10 Upcoming Movies That Might Already Be Doomed
7. The Woman In The Window
Joe Wright's (Atonement, Darkest Hour) adaptation of A. J. Finn's 2018 thriller novel The Woman in the Window - starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Julianne Moore - has had a troubled journey to our eyeballs, to say the least.
The film wrapped principal photography all the way back in October 2018, but following a series of disastrous test screenings, Tony Gilroy was brought in to rewrite the script and helm reshoots, just as he did for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
After several release date shifts word began to spread that Netflix was in talks to acquire the film, as was eventually confirmed to be true with a May 14 release date now set in stone.
But a recent report indicates that test screenings of the new cut of the movie scored more-or-less the same, seeming to suggest that 20th Century Studios has effectively offloaded a turkey to Netflix here.
While the impact of the pandemic cannot be discounted, and countless great films have test-screened poorly due to their ambitious feats of filmmaking, it's definitely sensible to expect mediocrity at best from this.