>After the disappointing commercial and critical reception to Marnie and Torn Curtain, he began developing a low budget film about a necrophiliac serial killer in New York
>The script developed into a story about young bodybuilder who lures women to their deaths near water, with the first murder taking place at a waterfall. The NY police then use an undercover policewoman to try and trap the killer in a scene that takes placed on a mothballed warship
>When he sent the script to François Truffaut, he expressed his discomfort with the level of violence and sex. Truffaut argued that Psycho blended those themes with the narrative of a mystery and psychological suspense, yet with Kaleidoscope, the murderer would be the central protagonist, even the ‘hero’; something the audience would be unwilling to accept.
>Hitchcock was not just trying to push the thematic boundaries of film; he intended to experiment with naturalistic style and innovative filming techniques such as handheld filming, POV camerawork, and natural light. He had closely followed the careers of the French New Wave and the Italian Neorealist directors, particularly Truffaut and Michelangelo Antonioni. Having been enraptured by Antonioni’s Blow-Up, he felt he had fallen behind the Italians. Watching one Antonioni, he sat up straight at the sight of a man all in white in a white room. "White on white!" he exclaimed. "There, you see! It can be done!"
>He shot test footage in New York, using unknown actors
>Ultimately, Lew Wasserman and his fellow executives at Universal felt strongly that Kaleidoscope was too uncommercial and Hitchcock was persuaded to put the project to one side in favour of starting production on Topaz
>This footage, shot without sound and, to this day, still unknown actors, is an incredible glimpse into what could have been. This would have altered our perception of Hitchcock's final decade. The impact on cinema would have been substantial
Well he ended up making Frenzy in the early 70s. Sort of ok, hmmmm actually it sucked. WTF happened to him? Did he just get old?
Connor Carter
Huh
Grayson Adams
I'm interested too Satan
Ryan Turner
Kubrick's Napoleon film he was going to make is mandatory for this kind of thread.
Gabriel Bell
>We can only speculate as to what Scorsese’s Alexander would have been like.
>However, from Raging Bull through The King of Comedy, to Goodfellas, Casino and The Aviator, Scorsese has repeatedly examined the corrupting influence of fame, ambition, and power: all features that dominate Alexander’s character and story. The director even described the conqueror as having “had great charisma. Someone called him the first superstar.”
>And what of Scorsese’s superstar? DiCaprio was an inspired piece of casting, as his stunning performance in The Aviator reveals: Howard Hughes, like Alexander, was an intense, obsessive and ambitious personality. According to Scorsese, Leo even looked the part, stating that “there is a bust of Alexander, and it bears an amazing resemblance [to DiCaprio]”.
>Although famed for his urban crime dramas, the prospect of seeing Scorsese push himself with the conventions synonymous with the ancient historical epic is enticing to say the least. Alexander led his small army across desert plains and rivers, over mountains and through jungles, fighting against hundreds of thousands in epic battles involving cavalry, chariots and war elephants, as well as savage sieges and brutal guerrilla warfare. Scorsese’s Alexander would have been his biggest and most ambitious film to date, and a challenge worthy of the man himself.
>While Stone’s film is too often misunderstood and derided (check out the excellent Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut) and other Alexander projects – including Mel Gibson’s HBO miniseries and Baz Luhrmann’s attempt, also with DiCaprio – failed to materialise, Scorsese’s film remains one of the great What Ifs of contemporary cinema. That said, the McQuarrie/Bushman script is still out there, and DiCaprio has largely retained his youthful looks… Maybe, just maybe, Marty and Leo could still find a way of bringing their Alexander to the big screen?
Sebastian Taylor
Frenzy was Okay. Some one should just make kaleidoscope and claim it's "hitchcocks lost masterpiece"
Zachary Roberts
Was reading the salo trivia page and came across this,wonder how much edgier he could have gotten as the trilogy progressed
Bentley Reyes
What happened to the Spielberg produced TV show based on Kubrick's script and notes?
