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It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Julia Roberts was one of the dominant Hollywood stars for a good twenty-year period. From her breakout role in 1988’s Mystic Pizza, Roberts skyrocketed to the top of the A-list when she starred opposite Richard Gere in Garry Marshall’s Pretty Woman. An unlikely Cinderella story about an escort that falls in love with a high-powered executive, it’s a movie that is definitely a Hollywood fairytale, but one that a lot of people loved in 1990, with it being one of the year’s top-grossing movies. From there, Roberts made a string of hits, including Flatliners, The Pelican Brief, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Notting Hill and many more, but respect in more heavy vehicles eluded her. Movies like Mary Reilly and Michael Collins were embarrassing for how miscast she was, and for awhile, it looked like she would be stuck doing lightweight but highly profitable rom coms.

However, that changed in 2000 when she played the lead in Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich. Based on a true story, the movie finally won her the Academy Award that had long eluded her. It earned her serious cred, and her fame took on a whole new dimension, with roles in Oceans’ Eleven, Mona Lisa Smile and Eat Pray Love all big successes. Yet, as the business began to change, emphasizing tentpole movies, Roberts seemed to struggle more than contemporaries like Sandra Bullock to find her place. Eventually, she made a move into TV Prime Video’s Homecoming. Still, it’s notable how low-key the release of a show like Gaslit was despite the names involved. There was a time when Julia Roberts doing a TV series would have been an event. 

While Marvel fans got an incredible send-off for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in James Mangold's Logan, another Wolverine movie was planned a few years earlier that would've taken the character in an edgier direction. Indeed, Darren Aronofsky was all set to reunite with his The Fountain star Hugh Jackman for the second spin-off sequel for the character, The Wolverine. In the end, Aronofsky left the project, with James Mangold taking over. While the finished film wasn't particularly well-loved by fans, it did pave the way for Logan, with Mangold arguably taking the franchise into an even darker direction than Mangold would have. In this episode of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie, we look at Aronofsky's unmade Wolverine movie and try to figure out precisely what it might have been like. This episode is written by Bryan Wolford, edited by E.J. Tangonan, produced by Taylor James Johnson and narrated by Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh. 

I know what you’re thinking - WTF Happened to The Avengers? Nothing, it was one of the biggest hits ever. Not so fast - we’re not talking about the Marvel superhero team-up that shot the MCU into the stratosphere. Instead, we’re talking about 1998’s misbegotten remake of the classic British spy series, The Avengers.

On paper, this should have been a great movie. The Avengers was a classic British TV series starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg as super spy agents John Steed and Emma Peel. Their “will they or won’t they” chemistry influenced everything from Cheers to Moonlighting, and the show still runs daily in the UK. Given that the show was always considered the best Eurospy franchise outside of James Bond, it should have turned into a massive franchise for Warner Bros. The cast was next-level, with Uma Thurman playing Emma Peel, Ralph Fiennes as John Steed, and James Bond himself, Sean Connery, as the main villain, Sir August de Wynter. So what went wrong? Just about everything, as we’ll dig into in this episode of WTF Happened to this Movie.

For one thing, the finished version of the film clocked in at 89 minutes, about a half hour shorter than intended. Director Jeremiah Chechik found himself saddled with a finished film that didn’t make a lick of sense. Given the issues with the cut, instead of being a summer blockbuster, it was dumped to the same late-summer dumping ground we find ourselves in right now (there’s a reason nothing really opens until after Labor Day). So dig in and check out this tale of the spy franchise that wasn’t.
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When Night of the Living Dead released in 1968, it spawned two very different zombie series. First, was director George A. Romero's Dead franchise, which continued with Dawn, Day and Land (amongst others we won't mention here out fear of them being remembered). Then the other writer of Night, John Russo, had a series of his own that would fall under the Living Dead moniker. While his involvement lessened by the time the movie was actually made, we were left with an insane comedy/horror hybrid. So join us today as we cover The Return of the Living Dead.

