Cancelled Movies Wiki

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) The plot seemed too dark for audiences.
 * 2) Another plot was made instead that wasn't scary
 * 3) Osamu Tezuka died of stomach cancer in 1989.

Result

 * Tezuka tossed the script out and decided to rewrite a new plot for the film, which come out in 1990, with an English dub released in 1991.

Why it was Cancelled

 * The most likely reason would be because Free Birds (1974) did not perform very well. This ultimately cost its box office returns.

Result

 * In 2013, Reel FX and Tezuka made a CGI Free Birds film instead.

Plot
Godzilla went and attack New York City.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) The studio didn't accept the offer that Jan de Bont gave to make the film.
 * 2) TriStar avoided conflicts with Toho

Result

 * Jan de Bont decided to direct Twister with Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt (made by Universal and Warner Brothers) and Speed 2: Cruise Control after being contractually obligated by 20th Century Studios to make a sequel to Speed.
 * TriStar announced the half live-action half traditional animated Three Eyed One film instead.

Plot
The surviving Hosuke Sharaku offspring from the first film's ending battles a giant insect monster in Sydney.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) The 1998 Three Eyed One film was heavily panned by critics and fans alike, despite being a commercial success and is currently a stand-alone film.
 * 2) Rolland Emmerich and the rest of the filmmakers didn't want to make fans mad again after the first film was released.

Results

 * 1) Sony's rights to The Three Eyed One expired in 2003 and their rights were reverted back to Tezuka.
 * 2) In 2012, a Three Eyed One reboot was released.

Plot
Same as the 1974 film, but with some changes:


 * Most of the pirates were humans instead of anthropomorphic animals.
 * Buku Bukk will be either replaced with Patchy the Pirate or a pirate captain named Bart (played by Bart McCarthy).
 * Pauly will be either replaced with Potty the Parrot (a parrot puppet) or Bart's parrot (a real parrot).
 * The pirates and on-land sequences will be live-action instead of traditional animated.
 * During the dream sequence, SpongeBob decided to put a slice of cheese on Phil's Krabby Patty (which will be in place of his pork cutlet bowl) instead of pork.
 * David Hasselhoff will be in place of Astro Boy.
 * Sushi City will be named "Shell City" and will be a gift shop instead of the restaurant.
 * The Giant will be replaced with the scuba diver known as "The Cyclops".
 * Neptune XIII and Mindy won't look like Ochanomizu and Sapphire.
 * Neptune XIII will turn Mr. Krabs into an ice statue instead of the bronze one.
 * The parody of Twisted Sister's "I Wanna Rock" will be in place of Astro's theme.
 * SpongeBob destroys the bucket helmets instead of Astro.

Why it was Cancelled

 * Hillenburg avoided lawsuit of Astro Boy, since Astro Boy was made by Osamu Tezuka.
 * Despite being well received, the Hillenburg remake of the show causes backlash from fans of the original SpongeBob.

Results

 * The Hillenburg remake of show ended abruptly with its version of the episode "Have You Seen This Snail?".
 * Nickelodeon's rights to SpongeBob expired and reverted back to Tezuka.
 * Speaking of which, in 2017, Tezuka released their own remake to the 1974 film.
 * DreamWorks announced the Gum Girl film with the similar plot.
 * Mindy's unused Hillenburg design, as well as the Surprised Patrick image, becomes an internet meme.
 * The teaser trailer (the trailer with the live-action submarine sequences and SpongeBob taking a bath while playing with his submarine) and the teaser poster (of SpongeBob jumping out of his clothes) were leaked online.
 * The script was leaked online.

Plot
Same as the original ones, but with a LOT of changes:


