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The following is a '''list of unproduced Terry Zwigoff projects''' in roughly chronological order. During his long career, American film director [[Terry Zwigoff]] has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these productions fell in [[development hell]] or were cancelled.<ref name=vf>{{cite magazine|last=Hoffman|first=Jordan|title=Ghost World Director Terry Zwigoff Has Learned to Expect the Worst from Hollywood|date=May 18, 2017|magazine=Vanity Fair|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/05/terry-zwigoff-ghost-world-bad-santa-interview|accessdate=March 10, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Jagernauth|first=Kevin|title='Ghost World' Director Terry Zwigoff Runs Down All The Films He Couldn't Get Made|date=May 18, 2017|website=ThePlaylist.net|url=https://theplaylist.net/ghost-world-director-terry-zwigoff-runs-films-couldnt-get-made-20170518/|accessdate=March 10, 2024}}</ref>

==1980s==

===''Sassy''===

According to ''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'', Zwigoff and [[Robert Crumb]] were once hired by the [[Mitchell brothers]] to write a [[pornographic film]] based on one of Crumb's comics about a female [[sasquatch]] who is dragged from the wild into the culturally bankrupt world of modern America.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Koester|first=Megan|title=Terry Zwigoff Doesn't Like Doing Interviews|date=May 17, 2017|magazine=Vice|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7akj7/terry-zwigoff-doesnt-like-doing-interviews/|accessdateaccess-date=March 10, 2024}}</ref> Their unproduced and ultimately non-pornographic screenplay, titled ''Sassy'', was written in 1988.

==1990s==

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==2020s==

===Untitled TV series===

In the 2020s, Zwigoff was reportedly developing a series with writers [[Glenn Ficarra]] and [[John Requa]]. He expressed interest in casting [[Tony Cox (actor)|Tony Cox]] for a role if greenlit for production.<ref name=Cox/><ref>{{cite news|last=Thomas|first=Rob|url=https://captimes.com/entertainment/screens/uw-madison-grad-terry-zwigoff-is-as-delightfully-acerbic-as-his-movies/article_478e6ad0-8236-11ee-a84f-b3a71eebd8a5.html|title=UW-Madison grad Terry Zwigoff is as delightfully acerbic as his movies|newspaper=[[The Capital Times]]|date=November 13, 2023|access-date=August 18, 2024}}</ref>

==References==