For our money, Whoopi Goldberg ranks as one of the greatest actresses of her generation. If you were born after a certain date, you might most know her as a host on The View, but she was breaking down walls and winning Oscars long before that. Her list of credits inspires awe. There’s Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple, Ghost (she won the Oscar for that one), Sister Act, which was so good that it got a sequel, Jumping Jack Flash, and many more. Heck, she even made a more than credible action hero in the badass eighties flick Fatal Beauty. At the height of her fame, she made a risky move by going to TV and recurring on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Guinan, but she was a fan of the franchise and didn’t care that she could get pigeonholed as a TV actress.

Indeed, Whoopi was the best, and it’s a shame that she’s gotten fewer significant roles in movies in recent years, although she’s reprising Guinan on Star Trek: Picard, and there are rumours of a Sister Act sequel happening on Disney Plus. Time will tell, but in the episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity, we celebrate a talent that’s not one to shy away from controversy (a massive understatement if you watch The View) but remains an impeccable actress (even if she did do Theodore Rex); 

John Carpenter’s Escape from New York (1981) is the movie that made Kurt Russell a badass. Going into this film, Russell was best known for a run of Disney films, such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, The World’s Strongest Man and more. However, all of that changed in 1979 when Russell teamed up with Carpenter to do 1979’s Elvis, a T.V. biopic that earned rave reviews and a theatrical run overseas. Carpenter, who was looking to launch an all-new action hero named Snake Plissken in his film Escape from New York, was eager to retest with Russell for what would be a career-changing role for the young actor.

Alas, the studio was far from convinced that Russell, who they viewed as lightweight, would be right to play Carpenter’s one-eyed anti-hero, with them preferring choices such as Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones, but Carpenter would not be swayed. The result was a cult classic that paved the way for one of the screen’s best actor-director collaborations, with Russell/Carpenter famously re-teaming on The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, and 1996’s Escape from New York sequel, Escape from L.A. In this instalment of WTF Happened to this Movie, we dig into the roots of Snake Plissken and what Carpenter had to go through to get his preferred leading man cast in the role that would make him a star.

It was the late 1990s, horror remakes were gaining steam, and horror films, in general, were making bank at the box office. Along came Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company whose initial goal was remaking the horror films of William Castle. So today on WTF Happened To This Horror Movie, we delve into House On Haunted Hill.

To say Colin Farrell’s career has been unique is an understatement. He was famously discovered by Joel Schumacher, who cast him in 2000’s Tigerland; his good looks landed him a place at the top of Hollywood’s A-list, starring in Minority Report, S.W.A.T, The Recruit and more. But, it was his acting that made him a favorite of directors like Michael Mann (Miami Vice), Terrence Malick (The New World), Oliver Stone (Alexander), Woody Allen (Cassandra’s Dream) and more. As far as his stardom went, the only issue was that these movies were expensive but not terribly successful at the box office. Thus, for a few years, Farrell took on a couple of dubiously commercial films, such as the disastrous Total Recall remake, that didn’t work.

However, when he was making those movies, he also starred in Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges, which was perhaps his best role to date, and people took notice. So even if he looks like a heartthrob, he has the skill and range of a character actor, and it's in this role that he’s excelled in the last few years, starring in great movies like The Lobster, The Killing of the Sacred Deer, Widows, The Gentlemen, After Yang and, of course, The Batman, where he plays The Penguin. Join us as we take a closer look at his career in this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity.

Paul Verhoeven’s Robocop (1987) is one of the greatest films of the 1980s. You may be wondering why we’re covering it on WTF, but the fact is, as good as the finished product ended up being, the production itself was a complicated one, with too many great stories from the set not to share. In this episode, we dig into star Peter Weller’s experience inside the (very uncomfortable Robocop suit), some near misses with casting. Rutger Hauer, Michael Ironside and many others were considered to play Alex Murphy. At the same time, Remington Steele star Stephanie Zimbalist was set to play Officer Lewis, only to lose the gig when Remington Steele came back for another season (the same thing that cost Pierce Brosnan his first shot at 007). Then there were Verhoeven’s many battles with the MPAA, with the film slapped with an X-rating initially due to the darkly comedic ED-209 sequence, as well as Alex Murphy’s ultra-violent demise. The movie was cut to an R, although nowadays, the “unrated version” is readily available in all of its glory.

