The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (900 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 031220082X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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(July) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In a business that produces over 40,000 spec scripts each year, of which only 3000 are optioned, and a mere 50 made, a project that never sees the light of day isn't a failureAit's the norm. Other ideas are intriguingly demented: Howard Stern's superhero parody Fartman, or a gangster movie about a Mafia don made out of ice cream. Among the star turns we'll never see are Frank Sinatra in The Jimmy Durante Story and Marilyn Monroe in Something's Gotta Give. For some of these projects, there's still hope. The ma
Think you know Hollywood movies? Think again!No matter how many movies you've seen, no matter how many trivia contests you've won, this book is sure to have some surprises for you.The fifty flicks featured here aren't playing at the local Google-Plex or renting at your video store. In here are dramas, sci-fi flicks, comedies, sequels, animated films, and biopics certain to stir the imagination! For the movie enthusiast, this book is a speculative joy, and for the aspiring filmmaker, it's a crash course in cinematic survival.. These films never actually made it to the big screen---they're the gems
Steven Bailey said A more accurate title would leave out the word "greatest". Did you ever see the Marx Brothers comedy A Day at the U.N.? How about the Roger Rabbit sequel where it turns out that Bugs Bunny is Roger's father? If you never saw these movies, don't worry--nobody else has, either. However, they are (or were) legitimate movie projects, well-chronicled in Chris Gore's book, The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made.The book lovingly details 50 films which never got beyond the planning stages for various reasons. Many of them involved heavy Hollywood hitters, f. A Customer said Wildly Uneven. Gore's book is a great idea done badly. The writing itself is breathless and opinionated (okay, for a book like this maybe you have to do a little of that -- operative word being 'little'). The reviews themselves have no consistency to them. One movie is described in detail and the reason for its not being made is a dismissive paragraph telling us that "things just didn't work out." Others give great detail on the reasons for the film not being made and only sketchy ideas about the conte. Jeffrey Ellis said An extra star for originality. Chris Gore's The 50 Greatest Movies Ever Made is wildly uneven, frequently enjoyable, occasionally insightful, and at times kinda annoying. It's also a pretty cool idea that was long overdue and if Gore's book doesn't quite take advantage of the full potential of his concept, its still an idea that was long overdue. Content-wise, this book would probably rate three stars (whatever that actually means) but it deserves that one extra star for being the first of its kind. Hopefully, should
Chris Gore has been called "a pit bull of journalism" and the "Gen-X Leonard Maltin." He founded Film Threat magazine in 1985 and the popular magazine gave him access to scores of unfinished, underground, and cult films. He lives in Los Angeles