20 Movies That Weren't Worth The Wait

A film based on Ayn Rand's 1957 philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged spent almost a full 40 years in development hell, with various spirited attempts being scrapped due to creative or business disagreements about the project.

Rand herself died in 1982, and it wasn't until 2011 that an Atlas Shrugged film was finally released - albeit only based on the first third of Rand's novel.

In 2012 and 2014 two sequels were produced, each touting a lower budget than the one before, and because none of the original cast were contracted for the entire trilogy, each installment featured new actors playing the central characters.

Even excusing the wildly divisive content of Rand's book, the film trilogy was certainly an ambitious undertaking, albeit one that was near-universally panned by critics, with each sequel impressively reviewing worse than the one prior, culminating in Atlas Shrugged: Part III landing 0% on the Tomatometer.

All but the most slavish devotees of Rand's text couldn't forgive the utter mess that these movies were - clunkily written, indifferently acted, and howlingly cheap.