10 Promising Movies Cancelled For Bizarre Reasons

10. The LAPD Might Have Played A Role In City Of Lies Being Shelved

While it is not unusual for a film to being shelved during pre-production, it is almost unheard of for a film to be cancelled after filming has finished and over $50 million has been ploughed into the project. However, this was the fate of Brad Furman's Johnny Depp-starring City of Lies.

The film, based on Randall Sullivan’s book LAbyrinth, was set to be a gritty look at the conspiracies surrounding the real-life murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.

Despite being slated for release in May 2018, the film was initially pushed back to September for unknown reasons. This was then extended to an 'indefinite' period, reportedly due to an ongoing lawsuit between Depp and the film's location manager after an on-set scuffle.

However, Furman has since come out to explain that there may have been some darker forces behind the film's cancellation after multiple sources close to the case warned him not to make the film.

He also claimed a former police officer contacted him to advise him to “get a burner phone and to cover the camera on his computer so no one could hijack his laptop and figure out a way to frame him”.

Even as of mid-2019, there is still no news on if the film will ever be released, with the film having so far only been shown out of competition at an Italian film festival.