10 Biggest Missed Opportunities In Horror Movie History
3. John Carpenter's Shadow Company
Throughout his more than 50-year career as a filmmaker, the great John Carpenter has been attached to almost 50 projects which never came to pass, the most fascinating of which is surely Shadow Company.
After completing his 1988 classic They Live, Carpenter's next film was set to be an action-horror film revolving around a group of U.S. Special Forces soldiers who die during the Vietnam War, are resurrected years later as the result of an Army experiment, and wage war on the town in which they were buried.
The film was set to star Carpenter regular Kurt Russell, with a script co-written by the brilliant Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), his frequent collaborator Fred Dekker, and Walter Hill (The Warriors).
Sadly unspecified pre-production issues prevented Shadow Company from ever moving forward, though the script did eventually leak online, as only left fans even more crestfallen that it never made it to the big screen.
Carpenter at the height of his powers would've knocked this out of the damn park.