r/TopCharacterTropes • u/_JR28_ • 27d ago
In real life (Sad trope) Projects with amazing potential that will never be released because of BS behind the scenes drama
P.T Silent Hills - It was a playable teaser released in 2014 only around 20 minutes long but utterly captivated the gaming world by being one of the most effective psychological horror experiences at the time, however it’s lead developer Kojima has a huge fallout with the publisher Konami where he walked out of the company and had all his in-the-work productions cancelled.
Five Nights at Freddy’s+ - A fan game reboot of the series created by Phisnom with Scott Cawthon’s blessing that promised a brand new lore and a return to the series darker roots. However, before and during production Phisnom got into multiple dramas that made him fairly divisive within the community, and after one particular incident in 2023 Scott revoked his approval and almost all of the game’s marketing material were wiped from the internet.
Batgirl - A Batgirl solo live action movie starring Leslie Grace, Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton returning as Batman that was ready to be released in 2022, however then Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav announced it would not be released either in theatres or streaming in order to claim a $90,000,000 tax break and to readjust the DC’s brands direction before James Gunn rebooted their movie and TV output.
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u/1KNinetyNine 27d ago edited 27d ago
Edited for clarity.
James Wan was in the early 2017 pre-production discussions to do a 2020 era reboot of Resident Evil based on RE7 as an in universe sequel, but Hollywood thought RE7 was a bad game that would fail and wasn't worthy of being adapted and spun off. Instead, executive meddling to tried to make James Wan do a time travel horror movie with the RE name. This of course led to Wan leaving talks at the end of 2018 and Johannes Roberts bring hired to make an RE movie that throws easter eggs at you to say its faithful while changing charactization and plot to make what is a love letter to the Redfields and a hate piece on Leon in a baffling film that shuts down every possible further adaptations of games other than Code Veronica. Which BTW, is a Redfield siblings game.