25 Huge Movies Disney Just Cancelled

14. Understand

Back in 2014, Fox saw the future and realised that Ted Chiang and Eric Heisserer would be big business in the sci-fi world in the next few years. The former had written Arrival, which the latter adapted for the big screen as well as writing Bird Box to major streaming success.

The pair would have combined once more for Understand, which Chiang originally wrote as a short story about a comatose man who wakes and grows increasingly intelligent after taking a life-saving experimental drug. The story ends up as a clash of two supermen created by the drug who clash on how they ought to use their powers, which sounds perfect for this comic book obsessed world. Shawn Levy and Dan Levine were in line to produce, but now not so much.