25 Huge Movies Disney Just Cancelled

9. Departures

Hey everyone, did you like Lost? Drew Goddard probably did, because it made him lots of money and got him lots of other jobs. Including, for a while, a sound-a-like movie called Departures for Fox, which would have focused on a plane crash, which leaves the surviving passengers wondering if they were drawn together for a reason.

To be fair to Goddard, the novel the film was to be based on only came out in 2014, so maybe writer AG Riddle was inspired by Goddard's own writing on Lost? Either way, the director dropped out some time after he was attached to it in 2015 over scheduling conflicts.

The book was self-published but became an online sensation that then earned Riddle a huge fee.