Best Films Never Made #35: Oliver Stone’s Return of the Apes David Brake November 29, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features With Snowden thudding resoundingly at the US box office - Oliver Stone’s lowest opening in 20 years - let’s distract ourselves, ahead of its UK release, with an outstandingly mad concept. What if...
Best Films Never Made #33: Michael Winner’s Captain America David Brake April 29, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 1 Comment Captain America technically shouldn't work on screen. The fundamental top-line interpretation is that he's a chest-beating, red-white-'n'-blue überpatriot who could appear obnoxious, removed and...
Best Films Never Made #28: James Bond’s Warhead David Brake October 27, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features A story 50 years in the making: as with many stories we tell in this series, it concludes with an unhappy ending. Not for a studio, or the character of James Bond and his legacy, but one man. His name was...
Best Films Never Made #27: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis David Brake September 16, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features “You see the movies they make now... They just keep making the same one over and over again.” Francis Ford Coppola no longer believes in cinema. Of all the Best Films Never Made projects haunting...
