8 Cancelled Video Game Movies That Would Have Changed Everything
1. Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island is the point-and-click masterpiece that convinced the world video games can be funny, feature fleshed-out protagonists and storylines to rival any book, film or radio drama.
Reliable sources - one being voice actor Dominic Armato - have confirmed that a movie based on Guybrush Threepwood's swashbuckling adventures was proposed at one point during the series' heyday.
Information about what form the Monkey Island movie might have taken has trickled through over the years, with some reports suggesting it would have been animated, and more outlandish ones linking Steven Spielberg to it.
Word has it that Pirates of the Caribbean writer Ted Elliott was tapped to pen a screenplay for the film, which would explain why there are so many similarities between The Curse of the Black Pearl and the original game.
With the series' developer LucasArts having been shuttered, the Monkey Island series' future in the gaming sector is uncertain, but the movie is deader than the Ghost Pirate LeChuck, which is a shame because it had at least as much potential on the big screen as Pirates of the Caribbean.