10 Finished Movies That Disappeared Without A Trace

In the year of Ghostbusters a sci-fi comedy featuring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd would seem like a pretty sure thing. But this film from original Saturday Night Live writer-director Tom Schiller was completed and then buried by studio MGM after just one preview screening in 1984.

The monochrome oddball dystopian romance starred Gremlins lead Zach Galligan as an aspiring artist working as a night watchman in a bleak New York run for some reason by the Port Authority. Then he takes a bus trip to the moon to find his true love, tangling with Murray as the antagonistic bus conductor.

Nothing Lasts Forever was a troubled production from the start. A significant role had been written for John Belushi, who died shortly prior to filming, casting a shadow over the production and its cast of his former SNL co-stars and friends.

With a poorly received preview screening and MGM still suffering financially from the enormous box office disaster of Heaven's Gate a couple of years earlier, the film's release was postponed indefinitely.

It has aired on TV a couple of times and picked up a cult following in occasional festival screenings, but don't expect an official home media release any time soon.

Warner Bros, who own all of MGM's old back catalogue, have denied the possibility of ever putting out a home media version of Nothing Lasts Forever for unspecified "legal issues", which probably relate to the fact that the movie is full of clips from older features that they don't have the rights to use.