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Unreleased And/Or Unfinished Films, TV Shows, Games & Music

Lord Lucan said:
A film that remained unfinished after the original production ceased (1972) yet was subsequently finished and released (1978), but really shouldn't have been, was Bruce Lee's 'Game of Death'. At the time of it's release, Bruce had been dead for 5 years and it's other big star, Hollywood legend Gig Young had blown his brains out after murdering his 5th wife.
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It appears Gig Young was for a time under the care of the infamous Eugene Landy.
 
I don't know why I didn't post about it before, but I had a coworker who was in an unfinished film. It was called The Hole In The Leg Gang, and it was shot in Georgia in the 70's. The big stars were Troy Donahugh and Herve Villachez, and it was going to be a comedy western. It was being bankrolled by a local pornographer (apparently he had multiple adult shops) called Mike Thievis. A murder was committed and Mike got arrested for it, which ended the filmmaking and it was never finished. My friend was a tall (6'5") woman who played a lesbian barkeep, and she really wanted to see it. The only thing that exists from it are some local stories about Herve's wild antics. Thievis is still in prison when last I checked, and no footage or stills exists that I knoe of.
 
MrRING said:
I don't know why I didn't post about it before, but I had a coworker who was in an unfinished film. It was called The Hole In The Leg Gang, and it was shot in Georgia in the 70's. The big stars were Troy Donahugh and Herve Villachez, and it was going to be a comedy western. It was being bankrolled by a local pornographer (apparently he had multiple adult shops) called Mike Thievis. A murder was committed and Mike got arrested for it, which ended the filmmaking and it was never finished. My friend was a tall (6'5") woman who played a lesbian barkeep, and she really wanted to see it. The only thing that exists from it are some local stories about Herve's wild antics. Thievis is still in prison when last I checked, and no footage or stills exists that I knoe of.
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He died in 2013.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Thevis
 
According to the scanty data available at IMDb ...

The Hole in the Leg Gang referred to a gang within the film's storyline. The film itself was titled "Last Stop", and it had a 'premiere' at the Atlanta Dogwood Festival in 1972. This 'premiere' seems to have been the only release the film ever had.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387343/
 
That is interesting sleuthery, I'll see if I can't track down more information on that festival showing. I feel like Herve quit the film before completion, but maybe it was finished without him!
 
I've now found something that calls the festival 'premiere' into doubt.

According to posts and images of clippings at this film forum:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/mon...legend-of-blood-mountain-and-the--t10054.html

... As of January 1973 (which would have been 8 - 10 months after the 1972 Atlanta Dogwood Festival) Herve Villechaize trashed Troy Donahue's apartment and was fired from the production already in progress. The original producer was also dropped. Thevis was looking for a replacement dwarf actor and intended to junk all footage including Villechaize.

As of November 1973 the film was allegedly in "post-production", release was still pending, and Donahue himself was listed as a "co-producer." One of the clippings claims "The Last Stop" was the working title and "The Hole In The Leg Gang" had replaced it for the release version (the opposite of what IMDb claims).

There's even a post by someone who claimed to have worked on the film set after Villechaize quit. His fragmentary reminiscences suggest a production that was falling apart.
 
MrRING said:
I don't know why I didn't post about it before, but I had a coworker who was in an unfinished film. It was called The Hole In The Leg Gang, and it was shot in Georgia in the 70's. The big stars were Troy Donahugh and Herve Villachez, and it was going to be a comedy western. It was being bankrolled by a local pornographer (apparently he had multiple adult shops) called Mike Thievis. A murder was committed and Mike got arrested for it, which ended the filmmaking and it was never finished. My friend was a tall (6'5") woman who played a lesbian barkeep, and she really wanted to see it. The only thing that exists from it are some local stories about Herve's wild antics. Thievis is still in prison when last I checked, and no footage or stills exists that I knoe of.
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The backstory to the movie is almost movie material in itself. Troy Donahugh & Herve Villachez, now that is an odd combination, but one I would have liked to have seen.
 
Yeah, those computer generated (I think) bits covering up the original Swan logo stand out like a sore thumb.
 
Grizzly II: Revenge with the dream cast of Charlie Sheen, George Clooney, Laura Dern, Louise Fletcher, and John Rhys-Davis has been unreleased since the early 80's... until now!
https://www.grizzly2revenge.com/
In 2018, the time was right to rethink the Grizzly movie and create a challenging new narrative with a new message which could fill the missing part in the movie. Restoring the old footages was a great challenge. But in the summer of 2019, we got a clean, super crispy digital transfer from London. During the waiting period, we worked on the new script and re-erected the film from its dormant stage.

We didn’t want to make a 21st century movie when we looked at the footages. We wanted to keep it as original as possible to have an authentic American movie quality from the 80’s. Something that was missed or lost and found later on to attract enthusiastic cult lovers. With the casting power and the existing entertainment value with a big bear, we believe the movie will resonate with today’s audience. Animal movies are rare and very difficult to do right. There has been no bear action movie since 1976 since the first Grizzly movie. It was a great financial and entertainment success. I consider this “second chance” for the sequel a real victory for the movie and for me as a person who stuck to my dream regardless of all the horrifying circumstances.
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A new version of The Magnificent Ambersons restores Welles’ vision
Lost scenes from the director’s ill-fated second feature are being reconstructed with animation.

Following a couple of inauspicious test screenings, the studio reshot several key scenes in Welles’ absence and enlisted Robert Wise to oversee an extensive re-edit, finally releasing a trimmed down, decidedly breezier cut of the film in July 1942 to mixed reviews.

