15 Announced Movies That Will Probably Never Happen

Hollywood is an industry that thrives on fostering hype, by sweeping potential customers into a frenzy before filming even begins if at all possible.

As such, movies are often announced years before shooting, and while may result in a fantastic project well worth the struggle, it also can result in, well, no project at all.

While you can debate about whether or not these 15 movies have truly landed in the development hell abyss yet, they're most certainly circling the drain at least, and the likelihood of them ever materialising becomes less likely with pretty much every passing day.

Even with the cast, crew and studio largely insisting that these films will indeed happen, they all fall into "believe it when you see it" territory. They're not happening (probably), so cast your expectations aside and enjoy a nice surprise if they do somehow show up.

Here are 15 announced movies that will probably never happen...

What We Know: This follow-up to the 1986 cheese classic has been in active development for over five years, with Tom Cruise committed to return. Since Tony Scott's suicide in 2012, producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been on the lookout for a new director, while screenwriter Justin Marks (The Jungle Book) has been working on the script since late 2014.

Why It Won't Happen: Cruise always has an absurd number of projects on the go, and with Mission: Impossible, Jack Reacher and potentially The Mummy inviting sequel after sequel for the foreseeable future, it's hard to see where he'd actually cram this in.This just feels like one of those projects that'll constantly change hands between writers because the parites can't agree on a script.