The Lost & Unmade Projects Of Steven Spielberg

Sometimes, a Steven Spielberg movie takes years to come to fruition. For example, eleven years passed between the optioning of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team Of Rivals” and the release of “Lincoln.” Sometimes a Steven Spielberg movie can come together at lightning speed, like this week’s “Bridge Of Spies” (read our review here),  which went into production seemingly mere months after its announcement. And sometimes, a Steven Spielberg movie doesn’t get made at all.

Spielberg’s been at the head of the A-list for directors for forty years now, and as such, has had his pick of the top projects over the decades. Inevitably, some of those movies don’t get made for one reason or another. It’s a list of projects almost as tantalizing as the ones that did get made.

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