The film’s reputation may have grown over time, but Welles was badly wounded by the experience; his career recovered, but he arguably never again reached the artistic pomp of Kane. Now, almost 80 years on, The Magnificent Ambersons is being restored to its full 132-minute glory.
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https://lwlies.com/articles/the-magnificent-ambersons-animated-reconstruction-orson-welles/
 
Long-lost Gram Parsons’ sci-fi film rediscovered

A long-lost sci-fi film starring Gram Parsons is the subject of a new book. Called Saturation 70, the project also starred Julian Jones-Leitch, son of Rolling Stone Brian Jones, Michelle Phillips, tailor Nudie Cohn and Prince Stanislas Klossowski De Rola, the aristocrat and Stones’ confidant. The music was by Parsons and Roger McGuinn while the film’s special effects were due to be handled by Douglas Trumbull, who’d then just completed Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/long-lost-gram-parsons-sci-fi-film-rediscovered-143899/

Filmed at a 1969 UFO convention near Joshua Tree and in Los Angeles, it has been described as a ‘counterculture Wizard of Oz’. The film was to feature revolutionary computer-generated effects produced at Trumbull's Studio City workshop.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/project...70-a-deluxe-art-book-about-a-lost-sci-fi-film

 
Official Trailer for ‘George A. Romero’s Resident Evil’ Documentary Begs the Question of “What Happened?”
We had the teaser for the upcoming documentary on George A. Romero‘s failed Resident Evil project way back in March. And now, thanks to the fine people at Residence of Evil, we now have the full trailer for director Brandon Salisbury‘s George A. Romero’s Resident Evil, which is slated for a 2024 release.

Produced by Key 13 Films in association with Point Five Films and written by Salisbury and Robbie McGregor, the documentary provides a look back at what went down with Romero’s script for Resident Evil and Constantin Films back in 1998. George A. Romero’s Resident Evil is a stylized documentary, utilizing archived footage, unearthed documents, and newly filmed interviews with a wide variety of personalities.
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https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie...ry-begs-the-question-of-what-happenedtrailer/

 
A sad tale of a decent into madness...

Netflix Gave An Unproven Director $55 Million For A Sci-Fi Series, And He Blew It On Rolls-Royces, Crypto, And Dodgy Stock Bets
Carl Erik Rinsch never finished a single episode of "Conquest" for Netflix

After an ambitious and expensive bet on an unproven director in 2018, the deal had gone sour, the director allegedly lost his senses, and he’d blown the money with nothing to show for it. The plug was pulled on the project, Netflix washed its hands of the deal, and it came up for air missing some $55 million from its accounts. At least $9 million of that had gone to the director’s lavish tastes, as he’d bought himself five Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari, a $400,000 watch, and millions worth of furniture and clothing.
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In 2018, while streaming services were expanding their scripted drama series offerings to the moon and back, relatively unknown director Rinsch pitched a series around Hollywood that incited a bidding war. When he brought the show to Netflix, then called “Conquest”, it revolved around a “genius who invents a humanlike species called the Organic Intelligent.” The O.I. are deployed for humanitarian aid, but they eventually turn on humanity.
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During shoots for the show in Budapest, Rinsch allegedly went days without sleep, mistreated the production team and actors, threw things at his wife and show co-creator, Gabriela Rosés Bentancor, accused her of plotting to assassinate him, and punched holes in walls. Ms. Rosés and others grew concerned that Rinsch had been abusing the ADHD prescription drug Vyvanse, which is an amphetamine which when overused can cause mania, delirium, and psychosis.
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In March of 2020, Rinsch told Netflix that he’d spent the $44.3 million that they’d approved up to that point, and needed another $11 million. When Netflix acquiesced and wired the money, Rinsch sent most of it directly to his personal Charles Schwab account, and made big bets on biotech firm Gilead Sciences, and on shorting the S&P 500 index. In just a few weeks he’d lost $5.9 million. Cutting his losses, Rinsch pulled $4 million from his Schwab account and put it directly into Dogecoin.
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Between his Dogecoin binge and Netflix pulling the plug on his show in March of 2021, Rinsch was allegedly holed up in his apartment slowly losing his mind. During a visit from his wife, Ms. Rosés claims that Mr. Rinsch pointed at airplanes overhead and said ‘the organic, intelligent forces... came to say hi.’ His contact at Netflix confirmed that they’d been receiving strange indecipherable doodles from the director by text message. Rinsch also claimed he had mapped “the coronavirus signal emanating from within the earth.” His wife initiated divorce proceedings in July of 2021.
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https://jalopnik.com/netflix-gave-an-unproven-director-55-million-for-a-sci-1851049051
 
sherbetbizarre said:
Official Trailer for ‘George A. Romero’s Resident Evil’ Documentary Begs the Question of “What Happened?”

https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie...ry-begs-the-question-of-what-happenedtrailer/

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Romero was hired to do the trailer for the PS1 trailer for the game. I only found that out when I scored a T Shirt for the game (which has since been stolen. I'm still pissed off about that). The T was a mug shot of a zombie front on and sideways with text details about it's identity.
 
Controversial Jerry Lewis film to screen in public for first time after 52 years

Comedian Jerry Lewis’s controversial holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried, shot in 1972 but never released due to myriad issues with the production, has never been made available in any form, leading the project to reach mythical status in the global film community.

No details have been announced however, in 2015, film archivists told New York Post the screening would be held at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Centre, Virginia in June of 2024.

Who will be able to attend is not yet clear. Many have hope that it will receive wider distribution than a single screening, though no announcement has been made as of yet.
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https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2024/01/05/jerry-lewis/
 
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