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Re:How an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legen... by Animats on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @11:36PM (#11767500)
This is about typical for "amateur director meets clueless rich guy" projects. There are lists of movie flops, but they usually only include movies that shipped. Wikipedia has a list of unreleased films.[1] If you read the trades (Variety and The Hollywood Reporter), you can read about many other projects that started production but didn't ship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Unreleased_films

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Re:How an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legen... by coredog64 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @01:22AM (#11767806)
The book "Tales From Development Hell" has backstories on some interesting movies that never got made. It was fascinating to read about some of the complications that you'd never think about.
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Re:How an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legen... by Agathos on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @10:32AM (#11770010)
I read somewhere (Wikipedia, I suppose) that Wreck-It Ralph was in development hell for decades. Long enough for its target audience to grow up into nostalgic 30-somethings.
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