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Saved from Development Hell

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Saved from Development Hell	comment	Development Hell is what some works go through if there's too much Executive Meddling, lawsuits, and so on. The fanbase is waiting more and more impatiently, but nothing gets done. Sometimes, however, divine intervention happens. After many, many years, or even decades, of promises, the work is finally released. Of course, the finished product is almost always significantly, or even completely, different from what the creator originally had in mind, if for no other reason than the conditions imposed by the passage of time. See also The Shelf of Movie Languishment, where it is finished, but not released. May involve What Could Have Been if the project saw changes after being dusted off. Compare Un-Canceled for serialized works. Please only list examples here that have actually left development hell. Also, note that just because a title was saved from development hell doesn't necessarily mean that it's good. There are far too many examples of "saved" titles that were so bad or underwhelming that people would have preferred it stayed in development hell.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_142d9a49	comment	Between 1996 and 2002, several pilots were shot for a revival of Pyramid. The show eventually built up a two-season revival with Donny Osmond as host, although this individual version didn't seem to have its own pilot. After that, several more pilots were shot over the next decade â€” one was almost picked up by CBS (The $1,000,000 Pyramid) but axed. Finally, the show got greenlit for GSN to start in September 2012 as just The Pyramid, but fizzled out only a couple months later. Then over the summer of 2016, ABC decided to pick up a primetime version as The $100,000 Pyramid as a companion to Celebrity Family Feud and its revival of Match Game; this version was better-received than the GSN run, and was renewed for a second season.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_149ad2ae	comment	Let It Be was supposed to have been an early 1969 "back to basics" album called Get Back (and accompanying "making of" film), with an album cover in which the 1969 Beatles recreated their Please Please Me album cover in the original setting. With the Troubled Production and band squabbles delaying the album, the cover was scrapped (it was used later in 1973 on the compilation 1967â€“1970) and the album abandoned while the band recorded Abbey Road. With production work (and overdubbed orchestral accompaniment of several songs) by Phil Spector it was finally released a month after the band broke up under the new name.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_158b0cbb	comment	The Mister Rogers' Neighborhood spin-off Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood was in development for six years before finally arriving.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_164f5129	comment	More specifically a DVD release of a classic TV show: The DVD box set of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. lingered in Development Hell for years due, among other reasons, to these factors: There were legal issues surrounding the 3rd-season episode "The Pieces of Fate Affair", scripted by Harlan Ellison, who, in true Ellison fashion, had filled the script with Take Thats at numerous thinly disguised people. (This episode was notorious for many years as being one of the few episodes of the show that almost never got shown in syndication.) It was very difficult to find top-quality masters of many of the first-season episodes; for quite some time, in fact, it was feared that they had been lost. There were disputes over who was entitled to release the show on DVD. Eventually, however, the arguments and legal disputes were settled, masters were found, and Warner Brothers, which owns the copyright on the series, finally put the DVD boxset of the series out, first as a limited release through Time-Life Video in late 2007, and then under its own imprint the following year. It all ended happily; the boxset was received with delight by fans and, for the most part, highly positive reviews by critics.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack originally ran on Cartoon Network from 2001 to 2004, ending abruptly without a conclusion to the story. Creator Genndy Tartakovsky tried for several years to finish the show, even having confirmed the development of a finale film in 2006. With sparse details being provided of this film over the following few years, it eventually fizzled out. The show finally ended up seeing a conclusion in the form of a fifth season airing in 2017, this time on Cartoon Network's [adult swim] block.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_19ac3471	comment	NYX by Joe Quesada started out as a mini-series in 2003 but repeatedly faced delays in production and release of new issues. It went on hiatus following the 5th issue (September 2004) and was thought discontinued. The final two issues were published in September-October, 2005, completing at least the introduction of the main characters. Some unresolved subplots were covered in a sequel mini-series in 2008-2009.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_1a8c081d	comment	A Cloak & Dagger (2018) series was announced alongside Jessica Jones (as well as unproduced Hulk and Mockingbird shows) back in 2011. Like the aforementioned series, it spent a significant time in Development Hell before it was officially picked up by Freeform in 2016, and began airing in 2018.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_1ac2c61f	comment	Alex Gino started writing Melissa in 2003, but due to the Values Dissonance society had with LGBT+ children's books back then, it wasn't published until 2015.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_1ce91fbf	comment	Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman is an unusual example in that it is not technically a sequel, but the original first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird itself, written back in the 1950s and gathering dust for six decades. Since the original eventually was reset to the 1930s after the idea of setting it in the then-contemporary '50s was scrapped, this now makes Go Set a Watchman a sequel.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_1f140feb	comment	The Silmarillion. J. R. R. Tolkien worked on it from WWI to his death - over fifty years! - and it was published posthumously by his son Christopher.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons was supposed to premiere in Fall 1989, but the initial version of the pilot episode, "Some Enchanted Evening", was deemed atrocious by the executives and staff and had to be redone. The show premiered with the Christmas special first (December 1989), and the first official episode aired was "Bart the Genius" on January 14, 1990, with the redone pilot being aired as the season finale.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_2a569a88	comment	Steamboy was in production for 16 years, which definitely shows in all the Scenery Porn.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug was supposed to come out around August of 2013 but was pushed back to September of 2015. In the process, they changed the art-style from a 2D animesque style to an All-CGI Cartoon and changed a lot of plot details (including replacing the male lead and making the series more kid-friendly).