Today we find out what happens when a filmmaker best known for comedy decides to delve into darker territory with writer/director Kevin Smith's 2011 film Red State!

With Brendan Fraser back in the limelight following his Oscar win for The Whale, many are hoping that the beloved actor returns for one final instalment of the franchise that made him a star, The Mummy. Indeed, there were plans many years ago for a fourth film, which was to be called The Mummy: Rise of the Aztec, but those plans quickly evaporated when The Mummy: Tomb of the Golden Emperor, flopped at the box office. The film, had it happened, might have starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as the titular Mummy, and likely would have been direct dby the third film’s Rob Cohen. In this instalment of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie, which is written by Brian Accardo, narrated by Bronwyn Kelly, and edited by John Nguyen, we dig into this never-realized epic. We also ask whether or not a new Mummy movie, which preferably would see Rachel Weisz return (after being replaced by Maria Bello for the third film) along with original director Stephen Sommers, could ever happen.

In 1991, young Edward Furlong was on top of the world. Making a big splash as John Connor opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger & Linda Hamilton in James Cameron's TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY, for a few years he was everywhere, starring opposite Jeff Bridges in American Heart, leading Pet Sematary II and even cutting an album (for real). However, after a promising move into leading roles as an older teen/young adult with John Waters' Pecker and American History X, his career cooled, and he became more known for his personal problems than his acting. So what exactly happened to Furlong, and could he ever make a big-screen return? We unpack his life and career in this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity. 

Matt Reeves’s gritty take on The Batman is currently cleaning up at the box office, with critics and audiences praising the director and star Robert Pattinson’s new approach to the Caped Crusader. It’s worth mentioning, though, that even before the franchise was ultra-successfully rebooted by Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale, there were many other proposed Batman films pitched at Warner Bros in the wake of Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin. One that got close to happening was Darren Aronofsky’s Batman: Year One, based on the comic by Frank Miller.

Had the movie happened, Joaquin Phoenix and Christian Bale were on Aronofsky’s list to play the role, and this movie came pretty close to happening. In this episode of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie, we take a look at this project, as well as a lot of other Unmade Batman movies, including a direct sequel to Batman & Robin and even a reboot starring Clint Eastwood in the role as a grizzled, older Dark Knight.

Most of us know Cursed as the terrible Wes Craven Werewolf movie, right? This film's troubled production dragged out for years and resulted in an entirely different movie in the end. But what about that first cut? The one that featured Skeet Ulrich, Robert Forster, and Mandy Moore. So join us as we take a look at the original cut of 2005's Cursed.

Eraserhead is not a horror movie in the classic sense of the term, but this dark, surreal trip into an industrial landscape and the existential horror found within provided plenty of nightmare fuel for generations of movie fans since its release in 1977. So with the inevitable ball-busting comments out of the way, let's get into the wild mind of Mr. David Lynch with his debut film.

For a time in the 2000s, Ben Stiller dominated big-screen comedy. As a charter member of the "Frat Pack," along with people such as Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Will Ferrell, Stiller had an incredible string of blockbuster hits, including Zoolander, Starsky & Hutch, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Meet the Parents, and the Night at the Museum franchise. In recent years, Stiller's stepped away from comedy, moving behind the camera to helm acclaimed limited series such as Escape at Dannemora & Severance. In this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity, we take a look at his career, from his early days on The Ben Stiller Show, through his breakout in There's Something About Mary and beyond. 

In the late eighties, the rise of video games took the entertainment industry by storm. Suddenly, they were losing money at the box office because kids stayed home and played their Nintendo. So what was a studio to do? The obvious answer, or so it seemed, was to take some of these popular video game characters and make them into movies. Alas, that was easier said than done, with the earliest examples, 1993's Super Mario Bros and 1994's Double Dragon, being massive flops. Suddenly the term "video game movie" became toxic - UNTIL New Line Cinema made Mortal Kombat in 1995. Taking all the elements people loved about the game, meaning the mythology and the fighting, and turning it into a legit martial arts adventure, the film was a major success for the studio. It helped put its talented young director, Paul W.S. Anderson, on the map. While it had a TERRIBLE sequel, the original stands out as one of the best video game-to-movie adaptations ever. In this episode of WTF Happened to this Movie, we get into how it came to be and its lasting legacy. 

