Movies with the "Development" Production Status
Producers select story and/or acquire rights to underlying intellectual property (e.g. adaptation, remake, video game, etc.) and work with screenwriter(s) to craft a story outline into a workable script in an effort to garner a “greenlight” for the film from the financing studio and/or production company. An agreement for a major star or director to join the film can boost a project's prospects of securing financing, but those arrangements can reverse if scheduling and other details do not work. Films in this stage can languish for months, years, or fall apart completely.
Known as "development hell"-industry jargon for a film, screenplay, idea, etc. that remains in development for years, often bouncing between different studios and cycling through different scripts, writers, and directors, without actually making it to production.
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A black girl goes on a journey in which she discovers her hidden powers.
Sequel to the 2012 found footage comedy - which documented an entire day where three high schoolers attempt to throw the biggest party ever and make themselves legends.
Born on Eventide, Morrigan Crow's fated to die at midnight on her ninth birthday. She is spared when rescued by a mysterious stranger, and after they are chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, they escape to a secret city called Nevermoor.
A team of gifted teens control biological nanobot robots warriors and they battle another group that is controlled by conjoined twins whose nanobots are brainwashing world leaders. The megalomaniacal twins are trying to take over the world.
400 years after a nuclear apocalypse, society is left without technology and all humans are twins. One of each pair is physically perfect, and they are called Alphas, while the other, the Omega, bears some mutation. The apartheid society forces the mutated twins to settlements, even though when one twin dies, so does the other.
A 16-year old learns she's a blood witch, descended from an ancient, powerful line.
Set in a wilderness camp for troubled teens that is plagued by mysterious events and disappearances, taking survival and discipline to a frightening extreme.
Set in a world run by computer, Finn, a 17-year old, is a prisoner in Incarceron. He is determined to escape the prison fashioned centuries ago as a solution to the chaos created by man. Claudia, the warden's daughter, lives sequestered in a castle surrounded by servants. But she, too, longs for escape—from a father who frightens her and from betrothal to an insipid prince. Finn and Claudia each discover a crystal key and are amazed to find that they can communicate with each other. As their trust in one another builds, each pledges to help the other.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world divided into two societies, the Pures live under a dome and are healthy and beautiful, and the Wretches, those scarred by the devastation, live separately. Pressia, a Wretch on the run, teams up with the son of the leader of the Pures.
A teen who becomes a wolf each winter and his girlfriend tries to help him find the secret to staying human.
Middle schooler Ben Ripley dreams of becoming a CIA agent. Even though he is awkward and accident prone, he is brilliant and recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science that actually is a front for a junior CIA academy.
The story centers on a brother and sister who move into their late great-grandfather's home after their father dies. They must use his amulet to rescue their widowed mother from a beast who lures her into an underground world.
Eighteen-year-old Ever Wong is sent from Ohio to Taiwan to study Mandarin for the summer. Ever is joined by 30 other students for the summer program — all of whom are a diverse array of Asian Americans. But what she thinks is a Summer program turns out to be a teen free-for-all that is dubbed "Loveboat". Instead of calligraphy, the teens are into clubbing and instead of touring sacred shrines, they opt for drinking snake blood.
Three teenagers fight to survive and escape a lawless, walled city before time runs out.
Follows a young woman who lives near a corrupted woods where people rely on the powers of a wizard to keep the evil at bay.
A teenager wishes for a new family but finds herself waking up each successive day with a new and strange one.
Adolescent ninja Naruto Uzumaki dreams of becoming the village ninja, the community's protector and leader.
Willow Chance, a 12-year-old genius who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life her world is tragically changed when her parents both die in a car crash, leaving her alone in a baffling world.
A boy left home alone by his vacationing parents discovers a group of lizard musicians on late-night television. With the help of a man with a dancing hen under his hat, Victor travels to Thunderbolt City to find the mysterious creatures.
A young space cadet finds himself caught in the middle of Earth’s struggle to survive. His ship is attacked by an alien race bent on gaining control of a weapon they’re carrying on board.
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