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Saved from Development Hell / int_2b186988	comment	Due to the manga centering heavily on ableism in Japan, A Silent Voice took several years to become a series due to its controversial nature. There was even an attempted lawsuit against it. It was originally a one-shot in 2008 but was remade in 2011, where it finally got mainstream attention, and later was adapted into a several volume manga in 2013.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_2cc4abd9	comment	A Monsters, Inc. sequel had been conceived in the mid-2000s, as a direct-to-video release by Circle 7 Animation. Circle 7 closed down before they could even complete it (or any of their other Pixar sequels that were in production at that time), and so Michael Eisner concluded that all Pixar sequels should be handled by Pixar themselves. Then in the late 2000s, it was announced that Pixar would be making a Monsters Inc. sequel sometime in the near future, but they later changed their minds about making it a sequel and thought that it would be more interesting and entertaining to make it a prequel instead. Said prequel, Monsters University, was released in 2013.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_2e1df124	comment	Wreck-It Ralph. Disney came up with an idea for a movie about video games back in the late '80s, under the working title High Score. This incarnation of the movie never got off the ground. Then they revived the concept during the late '90s, this time under the title Joe Jump, but this one didn't get very far either. The concept was revived yet again in the mid-2000s as Reboot Ralph, and production finally started around 2010 or 2011, now with the title Wreck-It Ralph. The movie was slated for a March 2013 release, but due to the film being finished quicker than expected, it was moved to a November 2012 release (with the DVD and Blu-Ray coming in March, funnily enough), going on to be a critical and commercial success, while Pixar's Monsters University, which was slated for that time frame, was moved to Summer 2013.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_2f645002	comment	The Last Days of Coney Island from Ralph Bakshi was announced in 2005, but due to multiple distributors and production problems, it was eventually out in Development Hell. However, in 2013, Bakshi managed a successful Kickstarter for the film to be made as a short anthology film. It was eventually released to Vimeo on his 77th birthday on October 27th, 2015.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_302566f9	comment	The Astro Boy movie was rumored for the longest time before finally getting made, with one version being a live-action/CGI mix directed by Genndy Tartakovsky.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_33427dfa	comment	While writing Orange, the author Takano Ichigo became extremely ill and had to paralyze the publication of her work for more than a year. She's resumed publishing by now (even moved to another magazine from a different publisher), but she still has sequels, meaning the series doesn't get published monthly if the author couldn't make it to the deadline. The series has been completed as of late 2015, however.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_3418c919	comment	Teen Titans: The Judas Contract was announced in 2006, originally one of three films to kick off the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line alongside Superman: Doomsday and Justice League: The New Frontier but was postponed various times before being canceled, due to DC feeling that people wouldn't like that sort of story. However, after the success of Justice League vs. Teen Titans, the project was brought back, retooled to be part of the New 52-based DC Animated Movies Universe. Another film part of the same line is a curious case where the initial attempts weren't meant to be animated films, but it's worth mentioning that there were a few attempts at adapting Batman: Year One into a film that never got off the ground, with Joel Schumacher writing a script with Frank Miller's help, only fort the studio to demand the former to make Batman Forever, and then another separate attempt by Frank Miller and Darren Aronofsky that also never got made. Ultimately an animated film was made, and released in 2011, long after the previous attempts fell through.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_36a99a80	comment	Shrek: Puss in Boots was in development as early as 2004, and was initially slated for a Direct-to-DVD release in 2008. In 2006, however, the executives at DreamWorks thought that Puss deserved to be seen in theaters, therefore completely changing their plans. It was finally released in 2011. Guillermo del Toro revealed that there were plans to create a sequel to Puss in Boots a year after the film was released, and Antonio Banderas claimed that work on the film had begun in 2014. The sequel did not start production proper until 2018, did not receive its final title (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) until 2020, and to top it off, there was a director change in 2021. The film was eventually released in 2022.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_3b34143f	comment	Pottermore, an esoteric and unexplained online supplement to the Harry Potter book series. Originally opened for limited beta testing in July 2011 and scheduled for public release that August, release dates were continually pushed backâ€¦and backâ€¦and backâ€¦ until finally, it opened to the public on April 14, 2012.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_3d2687f6	comment	Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil was supposed to be released in January 2010. However, it was stuck in development hell.note Burger King apparently didn't get the memo and released kid's meal toys around the time the movie was supposed to be released. The creator himself wasn't sure when it was going to be released, if ever. It finally came out in April 2011. Bizarrely, this meant Hayden Panettiere had two movies Saved from Development Hell in 2011, as Fireflies in the Garden (filmed in 2008 and released in Europe) had a long wait before U.S. release due to mixed reactions in Europe and distributor difficulties (the original distributor Senator Entertainment went under); it was eventually released in October of that year.