10 Movies We Desperately Wanted To Happen (But Never Will)

in another life everything from an epic

last hurray for one of the most iconic

movie badasses of all time to a far

darker spin on a well-known fairy tale

would have all made it past a

pre-production stage and possibly even

smashed it in theaters all around the

globe but with each year that passes

it's becoming increasingly clear that

these flicks are all likely very much

dead but they will never be forgotten

Gareth here from whatculture.com and

here are 10 movies we desperately wanted

to happen but never will number 10 an

x-23 Logan spin-off James mangold's

Logan easily ranks as one of the boldest

and most impactful superhero movies of

the last decade and after initially

saying goodbye to Hugh Jackman's Logan

during the closing stages of that hugely

emotional X-Men tale Wolverine's fan

favorite daughter x-23 also known as

Laura seemed poised to take center stage

in the next chapter of mangled's gritty

Story the director himself even admitted

to working on a script that would focus

on Daphne Keane's explosive character

back when Logan landed on screens in

2017 but out of 2023 there's still no

sign of an x-23 spin-off looking at the

days after Logan told his daughter not

to become a monster like him he died

with his heart and His Hands damn it

Disney eventually buying Fox led to

Future X-Men Stories being paused before

the studio eventually turned their

attention towards bringing the mutants

and other Fox Heroes into the MCU and

the likes of the Gambit Doctor Doom

Multiple Man and of course x-23 Flex

were all massively affected by the move

Mangold now has his Plates Full with his

upcoming Star Wars feature and a few

other non-mutant projects so that was

desperate to see Laura unleash her claws

once again on their big screen will

likely have to settle for a potential

Deadpool 3 Cameo who do you think will

pop up as a surprise cameo in Deadpool

3A well let me know in the comments

section right down below number nine

another alien movie starring Sigourney

Weaver while the alien franchise has

actually hatched four features over the

last two decades in the accounting those

showdowns with various Predators not one

of those has boasted easily the series

most iconic figure there was actually a

moment there though when it did seem as

though the arch enemy of the Xenomorphs

was set for a sensational return to This

creepy Universe District 9's Neil

blomcap was initially working on an

alien sequel back in 2015 and Weaver was

very much interested in making her Ellen

Ripley comeback in the tale that would

be set after the events of aliens one

that would ignore the third and fourth

alien entries however with Ridley

Scott's Prometheus follow-up by the name

of alien covenants being prioritized

over blomkamp's flick the film was soon

shelved as Fox wanted to see how Scott's

story performed sadly all those hoping

to still one day see what blomp camp and

kill were cooking up in the days before

Scott's Covenant flopped without a

catastrophic blow in April as Weaver

confirmed a total film that her days of

being Ripley were over that shipper

sailed with the megastar's comments on

the Lost alien project she wanted to do

although years ago but will always have

the concept art number eight Halo the

movie

one of the most popular video games of

the last two decades was once on the

verge of being given that big screen

treatment that man again Neil blomkamp

was attached to direct the incoming

live-action Halo adventure and none

other than Peter Jackson was also set to

serve as the film's executive producer

yet this particular warthog ride hits a

few speed bumps a year after it was

announced with universal and fox

eventually clashing with Jackson and

Microsoft over the amount of profit

they'd be taking in the end the film's

135 million dollar budget was also

rumored to be causing a few issues and

this all led to Jackson and Co being

given the ultimatum of lowering their

deals or kissing goodbye to the project

the latter option was decided on and

blomkamp ultimately announced the

exciting project was officially dead in

2007. fast forward to March 2022 and a

Halo live-action TV series with Steven

Spielberg as executive producer did at

least blast onto screens via Paramount

plus with the District 9 collaborators

playing in the world of Master Chiefs

and their covenants still ranks as one

of Hollywood's most intrigued could have

ends number 7. Rogue Squadron December

2020 saw the house of mouse revealed

that Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins

would be helming a brand new Star Wars

big screen tale by the name of Rogue

Squadron but almost three years on from

this awesome reveal she was given that

cool little teaser video remember Rogue

Squadron still hasn't made its way out

of the development hunger in fact the

film was completely pulled from Disney's

schedule last year and while Jenkins

were confirmed in December that the

project was still in active development

the recent reveal of a bunch of new Star

Wars films seemingly leapfrogging her

X-Wing Adventure felt like another

indication that this picture may not

actually take off at all there's also a

chance that the idea of a Rogue Squadron

movie could be scrapped in favor of

adding the story to Disney Plus's

ever-growing world of small screen Star

Wars stories instead with lucasfilm

President Kathleen Kennedy confirming in

April to IGN but they're still at least

talking about a potential future for

Jenkins idea it would unquestionably be

awesome to see Jenkins Who is the

daughter of a fighter pilot be given the

opportunity to unleash a high octane big

screen story that is clearly close to

her heart but judging from both the

director's comments and the general Star

Wars landscape at this moment in time it

wouldn't be all that surprising to hear

of this long-awaited project

unfortunately burning up in the coming

years number six Guillermo del Toros

Hellboy 3. in the wake of his first two

installments of Hellboy chaos going down

a treat with audiences Guillermo del

Toro returning to close out this demonic

story with one last entry felt rather

inevitable and while the director and

his star Ron Perlman both appear to be

very much interested in ending the

trilogy on an epic note financing the

third chapter proved rather difficult

according to the shape of water and

Pan's Labyrinth Creator when speaking

during a Reddit AMA the fact the first

