15 Movies That Took Their Sweet Time Getting Made

We're lucky these aren't still in pre-production.
15 Movies That Took Their Sweet Time Getting Made

Movies are a form of entertainment that we all enjoy. We go to the theaters to watch them or watch them at home when they come out on DVD or streaming. Sometimes, it feels like forever since you first hear a movie is getting made until you get to fill your face with popcorn in front of it. Other times it doesn't just feel like it -- it does take forever, or close enough. Show business is a slow, lumbering beast, not nearly as fast-paced as some of the flics it regularly spews. Movie production is a long, involved process that takes up a number of years -- and occasionally, that amount just happens to be "an awful lot."

Making a movie is no easy feat. It takes a lot of time, money, and effort to bring a movie to the big screen. Sometimes, movies take so long to get made that by the time they finally come out, they've been forgotten about. Here are a few movies that took a long time to get made but were worth the wait.

The Fifth Element

Released in 1997 Luc Besson started writing THE FIFTH ELEMENT when he 16 was years old. He intended the story to be a novel, but then he tweaked it into a movie script, filmed it, and released it over the following 20 YEARS.

Source: Nerdist

Love, Death & Robots

Released in 2019 David Fincher and Tim Miller announced their own version of Heavy Metal in 2008. As the rights had been snatched when Netflix got interested, their animated sci-fi anthology was named LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS.

Source: IGN

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Released in 2008 The movie adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON went through several directors since the '80s. The final movie draws heavily from a draft written as far back as 1990.

Source: Collider

Princess Mononoke

Released in 1997 Hayao Miyazaki drew the first sketches that'd eventually become PRINCESS MONONOKE in the late '70s. By the time production started in the '90s, Miyazaki had already used many of his ideas for this movie in My Neighbor Totoro.

So, there could have been a fluffy Totoro in the world of Princess Mononoke?

Source: Screen Rant

Eyes Wide Shut

Released in 1999 Stanley Kubrick bought the rights to Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story in 1968. Then he sat on the story for three decades until he finally EYES adapted it into WIDE SHUT.

Source: Time

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