25 Huge Movies Disney Just Cancelled

8. Steelskin

Right at the tail-end of 2015, newly crowned Venom 2 director Andy Serkis revealed that one of his next big projects was going to be another of those Reimagined Fairytale stories that studios went wild for for a little while there. This one would be a reimagining of Rumplestiltskin called Steelskin, which Serkis would produce, direct and star in.

In typical oddball fashion, Steelskin would have been an action-intensive take on the tale of the tricksy imp who helps a woman spin straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child. And because she doesn't respect the art of the deal, she tries to renege on it so Rumplestiltskin being a solid bro gives her three days to guess his name to get out of the deal.

How you turn that into an action film is anyone's guess, but the very idea of Serkis doing it was way more exciting than Disney seem to have believed.