New Book Will Now Reveal History Behind Unmade Classics Like Del Toro’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS, Blomkamp’s ALIENS 2, and More!
Mike Sprague
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Abrams will publish Joshua Hull’s Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made in hardcover and e-book on May 25th. The 256-page book chronicles flicks like Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, Steven Spielberg’s Oldboy remake with Will Smith, Stanley Kubrick’s The Lord of the Rings with The Beatles, and Neill Blomkamp’s Aliens sequel.
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Each essay sports an original poster! Artists include Scott Saslow, Matt Talbot, Liza Shumskaya, Sam Coyle, Tom Coupland, Ben Turner, Mark Levy, Bella Grace, Julien Rico Jr, Si Heard, and more. Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad, Night of the Creeps) provides a foreword.
Synopsis:
For most films, it’s a long, strange road from concept to screen, and sometimes those roads lead to dead ends. In Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, screenwriter and filmmaker Joshua Hull guides readers through development hell. With humor and reverence, Hull details the speed bumps and roadblocks that kept these films from ever reaching the silver screen.
From the misguided and rejected, like Stanley Kubrick’s Lord of the Rings starring the Beatles. To films that changed hands and pulled a U-turn in development. Like Steven Spielberg’s planned Oldboy adaptation starring Will Smith; to would-be masterpieces that might still see the light of day, like Guillermo del Toro’s In the Mountains of Madness, Hull discusses plotlines, rumored casting, and more. To help bring these lost projects to life, 50 artists from around the world, in association with the online art collective PosterSpy, have contributed original posters that accompany each essay and give a glimpse of what might have been.
Abrams will publish Joshua Hull’s new book Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made in hardcover and e-book on May 25th. Pre-order HERE.
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