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'''Development Hell''' becomes a sort of self-reinforcing feedback loop over time—as one director gets fed up and quits, the project is assigned to a new director, who orders a new screenplay with a new vision, which results in producers demanding changes, wash, rinse, repeat etc.

 

 

For those examples which ''finally'' became real, after years, or decades in some cases, look at [[Saved From Development Hell]].

 

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* An anime adaptation of ''Tonari no 801-chan'' was originally supposed to be animated by Kyoto Animation, and even had a preliminary website up for it. Then something happened and it fell into limbo. The project was ultimately cancelled, though a 90-second animated OP was created by A-1 Pictures and bundled with Vol.4 of the web manga.

* A stall can be typical of all English manga distributors, especially for less common titles, but the Yaoi distributor Drama Queen seems to have either gone on a dragging hiatus since 2007, or is dead and no one can figure out where it's been buried, so to speak.

* For a while it looked unlikely that Maikaze will finish the promised second and third episodes of ''[[Touhou Musou Kakyou]]'', due to low sales and criticisms over the [[Off-Model|artwork]], but a trailer for the second episode was released at Comiket 79, so there may be hope after all.

** It's no better in Japan, where after five volumes it just ''stopped''.

* ''The Five Killers'' was supposed to be an original creation from writer/producer Eric Calderon as an animated TV series (12 episodes with a 1 hour finale) done by [[GONZO]]. A trailer is unfortunately all that came out due to GONZO's financial situation.

* After ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' ended, it was announced that there would be a movie sequel which would be the [[Grand Finale]] for the Cosmic Era timeline. However, the film's head writer Chiaki Morosawa has been battling cancer since ''Destiny'' (according to an April 2008 interview with Animage magazine, Morosawa had uterine fibroids and an ovarian cyst, and had a hysterectomy performed), so literally no progress has been made on the film since 2005.

* ''[[Despera]]'s'' production is currently on hold due to the director Ryutaro Nakamura's health issues.

* The ''[[Code Geass]]'' Gaiden was first mentioned in the 2008 or 2009 time frame, though its official announcement wasn't until early-mid 2010. It was supposed to air in 2011. Its currently January 2012, and the general public has seen: two character designs, some mechs, and a general concept.

* The planned [[Spiritual Successor]] to the ''[[Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise]]'', ''Aoki Uru'', entered preproduction ''in 1988'', but hasn't been completely abandoned yet. Despite it being shelved indefinitely, [[Gainax]] is still wishing to eventually produce it, and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto still releases the concept arts from time to time.

 

 

 

== Buildings ==

* The San Francisco 49ers have been trying to build a stadium for years. Their latest plan had been stalled for several years, and groundbreaking began April 19, 2012.

* The Ballpark Village shopping/entertainment/apartment complex in downtown St. Louis, designed to revitalize the area. Building began in 2005 with a planned completion date of July 2009. Around 2008, building stopped as financier Bill DeWitt refused to spend any more money on the project (and he is a multi-billionaire who makes a lot of money off of the St. Louis Cardinals, so his penny-pinching is completely inexcusable). Cut to late 2011, and it looks it will never be finished (due to DeWitt's frugality and the state basically neglecting the city and its needs).

* The [[Sydney]] Opera House, when it was built between 1959 and 1973. It ended up 10 years behind schedule and 14 times over budget, due to the complexity of the architecture and manufacture of the steel beams. On top of that, the architect, Jorn Utzon, [[Creator Backlash|quit in disgust]].

 

* An animated ''[[Elf Quest]]'' movie has been "coming soon" since the mid eighties. Though much of the (albeit scarce) pre-production art looks great, it's still never gotten further than that and will likely never be produced.

** Supposedly, the primary stumbling block is that [[Executive Meddling|studio executives kept trying to persuade the creators]] to [[Race Lift|make all the dark-skinned elves whiter]], and then losing interest when the creators refused to even entertain the possibility. [[Society Marches On|In this day and age]] that probably isn't such a huge issue, so there is still some faint hope.

* Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk had a 3-year gap between issues #2 and #3.

