But Avary never got to film that adaptation, and Glitterati never saw release. Avary intended the work to be a bridge between Attraction and another work of Ellis’ he hoped to film, Glamorama. Avary filmed enough to make a second film, which was called Glitterati. Unlike some of the more controversial works inspired by his writing, The Rules of Attraction sort of came and went without a lot of fanfare, despite having perhaps one of the most hilariously explicit movie posters ever produced (you’ve been warned).īut while the the film didn’t do a lot, its director, Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary, did produce a lot of footage, much of it based around a segment when Victor (Kip Pardue) took a trip to Europe. And while American Psycho is seen as something of a modern cinematic classic, he traditionally has not had a lot of luck getting critical praise for either adaptations of his work or films he actually wrote. Released after the fact? Not unless you personally know Roger AvaryĪs you may or may not know about Bret Easton Ellis, he has a cult audience around his writing and the film adaptations of said writing. Year filmed: 2001 (no intended release date)

It’s not on this list, because it’s too famous of an example, but you can find it on YouTube.Īround 70 hours of footage was filmed for this single Rules of Attraction scene, and that footage was later edited into a feature-length movie. Today’s GIF is from the patron saint of unreleased film, the 1994 Roger Corman-produced version of Fantastic Four, which was essentially developed on an extreme low budget to maintain the rights to the Marvel property. But over the years, there have been numerous others, each with different reasons for shelving.

vehicle I Love You Daddy, which … let’s not talk about it. The most infamous recent one was the Louis C.K.

(Word on the street, per The Wrap, was that the film wasn’t a tentpole movie.) This, of course, got me to thinking about films that were basically complete but never saw release. Discovery (one that has already sidelined cable stars Joe Pera and Samantha Bee), the $90 million film isn’t getting released, despite being nearly finished. Part of a big corporate culture shift on the part of its studio Warner Bros. Today in Tedium: If you were holding your breath for the release of Batgirl, I hope your brief moment of unconsciousness was divine.

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