10 Movies That Just Got Cancelled
These films just got tossed.
Hollywood is one hell of a precarious place, and no matter how much of a sure thing a project might seem, there's always the possibility that it just doesn't come together. Heck, movies aren't safe even once they've been shot - just ask the filmmakers behind Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme.
In recent months, the following are some of the biggest films to get the executive chop, ending up scrapped before shooting could start despite being enthusiastically announced perhaps years ago. Each of these 10 films was widely expected to go before cameras in due course, but it was recently confirmed that they've been canned for good - at least in this iteration.
From sequels to smash hit Netflix Originals, to long-gestating video game adaptations, a certain sports biopic, and a legendary filmmaker's first new movie in two decades, these pictures all had a ton of potential in the right hands. But we'll never know, given that each is now dead and buried for good.
Most often, the reasons for the cancellation are boring bureaucratic ones, like executive changes at the top of the studio, but in a few instances, it's a little more juicy than that, like a director dramatically exiting the project after a major falling-out...
10. Planet of the Dead
When Zack Snyder's zombie heist film Army of the Dead was released in 2021, it was announced to be part of a wider cinematic universe for Netflix, with a spin-off prequel having already been shot and both a direct sequel and an animated series being in active development
Though the prequel, Army of Thieves, was released mere months after Army of the Dead, word quickly went quiet on the proposed sequel, Planet of the Dead, while Snyder forged ahead with his Rebel Moon duology for the streamer.
The Wrap recently reported that Netflix had "quietly cancelled" both Planet of the Dead and the animated series, though didn't elaborate on the reason why.
On one hand, Army of the Dead was a sizable ratings hit for Netflix, being watched in an impressive 75 million households in its first month, but it's possible that the largely negative response to Snyder's Rebel Moon films left the streaming service questioning the viability of more Army of the Dead content.
As for Snyder, he's apparently now working on a small movie without much in the way of lavish VFX.