* Issue #8 of [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[The Twelve]]'', a 12-issue limited series, came out in January 2009. Issue #9 came out over three years later, in February 2012.

 

* ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman|Gatchaman's]]'' CGI film, is officially dead after ''[[Astro Boy (film)|Astro Boy]]'' bombed and Imagi Studios went flat. A 2013 live-action adaptation was made instead.

* [[The Movie]] of ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]''. Originally planned as ''Clerks: Sell Out'', wherein Dante and Randall decide to make a movie about their escapades in the Quick Stop, this got an animation test in 2006 and was supposed to go straight to DVD a little while after ''Clerks 2''. However, according to [[Kevin Smith]], Disney still own the rights to the series and all designs related to it, which essentially negates all possibility of there being a movie any time soon.

* ''Blue Planet'', a CGI sci-fi action movie planned by now-defunct Rainbow Studios (later aquired by [[THQ]]), with a video-game tie-in. A trailer was released, to widespread acclaim, which showcased the for-the-time high-quality CGI, parodies of Pixar's ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' and ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'' characters, and a soundtrack featuring "More Human Than Human" by [[Rob Zombie]]. Much of the already-shot footage was recycled for the time-in game, which was eventually released as ''[[Deadly Tide]]''.

* In the late 1990's, Fox and [[Matt Groening]] signed a deal to make three films based on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. The first film was released in 2007. Since then, absolutely ''nothing'' has been heard about the sequels (rumors have had one of the films be based on ''Itchy and Scratchy'').

** The last news about the subject was in 2014.

* ''Invisible Monsters'', based off of a book penned by Chuck Palahniuk (of ''[[Fight Club]]'' fame), has been in development for forever and a half.

* ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''. It had a French version successfully released in 1966, but those guys over at Hollywood are still stuck on this.

** At one point, Frank Darabont was involved and wrote a script. That was in ''2005''.

* The unfinished 1938 production of ''I, Claudius'' was waylaid by an accident involving its lead actress and by the difficulty that Charles Laughton had in getting into Claudius's role. Only a few scenes from the film were ever publicly released in the 1960s. (The DVD release of the TV version of ''[[I, Claudius]]'' includes a documentary which features this footage.)

* The ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' movie is rather notorious for its stint in Development Hell amongst its fanbase. The filmic style of series VII was considered a dry-run for the then relatively-certain movie production, and the project itself got as far as script readings and prosthetic make-up tests for Robert Llewellyn (the actor who portrays Kryten) in the early '00s. However, the project mysteriously disappeared soon afterwards with very little mention of how production was proceeding or indeed any indication that it was even still alive. Doug Naylor, one of the co-creators of Red Dwarf, cleared up the matter with a statement on the Series VIII DVD, explaining that the movie had run into serious financial difficulties, and Grant Naylor Productions were having problems garnering enough funding from potential investors. With the 3-part special ''Red Dwarf: Back To Earth'' airing in April 2009, it is likely that the Red Dwarf movie will never see the light of day, although some may argue that if the specials do well enough it may provide the movie with a second chance.

* The film version of ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' has been talked about for at least 10 years now. There was a rumor back in the day that it would resurface in 2008—as an HBO series. Nearly two years later, we still have nothing. Rumor has it HBO passed on this, saying it's too dark. ''Seriously.''

** Given that the comic revolves around a character going on a quest to kill God, it's understandable why people are hesitant to touch the property, it's likely too controversial for any major studio to helm.

* ''[[The Sandman]]''. Considering that the people interested in filming it were Joel Schumacher and [[Executive Meddling|Jon]] [[Giant Spider|Peters]], though, it may be fortunate that this film never got off the ground. One of the proposed scripts is available online. The script Roger Avary and the guys behind ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' worked on was a pretty sweet blending of the first two collections and the "Endless gather again for the first time" scene from ''Season of Mists''. But then the script was sent in for rewrites under Jon Peters, and Neil Gaiman called the script not only the worst ''Sandman'' script he'd seen, but one of the worst scripts he'd ever seen.

