15 most interesting unreleased films

Not every script turns into a movie, and not every director's idea reaches the screen. Only a handful of people know about most of the unreleased paintings — their potential creators and, possibly, studio managers who refused to invest in the project. But some unreleased films are becoming so famous that hundreds of thousands and even millions of moviegoers are grieving because these projects have remained projects. What kind of movies are these? We remembered fifteen famous unreleased paintings that seem to us the most interesting.

"On eagle wings"

1. Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Alien 3"

2. Concept art for the film "Alien 3"

"Gladiator 2"

3. Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott on the set of the movie "Gladiator"

4. Sergey Eisenstein

The "Crusade"

5. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven on the set of the movie "Remember Everything"

"Heart of Darkness"

6. Orson Welles

7. "Napoleon" by Stanley Kubrick

"The Conquest of Mexico"

8. Werner Herzog

"Tourist"

9. Concept art for the film "Tourist"

10. Tradition prescribes Batman to be a millionaire and live in an estate, but who said that you should always follow tradition? Director Darren Aronofsky and comic book writer Frank Miller at the very end of the 1990s came up with a variation on the theme of "Batman", in which the title character, having lost his family fortune as a child, worked during the day in the workshop of the butler Alfred, who became an auto mechanic, and at night went out to fight criminals. With this approach to the character, Bruce Wayne was more like Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver and Rorschach from The Guardians than the intelligent Batman from Tim Burton's movie. The picture was supposed to be tough and as realistic as possible, in the spirit of police fighters of the 1970s. Christian Bale was supposed to play the main character, who just "lit up" in "American Psychopath". As we now know, the Warner studio hired Bale, but preferred a more comic-book-like and less gloomy scenario called "Batman: The Beginning."

11. Alfred Hitchcock

"Ridges of Madness"

12. Cover of the book "Ridges of Madness"

13. Alejandro Jodorowsky and Jean Giraud

"The Passion for Prince Myshkin"

14. Andrey Tarkovsky

"Leningrad: 900 days of blockade"

15. In 1982, the famous Italian director Sergio Leone was completing work on the epic gangster film "Once upon a Time in America" in the USA. At the same time, he read a documentary book by American journalist Harrison Salisbury (the first Moscow special correspondent of The New York Times newspaper after the end of the war) "900 days: The Siege of Leningrad" and caught fire with the idea of filming a military drama about the Leningrad blockade. To make the picture close to the Western viewer, the main character of the script was an American photojournalist who, before the war began, came to Leningrad and found himself locked up there by German troops. He could have been played by Robert de Niro. In 1989, Leone found $100 million for Leningrad and engaged in preliminary negotiations on filming. Unfortunately, the master died a few days before the signing of the final contract.