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Big Shiny Robot: Being grateful for what wasn’t
George Lucas’ Flash Gordon, Spielberg’s James Bond and other unrealized projects that allowed classics to emerge.
It’s interesting to consider how many creative projects were conceived, considered, cancelled, worked on or even came close to realization before the rug was pulled on them. Some never got further than being a great idea; others were close to being released. In many cases, we lament the fact these projects never happened, wishing for what could have been.
Sometimes we feel robbed by those unfinished works. Take, for example, John Steinbeck’s incomplete modernization and retelling of The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights .
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