Movie posters are a very important part of any given movie's marketing campaign - even today when social media and internet marketing are such powerful tools. When we think of iconic movies from the past, the movie posters associated with them are almost as famous as the movies themselves. The shark approaching the surface to take out the girl on the Jaws poster, the screaming victim on the Psycho poster, the titular heroes side by side on the Avengers poster, the terrifying "Here's Johnny" face on the poster for The Shining and the solitary rose on the American Beauty poster are just some examples that prove that point perfectly. However, in order to get to any given final version of a movie poster, there has to be a design process in which several ideas are pitched and, as a result, countless concepts go unused for every single movie that has ever been released. In this article, we're going to take a look at some of the coolest movie poster designs that never made the final cut and ended up on the cutting room floor. They've somehow made it in to the public eye - generally via the portfolios of their designers, through books of unused art or by way of a leak - and we're glad that they did. Here are twenty-five awesome unused concepts for movies posters...
