For Instance, I just read on Wikpedia (so take it with a grain of salt) that Tommy ‘The Room’ Wiseau wanted to direct the sequel to the 2015 Fantastic Four movie…
We dodged a real bullet there, I’d say
Dr Doom: “Oh Hai richards!”
A.J. “A Jerk” (the The Creeping Terror guy) getting to direct… well, anything more, really.
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Can we include dodged bullets that would have made a good/OK movie into a bad one?
George Lucas wanted American Graffiti to be the entire night in real time. Like, 6 or 8 hours.
Peter Jackson wanted a climactic scene in The Return of the King where Aragorn would fight Sauron hand-to-hand outside the Black Gate of Mordor.
In Return of the Jedi, Lucas (again) wanted Vader to yell “NOOOOO” as he pulled the Emperor off his son, like a character in a lame Saturday morning cartoon.
Oh, wait. He went back and did that one after he got big enough that nobody could say no to him.
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Joss Whedon doing Wonder Woman. Enough said.
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Yes sure, I was originally going to include that anyway
Also didn’t Lucas hate when Harrison Ford improv’d the “I know” line?
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Don’t you mean, nobody could say “NOOOOOOOOO!” to him?
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I think Shirley Temple in The Wizard Of Oz would’ve rendered the film unwatchable. Because even as a little kid myself, I couldn’t stand Shirley Temple.
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I liked Little Vicki better.
Tappa - Tappa - Tappa
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We really dodged a bullet with The Hobbit, the studio wanted to stretch that thing to 3 movies!
(Please let me live in this denial)
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Oh wow, thanks for reminding me about that mess!
They shot the scene, a lot of footage got recycled into the film’s climatic fight against The troll and The Mouth.
So it wasn’t wasted film!