8 Cancelled Movies We Secretly Still Want To See

The Unmade Movie: The Planet Of The Apes was the original sci-fi smash franchise. The original classic led to a run of increasingly bonkers (and increasingly shoddy) sequels (as well as two TV series), so it's no surprise it's been the subject of multiple reboots. It's now on great form with the Rise/Dawn/War run, although before that there was the Tim Burton version from 2001.

It's got very little to recommend outside of the special effects (all the allegorical strength of the original is gone), but Fox clearly had high hopes, with multiple people involved going on record that, had that been a proper success, then we’d have got a sequel that would presumably picked up after the Ape Lincoln ending.

Why It’s Such A Shame: The thing with Burton’s POTA is that while most of the movie is misjudged, tasteless and just a bit boring, the ending is actually brilliant. Yes, you read that right.

It’s a bit bonkers, but it’s actually a more faithful version of Pierre Boulle’s novel than the original; at the end of that the astronaut leaves the definitely-not-Earth titular world and returns to his home planet only to find the same thing's happened here. It's a totally different way to present the whole "humanity is doomed" argument and leaves a much more open ending rope for exploration - what will Marky Mark do? The fact “alien” Thade is now Lincoln makes no real sense, sure, but the raw potential of this idea make it a shame it wasn’t followed through.