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_3d58d686	comment	The original short for Uncle Grandpa was produced in 2008/2009 as a part of The Cartoonstitute. The short lost out to fellow Cartoonstitute short Regular Show for being picked up as a full series, but the pilot lingered online for years. After years of fan demand, and the failure of another series by UG's creator (Secret Mountain Fort Awesome), Uncle Grandpa was finally picked up in early 2013 and started airing on Cartoon Network later that same year.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_3f473819	comment	The 2015 Inspector Gadget revival series has been in development since at least 2012, but series co-creator Andy Heyward has been hyping it up since at least 2009.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_436f9154	comment	Work on a sequel to Annie, called Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge, started in 1989. After a disastrous out-of-town tryout, two name changes, several rewrites, and going through three different actresses for Annie, it opened off-Broadway as Annie Warbucks in 1993.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: The original series' infamous Gainax Ending was the product of severe budget cuts that left many loose threads hanging. It wasn't until later that Studio Gainax was able to secure the funding for a movie that became The End of Evangelion, which serves as the proper, intended ending to the series. Rebuild of Evangelion: The third movie, You Can (Not) Redo, took a really, really long time. It was released on November 17, 2012, more than three years after the previous movie. The end product had nothing to do with the material from the trailer at the end of 2.22 because the original script was scrapped mid-production, having already reached storyboarding. The fourth and final movie, Thrice Upon a Time, took even longer due to a Creator Breakdown after the third, with the first teaser being released six years after the third movie's debut with a tentative 2020 release. After that was inevitably delayed, it was then announced the film would have a March 8th, 2021 release date, which actually stuck this time.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_4a510504	comment	The Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy was a famous example, being released in 2008, after 14 years in development (one of the signs it would come out was the song "Shackler's Revenge" being featured in Rock Band 2, about two months before the album itself was released), subverting the long-standing joke that China itself would become democratic before Chinese Democracy was released. And yes, it's Banned in China. Showing that Tropes Are Not Bad, the album received mixed but generally positive reviews.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_4a7dd83e	comment	Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures snapped up the rights to make a film of The Screaming Staircase, the first book of Lockwood & Co., before the novel was even published and become Illumination's very first live-action film. This did not end up happening. Meanwhile, Joe Cornish, who serves at the showrunner for the Lockwood & Co. (2023) TV series, was interested from the start, but got in too late. He waited patiently and ultimately snapped up the rights after they reverted back to Stroud, Illumination and Universal never getting anywhere with the project.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_4a95c600	comment	The Wiz almost received a TV special adaptation in 1998, courtesy of the producers and director of Cinderella (1997). However, rights issues with Universal, the studio that distributed the movie version of The Wiz, prevented Disney from getting very far with their take. After the Cinderella producers started airing musicals on NBC, they finally got to release a TV special of The Wiz in 2015 - albeit with a different cast and crew than they had originally lined up for Disney.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_4bac213e	comment	Mr. Peabody & Sherman was originally to be made by Universal Pictures for release in 2001 as a live-action/CGI combo film starring Rowan Atkinson.note He ended up appearing in the Scooby-Doo movie instead. It was scrapped upon the failures of the film versions of fellow Jay Ward properties Dudley Do-Right and The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, but it was revived by DreamWorks Animation as an all-animated film with a different plot, which was released in March 2014,note in February in the UK becoming a modest success.note Grossing over $225 million (3rd highest-grossing movie of 2014 not based in a popular property), it was, however, DW's second lowest-earning CG film.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_4eb65d32	comment	Making Fiends was in the planning stage for years and there were promos for it A YEAR before it aired on tv. It eventually came out only for Nickelodeon to cancel it after six episodes despite good ratings.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Hulk Versus Wolverine (Issue 3). Originally solicited for April 19th, 2006. Finally released in March 2009. Frankly, it's amazing Marvel finally remembered.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_5cf8a4e8	comment	Phoebe and Her Unicorn probably counts. Originally, Dana Simpson submitted a strip called Girl to Amazon's Comic Strip Superstar contest in 2009. Even though the strip won, Dana later admitted that the strip was bare-bones and needed further work; a runner-up strip was syndicated instead. On a whim, she added a unicorn in one strip, which she felt changed everything. After some back-and-forth between Simpson and the syndicate editors, Heavenly Nostrils debuted online in 2012. In 2015, the strip (re-titled to Phoebe and Her Unicorn since then) finally debuted in newspapers, nearly six years after the original contest.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_5d06bc89	comment	The British miniseries Our Friends in the North was based on a play Peter Flannery wrote in 1979. Plans to adapt it for television in the 1980s were stalled for legal reasons, due to at least two characters being based on real people. It finally made it to screens in 1996, by which point a lot more history happened, thus causing the story, (which originally ended with Margaret Thatcher being elected Prime Minister) to be expanded to the (then) present.