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How Didn't This Get Made?

Comedy

A weekly trip to Development Hell to explore the history of film projects that never got made, with hosts Sol Harris and Conor Murray.

Location:

United States

Description:

A weekly trip to Development Hell to explore the history of film projects that never got made, with hosts Sol Harris and Conor Murray.

Language:

English


Episodes
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Yellow Couldhavebeen

10/19/2020
In the season one finale, Sol introduces Conor to Robert Zemeckis' aborted Yellow Submarine remake - truly a film that no one asked for.

Duration:00:40:41

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Nope-oleon

10/13/2020
Conor teaches Sol about Stanley Kubrick's failed attempt to create what he claims would have been "the greatest film ever made": a Napoleon biopic starring Jack Nicholson.

Duration:00:27:17

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Delay of the Dead

10/6/2020
Sol and Conor are taking on Never of the Dead - that is, attempts to create sequels to films from George A. Romero's seminal zombie franchise (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead), that never came to fruition.

Duration:00:47:36

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Kaleidnohope

9/29/2020
Conor tells Sol about Kaleidoscope, which is, despite never getting made, arguably Alfred Hitchcock's most infamous film.

Duration:00:23:15

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Spidefer-Man 2

9/22/2020
It turns out there have been so many spi-deferred and cancelled movie projects, they couldn't all fit into one episode. Sol picks up the mantle from last week, providing an account of Spider-Man movies that never happened, starting with the conclusion of the saga of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4 and followed by Sony's increasingly embarrassing attempts to compete with the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Duration:00:33:00

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Spidefer-Man

9/15/2020
People were trying to turn Spider-Man into a movie since the '80s. People like James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sol breaks down the many spi-deferred movie projects that have come, gone and, in some cases, may still happen.

Duration:00:32:00

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Hitherto Without Rama

9/8/2020
Conor and Sol explore Rendezvous with Rama, the long-gestating Arthur C. Clarke adaptation that was, at one point, set to star Morgan Freeman and be directed by David Fincher.

Duration:00:39:19