** The film adaptation of ''[[The Sandman]]'' spin-off ''Death: The High Cost Of Living'' has also been in development hell for several years. IMDB has a release date of 2013 (as of April 2011), but there's not even a ''production company'' attached yet.

** It wasn't until making ''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'' that he finally got a studio to okay his script for ''[[H.P. Lovecraft|At the Mountains of Madness]]''—a script that apparently had no romantic subplot, a [[Bittersweet Ending]], and [[Ultimate Evil|very vague monsters]], none of which are things producers want. It was also going to have Ron Perlman, apparently; he joked that [[Author Appeal|del Toro will let him pick the sort of jar he gets to float in]]. [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_mountains_of_madness#Film But Universal Studios gave up on it in 2011, and del Toro gave up on it altogether in 2012].

** He was also planning an adaptation of ''Domu: A Child's Dream'', by [[Katsuhiro Otomo]] (better known for ''[[Akira]]''), which has apparently been called off due to rights issues.

* ''[[The Dam Busters]]'', a remake of the 1955 classic. Mel Gibson bought the rights in the late 1990s but never made much progress past rumors of filming in west England. Peter Jackson obtained the rights a few years ago and rumor has it that filming had begun in 2009. Then Jackson decided to scrap the film and restart in 3-D.

* There's a lot of [[Marvel Universe|Marvel]] films that appear to have stalled.

* ''[[The Punisher]]'' sequel to the 2004 version was in this condition before getting cancelled. In 2007, Thomas Jane, who would have played Jigsaw in the sequel, refused to appear, stating his intent to buff up for the role was not worth a movie he just didn't believe in.

* The third ''Alien vs. Predator'' film.

* A fifth [[Indiana Jones]] movie is much rumored by Spielberg, Lucas, Ford and [[La Beouf]]. Considering that the fourth film was in Development Hell for nineteen years, it's hard to say if anything will come of the fifth film.

* The ''[[Rifts]]'' movie. [[Jerry Bruckheimer]] picked up the right in 2004, and has been renewing the option every year, but doesn't seem to have done anything with it yet. Though, considering how other Rifts spin-offs (like the CCG and the N-Gage video game) went, this may not be a bad thing.

* A [[Biopic]] of [[Silent Age of Hollywood|silent film]] comedian [[Fatty Arbuckle|Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle]] has been in this state for about three decades. Like the aforementioned ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'', it had [[John Belushi]], John Candy and Chris Farley lined up to star in it shortly before their respective deaths. No word has come out of it since.

* ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'': Fanboys director Kyle Newman was given the greenlight to direct a remake back in 2007, unfortunately the studio kept cutting the budget, and the only college in Georgia that would let them film was an all girls school, as the other colleges had previously had bad experiences with film crews. The studios also kept on making demands for things as trivial as the main characters wardrobe, then after the all girls school found out that the film was more "risque" then the crew had let on, they were kicked out and had no money left to finish the movie, so the studio pulled the plug on the remake and nothing has been heard ever since.

* A live-action film of ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' has been been in the early proposal/planning stages for over a decade now; spearheaded by long-time fan [[Patrick Stewart]], who is the fan-favorite to play Spider Jerusalem. At one point, an animated version was proposed, with Steward voicing Jerusalem. Ellis and Robertson have indicated that they would like [[Tim Roth]] to play the title role; but as of this time, no production has started on any adaptation.

* Around 2003, [[Robert Zemeckis]] was planning to remake the William Castle film ''Macabre'' for Dark Castle Entertainment (a company he co-founded with Joel Silver) at some point in between the productions of ''[[The Polar Express]]'' and ''[[Beowulf (film)|Beowulf]]''. After Zemeckis got heavily into motion capture, he abandoned the project and eventually left Dark Castle to start Imagemovers Digital. Nothing has been heard about the project since.

* The ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]'' remake, first announced in 2006. At first it was announced as a straight remake of the 1985 comedy, then it wasn't, then Gore Verbinski joined the project, then it was a straight remake again. The Wikipedia page for the 1985 film currently lists a release date of 2013.

