10 Movies That Just Got Cancelled
1. Carnival at the End of Days
In June 2024, the great Terry Gilliam announced his latest film, Carnival at the End of Days - a fantastical satire in which Jeff Bridges and Johnny Depp would play God and Satan respectively, with a supporting cast to be filled out by Jason Momoa, Asa Butterfield, Emma Laird, and Tom Waits.
Given that Gilliam turns 85 years old later this year, the movie was widely expected to be his last, though the filmmaker recently confirmed that the project has been regretfully scrapped.
In a new interview, Gilliam bluntly confirmed that Carnival at the End of the Days wouldn't be happening, revealing that his Italian financing partners had failed to come through with the expected money. Despite his plaudits, Gilliam has struggled to finance films throughout most of his career due to their esoteric and often not remotely commercial nature, so this isn't terribly surprising.
Terry Gilliam has now turned his sights to making The Defective Detective instead, which is a script he wrote more than 30 years ago and now hopes to make as his final project.