Up until recently, the most illusively enticing thing about newly discovered, long-lost, unmade movie scripts was that we would never get to see them on the big screen. Instead, fans were encouraged to dream of their own adaptations, based only on minuscule, nebulous glimpses of the detritus of Hollywood’s best laid, unfinished plans.
But these days we have the Multiverse! Which means that if there is a decent script out there that never got made, all it takes is a few swishes of the magic Marvel quantum wand, and entire realities can be brought back from purgatory. After all, if the studio can half-inch Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Patrick Stewart’s Professor X from 20th Century Fox’s X-Men movies, and bring back Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parkers from the Sony Spider-Man movies, they can really do just about anything else they want to.
