YMMV / The Greatest Movies You'll Never See

• Harsher in Hindsight: Simon Braund gave The Hot Zone a 1/10 chance of ever being made, saying "Unlikely, unless Ebola hits the headlines again." That same year, it did hit in West Africa, and then in the U.S. in 2014.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The "Not Coming Soon" section mentions that The Beatles turned down an offer to appear in an adaptation of Joe Orton's Up Against It. It's noted that another abandoned idea would have had them starring in an Animated Adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and that Stanley Kubrick thought the book was unfilmable. Peter Jackson, anyone?
• Unintentional Period Piece: Some of the movies were later Saved from Development Hell, making the book this.
  • An adaptation of Caleb Carr's The Alienist in 1996 was scrapped. In 2018, TNT turned it into an eight-episode series, with Netflix getting the international rights.
  • Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which was originally started in 1998, finally saw release twenty years later.
  • Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind, filmed between 1970 and 1976, finally saw release in 2018.
  • The "Not Coming Soon" section mentions how Joss Whedon had been trying to make a Wonder Woman film going back to 2007. Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman (2017) would be delivered four years after the book was published and it became a huge Summer Blockbuster, setting box office records, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of the year and, along with Justice League (2017), made star Gal Gadot the third highest-grossing star of the year, behind Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson.
  • National Geographic Channel turned The Hot Zone into a series in 2019.
  • Gemini Man was finally made in 2019 and The Trial of the Chicago 7 in 2020.

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