Kevin Smith's unrealized projects
The following is a list of unproduced Kevin Smith projects, in roughly chronological order. During a career that has spanned over 20 years, Kevin Smith has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction.
1990s
Fletch Won
A follow-up to Fletch Lives, a sequel to Fletch, had been discussed in the 90s at Universal Studios. During his association with Universal after the production of Mallrats (this was because Gramercy Pictures, which released Mallrats, was co-owned by Universal), Smith expressed interest in doing a third "Fletch" film as a sequel starring Chevy Chase but it never came to fruition. In June 2000, it was announced that Smith was set to write and direct a Fletch film at Miramax Films, after the rights to the books, which Universal Studios had owned, reverted.[1] At the time, Miramax co-head Harvey Weinstein expressed the hope that a new Fletch series would be "Miramax Films' first-ever series."
After a disagreement between Chase and Smith in regard to differing levels of priority for the sequel project, Smith settled on adapting Fletch Won, which follows Fletch in his early years as newspaper junior reporter. Smith intended to follow the novel's plot and characters much more closely than earlier Fletch films had. Filming the prequel/origin story would have allowed Smith to make the movie without Chase while still leaving the door open for him to appear in a cameo role in framing scenes and/or as narrator. Around this time, Smith mentioned Jason Lee and Ben Affleck as possible choices to play Fletch.[2]
Superman Lives
The Six Million Dollar Man
Universal Pictures developed a screenplay in 1995 with Smith, but the outing never materialized. His script was reinverted into a limited comic book series titled The Bionic Man. [3]
4:30
Long before Clerks, Smith worked on an anthology movie consisting of three thirty minutes shorts.[4]
Name
A follow-up to Chasing Amy, Smith wrote a new film set in the View Askewniverse starring the trio from Chasing, but it wasn't a sequel. Smith said "it was kind of porn-bent." Affleck and Adams were interested on doing the flick, but it fell under through. [4]
2000s
The Green Hornet
2010s
Clerks III
Mallrats 2/MallBrats
References
- ^ Jonathan Bing; Claude Brodesser (2000-06-29). "M'max, Smith fetch 'Fletch' for franchise". Variety. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
- ^ Liane Bonin (2003-08-13). "'Fletch' Lives". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
- ^ "Kevin Smith's THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN". Retrieved August 4, 2017.
- ^ a b Rob Leane (February 13, 2017). "The Unmade Films of Kevin Smith". Den of Geeks. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
External links
- The Unmade Films of Kevin Smith by Den of Geeks