10 Insane Movies That Were Almost Made

The Movie: From the minds of H.R. Giger and Ridley Scott, The Train was a sci-fi horror project described as a mixture of Blade Runner and Alien, the latter of which the two filmmakers had previously collaborated on.

The project - once known as Dead Reckoning - was set in a dystopian Los Angeles, and would've featured a genetically-altered monster as it terrorised passengers on an underground train. Based on this rough plot outline alone, Giger began drawing up some concepts for The Train's futuristic look, including imagining the titular vehicle as a sentient bio-mechanical creature with a skull-shaped head.

Why It Wasn't Made: As time went on and The Train never fully left the station, Scott began working on other projects (like Thelma and Louise) and the movie soon became stagnant. The script was later rewritten, and was even close to filming, with Independence Day's Roland Emmerich attached to direct - and Sly Stallone as the lead - but this never worked out either.

Part of the problem was that nobody could figure out exactly what the creature should look like, or what its abilities should be. With a high budget and continuous development problems, The Train simply faded away over time.