Oh, the annals of movies that were made by one guy who is kind of cool that were almost made by another guy who is way cooler.
Did you know John Frankenheimer almost directed “Breakfast at Tiffany’s?” That would have been …
intense.
What about the fact that Danny Boyle almost directed Joss Whedon’s script for “Alien: Resurrection?” Or that David Lynch, on the heels of the movie he went on to hate having made, “Dune,” almost made “Return of the Jedi” instead? How we love to imagine singular, iconic visions through the looking glass, remade in vastly different, yet just as distinct styles.
One of the banner entries in this almost-Hall of Fame is the “Blade” movie that David Fincher almost made.
It was the early-to-mid-90s.
Bill Clinton had just been elected President.
Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” could be heard booming through every speaker…
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