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_5e629cf6	comment	Lady and the Tramp (1955) spend more than a decade in development hell. The film concept was conceived by Disney story man Joe Grant in 1937. Grant used his own pet dog called "Lady" as an inspiration. Grant and several other Disney artists worked on various proposed scripts for the film for the rest of the 1930s and 1940s, but all versions were rejected by Walt Disney himself (who thought their stories lacked in action and their protagonist was too sweet). After 12 years of working on a never-finished script, Grant left the Disney studio in 1949. Other storymen continued where Grant left off, and the script was completed in 1953. The animation department worked on the film for two years (1953-1955), and production again faced unexpected delays. Among other things animator, Frank Thomas insisted that a romantic scene he put much effort in (with Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti) had to be kept, and repeatedly argued with Walt Disney who wanted the scene cut. And the film's initial background artist Mary Blair quit early in production, in order to start a new career as a book illustrator. A replacement had to be found and backgrounds remade in a new style.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_5ec299b4	comment	Writer Melissa Rosenberg had been trying to pitch an adaptation of Alias (no relation to the ABC show) called A.K.A. Jessica Jones as far back as 2010, but had no luck. The project was finally revived by Netflix for a 2015 debut (with a slight name change) as part of its collaboration with the MCU.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_623f0768	comment	Another film part of the same line is a curious case where the initial attempts weren't meant to be animated films, but it's worth mentioning that there were a few attempts at adapting Batman: Year One into a film that never got off the ground, with Joel Schumacher writing a script with Frank Miller's help, only fort the studio to demand the former to make Batman Forever, and then another separate attempt by Frank Miller and Darren Aronofsky that also never got made. Ultimately an animated film was made, and released in 2011, long after the previous attempts fell through.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_62e40b4c	comment	Wintersun's second album, Time. The first half of the album spent multiple years in development that left an eight-year gap since the Self-Titled Album. The album was originally announced in 2006, but didn't see the light of day until 2012. Time II was talked about after the release of part 1, and then nothing happened, with the band ultimately releasing the Nature Metal Concept Album The Forest Seasons in 2017 instead. In February 2023 the band stated in a Facebook post that they had moved on to other projects and Time II was no longer in active development. However, the announcement and the subsequent single "Warning" were met with derision from fans on social media (compounded by the fact the band had earlier crowdfunded a new recording studio, leading to some fraud accusations), which evidently was the kick in the pants that principal songwriter Jari MÃ¤enpÃ¤Ã¤ needed: the band announced in January 2024 that they had finally finished the album after a Sequel Gap of twelve years.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_638624c8	comment	Slayers missed out on a direct fourth season in 1998 due to production issues and Megumi Hayashibara having schedule conflicts, and while there were more OVAs, a movie (Slayers Premium) and other media, it took eleven years for a fourth season to finally appear. A fifth then occurred the following year.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_66df4af1	comment	The Secret Life of the American Teenager was shopped around from network to network for about ten years before getting picked up by ABC Family in 2008.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_671d5c19	comment	The Dance Pantsed special of The Powerpuff Girls was originally slated for a 2013 release but was pushed back to January of 2014 instead.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_69a51847	comment	Ghost Rider vol. 2 (1990-1998) was discontinued after 93 issues, mostly because Marvel Comics was facing financial problems and was forced to cancel several of its ongoing series. A number of long-running plotlines and in-series mysteries were supposed to be resolved in issue #94, but that issue was not allowed to be published. After several years of inaction, Marvel published the missing issue as Ghost Rider Finale in 2007.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_6aa65acf	comment	In the early 1990s, an animated series based on Gremlins called Gizmo and the Gremlins was going to debut. Due to Gremlins 2: The New Batch flopping against the heavily-promoted Dick Tracy, production was cancelled. Almost thirty years after the original show was cancelled, a new Gremlins animated series, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, premiered on the streaming service Max in 2023.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_6ad790db	comment	The U.S. version of Top Gear went through three different pilots before finally being picked up. It lasted 6 seasons.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_6b02eb5f	comment	Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road was first announced in 2003 and was to be released in 2005. Then various complications happened (e.g. the staff members all left). It was later announced to become a 3-hour special on New Year's Eve of 2013. That's 10 YEARS it's been stuck.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_6c531429	comment	Two cases with the Chinese-Spanish series Filly Funtasia: The show itself was announced in 2012 but its release kept on being pushed back, as a cause of many production issues. It was initially due for a 2014 release, although slowly throughout the years, it was revealed that the show was still in production. Not so shortly after it was announced that it would come out in 2019, the show would finally premiere March 11 on an Italian channel, Frisbee. This would result in the episodes being infamously Out of Order in both seasons of the show. That being said, despite many trailers steadily being released in English (which is technically the original language), and some other-language versions airing on TV priornote Italian, Ukrainian, Mandarin Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovene, and Hebrew; most of them specifically using an English master as their footage, the finalized English version would not see an official release until March 3, 2022, in Singapore, with an organized episode order to boot. Although fans were unexpectedly treated to three sporadic English episodes being released on apps in the US in early 2021, it was a different, placeholder dub, and not many were satisfied with the results.