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== Automobiles ==

* General Motors planned to turn Saturn into Opel of America, with more vehicles added to the product line, when the 2007-2009 global economic crisis struck. The name then disappeared as 2009 ended and 2010 started.<br /><br />The Saturn division itself was first announced and a prototype shown in 1983. It was 1991 by the time you could actually buy one, and the original sedan's wraparound rear window had been stolen ''internally'' by Oldsmobile, leading observers to see the Saturn as the "copy".

* Due in large part (but not entirely) to [[World War Two]], the VW Beetle design was finalized for production in 1938 but the first cars delivered to retail customers weren't until 1947.

 

 

* 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.

* The Snoop Dogg movie ''Black Ice'' has been on and off in development for the latter part of the decade. Snoop said in a recent interview that scheduling and communication issues have caused the delays, but insists that it'll see the light of day.

* The ''[[Red Dawn]]'' remake was stalled during post-production for a long time because of MGM's financial issues, after the company's restructuring, the film was finally completed, though no release date has yet been announced, so it most likely won't come out until 2012.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[K 9]]'' was first announced in 1997. It subsequently premiered in the UK in 2009, airing its full season in Scandinavia in 2010.

* The [[Disney Channel]] series JONAS, suffered from this. The original plan was to launch the vehicle for [[The Jonas Brothers]] with the band serving as a front for a group of secret agents (think a [[Kim Possible]] meets [[Hannah Montana]] hybrid) with the name standing for "'''J'''unior '''O'''peratives '''N'''etworking '''A'''s '''S'''pies). For whatever reasoning, that didn't fly, resulting in [[Retool]] after [[Retool]], ultimately culminating in a standard, run of the mill sitcom (albeit sans [[Laugh Track]]). Then after a botched launch on Saturdays where ''[[I Carly]]'' cleaned its clock, it went through yet another retool after the first season, and with the Jonas Brothers fading among teenagers, turned into an unexpectedly depressing soapish dramedy in the second season, renamed, JONAS LA, (yes, it's in ALLCAPS). JONAS LA was canceled, because of predictably low ratings.

 

== Web Comics ==

 

 

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