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* ''[[The X-Files]]: I Want to Believe'' suffered a similar ordeal, but in a smaller scale and shorter time period.
* One of the earliest examples of this was Howard Hughes's ''Hell's Angels'', which, due to Hughes's perfectionism and insistence on the latest film technology, took three years and a budget of $3.8 million to create, something unheard of at the time (and equalling somewhere on the order of $225 million in today's money). Two decades later, Hughes would take ''seven'' years to complete a similar film, ''Jet Pilot''.
* [[Superman Returns|The fifth film]] in the ''[[Superman (film)|Superman]]'' franchise was stuck in pre-production for nearly two decades. The first part of this was mostly the producers wanting to distance themselves from the failure of ''[[Superman IV: The Quest For Peace]]'', while the later half was due to [[Executive Meddling]] driving director after [[Kevin Smith|director]] after director away from the project. ''Its'' proposed sequel similarly became mired in development hell, after the lackluster performance of ''Superman Returns
* The failure of ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' also caused many projects for a fifth [[Batman (film)|Batman]] movie to not take off (including a full-fledged sequel, an adaptation of ''[[Batman: Year One]]'', and a ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' film) until [[Batman Begins|a new one]] debuted eight years later.
* The rights to a live action adaptation of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' were sold to United Artists shortly before JRR Tolkien's death in 1973; it wasn't until 1994 that Peter Jackson was given approval to begin shooting (by Miramax) and [[The Lord of the Rings (film)|the first film]] was not released until 2001 (by New Line).
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