* [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5813834 This] ESPN the Magazine article gives an inside account of the process of getting stuck in Development Hell—specifically, David Fleming's attempt to get ''Breaker Boys'', his book on the 1925 Pottsville Maroons, an early NFL team that had its championship revoked after bitter lobbying from richer rival team owners, onto the big screen. Fleming sees this as a larger failure than most—because the movie isn't getting made, the NFL won't be forced to admit its mistake and restore the stolen championship.

* ''[[Jumanji]] 2'', which would have involved the Jumanji board, after being spotted in the ocean, uncovered by two girls from France, building on [[Sequel Hook|a scene at the end of the film]]. It was scrapped when Chris Van Allsburg wrote ''[[Zathura]]'' as a sequel to the book that inspired the movie, with the intent of making [[The Movie]] based on the book (which ironically is more of a [[Spiritual Successor]]).

* The [[Wesley Snipes]] western ''Gallowwalker'' was shot in 2006, with reshoots done in 2009, but as of 2012 remains unreleased (partially due to Snipes's legal issues, which previously led to delays in the reshoots).

* The Jim Henson Company has been planning a ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'' movie and ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'' sequel for quite some time. Every now and then, they'll announce ''The Dark Crystal'' sequel, but no progress appears to have been made. This was parodied by ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', which joked that the primary reason it's not going forward is that today's kids don't want to watch an all-puppet film.

* The idea for a [[The Muppets|Muppet]] movie known as ''[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cheapest_Muppet_Movie_Ever_Made! The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made]'' was originally floated in 1985. It's presumably about Gonzo directing a Muppet movie and he blows half the budget on the opening titles, resulting in the movie progressively getting shittier and shittier to the point where a shot of the same street corner is used for every city in the world. The title card was revealed in September 2009, but it was subsequently set aside in favor of ''[[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]''.

 

== Food ==

 

* Donald Knuth's ''The Art of Computer Programming'' was started in 1962 (which may as well be the Bronze Age as far as computer programming is concerned) and not all the volumes are out yet. Initially not helped by Knuth deciding to create a typesetting system from scratch since he was not satisfied by what was available.

* [[Timothy Zahn]] and [[Michael Stackpole]] collaborated on a six-issue [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] comic for the ''[[X Wing Series]]'' which bridged over into Zahn's [[The Thrawn Trilogy|Thrawn]] [[Hand of Thrawn|books]]. It's called [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Reenlistment_of_Baron_Fel The Reenlistment Of Baron Fel]. But the [[X Wing Series]] comics were canceled [[No Ending|abruptly]]. So Zahn and Stackpole worked on the script and turned it into a four-chapter novella, something that they've done before. And Del Ray did not buy this script. Both versions are languishing on their hard drives, and it's been something like ten years since the [[X Wing Series]] was going.

*** Until it was announced on April 27, 2011 - GRRM's ''blog'', no less - that the book is ''finally'' [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|complete]]! [[Saved From Development Hell]], in-''deed''!

* They did get someone to finish the [[Author Existence Failure|late lamented]] Robert Jordan's ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series.

** There's even a (short) book about this fiasco, The Book on the Edge of Forever, by author Christopher Priest (most famous for [[The Prestige]]). When you consider that TLDV was slated to include stories by long-dead authors such as Frank Herbert, Alfred Bester, and Cordwainer Smith (who died in 1966!!), this is the very pinnacle of development hell.

* [[Diane Duane]] has been somewhat notorious among her fans for this. In her ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series, there was a eight year gap between the release of ''A Wizard Abroad'' and ''The Wizard's Dilemma'', and a five year gap between ''Wizards at War'' and ''A Wizard of Mars'', which was released in April 2010 after getting pushed back by its publishers about six times. Finally, there is the ''[[The Tale of Five]]'' series which has lain unfinished for nearly eighteen years now, with the last part, ''The Door into Starlight'' having gone unfinished since 1992, but she promises she is still working on it.

* David Gerrold's fans have been waiting for the fifth ''[[War Against the Chtorr]]'' novel (A Method For Madness) since at least 1994.

* The third book in the [[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]] series, ''The Republic of Thieves,'' has been repeatedly announced as forthcoming...and as repeatedly postponed.

