10 Movies You'll Never See For INSANE Reasons
You'll never see these movies, sadly.
The most basic expectation of any film, no matter how bad, is that audiences will get to see it eventually, right?
After all, why spend countless millions on a film if it's never going to be viewable by the overwhelming majority of people?
And while 99.9% of shot movies do of course end up releasing, sometimes films just get shelved, and typically there's one hell of a story why, because why else would a studio willingly leave money on the table?
That's certainly the case with these 10 movies, each of which none of us will likely ever actually get to watch.
Perhaps crucial reshoots couldn't happen for a very specific reason, vital material was irretrievably lost due to a totally unforeseen tragedy, or the bigwigs had their own twisted reasons for never letting it see the light of day.
Whatever the reason, these movies haven't even been publicly released and likely aren't going to - an eventuality that's only made them all the more fascinatingly sought after.
Needless to say, if any of these movies do eventually surface - whether officially or through sneaky leaks - people are going to go absolutely wild...
10. Reshoots Took So Long The Actors Aged Out - The Mothership
In summer 2021, Halle Berry shot a new sci-fi family drama for Netflix called The Mothership, which was mounted as the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated writer Matt Charman (Bridge of Spies).
A snippet of the film even showed up in the streamer's 2022 content preview, but in early 2024 they announced that the film had been permanently shelved, offering little concrete explanation beyond mentioning a challenging post-production process.
Reporter Jeff Sneider did some digging and learned that the main reason for the film's cancellation, despite being in an advanced state of production, was that the young central cast had aged noticeably since principal photography wrapped, making reshoots effectively impossible.
One can infer that the reshoots were substantial enough that it wouldn't be practical to digitally de-age the actors, but even so, tossing out an entire movie because reshoots couldn't happen in a timely fashion is wild.
Then again, it's possible the movie simply wasn't coming together satisfactorily, given that Netflix's chief content officer Bela Bajaria said "everybody just felt like it was the right thing to not do it."
Considering some of the low-rent content Netflix has freely released over the years, that sounds pretty damning.