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== Anime and Manga ==
* The third ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'' movie took a really, ''really'' long time to make. It was released in Japan on November 17, 2012. And the fourth took another nine years after that.
** Similarly, the ''Evangelion'' manga, which began serialization ''before'' the show ever started airing. It reached its ending in June 2013, as chapters were published [[Schedule Slip|so far and between.]]
* After the third season of the ''[[Slayers]]'' anime (titled ''Slayers TRY'') aired in 1997, a fourth season (''Slayers AGAIN'') was slated for the following year; unfortunately, [[Megumi Hayashibara]]'s (the voice of the female lead) schedule was hectic, and since the entire staff and the other actors had no interest in doing the show without her, there was no direct fourth season...[[Uncancelled|until 2008]]. There was an OVA, a movie, and some radio dramas that followed through the early 2000's. However, eleven years for a direct fourth season is an ''awfully'' long time...
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* After two years, [[Touhou Project|Maikaze]] finally released a trailer for the second episode of [[Touhou Musou Kakyou|their Touhou fanime]], which had been rumored to have been scrapped over criticism, both from ZUN, the original creator of the series, and from fans.
* [[Shaman King]]. The series was cancelled at the very last chapters due to low ratings, so it was not ended. Fast Forwards many years later, the author was given the chance to finish it.
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* A live-action ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' movie was announced in 2002, but didn't get out until 2009 as ''[[Dragonball Evolution]]''.
* For some unknown reason there was a 14-year gap between the fourth St. Trinian's movie (''The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery'', 1966) and the fifth (''The Wildcats of St. Trinian's'', 1980). But there's no mystery why there was a 27-year gap between ''Wildcats'' and the sixth (''St. Trinian's'', 2007); ''Wildcats'' was reportedly so dire that it's the only one not available on DVD.
* Carl Sagan wrote the 100-page film script for ''[[Contact (film)|Contact]]'' in 1985. When it went to [[Development Hell]], he just [[Novelization|made a book out of it]]. The film was finally released in 1997.
* Whilst its stay in Development Hell was rather short, ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: [[Advent Children]]'' does fit. Announced at TGS 2003, and originally targeted for a summer 2004 release, it ended up appearing in its original form in September 2005. The reason, according to [[Word of God|director Tetsuya Nomura]], was that the movie was originally meant to only be roughly 40–50 minutes long. However, fan interest skyrocketed as soon as the movie was announced, so the script was rewritten and the movie lengthened to accommodate for fan expectation.
** ''Advent Children Complete'' again deserves a mention: it saw release in April 2009, after being announced at TGS 2006. Square Enix seem to have a habit of announcing things way before they're actually finished.
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* [[James Cameron]] wrote the script for ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'' in 1994, and planned for a 1999 release. It took ten years for technology to advance to the point where he could convincingly and reasonably depict another planet with CGI. [[Scenery Porn|He succeeded.]]
* [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] has two main examples: ''[[GoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]'' (which emerged from the failed third Timothy Dalton film) and the upcoming ''[[Skyfall (film)|Skyfall]]'' (EON started to arrange things. Then MGM got into financial problems, and it was kept on hold until the studio solved them). ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' is a minor case: it was first announced as a successor to ''[[Goldfinger]]'' (''[[Thunderball]]'' came instead due to lawsuits and such), then after ''Thunderball'' (but the winter locations made producers prioritize ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'').
* The film adaptation of ''[[Atlas Shrugged (film series)|Atlas Shrugged]]''. There were two failed attempts in [[The Seventies]] to turn it into a [[Miniseries]]—the first one fell through when [[Ayn Rand]] wasn't able to secure final script approval, while the second one had a finished script (with Rand's approval) and was gearing up for production at [[NBC]], but that too was halted after Fred Silverman came to power at the network. Rand started work on her own script, but [[Author Existence Failure|she died]] with only a third of it finished. The film rights switched hands multiple times in the ensuing decades, and at one point such stars as [[Angelina Jolie]], [[Brad Pitt]], [[Charlize Theron]], [[Julia Roberts]], [[Anne Hathaway]] and [[Russell Crowe]] were all attached. All of their deals, however, fell through, and the current rights-holders rushed through an independently-financed production [[Money, Dear Boy|in order to prevent the film rights from reverting to the Rand estate]]. The result, released in 2011 as ''[[Atlas Shrugged: Part I]]'', was critically thrashed and went largely ignored even by the conservatives and libertarians that its marketing aggressively courted.
