Underexposed!: The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made

For most films, it’s a long, strange road from concept to screen, and sometimes those roads lead to dead ends. In , screenwriter and filmmaker Joshua Hull guides readers through development hell. With humor and reverence, Hull details the speed bumps and roadblocks that kept these films from ever reaching the silver screen. From the misguided and rejected, like Stanley Kubrick’s starring the Beatles; to films that changed hands and pulled a U-turn in development, like Steven Spielberg’s planned adaptation starring Will Smith; to would-be masterpieces that might still see the light of day, like Guillermo del Toro’s , Hull discusses plotlines, rumored casting, and more. To help bring these lost projects to life, 50 artists from around the world, in association with the online art collective PosterSpy, have contributed original posters that accompany each essay and give a glimpse of what might have been.