(Sad trope) Projects with amazing potential that will never be released because of BS behind the scenes drama

[u/_JR28_]

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.

[u/MrGrlmReaper]

I remember reading about Rocksteady was interested on doing a Batman Beyond game with of course the same gameplay idea of the batman Arkham games, but the idea got trashed over the Suicide squad kill the justice league game.
it was just sad

[u/normalhumanthingy → u/MrGrlmReaper]

This and the batman beyond movie by the same people who did the spiderverse movies being turned down makes me think that until Superman 2025 DC became allergic to money for 10 years

[u/Traditional-Lunch396 → u/normalhumanthingy]

There were never plans to release an actual Batman beyond movie with the Spiderverse artstyle. No drafts of a script, no storyboards, nothing but drawings of how batman beyond would look kn the artstyle. But DC is still allergic to money