The budget for development has similarly shrunk.

At the same time, the demand for development scuttlebutt has increased exponentially.

There seems to be less interest in willing these developments into fruition.

At first, writer-director Stephen Norrington (Blade, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen) was attached.

Then in 2008, it was to be shorts director Ruairi Robinsons first feature, with Leonardo DiCaprio producing.

The project was shut down again in January 2012.

He also managed to piss off fans everywhere by claiming that nobody in the source material was interesting.

The movie came out in 1992, before the better-known TV spin-offs run from 1997 to 2003. it’s possible for you to still see the sizzle reel on YouTube if youre interested.

The Whedon-less reboot, on the other hand, has been looming over our heads since 2009.

Producers Fran Rubei Kuzui and Kaz Kuzui announced their intention to make an event-sized movie with franchise potential.

Warner Bros (again) picked up the rights in November 2010.

Theyve since announced that theyre looking for a new writer, but it doesnt seem to be moving.

Whedons tongue-in-cheek response to the news was typically pithy.

Why wont it happen?Isnt theTwilightfad kind of over now?

Let it rest in peace, Warners!

It still holds a Rotten Tomatoes rating of just 9% fresh.

Heres a sentence you didnt think youd read today everything hinges on the 2011 remake ofArthur.

He was too big forArthur, but not big enough forDrop Dead Fred.

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later) was the next director to take the chair.

Reassuringly, hes a fan of the original.

I loved the series also, they shot a lot of it in France, on the Seine River.

My first reaction, like everybody else, was, really, do we need a remake?

The same Deadline article claimed that shooting would start in 2014, but weve heard nothing since.

Why wont it happen?There can be only one!

Sorry, we had to.

It was memorably adapted for the big screen in 1976, starring Michael York and Jenny Agutter.

Its dead as dead can be, he told TwitchFilm.

The reboot: This is a funny one.

And you thought that Ryan Reynolds as an immortal Scotsman would have been interesting.

Could this have been anElementary-style update of the character?

Would Garner have affected an English accent?

What the hell were they thinking?

(See also: WHY?)

It gave us all a good laugh though.

Why wont it happen?

You have to ask?

IN CONCLUSION

Were prepared to be wrong about some of these.