two movies only made a small profit at

the box office before proving to be DVD

and video hits left many feeling that

gambling on a third outing without that

home video safety net was too great a

risk a reboot of the franchise

eventually landed in 2019 instead and

didn't exactly set the world on fire

with the David Arbor starring flop going

down so badly I yet another reboot is

now being lined up for the titular demon

investigator it is worth noting that the

mighty Pearlman evidently still feels

the two owe it to their passionate fans

to end their Hellboy Saga with one last

outing but del Toro's Twitter words back

in 2017 of this much-wanted follow-up

100 not happening and that is to be the

final thing about it as he put it seemed

to officially confirm this three calls

disappointing death number five Sophia

Coppola's The Little Mermaid every now

and again Hollywood suddenly gets

obsessed with one specific fairy tale

all well-known family Story look no

further than the sudden influx of jungle

book adaptations a few years ago the

same thing appeared to be going down

when it came to The much-loved Little

Mermaid Tale too with both Universal and

Disney looking to bring this underwater

adventure to life in the mid-2010s and

while the house of mouse version that

eventually dived into theaters this year

stuck largely to the Disney formula of

the classic animated version the Sophia

Coppola directed Universal offering was

said to have been based on the original

much darker than Disney fairy tale in

the end though Coppola dropped out of

the project due to creative differences

with the Lost in Translation director

stating to variety that we couldn't

agree on some elements seeing Coppola

explore a darker version of the

well-known tale and even shoot the

project underwater as she originally

planned would have definitely made for a

fresh Little Mermaid experience but the

director has since admitted to just not

being the right fit for the big budget

project and it now doesn't look like

universals Under the Sea alternative

we'll be making a splash anytime soon

number four Madonna's biopic the idea of

Pop icon Madonna not just being given

the biopic treatment but the mega star

herself sitting behind their camera for

it made for one hell of a fascinating

concept Julia Garner was eventually

picked to bring the legend to life in

the flick with the inventing Anna and

Ozark star beating out the likes of

Florence Pugh and Alexa Demi during the

intense audition process to secure the

leading role however after all that the

incoming Madonna movie was scrapped in

January after the director central

figure decided to focus entirely on her

upcoming World Tour instead as you do

and while sources would tell variety

that Madonna still hopes to make a

feature about her unique life one day

the fact that picture is no longer

classed as in development at Universal

Pictures and other sources told thr that

it was actually scrapped before her tour

was made official seems to suggest this

version of the Madonna story won't be

making a comeback again in the future

number three Real Steel Two uh almost 12

years ago eventual stranger things and

free guy director Sean Levy found a

Charming slice of sci-fi by the name of

Real Steel folks definitely connected

with the story of Hugh Jackman's

one-time boxer Charlie Kenton working

with his estranged son and his former

coach's daughter to give an old

sparringbot a shot at robot boxing

immortality sure enough Disney and

DreamWorks reportedly began working on a

follow-up before the rather popular

first Real Steel was even officially

released in cinemas three years on from

that though Levy confirmed that the

Toronto Film Festival that both he and

Jackman hadn't landed on the right

script to justify a turn and his words

of needing to make the film happen soon

or the audience may not be there in the

same way felt pretty ominous at the time

then after years of wondering when Real

Steel would get back in the movie ring

it was surprisingly revealed that a

Disney plus series set in Levy's robotic

world was in early developments at the

start of 2022 however the rather busy

original feature finally getting back

together for another big screen round of

mechanical fisticuffs still feels

increasingly unlikely who needs more

Star Wars Levy give me some robot boxing

number two Kill Bill vol 3. the name of

Quentin Tarantino's rumored final ever

movie was revealed in March and while

the movie critic will surely be a

typically outrageous effort from the

legendary filmmaker that announcement

did leave some folks feeling a touch

disappointed at the fact another longed

four project was seemingly put in the

ground once and for all even as recently

as 2021 Tarantino appeared to be excited

about their concept of throwing Uma

Thurman back into a Kill Bill tale

alongside real-life daughter Maya Hawk

as the bride's daughter BB with the two

going on the run after 20 years of Peace

however with the Pulp Fiction and

Reservoir Dogs creator also confessing

that the reason we still hadn't seen a

third volume was largely due to killing

himself making the first two it now

feels pretty likely at this point that

QT will just ride off into the sunset

after unleashing his 10th slice of

Cinema 1. another Henry Cavill Man of

Steel flick it was so close after years

of wondering whether the Man of Steel

himself Henry Cavill would officially

return to the dceu and finally get his

long-awaited solo sequel the Brit rocked

up opposite Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam

at the end of that otherwise

unremarkable October 2022 feature and

the world rejoiced for about 10 minutes

not long after it was reported by The

Hollywood Reporter that a Man of Steel 2

was in development December brought with

it the disappointing update of cavil

actually not being a part of James Gunn

and Peter safran's plans for their DC

movie Universe going forward instead of

that caval starring Man of Steel picture

The Suicide Squad director is moving

forward with his own Superman Legacy

project so Cavill was soon left on the

outside looking in and those who spent a

decade holding out hope that they'd once

again see this version of the Man of

Steel soar in a hotly anticipated sequel

who just left wondering what could have

been I'm playing his 10 second comeback

Cameo on repeat what a time it was eh

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