re: #58 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

re: #60 Dread Pirate Ron

Sadly, a lot of times things get stuck in development hell. I remember reading years ago that David Fincher wanted to direct Rendezvous with Rama, from the seminal novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It never came to pass, unfortunately. And it probably never will.

Cracked magazine summed up one of the possible reasons: how could there be any merchandise tie-in? After all, it’d be awfully difficult to sell toys…imagine little Jimmy with his three-foot long toy of Rama, contemplating man’s place in the universe and what it all means. It’d probably be a great film, to be sure, but the source material is pretty cerebral - and that’s something studio execs tend to shy away from.

And we’ll probably never get Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness, either.