Jessica Biel is often underrated. While she never quite broke onto the A-list in the way she seemed poised to about a decade ago, on the small screen, she's been doing some incredible acting, with her role on The Sinner a particular highlight. In this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity, we take a look at Biel's career, from her early days on 7th Heaven to becoming something of a sex symbol in movies like The Rules of Attraction, the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Blade Trinity. She then turned up in a ton of big-budget action movies, including The A-Team and the misbegotten Total Recall remake that seemed to cool her progress, only for her to become wildly in demand on the small screen, where she's considered a top talent. 

This week sees the release of DC and Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which is getting some of the best reviews ever gotten by a superhero film. Indeed, the genre has become dominant, with it seemingly being propelled to new heights with each new entry. But, there was a time, in the years following 2000’s X-Men and 2002’s Spider-Man, and before 2005’s Batman Begins, that Hollywood wasn’t quite sure how to properly mount a superhero movie. Nowhere was this more evident than in 2004’s misbegotten Catwoman. 

In a lot of ways, Catwoman should have been a hit. It had Halle Berry at the height of her fame as the star. She had just won an Oscar and helped propel the 007 film. Die Another Day, to record-breaking box office for the franchise. It had a director, Pitof, who many thought was a visionary following his French breakout Vidocq. Alas, things did not work out for this would-be franchise started, which opened to disastrous box office, even worse reviews and swept the Razzies, with Berry’s opinion of the film so low she showed up to access her “award” in person. WTF happened to Catwoman? Plenty - as you’ll see in this special episode of WTF Happened to this Movie.

When Sleepaway Camp II went into production, the producers felt so good about how it was going that they announced that they would film part three as soon as it wrapped. That means Sleepaway Camp III had to be written, cast, and set up while part two was still shooting. So knowing that, let's find out what exactly went down with Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland here on WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?

There was a time in the early 2000s when it looked like Rob Schneider was going to be the next Adam Sandler. A fellow Saturday Night Live vet, Schneider stole scenes in a few Happy Madison comedies, particularly The Waterboy (“you can do it!”) and his solo star vehicle debut, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, was a smash, raking in over 90 million dollars worldwide. His follow-ups, including The Animal, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, The Benchwarmers and The Hot Chick (where he memorably switched bodies with Rachel McAdams), were critically savaged but still made money. Yet, the budgets got smaller. So he gradually started making his way to the DTV market while still appearing in the occasional Sandler flick, usually under heavy makeup and often portraying another ethnicity. 

So what happened? Did Schneider’s politics or style of comedy relegate him to a smaller audience? We take a look at his career in this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity, which shows that perhaps the notion of Schneider’s decline is overblown, as the guy is still incredibly busy and undoubtedly a beloved MVP of Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison ensemble.
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For many of us, 1993’s Tombstone remains the definitive Wyatt Earp movie. The film had a tortured production history, which included the sacking of the original director Kevin Jarre and Kurt Russell’s controversial claim that it was him, not credited director George Pan Cosmatos who called the shots on the finished film. Still, we already dug into that in another episode of WTF. In this one, we’re going to look at the history that inspired the film, namely Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, the Clanton’s and the iconic gunfight at the O.K Corral. Screenwriter Kevin Jarre took some huge liberties with this one in order to craft an action-packed western that could stand shoulder to shoulder with the big-budget action flicks of the time, but what in the movie was his invention, and what was real? We dig into it in this special episode of WTF Really Happened to this Movie!

Suave horror. That's a term I made up to describe some of my favorite characters and actors in the history of horror films. Guys like Vincent Price epitomized the term. It's a select group of actors who are able to bring a level of class and sophistication to movies with the way they talk, act, and simply ooze charisma. A few modern actors can claim that moniker of suave horror, but one of my favorites is the subject of today's What in The Horror Happened To episode. So Let's delve into the midnight dreary to find out What In The Horror Happened To Jeffrey Combs.