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_6e590df7	comment	Before its cancellation, the second season of Blade: The Series was going to introduce Moon Knight in order to set up a Spin-Off. In 2006, it was announced that Marvel was developing a solo Moon Knight TV series, but other than writer Jon Cooksey being brought onboard to develop the show in 2008, nothing more was ever heard about it. Then, in 2019, a Moon Knight (2022) series was officially ordered for the Disney+ streaming service, with Oscar Isaac later signing on to star as the title character.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_6f8866e6	comment	Most of Northward was written all the way back in 2008 following a propitious jam session between then-After Forever singer Floor Jansen and Pagan's Mind guitarist JÃ¸rn Viggo Lofstad at ProgPower USA in '07. They planned to record while AF was on what was supposed to just be a hiatus due to guitarist Sander Gommans suffering a burnout. Then AF broke up altogether, which scuttled the recording deal with their label. This led Floor Jansen to form ReVamp as her new full-time band, putting Northward on hold again. Then she went through a burnout herself in 2011, after which she was called in to replace Anette Olzon in Nightwish on very short notice (the band later released a documentary about it called Please Learn the Setlist in 48 Hours). Nightwish finally took a year off in 2017, during which Floor and her husband Hannes Van Dahl had a daughter and only then managed to block out time with Lofstad to record Northward. It finally came out, to rave reviews, on 19 October 2018, ten years after it had originally been envisioned.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_6fd29670	comment	Sky Doll is a Franco-Italian sci-fi comic started in 2000, whose very complex art style needs long preparation time. Issue 3 came out in 2006, and after some (admittedly gorgeous) preparatory sketches from 2012 or so, issue 4 finally saw the light of the day in 2016, a full decade later.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_73a1e433	comment	Italian series Adrian is a vanity project by the famous singer Adriano Celentano: it was announced for a 2009 release, but the concept dates to around 10 years before that. It was picked up multiple times, but every time it was plagued by tons of problems, mismanagement, and went overbudget several times; finally, around 10 years after the initial announcement, it was released on Mediaset's Canale 5 in January 2019, in prime time and with great fanfare... and it was a humongous flop.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_749e68c	comment	Obituary's ninth album landed in Development Hell for a couple years after the band was booted from Candlelight Records and couldn't find a new label. They eventually resorted to Kickstarter to raise funds for an independent release, which went better than they expected - the minimum level for the album's recording and release was $10,000, with $20,000 enabling the filming of a series of documentary-style short films during the recording sessions at Morrisound Studios. They got $60,000 by the time the campaign closed, and the publicity later got them a distribution deal with Relapse Records for the album, named Inked in Blood and released in 2014, about two years after the original projected date.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_74a4c704	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Due to Tokyopop losing the license, the U.S. release was stalled after two volumes. Yen Press acquired the rights in 2013, and are releasing all five volumes in two omnibus editions. Similarly, they've released all three volumes of the Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix manga in two volumes.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_755b343f	comment	A live-action film or TV adaptation of the video game series Halo had been rumored since 2002 and was in various stages of development since then. Though two live-action webseries (Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn and Halo: Nightfall) set in the Halo universe were released in 2012 and 2014 respectively, an official adaptation of the "main" story wouldn't come out until Paramount+ finally released their Halo TV show in 2022.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_755fadab	comment	Haruhi Suzumiya: The second season, both in Japan and abroad. It only started airing in the middle of a rerun of the first, with no advertising to speak of, amid official denials from the publisher.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_764460a6	comment	Corelia's second album, New Wilderness, spent five years in development. For about four of those years, the band was completely silent. Since the album was crowdfunded via Indiegogo, where it raised over $30,000, this led some of their fans to question whether or not the album was even being made, or if it was all just a scam. The silence was finally broken in April 2020, when the band was forced to address the issue of an unrelated producer impersonating a member of the band and claiming that he would be releasing the album soon. In response, the real band members issued an apology, explaining that the album had been worked on, but mental health issues and the departure of one of their members resulted in its release being massively delayed. Finally, in May of the same year, their album New Wilderness was released, albeit in a rough, unmixed state.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_79770ac9	comment	Hound (2014): Since the 1990s, Paul J. Bolger tried multiple times to adapt the Irish myth of CÃº Chulainn into a movie for over two decades to no avail. He eventually came back to comics—which he had first tried for the project—and created the graphic novel based on the screenplay he had written with Barry Devlin. Breakthru Productions in association with CÃºchulainn Entertainment published it in three limited volumes between 2014 and 2018 before Dark Horse Comics reprinted it in a single volume in 2022.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_797793b1	comment	Shaman King was canceled around the last chapters due to very low ratings and it was finished with a 'Not concluded' note at the end of it, in 2004. It was until 2008 that Shueisha announced that they were releasing a perfect edition of the manga, giving the chance to the author to finish exactly where and how he wanted it to be. The last volume of Shaman King: Kang Zeng Bang was eventually released in 2010.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_7ae78fc7	comment	An anime adaption of Kizumonogatari, the prequel to Bakemonogatari, was announced back in 2011 after the first installment's conclusion. Shortly afterward it was instead announced as a theatrical release delayed to March 2012. And then it was delayed again... And then again. The one time the movie did have a release date, it was rescinded the same day and never mentioned again. Since the announcement of Kizumonogatari, Studio SHAFT has released five more instalments to the Monogatari series and over a dozen other projects with no sign of Kizu seeing the light of day. It finally released in 2016 in the form of a three-part movie series.