 * The SpongeBob Doppelganger and the Patrick Doppelganger were cut from its version of "Dunces and Dragons"
 * Mindy, King Neptune XIII, Sushi/Shell City and The Krusty Krab 2 won't appear again after the movie.
 * Its version of "SquidRick TentacleStar" will be known as "SquidBob TentaclePants" and Squidward will morph together with SpongeBob instead of Patrick.
 * Its version of "The New Spatula" will be known as "All that Glitters", and SpongeBob cries instead of pouting. Also, Le Spatula is very expensive instead of costing $20, which will cause SpongeBob to sell more of his stuff, including his clothes, not just some of his toys.
 * Also, Le Spatula won't have visible eyes. He won't grab his spatula and his arms will only be used for punching.
 * Le Spatula won't cook patties,
 * Its version of "The Gift of Gum" will be less Gumazing Gum Girl-like.
 * Its version of "Jellyfish Among Us" will be known as "Fungus Among Us" and No Name will be replaced with an itchy fungus, called an ick.
 * Its version of "A Flea in his Bucket" will be known as "A Flea in her Dome" and will focus on Sandy instead of Plankton.
 * Its version of "Atlantis SquarePantis" will have a lot of changes.
 * The Patchy and Potty segments and songs won't be Atlantis-themed.
 * LRH won't sing.
 * Its version of "What Ever Happened to Patrick (WhoRick WhatStar)" will be known as "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob (WhoBob WhatPants)" and SpongeBob will instead develop amnesia.
 * Its version of "The Great Sponge Wall" will be known as "Spongehenge" and it will focus on the spoof of Stonehenge.
 * Its version of "Not Normal" will have SpongeBob acting like Mr. Normal instead of Patrick.
 * Its version of "Squidward Gets a Splinter" will be known as "The Splinter" and SpongeBob will get a splinter instead of Squidward.
 * Its version of "Giant Squilliam" will be known as "Giant Squidward" and Squidward becomes a giant instead.
 * Puffy Fluffy will be less Tobio-like and will be the one-time antagonist instead of a newcomer.
 * Its version of "Chum Bucket Creature Feature" will be known as "Krabby Patty Creature Feature" and the zombies will resemble Krabby Patties instead of chum and they are defeated by feeding them chum instead of Patties and Patrick is still zombified, but never happened in the next episode.
 * Its version of "Squid Gets Spooked" will be known as "Ink Lemonade" and will focus on Squidward getting inked and Patrick uses ink for his fake lemonade stand.
 * Spandy and Pindy won't appear in the series.

Plot
The pitch for the original Cat Tale 3 is Rover would throw Tom and Tab in jail, leaving the latter to stew in their hatred and cook up a plot for revenge; Sylvester the Panther would become their cellmate and they’d team up to bust out and wreak havoc; in the end, Rover would offer a truce to Tom and Tab, who would refuse and die during their big fight, thus "illustrating to Rover the ramifications of a heart hardened by an inability to forgive. It would also only set up Kenneth to not make him main villain.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * On March 15, 2005, Tom and Tab were removed from the script and were replaced with Kenneth (the microwave blob monster from Gumball the Cat).

Results

 * The original version of Cat Tale 3 was permanently cancelled.
 * In 2007, a different version of Cat Tale 3 came out which got negative reviews from critics and audiences.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) Tezuka halted all distribution of the Gumball the Cat sequels after the box office failure of Gumball the Cat: The Next Generation.

Results

 * The third Gumball the Cat film was permanently cancelled.
 * There are only two original Gumball the Cat films.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) Astro Boy: Ascension received mixed reviews from critics.

Results

 * The sequel was cancelled.
 * Astro Boy: Ascension is standalone.
 * New Line Cinema announced a live-action Astroboy film.

Differences

 * "Here Comes Gumball" would be replaced with the opening theme that, unlike "Here Comes Gumball," did not have lyrics.
 * Also, it sounds different, and it ends with a flute piece.
 * Every episode will be retitled to "The (plot-point)."
 * Sussie will be a chin puppet instead of a humanoid.
 * Rock will be replaced with a cyclops named Rob.
 * Speaking of Rob, he will use his remote as his weapon instead of the wand.
 * Astro Boy, Uran, Mama and Papa will be replaced with colorful, puffy humanoid family, the Wilsons, named Tobias, Rachel, Harold and Jackie.
 * The Bobert System Company, including staffs, like Cody, with the exception of the Boberts, would be pure white.
 * Some of the characters, like Mom-Unit 6B, would be offscreen.
 * In "The Dream," Gumball feeds Penny a blueberry cupcake instead of the strawberry one. Also, Darwin kisses Sussie instead of Dr. Ochanomizu.
 * Also, rather than sneezing, Sussie will be saying "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah."
 * In "No Signal" (which will be known as "The Signal"), the static effects will be replaced with glitches.
 * "Spooky Scam" (which will be known as "The Scam") will be a season 4 episode instead of the season 5 one.
 * In "The Sucker," Jettermars is replaced with Darwin.
 * Gumball doesn't appear in its version of "The Spinoffs," "The Singing" and "The Sucker."
 * "Just a Fish with Legs" and "Rock's Disaster" will each split into two episodes.
 * "Just a Fish with Legs" - "The Origins" and "The Origins: Part 2"
 * "Rock's Disaster" - "The Disaster" and "The Rerun"

Why it was Cancelled

 * The "Early Reel" for the remake causes backlash from the fans of Gumball the Cat.

