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Steven Spielberg's "Night Skies", Stanley Kubrick's "Childhood's End", Philip Kaufman's "Star Trek: Planet of the Titans", Kevin Smith's "Six Million Dollar Man", Tim Burton's "Superman Lives", James Cameron's "Alien 5"...These are just some of the legendary unmade films covered in this groundbreaking book. This fully updated edition also reveals the fascinating details of the movies that nearly were: what would James Cameron's version of "Spider-Man", or Terry Gilliam's "Watchmen" have been like? How close did Ridley Scott come to directing "I Am Legend" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and why was Nicolas Cage paid $20 million for not playing Superman?
Contents
Foreword by HR Giger
Introduction
01 Destination Hell
How Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination Took a Jaunt to Hollywood
02 A Difficult Childhood
The Unmanifested Destiny of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End
03 Where No One Has Gone Before
Philip Kaufman's Star Trek: Planet of the Titans and Other Star Trek Voyages Never Taken
04 Close, But No Cigar-Shaped Object
How the Evil Aliens of Steven Spielberg's Night Skies Were Replaced By a Very Different Extra-Terrestrial
05 The Tourist Trap
How The Tourist Got Lost in 'Development Hell'
06 Profits Of Dune
Unrealised Visions of Frank Herbert's Seminal Science Fiction Fable
07 Twin Freaks
Sci-Fi From Another Place: David Lynch's Ronnie Rocket and One Saliva Bubble
08 Alienated
In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream. In Hollywood, They Can Hear You - They Just Don't Take Any Notice
09 Lights, Camera, No "Action!"
Even the Self-Styled "King of the World" Couldn't Untangle Spider-Man's Web
10 This Is Legend
How I Am Legend Rose From the Dead
11 Who Watches The Watchmen?
How the Greatest Graphic Novel of Them All Almost Confounded Hollywood
12 Fantastic Journey
Why Getting The Fantastic Four to the Big Screen Proved a Real Stretch for Hollywood
13 The Silver Screen
Silver Surfer Goes to Tinsel Town
14 The Death Of Superman Lives
Why It Took Twenty Years, Nine Writers, Four Directors and Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Make Superman Return
15 The Six Billion Dollar Movie
The Bionic Man Almost Gets a Big Screen Makeover
16 Don't Panic
Twenty-Five Years of the Making of the Movie of the Book of the Radio Show of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
17 Thunderbird's Aren't Go
Why the Live Action Thunderbirds Movie Came With Strings Attached
18 Lost In Space
How Dead Star Disappeared Into a Black Hole, Only to Re-Emerge as Supernova
19 Island Of Lost Souls
The Strange and Terrible Story Behind Richard Stanley's The Island of Dr Moreau
20 No Limits
How a Movie Version of the Classic Sci-Fi Show The Outer Limits Proved Beyond the Limits of MGM
21 Get Carter!
John Carter of Mars' Century-Long Journey to the Big Screen
Afterword by Harry Knowles
Acknowledgements and Index of Quotations
Selected Bibliography
Index of Names and Film Titles
