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The following is a list of unproduced David Gordon Green projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, American film director David Gordon Green 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.
2000s
A Confederacy of Dunces
In November 2002, it was announced that Green was to helm a film adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces for Miramax Films, which bought the film rights to the novel from Paramount Pictures on June that same year.[1] Will Ferrell was to have portrayed Ignatius J. Reilly and Lily Tomlin, Drew Barrymore, Mos Def and Olympia Dukakis were to have co-starred.[2] The script was written by Steven Soderbergh and Scott Kramer.[3] It was reported in 2003 that Barrymore's production company Flowers Films was to co-produce the film with Warner Bros.[4] It has been said that Hurricane Katrina played a factor in the film's cancellation.[5]
References
- ^ Oppelaar, Justin (7 November 2002). "'Dunces' pic caps long road". Variety (magazine). Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Hyman, Peter (14 December 2006). "A Conspiracy of Dunces". Slate (magazine). Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Rooney, David (2 June 2003). "A stage of 'Dunces'". Variety (magazine). Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ "David Gordon Green: This real boy's life". The Independent. 25 July 2003. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
- ^ Battleground, Andrea (11 March 2014). "A Confederacy Of Dunces could be headed to Broadway". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 8 December 2019.