10 Movies That Were Filmed But Never Finished
The masterpieces that never were.
It's hard to ever imagine landmark movies such as Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho, Orson Welles Citizen Kane or Elia Kazans On The Waterfront (to name a few), missing from the cinematic timeline. But what of the many potential classics that never even made it to the screen? Cinema history has given birth to countless movies that were never allowed to come into fruition, or were otherwise delayed for an eye-wateringly long time.
Like George Sluizers Dark Blood, some films make compromises just so that it can see some form of release years down the line (twenty years on, the remnants of River Phoenix's final performance was cobbled together). However, in doing so, the film sacrifices its integrity and results in being only a loose representation of what great thing it was originally meant to be.
In a bid to bring awareness to unfinished gems that may well remain unfinished, here are ten movies that were firmly couched in the production process and had the potential to be something really magnificent, but for some reason or another amounted to nothing, with its ideas condemned to spend the rest of eternity in the great minds of those who coined them (in most cases, anyway).