Carter Powell
FUCKING.
CRUSADE.
GODDAMMIT VERHOEVEN
Lucas Ramirez
Spielberg made A.I.
Michael Diaz
No, he was supposed to produce a Napoleon TV series.
Gabriel Hughes
Jodorowsky's Dune
Camden Russell
>no mention of Bersker yet And instead we get another WWII movie
Eli Lewis
Leone's Leningrad movie
Easton Lewis
It's gonna be made by the HBO. Great news but a proper show about Napoleonic Wars should be as long as possible to feature all pssible points of view.
It would've been neat to see Dali in a movie but I wouldn't sacrifice Alien for that especially since Jodorovsky's Dune looked like such an unrealistic project that would probably end up as a barely watchable cult movie.
Dominic Kelly
true, i mainly like the idea for all of the concept art that got produced for it. i would honestly pay whatever i could to get that early draft script even if it did turn out to be possibly fake.
Carson Wright
>“there is a bust of Alexander, and it bears an amazing resemblance [to DiCaprio]”.
More like Jay Mohr, I mean, how awesome would Oliver Stone's Alexander have been if instead of Colin Handsome there was New Jersey Muttface Jay Mohr.
DiCaprio can't act. Scorsese should work with The Situation on his Alexander project. Maybe 2 hours of Snooki getting shit on by elephants would be good?
Robert Adams
Should have done The Way of a Man With a Maid and Ass-goblins of Auschwitz
Wyatt Anderson
Akira Kurosawa's Godzilla
Gabriel Cox
>And what of Scorsese’s superstar? DiCaprio Stopped right there. Forever.
Jonathan Howard
If they published the storyboard/script I would be happy.
Daniel Kelly
Is there any real proof he wanted to make a Godzilla movie?
Ryan Campbell
Have to agree with that other user, user. This would have been a mess, because it would it would have needed to be far more structured than his previous films to work.
Once there was any hint that a narrative was unfolding, Jodorowsky's direction would have started to look like a child's.
Noah Gutierrez
true, but it would have been one of the greatest pieces of eye candy to ever grace theatres
Jaxon Cook
But they did. And Jodorovsy deals with comics nowadays.
Liam Davis
sauce??
Cooper Miller
He was a fan and probably said something about it once but there were never any serious plans. It would've been too expensive and honestly the original Godzilla is as good and deep as these movies can possibly be. It even features the same style of cinematography as some other famous Japanese movies of that era by Kurosawa or Ozu. I'm talking about the human scenes.
Nolan Hernandez
The documentary.
Landon Thomas
oh.
Connor Walker
>It has people sitting down, so it's like Ozu C'mon man.
Jace Reed
Honestly, I don't know. I just keep seeing people mention it. But it's not too far-fetched. Akira Kurosawa and Ishiro Honda were lifelong friends and worked in the same studio (Toho). Gojira and Seven Samurai were in production at the same time. And Kurosawa did have a reputation of going over budget, so I could believe Toho being unwilling to allow him to touch a special effects heavy project. As another user said, he probably mentioned it and it never went much further. But it's fun to think about.
Adam Hill
It's all in the cropping. Maybe all Japanese movies were shot in that style I don't know.
Brayden Murphy
These lost projects always assume it's a masterpiece we're missing and not another late period mediocrity from him.
This also obviously would have been a disaster
Eli Peterson
Steven Spielberg's Return of the Jedi
Matthew Cruz
Kubrick's was right around his peak, so I can see Napoleon being a legitimately great film. The same goes with Behzin Meadow. Ozu's film about soldiers in China that he wrote based off of his journals is probably the one I'd like to see the most though.
Isaac Garcia
I don't know even know if that's true though. The only reason he could afford the holy mountain was because yoko ono strong armed her hubby into paying for it.
Half the things he was proposing would have fallen through for financial reasons alone.
The soundtrack from Pink Floyd and Magma though. Holy shit. I would have loved to have heard that.
