Hollywood is a machine; once it gets going, there's absolutely no stopping it (with the odd exception), though if any one of us could have the power to influence Hollywood for just one day, you can bet that there's a bunch of projects we'd all unceremoniously shut down with immediate notice. Though Hollywood delivers its share of entertaining movies, it's also lambasted (and rightly so) for churning out lazy, derivative sequels that scrape the bottom of the creative barrel while crassly parting consumers with their cash. Sometimes movie sequels, reboots, remakes, and whatnot are worth it - some films are ostensibly crying out for a sequel, but others simply are not. They are nothing more than soulless cash grabs that help position popular cinema not as an entertainment product but as commodity to be shamelessly shilled at every errant opportunity. As a result, here are 10 proposed movies that need to be stopped...
10. Hercules
When It's Out: July 25th, 2014
Why It Needs To Be Stopped: Though the idea of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson playing Hercules sounds like a great idea - he's played a samey role in The Scorpion King anyway - and the idea to make it an adaptation of the two-part comic series (The Thracian Wars and The Knives of Kush) is no doubt a smart one, there's one big question mark hanging over the whole thing. What could that be? Of course, it's that Brett Ratner is directing, and we need only look as far as his widely maligned X-Men sequel The Last Stand to see how adept (or not) he is at adapting comic book material to the cinematic medium. Though Hercules benefits from not having the same rabid fanbase as X-Men, it still stands to reason that Ratner is not a particularly good director. Despite starring talented thesps like Ian McShane and John Hurt, there's still little hope for this one being good under Ratner's guidance.