Hey, it’s Scott Lee, Company Administrator here and I was just cleaning out my room and found an old paper from 2004 when we had one of our annual meetings to decide what our next project should be. A lot of this stuff is pretty interesting, so I figure I’ll go ahead and outline four different projects that got canned, or rather: just never got produced. All of these are ideas of mine, and some of them even ended up as incomplete scripts that I never finished writing.
Hayden - After the people I had cast for a project I was working on called Renaissance bailed on the project and there were too many schedule conflicts, I turned my attention to producing a shortfilm called “Hayden.” The main character, Hayden, is a guy who experiences all kinds of problems in his life, including having his girlfriend cheat on him. In the end, a new friend he makes named Anne demonstrates to him that everything going wrong with him is his own fault through a strange twist.
Why Hayden Never Got Made: I never finished writing the script, but as time passed there was simply too much going on with my own life and the rest of Barton to give this project the resources it needed to succeed.
The Receiver - Based on the Lois Lowry novel, The Giver. Jonas lives in a futuristic utopian society with no problems, no feelings, and no color.
Why The Receiver Never Got Made: - As Barton Ct. continued to get more and more official, it would have been too much of a hassle to attempt to obtain rights from both Lois Lowry, her publisher, or anyone who obtained movie rights to the book to actually produce it for our corporation.
Harry the Undermined - An intelligent man in the 1800’s rich off his father’s inheritance searches for meaning around town to eventually find another like him sacrificing their life for his.
Why Harry the Undermined Never Got Made: This was based on an old short story I wrote one day for a high school English class. The idea to produce it as a film was simply turned down during the 2004 meeting in which the idea was pitched.
Flow My Tears - Based on the Philip K. Dick story known as Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. The story is concerned with uncovering the true nature of time where everything written in the author’s essay comes true in his own life with an uncanny resemblance.
Why Flow My Tears Never Got Made:: This idea was shot down during the 2004 meeting AND would have been a potential hassle for intellectual property rights should we have ever chosen to try and produce it.
As it appears, countless other ideas have passed through the realm of Barton Ct. Productions never to be seen or heard from again. I was lucky to actually find this paper with some of my old ideas on it. Ironically, after reading what I had actually completed for the Hayden script, I realized that another film I’m working on writing right now has a very similar style and theme to it.
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