* ''[[Superbad]]'' was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg in the mid-'90s, as a way to prove that they could write a movie script. Years later, after working with Judd Apatow on the short-lived TV series ''[[Undeclared]]'', they pitched the script to him. Originally, Seth Rogen was to play the role of Seth, and he recorded a script reading of the lines back in '02. During the early and mid-2000s, they could not find a company who wanted to distribute the film. The script also went through a few revisions, the whole idea of Seth and Evan going to separate colleges, and the emotional friendship stuff was added in a later revision. Anyway, after the success of ''[[Talladega Nights]]'', Apatow and Rogen pitched the script to Columbia, and they accepted it. But by this time, Rogen looked too old to play the role of Seth, so they had Jonah Hill take the role.
* The film version of the [[Dave Barry]] novel ''[[Big Trouble]]'' had been filmed, had a star-studded cast and was looking to be a big box-office hit...and then September 11 happened a week before the film was to be released. Being a comedy about a plane hijacking with a subplot about two teenagers playing a large-scale tag game called "Killer", the movie was shelved indefinitely. It finally appeared in theaters with little promotion in April 2002. Despite decent reviews, it failed spectacularly at the box office.
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* ''[[Ghostbusters]] 3''. The story behind the proposed third film is as strange as it gets. Rumors of multiple scripts and new Ghostbuster cast members have floated around the internet for years - to give you some perspective as to how long this has been going on, ''Chris Farley'' was being considered as a supporting character back in the 90's. Dan Aykroyd has reportedly written several scripts over the years, all of which failed to ignite enough interest to start pre-production. At one point, there was apparently a script written where the original team journeyed to a hellish [[Alternate Universe]] New York City called "ManHellton" (which, in turn, prompted the Russian video game studio ZootFly to produce a ''[[Gears of War]]''-esque [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM4cuKgGNvg tech demo] based on this proposed script in the late 00's). This, in turn, spurred the development and eventual release of ''Ghostbusters: The Video Game'', which (according to Aykroyd) may as well be the canonical third film. Yet, script and cast rumors still continue to float around - Ben Stiller, Bill Hader and Eliza Dushku have all been rumored to be potential replacement candidates. In January 2010, Ivan Reitman announced he was directing the film, and Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky (''[[The Office]]'') reportedly wrote a script with Aykroyd and Ramis that they were all very happy with. Yet, there's been no word for months on the status of development. A major part of the delay seems to involve Bill Murray - as of [http://screenrant.com/ghostbusters-3-bill-murray-2-aco-99337/ early 2011], it appears the production is only waiting on Murray to approve the script before they move forward with pre-production. Whether the film will finally [[Incredibly Lame Pun|materialize]] is anyone's guess.
** Bill Murray is [[Put on a Bus|out of the picture]], at last report, and Aykroyd is currently looking for an actor to play [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|replacement]]. Production was stated to have begun in Spring 2012, with or without Murray's involvement.
*** A production with an entirely different concept, starring an all-female version of the Ghostbusters,
* The [[Deadpool]] movie was somewhat stalled as its star Ryan Reynolds is tied up with other projects and producers are dead set on Reynolds being the star of the movie.
** The final movie will come out on February 2016.
* The [[Doctor Strange]] film: Disney has announced that Dr. Strange will be happening back in 2012. The final film will be released on November 2016.
* The sequel to ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' entitled ''[[Mary Poppins Returns]]'' had been in development hell since the first film's release in 1964, owing to creative differences between [[Walt Disney]] and ''Poppins'' series creator P. L. Travers, who rejected most of Disney's concepts for the sequel apart from [[Julie Andrews]] reprising the role. Decades later and following the debut of the musical adaptation, Travers's estate approved the development of a sequel set some 25 years after the events of the first film.
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