The sequences of a Final Destination film will play through your head over and over long after the film ends. They're visceral and have a certain quality that really allows you to put yourself in the situation. So by the time the third entry came along, they had to up the ante to really shock audiences. Heck, the second outing had a legendary highway sequence. How could they possibly top that? We'll see if they managed it as we cover the rollercoaster mayhem of Final Destination 3.

There have been prevailing rumors over the years that Kevin Williamson had to completely rewrite the ending of Scream 2 after a script leak, early into production. This mythical story is easy to get lost in, as the idea of different killers in a Scream movie is just about as exciting as can be. So let's take a look at who would have been the killers and what would have been different as we look at the alternate version of Scream 2.

One of the most controversial directors to emerge from the 1980s is definitely Oliver Stone. A Vietnam vet with a strong political bent, he first plied his trade as a screenwriter on movies such as 1978’s Midnight Express, 1983’s Scarface and 1985’s Year of the Dragon, before moving into directing with two masterpieces that came out within months of each other, the James Woods fact-based thriller Salvador (1986) and the stone-cold Vietnam classic Platoon. 

From there, his career kicked into high gear, with him known for casting a critical eye at some of the most controversial events and personalities of modern times. His best movies include 1988’s Wall Street (which won an Oscar for star Michael Douglas), 1989’s Born of the Fourth of July (which proved to people just how outstanding an actor Tom Cruise could be), 1991’s The Doors and JFK (still perhaps his most controversial film), 1994’s Natural Born Killers, 1999’s Any Given Sunday and many, many more. 

While his output has slowed in recent years, Stone’s as prolific as ever; he’s just turned his attention to documentaries such as The Putin Interviews and JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. Join us as we take a deep dive into his remarkable career on this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity.

Danny DeVito’s pitch black children’s TV satire Death to Smoochy was one of the biggest financial flops of 2002. The film only grossed $8.3 million on a $50 million budget for Warner Bros, despite the presence of Robin Williams and Edward Norton in the leads, as disgraced host Rainbow Randolph and Smoochy the Rhino, respectively. Critics savaged the film, and co-star Jon Stewart has not stopped apologizing for it in the years since its release. The thing is, though, Death to Smoochy isn’t a bad movie. In fact, it’s kind of great, and we dig into this much-maligned satire on this week’s episode of WTF Happened to this Movie!

There have been plenty of unmade sequels out there that would have likely been better than the sequels we DID get. From Elm Street to Halloween, the lesser idea has won out time and time again. And you would think that the return of the original screenwriter would result in absolute gold. But what we got instead was anything but, so join us as we dive into Bernard Rose's Candyman: The Midnight Meat Train.

The ending of Halloween 4 teased young Jamie Lloyd taking on the mantle of The Shape from her Uncle Mike. But that's not the movie we received the following year when Halloween 5 released. So what happened to prevent us to get a movie about an evil Jamie? Well we're diving into all of it today as we take a look at Halloween 5: The Killer Inside Me.

Combining horror and film noir wasn't something audiences were used to seeing in the 90's. The elevator pitch here could be: “The Exorcist meets Chinatown,” and it would follow a hard-boiled private detective into the rarely seen underworld of magic and illusion. That's right, today, we're taking a look at Clive Barker's Lord Of Illusions!

It’s safe to say that since Disney bought the rights to Star Wars from Lucasfilm, the road toward producing a series of Star Wars films that would appeal to generations old and young has been bumpy. Tales of behind-the-scenes turmoil plagued Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but the most infamous project remains Lord and Miller’s Solo. The film, which was to be a Han Solo origin tale, was to be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, two talented directors famed for their 21 Jump Street reboots and their creative animated films like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Lifelong Star Wars fans, they seemed like the ideal choices to helm the film, but the two were shockingly fired from the movie after four and a half months of shooting.