Result

 * The project was moved to DreamWorks and was retooled into the Gum Girl spin-off, Ninja-Rina: The Next Step.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) Norm of the North 4: Family Vacation was not well received by critics, audiences and fans.
 * 2) Makoto Tezuka was displeased with how Norm of the North 4: Family Vacation turned out.
 * 3) The release date became an issue since Makoto Tezuka couldn't meet the Summer 2013 release date that Tezuka Productions wanted.
 * 4) Tezuka Productions wanted multiple villains in the film, but Makoto Tezuka wanted to stick with only one.
 * 5) The storyline championed by Tezuka was dour and downbeat, with a main antagonist that wasn't seen as marketable enough by Tezuka Productions executives, who preferred someone more visually interesting, like Dr. Fooler and Carlos the Chick.

Results

 * Norm of the North 5: An Astro Adventure was permanently cancelled.
 * Despite the film's cancellation, the trailer is still up.
 * Tezuka later revealed in June of 2016 the storyboards for Norm of the North showing what the film might've been had it been made.
 * Elements from the cancelled film would be used for the Norm of the North reboot.

Why it was Cancelled

 * Astro Boy: Ascension film received mixed reviews from critics.
 * Illumination will no longer make live action/animated hybrid films due to the mixed-to-negative reception of the 2011 Hop remake.

Result

 * New Line Cinema announced the live-action Astroboy film instead.

Plot
An eight-year-old boy named Seth wins a contest called "Spend A Day with SpongeBob". However, the day doesn't go quite as they planned, resulting in a hair-raising adventure.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * The cancellation reason is possibly because Inovisim Films was sued by Tezuka Productions.

Result

 * The company had to be quiet about the movie.

Trivia

 * The name "Inovisim Films" doesn't exist. And is, in fact, one of the many fake names made by Regal Films, who is known for making unauthorized mockumentaries.
 * The DVD cover is photoshopped.
 * The kid on the cover named Seth is not an actor at all but it was a stock image of a boy jumping.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) Warner Bros. could not get the animatronics to work on set and couldn't hold the film rights to FNAF.
 * 2) The final story was not finished since Freddy Fazbear's Pizza simulator was not released yet and was the closure to FNAF.
 * 3) It was most likely scrapped in favor of Amblimation's Ready Player One and Minecraft.
 * 4) The filmmakers kept auditioning directors and Scott announced on Steam and social media that the movie was cancelled.
 * 5) Warner Bros announced a Banana Splits TV horror film on Syfy instead, but it was also cancelled and moved to Universal Studios as a theatrical live-action Tezuka World horror film.

Result

 * Because it has caused Warner Bros. for turnaround and even Gil Kenan left the project, that is until Blumhouse Productions (known for Paranormal Activity, Split and Get Out) has now joined for the work of Five Nights at Freddy's film about a few months later. In 2018, it was announced that Chris Columbus will be directing the movie along for writing and production with Blumhouse Productions and Scott Cawthon.

Plot
The family attended the live taping for the Banana Splits TV show but survived when the title characters became evil and murderous upon learning from their show's cancellation.

Why It Was Cancelled

 * 1) Warner Bros. done more research and could know that the Banana Splits were humans in costumes.
 * 2) The final story was not finished since the Taft Broadcasting Company simulator was not released yet and was the closure to The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.
 * 3) It was most likely scrapped in favor of The Jetsons.
 * 4) The filmmakers kept auditioning directors and SYFY announced on Steam and social media that the movie was cancelled.
 * 5) The plot seems WAY too dark for the Hanna-Barbera fans.
 * 6) It was moved to Universal, MGM, and Monkeypaw, and in which Astro Boy, Kimba, Black Jack, and Dororo (in their original counterparts; as androids; I know Astro Boy was already an android) show up instead of the usual Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky.

Result

 * The Banana Splits (as humans in costumes, like the original 1968 classic) and their animatronic counterparts appeared in Scooby-Doo: Return to Zombie Island.