10 Hyped 2020 TV Shows ALREADY Cancelled

9. Purity

Intended to be Daniel Craig's next big project once he was finished playing Bond, Purity was a planned adaptation of the sprawling Jonathan Franzen literary novel of the same name from 2015.

In 2016 Showtime picked up the rights to the book, going on to announce a twenty-hour limited series directed by Todd Field (Oscar-nominated for both his movies In The Bedroom and Little Children).

Craig was set to produce as well as to star as Andreas Wolf, a charismatic German hacker hiding out in Bolivia and running a Wikileaks-style operation, in a story that covered multiple eras, characters and continents.

The whole production had to be pushed back, though, when Craig was convinced to sign on for one more go round as 007, meaning that now Purity was now not due until 2020. And that was before No Time To Die dragged on as a troubled mess of a production.

Ultimately, though, it wasn't just its producer-star's unavailability that did it for Purity. The delay in production also allowed Showtime to consider whether the purported $170 million budget was really going to be worth it for a prestige literary drama. In the end, they decided it probably wasn't, so despite a full set of scripts already having been written, don't expect this to go ahead unless Field and Craig can shave tens of millions off that cost.