A continuation had been promised, but going on eight years and beyond later it still hasn't materialized. However, thanks to his obsession with playing video games and, in the early 2000s, pretty much abandoning the industry to draw concept art for start-up game publishers, it petered out at about ten issues, with the final issue having a delay of about 1 1/2 years and ending on gigantic cliffhangers. The manga-inspired Battle Chasers was meant to be Joe Madureira's magnum opus, spanning several years and hundreds of issues.
During that time, most fans had dismissed the remaining issues as vaporware - as they have his Daredevil/Bullseye miniseries, whose only issue to date was published in 2002. His Spider-Man/Black Cat miniseries had a gap of over three years between issues 3 and 4. Kevin Smith's smash Daredevil relaunch got him on a comics kick which turned out to be more than he could handle.Though much of the (albeit scarce) pre-production art looks great, it's still never gotten further than that and will likely never be produced. An animated ElfQuest movie has been "coming soon" since the mid eighties.If the team behind the medium is frustrated enough, it can result in Implementing the Incomplete. Sometimes examples of this trope lead into cases of What Could Have Been or Trailer Delay. Projects in other media can sink into similar cesspits. The Video Game equivalent of this is Vaporware.ĭevelopment Hell becomes a sort of self-reinforcing feedback loop over time-as one director gets fed up and quits, the project is assigned to a new director, who orders a new screenplay with a new vision, which results in producers demanding changes, wash, rinse, repeat etc. And even if it does make it to the shooting stage, a Troubled Production can easily derail it and throw it right back here.įilms stuck in Development Hell are called Vaporfilm. A common occurrence with book adaptations and other licensed materials, as legal squabbles over rights, Executive Meddling, budgetary problems, and differing artistic visions keep the project from going before the cameras. The term originates in the film industry, referring to films mired in pre-production without casting or production ever beginning. The state where an announced creative project becomes stuck at the creation stage for years.
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