25 Huge Movies Disney Just Cancelled

10. Play-Doh

Play Doh
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As well as allegedly destroying everyone's childhoods by daring to suggest that women could be Ghostbusters (suck it up, crybabies), Paul Feig was attached to make a live-action Play-Doh movie for Fox. The only reason this is even remotely of interest is because how the hell do you make a Play-Doh movie and why would you hire Paul Feig to make it?

Naturally, it's tempting to accuse Hollywood as having completely run out of ideas, but it's not like the plundering of Hasbro's rights hasn't already inspired some pretty great movies in the LEGO franchise (even if one of them has now also been cancelled). So maybe there was something there.

Feig seemed enthusiastic when he talked about it in 2015, calling it a hilarious Claymation adventure. And you do get the sense that Hasbro will plough ahead finding another way to adapt the toy into a movie, because that's very much their big agenda at the minute.

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