10 Movies That Just Got Cancelled
These planned films aren't going ahead, for better or worse.
Hollywood is nothing if not a fickle beast - a beast that constantly needs to be fed in order to keep shareholders happy, and yet one that rejects great ideas on a daily basis.
More movies will be cancelled in any given year that we ever hear about, typically for a multitude of reasons both in terms of creative and business, and it often has nothing to do with the quality of the ideas or the people working on them.
Case in point, just recently these 10 films have all been scrapped, even though almost all of them have clear commercial potential considering the name IP and sheer talent involved both in front of and behind the camera.
Each of these announced films was recently cancelled for one of many reasons - perhaps the creatives involved had a change of heart, the money people decided the juice wouldn't be worth the squeeze, or the lead actor straight-up pulled out and caused the entire thing to collapse.
While some of these films could theoretically be resurrected one day, you definitely shouldn't expect to see them any time soon...
10. Contagion 2
Contagion was a modestly successful and well-regarded pandemic thriller when it released in 2011, but almost a decade later it enjoyed a huge boost in popularity due to how astonishingly well it paralleled the COVID-19 pandemic.
There was enough renewed talk about the film that, by the end of 2020, director Steven Soderbergh announced that he and writer Scott Z. Burns were developing a "philosophical sequel" to Contagion, noting that it wasn't a direct follow-up but "the next iteration of a Contagion-type story."
And as recently as last year, Soderbergh talked up some "terrifying" ideas he and Burns had for Contagion 2, but while promoting his new film The Christophers, the filmmaker confirmed that the sequel had been scrapped.
Soderbergh cited an overwhelming feeling that a Contagion sequel would be raking back over ground he trod well enough the first time, and considering the unexpected shelf life that film has had, it's easy to accept it as a brilliant one-off.