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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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