 

* ''[[K9]]'' was first announced in 1997. It subsequently premiered in the UK in 2009, airing its full season in Scandinavia in 2010.

* The team behind ''Human Giant'' announced that MTV had allowed them a third season. Unfortunately, they couldn't film much because Aziz was busy on ''[[Parks and Recreation]]''. Since then nothing has been said.

* The Sci-Fi Channel announced in 2002 that they would produce a ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' television movie featuring Sam's daughter as a new leaper. A proposed release date of 2004 was given, and the movie's writer even gave a ''QL'' fansite [http://www.quantumleap-alsplace.com/quantum2/castandcrew/treycallawayinterview.htm an interview] about the plot, but ultimately nothing ever came of it.

* No fewer than ''ten'' pilots were made between 1996 and 2010 for a revival of the ''[[Pyramid]]'' game show franchise. Even with a successful revival from 2002 to 2004, the pilots just kept coming in the subsequent years.

 

* [[The Blue Nile]] are the kings of this trope. They spent five years in between the first and the second album, seven years between the second and the third, and eight years between the third and the fourth. Very little [[Executive Meddling]] is involved in the production; it's all because the band takes this long to produce these songs '''on purpose''' and it shows.

* [[Limp Bizkit]]'s ''The Unquestionable Truth (Part 2)''

* The line-up of [[Van Halen]] which featured Gary Cherone of [[Extreme]] imploded after the critical and commercial failure of their sole studio album, ''Van Halen 3''. Eddie Van Halen would go through drug and alcohol addictions, survive tongue cancer (he apparently still smokes cigarettes) and a divorce to longtime wife [[One Day At a Time|Valerie]] [[Hot in Cleveland|Bertinelli]]. A reunion tour in 2004 with Sammy Hagar followed, on the heels of a two-disc anthology with two new "Van Hagar" recordings (similar to the failed reunion in 1996 with David Lee Roth for [[Greatest Hits Album]] ''Best Of Vol. 1'', but the Roth reunion never happened), but Eddie's re-emerging alcoholism led to poor performances and Sammy's second departure, this time taking founding bassist Michael Anthony with him to form [[Chickenfoot]]. Eddie would sober up, rehire David Lee Roth, and begin a world tour with Eddie's son Wolfgang replacing Anthony. ''A Different Kind Of Truth'', Van Halen's first new album in fifteen years, and its first with Roth since ''1984'', would be released to commercial and critical success in 2012.

 

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]:'' Since updates to rulebooks and models for different armies are largely based on player demand, and player demand is in turn based on the availability of up to date rulebooks and models, some teams spend years in development hell. This was exemplified by the Dark Eldar who went ''over a decade'' without an updated codex while the much more popular space marines received seven. They were mercifully [[Saved From Development Hell]] with an excellent new codex and model range, but others [[Demoted to Extra|haven't fared so well]].

** With the release of the Necrons during the halloween of 2011, the Sisters of Battle is now literally the oldest range, having not received a new model in the longest time.

* [[Gary Gygax]] had always wanted to release a version of his iconic "Castle Greyhawk", the location that pretty much launched ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' while at TSR. Due to his busy schedule as the head of TSR, and his writing duties on a myriad of other modules, he never was able to complete or even start the module. (His being sent to Los Angeles to develop the ''D&D'' cartoon series didn't help either). In 1982, the module had been advertised in Dragon Magazine, but as of 1986, when Gygax left the company due to "[[Creative Differences]]", no module had been published. In '87, TSR did a wild and [[Dude, Not Funny|mostly unfunny]] parody version of the Castle that bore no resemblance to Gygax's design. It was seen by many gamers as little more than a parting shot against Gygax, and the module has been pretty solidly rejected by players and [[Canon Discontinuity|pretty much disowned]] by TSR and [[Wizards of the Coast]], leading to a second try at the module which was much more warmly received.

** There was some talk of releasing it with the Capcom elements removed, but Living Room Games folded due to the financial loss incurred by not actually releasing the game before this could happen. Many RPG fans are disappointed, as by all accounts, it was one of the best and most novel applications of the d20 system ever.

