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James Cameron's unrealized projects


The following is a list of unproduced James Cameron projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, Canadian film director James Cameron has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these projects, fell into development hell or are officially cancelled.


Around 1989, Stan Lee and Chris Claremont entered in talks with Carolco Pictures and Lightstorm Entertainment to make a film adaptation of the X-Men comic book series, with Cameron as producer, Kathryn Bigelow as director and Gary Goldman as writer. Late actor Bob Hoskins was slated to star as Wolverine and actress Angela Bassett was attached to star as Storm. Claremont also contacted Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter to revive the character of Jean Grey due the character's demise in The Dark Phoenix Saga comic book storyline. However, the project entered into development hell when Lee piqued Cameron's interest on the long planned Spider-Man film and after the defunction of Carolco Pictures. The film was finally released in 2000 with Bryan Singer as director.

In May 1990, Cameron tried to buy the rights to make a film adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park. However, film director Steven Spielberg bought the rights by a mere few hours before Cameron could buy them. According to Cameron's words, his Jurassic Park film would have involved the presence of dinosaurs and aliens. With the years, Cameron has admitted that after he saw Spielberg's Jurassic Park, he realized that he wasn't the right person for make the film. The film was finally released in 1993 and directed by Spielberg.


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