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb was first pitched around 1990 with a pilot made for Nickelodeon in 1992, but lack of faith in the project and additional commitments from the show's creators (hoping to get their big break that way), delayed the show for more than 15 years, finally premiering in 2007 on Disney Channel instead of Nickelodeon.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_7c0fd33	comment	The third mini-series of Phonogram, concentrating on Emily Aster and titled The Immaterial Girl, was teased by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie for years and initially scheduled to be released in 2012. Gillen's afterword to The Wicked + The Divine #5 strongly hinted that they'd given up on the story because they'd both changed too much over the years to want to write/draw in that world anymore. It finally got Saved from Development Hell in 2015, when its release was announced at the Image Expo, and it finally began in August of that year.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Frozen: An animated Disney adaptation of The Snow Queen had been in development since the early 1940s when Walt Disney himself was interested in adapting it, before ultimately concluding that the story itself was too long and episodic to work as a straight adaption. He shelved the project with the intent of revisiting it later on but died before he had the chance. The concept was resurrected at Disney in the 1990s as a hand-drawn animated film but was again put on hold when the animators ran into the same story problems that Walt Disney did. They tried again in 2002... but then stopped again when Disney's management changed a couple of years later. After a few serious retoolings the film was officially greenlit again in 2011, and then finally released in 2013.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings could count as well. The skeleton of the story was ready already in 1936, but the book was published nearly twenty years later 1954-1955.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_8221dc15	comment	The show Ni Hao, Kai-Lan was originally announced for Spring 2007, but didn't materialize until February 2008, though the characters from the show were featured for months in the now-defunct Nick Jr. Magazine.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_8501afb1	comment	Whilst its stay in development hell was rather short, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children does fit. Announced at TGS 2003, and originally targeted for a summer 2004 release, it ended up appearing in its original form in September 2005. The reason, according to director Tetsuya Nomura, was that the movie was originally meant to only be roughly 40-50 minutes long. However, fan interest skyrocketed as soon as the movie was announced, so the script was rewritten and the movie lengthened to accommodate for an expectation. Advent Children Complete again deserves a mention: it saw release in April 2009, after being announced at TGS 2006.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_8c69e5dc	comment	The manuscript to Olivia (1949) was written in 1934. Bussy put it on ice for 15 years after a friend found the story unappealing.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_93683e89	comment	The unaired episode of Not the Nine O'Clock News available on YouTube was not a pilot, but instead the first episode of a regular series. The show was shelved because of the 1979 general election, and only premiered after the political content was greatly toned down.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_9888f901	comment	Getting Daria on official DVD was Development Hell for many years. To the point where fans all but gave up on seeing an official DVD at all. It was finally Saved from Development Hell. Sort of. There is the small issue of damn near the entire original soundtrack being ripped away and replaced by generic musical scores or silence, but MTV figures the fans will take what they can get. And for the most part, that's true.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_988ab3c7	comment	Delgo. Development was begun in 1999 by Marc Adler, who wanted to make a big-budget, computer-animated film independent of titans like Disney and DreamWorks. Alder and his small animation studio, Fathom Studios, spent $40 million making the film, cast the likes of Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Val Kilmer, and took so long to finish it that by the time it was released, two of the actors (Anne Bancroft and John Vernon) had been dead for three years. When they couldn't get any major studio interested in the film, Fathom instead had a distributor-for-hire give the film a wide release, which it received on December 12, 2008. It is now famous for having the worst opening weekend of any wide-release film ever until it was dethroned by The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure in 2012. The fact that the film itself is a Cliché Storm of epic proportions certainly didn't help.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_9a1a8272	comment	Odd Squad: The show itself was in development for at least two years, since 2012, before officially being announced at the 2014 PBS Annual Meeting and premiering in November of that year. The Odd Squadcast, a Podcast based on the show, was first announced in January 2020 alongside a new season of the show (which would premiere a month later). It was initially slated for a release sometime in the summer, but was pushed back to November 25, 2020, likely due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the second season of OddTube premiered in the summer instead. It was then pushed back further to December 2, 2020, where it finally premiered.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_9d47a2a2	comment	An adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire was first confirmed in January 2007, but was delayed a couple of times. HBO took its own sweet time to greenlight the project, then rejected the pilot because of poor test screenings, requiring a 90% reshoot. The actress who portrayed Daenerys Targaryen dropped out, requiring all of her scenes to be reshot with a new one. Game of Thrones wouldn't see airing until April 2011. Fortunately, it ended up being a hit, and then some.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: It has had a crazy situation with this in America, especially if you're talking uncut episodes. 