10 Cancelled Movies (That SECRETLY Lived On)

2. Masters Of The Universe 2

The Film

As anyone who watched and loved the original Masters Of The Universe unironically (come on, there must be SOMEONE?!) will tell you, the ending teased a sequel that never materialised and Hollywood has tried to make a new version for decades now.

But there was originally supposed to be a sequel following up on that stinger. Cannon Films had planned to make it while also making Spider-Man, but the studio then ran into money problems (the realisation that they had none) because Masters Of The Universe flopped at the box office.

The plan for the sequel would have seen Skeletor return after saying he would "be back" at the end of the first movie.

How It Lived On

Despite the fact that anyone with half a brain could have seen that Masters Of The Universe was never going to be any good, Cannon ploughed on with a sequel and spent a whopping $2m on pre-production (sets and costumes mostly). So, rather than wasting that money, they just made another film instead, reworking the script and reusing what they'd done so far.

The result was Cyborg, which starred Jean-Claude Van Damme and which was written in just one weekend. In similarly tight-fisted fashion, the film was made for an additional $500k over just 23 days. Remarkably, it made around $10m at the box office and inspired two sequels, so the decision not to scrap Masters Of the Universe 2 entirely proved inspired.