* ''[[Mekton]]'' is pretty much the (barely-) living definition of Development Hell for Tabletop [[RPG]]s. Plans for a new edition, using R Talsorian Games' then-new Fuzion system were announced in the late 1990s. This version, ''Mekton Double Zeta'' stalled very quickly, and very little was heard from it. RTG then sold Mekton to Atomic Rocket Games with the intent of either producing a new edition or alternatelively putting Mekton Zeta back into production. Instead, ARG sat on the licence and did nothing with the IP before selling it back to RTG, while retaining a limited licence to produce supplements and Sourcebook material (As of 2010, they have only produced a few short PDF products). At some point after that, the Fuzion version was dropped with devleopment of any new edition being effectively cancelled. In 2009, Mike Pondsmith, the game's original creator, returned to the company and announced a new version, ''Mekton ZERO'' was in development; owever, as yet, no details of the new edition have emerged and there has been no activity from RTG beyond random posts on the Mekton mailing list from Pondsmith, and even those have ceased.

 

* Richard O'Brien has, for years, planned on making a sequel to the ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show|Rocky Horror Show]]''. So far, however, nothing beyond a few rumors and some scrapped script ideas. All that's known about the yet-to-be-made sequel is that it would've involved Frank N Furter coming back to life.

** The first "leaked" script, ''Revenge of the Old Queen'', began making the rounds in the late '90s, though it reads more like a glorified [[Fanfic]]. Last year, O'Brien announced that he had finally begun writing the playbook for a true sequel, entitled ''Rocky Horror: The Second Cumming''. See the Discussion page for a more detailed version.

* A musical version of ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'', which would have been closer to the original novel than its 1976 film adaptation, was announced for Broadway at the turn of 2000, and had a dedicated website with song demos and costume designs. The project never got further than a few more demos. Curiously, there were unrelated plans for a new film adaptation of the book for 2009, but that project never made it further than an IMDb page. Both projects may have suffered for the fact that the story has a ''huge'' [[Downer Ending]].

* The Broadway version of ''[[Love Never Dies]]'' was set to open Fall 2010, but it was pushed back first to Spring 2011 and then indefinitely.

 

== Theme Parks ==

* [[Disney Theme Parks|EPCOT]] has had plans to add more countries to the World Showcase for decades now. Among plans include a Mt. Fuji themed roller coaster in the Japan area, which eventually led to ''Expedition Everest'' at the Animal Kingdom.

== Transportation Infrastructure ==

* London rail infrastructure has the Crossrail lines: the Crossrail 1 "Elizabeth line" (which had been planned by TFL and (pre-privatization) British Rail since 1989, and was supposed to finally open in December 2018, but keeps getting delayed) and the Crossrail 2 "Chelsea-Hackney line" (which, according to TFL's original plans, was supposed to be built as a London Underground line after the Victoria and Jubilee lines were completed in the 70s, but is still in development hell today).

 

* In ''Muertitos'', the equivalent of Hollywood is actually ''called'' Development Hell, in a [[Shout-Out]] to this. The story arc it appears in actually primarily parodies [[Adaptation Decay]] and [[So Bad It's Horrible]], however.

 

* [[The Masked Girl]] had a year between release of the opening and release of the actual first episode.

* Jack Douglass (of [http://www.youtube.com/user/jacksfilms jacksfilms]) has been promising a [[YouTube]] version of "Choose Your Own Adventure" since 2008.

* [[Shiny Objects Videos]] promised a fully stop-motion animated video back in 2010. It, uh... hasn't panned out.

 

* The three ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' OVAs. Reports conflict as to whether they were finally cancelled, but evidence points to their cancellation. <s>In a similar vein, the live-action series, which was announced as "in discussion" a year ago and has not been heard from since, is probably in danger of becoming this.</s> Actually, some recent PDFs found on Moonscoop's website suggest that they are in the late planning stage/early filming stage. Of course, who knows about release dates...

* Nelvana holds the rights to the ''[[Little Critter]]'' characters and at least a couple of scripts were written around 2000, but nothing further has been heard since and it is assumed development was dropped.

 

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