4Kids Entertainment got the anime in 2004 and it was aired on Toonami severely edited, even by 4Kids standards. 4Kids originally said they would make uncut releases of this and other shows, then that idea suddenly died. Then in 2007, they lost the license altogether. Then FUNimation picked up the show and started putting their version on Toonami... which was canceled after just 25 episodes (they had dubbed over 40 at the time). They started releasing DVD uncut from the first episode, but certain actors told fans at cons that it was FUNimation's worst-performing series (studio reps denied it), leaving doubt as to whether they would even bother releasing the season they aired on Toonami, to say nothing of any episodes after. The time between original licensing of the show and a proper uncut release: over 3 years. It gets crazier once you get to the streaming. The online simulcast was announced and was hacked on the very first night, canceling the event and leaving FUNimation and Toei talking for months, leaving fans wondering if they'd ever get caught up to Japan (or keep getting DVDs at all). Then finally, months later, the simulcast came back and is still going strong. After over a year of no information whatsoever -â€” and a general consensus that they had dropped the show -â€” FUNimation announced Season 4 (the first to get no U.S. TV airing at all) for a Summer 2012 release, and Season 5 a few months later for 2013.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_9e5f0104	comment	France Five is a French parody/homage to Super Sentai. The four first episodes were released from 2000 to 2004. The fourth episode ended with a cliffhanger, and the fifth (and last) episode was scheduled for 2005, then 2006 or 2007, then no schedule was given. Finally, after 7 years, it was released on 05/05/2012. it is not the last episode. The sixth (and last) episode is scheduled for the end of 2012.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_9e876c22	comment	The first script for a Good Omens screen adaptation was written in 1992, it was a movie, and nobody liked it. Terry and Neil were asked repeatedly over the next few years whether there'd ever be a movie. It finally came out in 2019, several years after Terry's death, as a very popular miniseries.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_a49a890c	comment	An adaptation of Preacher has been talked about for as long as the comic book existed. It first started as a version of the "Gone to Texas" story arc with Rachel Talalay directing, but it was canned due to budget issues and the dark subject matter. Then it was going to be on HBO with Mark Steven Johnson wanting to do every episode issue by issue, but again the dark subject matter got it canned. Then Sam Mendes was attached to do it, before the rights weâ€™re sold to AMC in 2013. The pilot episode was finally filmed in May 2015, with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg directing and Dominic Cooper starring. It debuted summer 2016.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_a4a6b86a	comment	The Code Geass Gaiden was first mentioned in the 2008 or 2009 time frame, though its official announcement wasn't until early-mid 2010. It was supposed to air in 2011. It finally came out in late 2012.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_a535581a	comment	For a better part of the 1990s, Disney had been struggling to make Kingdom of the Sun, a typical animation renaissance-era musical based on The Prince and The Pauper, but after hitting numerous walls in story development, the creators scrapped 90% of what they had drastically re-tooled it into the comedy classic now known as The Emperor's New Groove.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_a69cb757	comment	The Haunted World of El Superbeasto was supposed to come out in May 2007 but it was released only two years later when Rob Zombie completed his other commitments.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_a944b4bb	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The Silmarillion. J. R. R. Tolkien worked on it from WWI to his death - over fifty years! - and it was published posthumously by his son Christopher. The Lord of the Rings could count as well. The skeleton of the story was ready already in 1936, but the book was published nearly twenty years later 1954-1955.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_aaa65d7e	comment	Rebuild of Evangelion: The third movie, You Can (Not) Redo, took a really, really long time. It was released on November 17, 2012, more than three years after the previous movie. The end product had nothing to do with the material from the trailer at the end of 2.22 because the original script was scrapped mid-production, having already reached storyboarding. The fourth and final movie, Thrice Upon a Time, took even longer due to a Creator Breakdown after the third, with the first teaser being released six years after the third movie's debut with a tentative 2020 release. After that was inevitably delayed, it was then announced the film would have a March 8th, 2021 release date, which actually stuck this time.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ad29dc16	comment	All in the Family: Norman Lear bought the rights to adapt the Brit Com Till Death Us Do Part in 1966. It wouldn't be until 1968 when a pilot (titled Justice For All) was taped, but ABC dropped it after the Turn-On fiasconote The infamous Laugh In rip-off was cancelled during its only episode. Another pilot was made the following year (Those Were the Days) but it went unnoticed. Then a final pilot was taped in 1970, CBS picked it up, and the show premiered in 1971.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ada26887	comment	Uncle Kracker's Happy Hour album spent nearly five years in development hell before it was finally released in 2009.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ada547f3	comment	The Room (2003) director Tommy Wiseau shot a pilot for a new TV series called The Neighbors in 2007. Wiseau spent several years pitching the show to various networks until it finally premiered on Hulu in March 2015.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ae2f531b	comment	CAGE!, a comic book mini-series by Genndy Tartakovsky was originally announced in 2007. It didn't get released until 2016, nine years later.