Why were Lord and Miller fired from Solo? The rumour was that their version of the film was too light, with them departing from the script by Jonathan and Lawrence Kasdan. There were also concerns about lead Alden Ehrenreich’s performance, with him having the unenviable task of replacing Harrison Ford as the title character. Whatever the case, Lucasfilm and Disney were nervous enough that Lord and Miller were unceremoniously dismissed and replaced by Ron Howard. A legendary director in his own right, who memorably made Willow for Lucasfilm, Howard came into the project with a few strikes against him, as folks resented a Hollywood establishment figure taking over for two young up-and-comers. Howard did his best to make a good Star Wars movie, but the film was a notable flop in the end. The worldwide gross was good, but with reshoots factored in, the film cost so much money it ended up losing tens of millions. To add insult to injury, Lord and Miller went on to be involved with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which earned raves as an instant classic. Who knows how good (or bad) their version of Solo might have been?

In this episode of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie, which is written by Brian Accardo, edited by Paul Cooper, and narrated by Bronwyn Kelly, we take a deep dive into what went wrong on Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Josh Hartnett was the biggest heartthrob of the late nineties. Bursting onto the scene in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty, his status was reaffirmed by Halloween H20 and Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides. However, his career hit its stride in the early 2000s when he became a leading man in movies like Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and more. Yet, towards the middle of the decade, his career started to cool after a string of flops. He disappeared from the scene for a few years, only to return in the cult series Penny Dreadful. Recently, he's seemed on the cusp of a significant comeback following a scene-stealing turn in Guy Ritchie's Wrath of Man, with him set to star in the follow-up, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, while he's also in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. Join us in this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity as we dig into his surprisingly epic career. 

For a film that somehow pulled off simultaneously paying homage to multiple genres, Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL was unable to pull off being a film without production difficulties and controversies. Yet, whatever issues they had behind the scenes, no one can deny the brilliance of Tarantino's movie, with Uma Thurman iconic as The Bride, with ace backup from genre stalwarts like Gordon Liu, Sonny Chiba, and the amazing David Carradine as Bill himself. And once the drama behind the scenes was in the rear view, the whole bloody affair ended up being split into two films - for this video however, we cover the entirety of the saga! So sit back, wiggle your big toe, and find out "WTF Happened to KILL BILL (2003)?" 

Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Michael Myers, and Pinhead. These icons of the modern age of horror have become their own mythology. They seem to have been around forever, and each of them has something that has kept them alive and kicking (well sort of) for decades for horror movie fans. Over the last few years, we’ve seen that very thing happen thanks to a very creepy clown in a very tiny hat. David Howard Thornton took over the role of Art The Clown in the feature film Terrifier and has since built himself into one of the new favorites of the horror landscape. And we’re going to do so with the man himself because, as it turns out…as silent as Art is, the man behind the clown loves to talk.  

They say, "In space, no one can hear you scream." But we've seen through eight Alien films that plenty of people can hear you scream if you're in a spaceship. The Xenomorphs have no problem causing their victims a lot of pain. Even though we've seen them in many films, fans will mostly agree that after Aliens, the franchise was never the same. 

In 2015, filmmaker Neill Blomkamp announced he had been working on a new Alien project. This was even a surprise to Fox, which owned the series. Fans seemed excited by the prospect of the director taking on the project after the imaginative sci-fi films he had been releasing. Ultimately, Neil Blomkamp's Alien 5 would fall apart after some starts and stops. Let's find out exactly why here on What Happened To This Unmade Movie

Not all musicians turned filmmakers can make a successful horror film, but some manage to create a truly disturbing piece of cinematic art that eventually become cult films. One such film is 2003 House of 1000 Corpses by Rob Zombie, yet shot in 2000. So what made the original studio unhappy to the point of not wanting to release it? You know the drill. Let's find out on this episode of WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?

If you're a hardcore Quentin Tarantino fan, you'll know that Michael Madsen's sadistic Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs and John Travolta's Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction are brothers. Despite both characters dying in their respective films, Quentin Tarantino toyed with the idea of spinning the characters off into a prequel movie for many years. Eventually, Travolta and Madsen likely aged out of the idea, given that they would have had to convincingly play younger than they did in Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Still, the notion of a Vega Brothers movie is interesting. 

