Best Films Never Made #43: The Beatles and Joe Orton’s Up Against It Tom Bond June 24, 2019 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features In 1967, The Beatles were the most famous band in the world. Maybe they were even the most famous people in the world. Just a year earlier John Lennon had claimed they were “bigger than Jesus”, and it was...
Best Films Never Made #42: George A. Romero’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Naomi Soanes September 5, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 2017’s been a good year for Stephen King fans. Not only have we seen the recent release of a film adaptation of The Dark Tower, widely considered King's masterpiece, but shortly we’ll be experiencing what...
Best Films Never Made #41: J. J. Abrams and Ron Howard’s The Dark Tower Sinead McCausland August 16, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features After nearly 10 years of development, The Dark Tower is finally coming to the big screen. Under the direction of Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), the movie hopes to launch an expansive film and television...
Best Films Never Made #38: Ridley Scott’s Nottingham Sophie Wing May 10, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features "His job was to catch outlaws, and to collect taxes. And that's a pretty shitty gig, you know? In our version, the Sheriff was basically a decent guy, a civil servant and a war hero." In January 2007, Ethan...
Best Films Never Made #37: Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 David Brake May 4, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 1 Comment "Was working on this. Don't think I am anymore. Love it though." One pithy line on an Instagram post seemed to mark the death of Alien 5 on New Year’s Day 2015. A death knell marked by a collection of...
Best Films Never Made #36: Forrest Gump 2 Joni Blyth January 31, 2017 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features When you really think about it, Forrest Gump is a weird movie. Pitch it in the abstract - "let’s send this random hayseed careening through recent history like a southern Doctor Who" - and it sounds...
Best Films Never Made #31: John Hughes’ Oil and Vinegar Tom Bond March 1, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features John Hughes made plenty of perfect films in his time. There was the irrepressible charm of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, led by Matthew Broderick, and the soulful rebellion of The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink...
Best Films Never Made #30: Guillermo Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness David Brake February 18, 2016 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 1 Comment “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” —H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft was the father of cosmic horror. A man who...
Best Films Never Made #29: David Lynch/David Cronenberg’s Return of the Jedi Conor Morgan December 18, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features When George Lucas was on the hunt for someone to bring the much anticipated Return of the Jedi to life in the early 1980s, he thought of two young directors that were laying the foundations of their...
Best Films Never Made #26: George Miller’s Justice League David Brake August 18, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features What if DC were level with Marvel? Scratch that, what if they were ahead? One film had the potential to make it happen nearly a decade earlier. The mastermind was George Miller; the man who made our ears and...
Best Films Never Made #25: Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried Tom Bond April 17, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features Holocaust comedy. Two words to make you leave the page in disgust or read on with extreme curiosity. If you’ve got any sense, you will have done the latter, because Jerry Lewis’ 1972 film The Day the...
Best Films Never Made #24: Robert Zemeckis’ The Toon Platoon Phil W. Bayles February 18, 2015 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features If Robert Zemeckis' Who Framed Roger Rabbit were made today, the sequel would be greenlit and in pre-production before the end of opening weekend. Originally released in 1988, its groundbreaking mix of...
Best Films Never Made #21: Steven Spielberg’s Interstellar Tom Bond November 11, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is without doubt the most ambitious film of 2014. Steven Spielberg’s version might just have been better. If you’ve read anything about Nolan’s space epic in the...
Best Films Never Made #20: Chris Weitz’s The Golden Compass Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan September 20, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 1 Comment Adaptations are hard. A poisoned chalice/holy grail for filmmakers that will have passionate fans wary of you, destroying something they love more than their own mothers. For remember, the "law" states the...
Best Films Never Made #19: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Abel Cain and King Shot Conor Morgan August 22, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features 85 year old Chilean-French surrealist/mime/experimental playwright/author/comics writer/mystical therapist/artist/director/all-round fascinating guy Alejandro Jodorowsky recently premiered his first film in 23...
