Facebook's On This Day feature is incredibly interesting to me. I post, or at least I used to, a lot of articles about upcoming films. Today I was looking at my past posts and on this day in 2010 I posted an article from Ain't It Cool News about Disney's Maleficent. Originally it was to be directed and/or produced by Tim Burton. Well that never happened. He had no involvement in the film. And I see this happen again and again.
The other day I had the post about David Fincher and Brad Pitt developing a remake of a classic but on a plane instead of a train. I apologize I currently can't remember which film it was.
This happens all the time. Something gets announced and then it just disappears into the void. Another good example would be the announcement of Tim Burton doing a stop motion Addams Family film. It's all the rage for a week and then it just disappears... I mean I'd much rather he'd do that instead of Dumbo. But hey, that is just me.
Do you guys have any projects that were announced that you were excited for that just sort of slipped into the void and were never heard from again?