably best-selling young adult romantic fantasy novel Twilight was initially in development at Paramount Pictures and MTV Films, with Mark Lord first hired to pen the screenplay. Lord originally pitched his take on the material as a vampiric twist on the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, but MTV Films president David Gale requested he turn in a draft that would deviate significantly from the novel, as he feared that an overemphasis on the romantic element would alienate male audiences. Lord's script was more of an action-horror hybrid than the romantic fantasy of the book, with Bella Swan being written as a much more active character, a track star who fights back against the rogue vampires and is turned into a vampire herself at the end of the story. Furthermore, Edward Cullen was more of a Blade-type vampire than he was in the novel, Bella's father Charlie gets killed, a Korean FBI agent-slash-vampire hunter was included as an additional antagonist, and there were several set pieces, including: Bella riding jet skis while being chased by the FBI, and the rogue vampires picking off members of a SWAT team who were sent into a forest after them. Paramount's production co-prexy at the time, Karen Rosenfelt, was so determined to get the film made that she even attempted to forge a co-production deal between the studio and Fox 2000 Pictures. In an interview with MTV Hollywood, Home Alone helmer and Harry Potter veteran Chris Columbus revealed that he took a glance at a script for Twilight very early on during the adaptation process; presumably, he might have been referring to Lord's draft. Had Columbus signed on, no doubt many of his frequent collaborators would've also joined in, including score composer James Horner, costume designer Judianna Makovsky, film editor Richard Pearson, production designer Howard Cummings, cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt, and producing partners Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe. Alas, Columbus was too busy working on other projects, and Meyer's displeasure with the changes made from the source material and a change in management over at Paramount ultimately put the kibosh on this version, with the studio putting it into turnaround and letting the rights expire, which led to Rosenfelt taking the project over to Summit Entertainment, who agreed with Meyer that a much more faithful adaptation of the novel be produced, and the rest — as they say — is history. Follow me and ponder the question, "What if...?" Music: "A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics" – James Horner ft. Charlotte Church (A Beautiful Mind) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7JGTV_WoC4