Every year, thousands of films go into production all over
the world. Some get global releases, others are more local, some go
straight-to-DVD, others to online outlets, and some just don’t get released at
all or, at the very least, get delayed countless times from being released. But
then there are times when, for one reason or another, production just stops
dead. All that work done by the numerous cast and crew members to realizing an
artistic vision, all those man hours that goes into the concepts and attempts
to actualize them, all that potential for could very well be a masterpiece;
just gone to pot. There are a lot of stories like this, particularly in the
realm of superhero movies: The third Joel Schumacher-helmed Batman film with
Courtney Love as Harley Quinn; the Green Lantern film starring Jack Black in
the lead role; all those Spider-Man spin-offs and sequels Sony had planned
before Amazing Spider-Man 2 turned off the entire world. However, far more than
any other, there is one story that has captured the minds of a lot of film and
comic book geeks: A collaboration between the poster child for modern-day
Goths, the biggest comic geek-turned-filmmaker and an actor known for his
legendary scenery-chewing.