In this episode of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie, which is written by Bryan Wolford, narrated by Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh, edited by Paul Cooper and produced by Taylor James Johnson, we dig into the movie that never was. We try to determine how far along Tarantino got in the process while considering what the film might have been like. Would it have ended with Vincent hooking up with Samuel L. Jackson's Jules Winnfield and going to work for Marsellus Wallace? Would the more sadistic Vic have ended up at odds with the nicer Vincent? These are interesting questions to ponder, even if a Vega Brothers movie is impossible now unless QT recasts the roles. Given that he's sworn only to direct one more movie, this project ever happening seems highly improbable, but it's fun to think about.

Banderas has had his ups and downs at the box office in the years since. The Legend of Zorro proved to be an underwhelming sequel, while his follow-up to Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, got a mixed reaction from fans. After that, he had starring roles in the Spy Kids franchise, which demonstrated a flair for comedy, and had a major success voicing Puss in Boots in the Shrek franchise. However, by the 2010s, he was mainly doing DTV action flicks, although some of them, such as the underrated Automata, were actually pretty good. He seems poised for a comeback recently, earning raves and an Academy Award nomination for his role in Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory. In addition, he’ll be acting in the fifth Indiana Jones movie opposite Harrison Ford. Join us as we revisit his career in this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity!

2010 was a year that saw many attempts at entries into the superhero/comic book genre. Some have withstood the test of time, and some, well, failed miserably. But one film to come out of that year has only grown in popularity over the last decade, that being Edgar Wright's SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD. Despite how it's seen today, in 2010 the film was a box office bomb. Let's crank up the bass, and find out "WTF Happened to SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (2010)?"

Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Michael Myers, and Pinhead. These icons of the modern age of horror have become their own mythology. They seem to have been around forever, and each of them has something that has kept them alive and kicking (well sort of) for decades for horror movie fans. Over the last few years, we’ve seen that very thing happen thanks to a very creepy clown in a very tiny hat. David Howard Thornton took over the role of Art The Clown in the feature film Terrifier and has since built himself into one of the new favorites of the horror landscape. And we’re going to do so with the man himself because, as it turns out…as silent as Art is, the man behind the clown loves to talk.  

After Freddy vs Jason released in 2003, fans eagerly awaited more versus films featuring other famous horror icons. But what they don't know is just how close we were to a John Carpenter directed and Clive Barker written film, featuring the two of the biggest villains in horror clashing with each other. I'm of course talking about Michael vs Pinhead.

Overall, The Mist was not as big of a critical hit or fan favorite as some might have expected it to be, but it did quite well at the box office, and fans of it are still very much enthused with it. For those who didn’t like it originally, a re-watch may be in order, perhaps in black and white, to see it with new eyes and a new angle, given the changes that have happened in the world since 2007. Today we discuss The Mist, directed by Frank Darabont on this episode of WTF Happened To This Horror Movie?

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Ok, so technically, we’re cheating a bit as the Batgirl movie starring Leslie Grace isn’t technically “unmade.” In fact, the movie was pretty close to complete, with only the VFX and score needed, although reshoots and more were scheduled before the film could have been ever really called complete. Yet, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s movie was scrapped and in this episode of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie; we try to give our audience an idea of…well…WTF happened, along with a look at different versions of the movie that could have gotten made in the past. 

Indeed, at one time, there were plans to spin Batman and Robin’s Batgirl, Alicia Silverstone, into her own film, which fell apart after that movie’s disastrous reception. There was also a Joss Whedon version of the property, which came pretty close to happening, but in the end, the focus remains on the Batgirl movie that was made…and then unmade. All this, despite the presence of Michael Keaton as the O.G Batman, J.K. Simmons reprising his role as Commissioner Gordon, plus comeback kid Brendan Fraser as the villain, Firefly, and more. It’s a sad saga we dig into in this week’s episode of WTF Happened to this Unmade Movie, written by Bryan Wolford, edited by E.J. Tangonan, and narrated by Bronwyn Kelly-Seigh. Taylor James Johnson is the producer. Do you think the unreleased Batgirl movie has any shot at all of being released? Let us know in the comments!

