Save Us, Joe Louis’Spike Lee acquired the rights to the life story of heavyweight champion Joe Louis in 2000, shortly after he lost his shot to direct a Muhammad Ali biopic to Michael Mann.
Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Company of Angels’was to be a Joan of Arc epic in Kathryn Bigelow’s signature action-packed style, developed in conjunction with Jay Cocks,a regular Scorsese collaborator.
Sergio Leone’s ‘Leningrad: The 900 Days’Spaghetti Western legend Sergio Leone got his start working as an assistant director on Vittorio De Sica’s classic Italian neorealist film “Bicycle Thieves.”
Alfred Hitchcock wanted to follow up the subversive success of “Psycho” with the gruesome “Kaleidoscope,” based on the stories of two infamous British serial killer
David Lynch’s ‘Ronnie Rocket’From the time David Lynch completed his first film, “Eraserhead,” in 1977, he dreamt of making “Ronnie Rocket,” an eccentric ’50s-inspired science fiction film.
Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Napoleon’Perhaps one of the most ambitious films imaginable, Stanley Kubrick’s “Napoleon” promised to be an epic film in every sense.