Hugh Jackman has been saying for years that he's going to remake the musical Carousel for the screen, but he's never done it. (I think he owns the stage rights?) I guess it would be a tough sell these days as it has been accused of excusing domestic violence ...
Platinum Dunes everyone's favourite production company for raping and pillaging horror classics and giving us terrible remakes almost got their hands on Rosemary's Baby.
They gave us: A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Amityville Horror, Friday The 13th, The Hitcher, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes.
They are also responsible for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle films.
They are also partly own by Michael Bay, so yes, adding it all up, yep. Worse than Hitler
"Dead Reckoning" AKA "Isobar", a Carolco sci-fi vehicle for Ridley Scott and Sylvester Stallone. It would be set in a future where everyone lived in domed cities because the earth's atmosphere had gone. IIRC, it was abandoned because the budget instead went into
"Terminator 2".
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They gave us: A Nightmare On Elm Street, The Amityville Horror, Friday The 13th, The Hitcher, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remakes.
They are also responsible for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle films.
They are also partly own by Michael Bay, so yes, adding it all up, yep. Worse than Hitler
"Terminator 2".
I think the hold on this is due to the stage version still being so popular worldwide - they don't need a movie version to compete.
"The Plumed Serpent" that never got anywhere.
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Inception and total recall rolled into one.