9 Insane Movie Team-Ups That Nearly Happened
To hell with Superman, we want to see Batman to fight Godzilla!
Movie team-ups and crossovers are all the rage with studios right now. They’re all clearing out their wardrobes trying to find some dusty old properties they can exploit and mix together, and as such the next few years will bring us movie treats like Godzilla Vs. King Kong, MIB 23 and The Ring Vs. The Grudge; yes, really.
Crossover movies are tricky affairs, however, and they rarely live up to their potential. Nobody is particularly fond of Alien Vs. Predator or Freddy Vs. Jason, and we’re still coming to terms with Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Hope springs eternal though, and the inner child in every fan can't help but wonder how cool it would be to see Batman fight Judge Dredd, or The Terminator versus the Predator.
That might explain why some quite daft sounding team-ups have come worryingly close to production at major studios, and were presumably only cancelled when the producers came to their senses. A few of them actually had some potential, but the rest sound like fan fiction nightmares of the highest order.
9. Double V Vega
If Tarantino had a penny for every potential project he’s mentioned over the years that he didn't make, then he’d amassed quite a lot of pennies. He’s talked about everything from Kill Bill: Vol 3 to helming a Halloween movie, and more often than not they all quietly die out. One of these concepts was to team Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega and Reservoir Dogs Vic Vega (aka Mr Blonde), who were brothers in Tarantino’s movie-verse.
Tarantino had the working title Double V Vega and a couple of story ideas, both of which would get around the issue of the brothers being dead. One was a prequel featuring Vincent running a club for Marcellus in Amsterdam, with his trouble making brother coming to pay a visit. The sequel concept was even wackier and would reveal both dead brothers had twins, who are released from prison and come to seek revenge for their brother’s deaths.
Tarantino never seemed all that serious about making the movie though, so a script was never written. Time wore on and both John Travolta and Michael Madsen got a bit too old to play the characters, so the movie joined a long line of abandoned Tarantino ideas.