15 Announced Movies That Are Destined For Development Hell
14. The Adventures Of Tintin: Prisoners Of The Sun
Status: 2011's Steven Spielberg-directed Tintin made a decent if hardly mind-blowing $374 million against a $135 million budget which, in short, appears to have put the brakes on studio enthusiasm for a follow-up.
Why It's Going To Development Hell: Though sequel talk even preceded the original movie's bow and the studio hoped for a 2014 release, Peter Jackson claimed he wouldn't direct the follow-up until he finished working on The Hobbit movies, which due to the three-film split dragged on until late 2014.
As Spielberg pushed the movie back to 2015, Jackson then claimed he wanted to shoot some New Zealand films first, and by 2016, screenwriter Anthony Horowitz claimed that his script had been scrapped.
It frankly just sounds like nobody can muster the necessary effort to make a movie that will probably have modest returns at best, and every year the movie distances itself from the original, the less likely its success (and release) becomes.