Naomi Watts is widely considered one of the best actresses of her generation. Born in England but raised in Australia, Watts is a contemporary of close friend Nicole Kidman and made her American debut in the cult film Tank Girl. She broke out after starring in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, which began life as a TV pilot before being reshot and re-edited into one of the most acclaimed films of the 2000s. From there, stardom was a given, with her becoming extremely bankable after playing the lead in Gore Verbinski’s The Ring and the sequel, The Ring 2.

Many widely acclaimed roles followed, with her starring in Peter Jackson’s mega-budget remake of King Kong (2005). She also starred in David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, Birdman, St. Vincent, and J. A Bayona’s underseen The Impossible, which proved to be a breakout role for a young Tom Holland.

However, in recent years Watts’ big-screen output has become lower-key, with her seemingly opting to focus on TV (her series Gypsy lasted a single season on Netflix), with her initially set to star in HBO’s abandoned Game of Thrones prequel. She’s kept busy making smaller films, such as Philip Noyce’s Lakewood, Luce and This is the Night, as well as a turn in Joe Carnahan’s Boss Level, but we here at JoBlo Originals think Watts is one of the best in the business and should be treated as the icon she is. 

After THE MATRIX trilogy (when it was still a trilogy), the Wachowskis could make pretty much anything. And what they chose was a big-screen live-action adaptation of the cult 1960s anime show SPEED RACER. The directors would continue pushing the boundaries of digital technology with dizzying races, eyeball-bursting colors and unconventional creative decisions, but the costly effort failed to resonate with critics or moviegoers, and crashed and burned at the box office. Rev up your engine and find out "WTF Happened to SPEED RACER (2008)?"

Megan Fox was the “It Girl” of the second half of the 2000s. When she showed up as the love interest in Michael Bay’s Transformers, she quickly became one of the most desired women on the planet, but Hollywood didn’t quite seem sure what to do with her for the longest time. While Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was a hit, she was famously written out of the third film. Her roles in movies like Jonah Hex fell flat, while her big star vehicle, Jennifer’s Body, was a flop - albeit one that’s been reappraised recently. 

While a lot was made over the fact that she compared her Transformers director, Michael Bay, to Hitler, there seems to be no love lost between the two, with him casting her in his two big-budget Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies as April O’Neil. They failed to launch an enduring franchise, and now Fox is mainly known for the notoriety of her relationship with Machine Gun Kelly. But, and here’s the kicker - while her low-budget movies haven’t been particularly well-received, her acting in them has often been quite good, surprising critics that otherwise pan the movies. With a prominent role opposite Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham in The Expendables 4 (aka Expend4bles), could a legit comeback be on the horizon? We dig into it in this episode of WTF Happened to this Celebrity, written and narrated by Taylor James Johnson and edited by Juan Jimenez. 

George A Romero is the godfather of all things zombie. He created what we know when we think of the standard, shambling zombie. So when The Walking Dead took the world by storm, the horror world turned to Romero to see if he'd return to the subgenre he helped to create. But with George's passing we never received his final opus. So join us today, as we cover the zombie film he was never able to make, with George A. Romero's Road of the Dead.

Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock had almost fifty films to his name when he decided to take on an adaptation of a Robert Bloch novel that was inspired by a grisly true crime story. The studio didn’t want him to make the movie. He was warned against it, told the subject matter was in poor taste. So he financed it with his own money. The result: the most popular and financially successful film of his already impressive career. The film was PSYCHO, and we’re going to find out WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?

Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Predator, the first (and best) Jack Ryan film, The Hunt for Red October, and Last Action Hero, which a lot of people hate but is a cult classic around these parts.

His career continued going strong in the nineties, with Die Hard With A Vengeance and The Thomas Crown Affair. Still, bad experiences of The 13th Warrior and Rollerball led to a cooling period. Even worse, he wound up in jail due to a long, convoluted story which we dig into here. So will McTiernan ever make a comeback? Join us on WTF Happened to John McTiernan, written by Taylor James Johnson & Brad Hamerly, and narrated, produced and edited by Taylor James Johnson.