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ae7058e8	comment	Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe, greenlighted by Jim Shooter in 1983 as a way to poke fun at recent leaks about upcoming shake-ups to the status quo of several Marvel books, was delayed several times, due to Shooter being so closely tied to the original concept for the book, people in Fred Hembeck's life passing away or having close calls with death as he was trying to write the original story (thus souring him on the idea of writing about humorous deaths for a while), editor Larry Hama letting it languish while Shooter was focusing on Secret Wars, worsening relations between Marvel and DC rendering the original Framing Device unusablenote it involved Shooter being Brainwashed by his former boss at DC into destroying Marvel from within, and Shooter's firing from Marvel rendering the revised framing storynote involving Shooter's Evil Twin being responsible for ordering the story unusable as well. When it was finally released in 1989, it had a much shorter framing story involving The Punisher and depicting Hembeck as a Fallen Creator whose career had been wrecked by the unpublished book.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_aef16ca9	comment	Puss in Boots was in development as early as 2004, and was initially slated for a Direct-to-DVD release in 2008. In 2006, however, the executives at DreamWorks thought that Puss deserved to be seen in theaters, therefore completely changing their plans. It was finally released in 2011.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_b233c2eb	comment	Each figure in the Onslaught wave by ToyBiz was originally supposed to include a henchman character as a special bonus, such as a HYDRA agent, a Doombot, a Hand ninja, a Hellfire Club guard, and so on. Rising production costs forced ToyBiz to abandon the bonus figure idea, but the Skrull soldier and Brood drone designed for the wave were later released as part of Diamond's Marvel Select line.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_b310c8f4	comment	A Barney & Friends reboot was announced in 2015 for a 2017 release, but nothing came of it until 2023, when it was announced that there would be an All-CGI Cartoon reboot of the series.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_b41585bd	comment	There was talk of a movie adaptation of 13 Reasons Why for years before it finally became a Netflix series. Selena Gomez was in talks to play Hannah when development first started in 2011, but by the time it actually entered production, she was way too old to play a high school student convincingly. She is a producer on the Netflix series, however.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_b55489e1	comment	Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark may be the ultimate theater example. After being batted around since 2007, it was finally supposed to open in February 2010. As of November 2010, it has had precisely one preview (in which the technical difficulties that had caused the production to be so delayed in the first place still occurred and delayed the performance by over thirty minutes at one point). It has an announced opening on March 2011, which the producers said was "the final postponement". Nobody bought it, and was postponed for summer. Considering how the first reviews went, well...The show finally opened in June 2011, after some major rewriting of the story, and ran until January 2014.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_bf85e171	comment	In 2012, Jeff Kinney announced an animated TV special based on Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever that was set to premiere in 2013. A year later, he was asked about it again and confirmed that it was pushed back to a 2014 release that ultimately never happened. Absolutely nothing else about it was said since then, and many assumed it had been cancelled, especially following the critically-reviled Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul movie. However, with the first two books getting Animated Adaptations in 2021 and 2022 respectively, Cabin Fever was announced in January 2023 to also be getting an adaptation. It eventually came out in December of that year as Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_bff01809	comment	The Warriors of Chaos army book from the 7th edition of Warhammer was released in late 2008 and featured images of a new model for the Daemon Prince. The model itself was released only in August 2010, with a White Dwarf article explaining that they wanted to release it as part of a wave of new Chaos Daemons models and so it was postponed until more new models for that range were ready.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_c1203418	comment	Dora and Friends: Into the City! aired its Explorer Girls special in 2011 and was due to air future episodes not soon after. Years passed and nothing ever appeared so many assumed it was canceled, probably due to the controversy involving the time skip. In 2014 it finally aired, having added a male character to the line-up.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_c18c80c4	comment	Awesome Comics was promised by Channel Awesome in 2013, but was saved in 2016 by their intern hosting it along with three new people.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_c38163e5	comment	Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank was announced in 2015 for a 2017 release under the name Blazing Samurai. Sometime during that, its two animation studios, Mass Animation and Arc Productions, after Troubled Production were both shut down along with the film's main distributor Open Road. The movie was nowhere to be seen despite various companies announcing their work on it and actors stating it was still happening (with the film secured funding by 2020, with production completing in 2021) until Paramount (under the Paramount Animation brand before switching it last minute to Nickelodeon Movies) finally announced it as Paws of Fury. It finally released on July 15, 2022.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_c43df4d8	comment	The Doctor Puppet stop-motion shorts inspired by Doctor Who are a combination of standalone stories and a multi-part storyline, "The Adventures of Doctor Puppet", which aired its first two parts in March 2013 and features the Eleventh Doctor trying to rescue his previous selves. The time involved in making each individual short combined with the creators having to acknowledge new developments in Who with the standalones meant that the eighth and final short wasn't posted until October 2018, just days before the debut of the Thirteenth Doctor. The Stinger of the final part humorously acknowledges the biggest change to continuity that they couldn't incorporate into the story: the War Doctor is kicking back on a beach in a spoof of the ending of Avengers: Infinity War, as by the time "The Day of the Doctor" aired the puppet storyline had already moved past the point where he would have appeared had its creators known that yes, he was an actual incarnation of the Doctor.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_c541feb2	comment	Krosmaster had a few ones: The original concept for the first Duel Pack was Missiz Freez versus Merkator. The former was replaced with Captain Amakna in the final release, but the instruction booklet found in the box still had a picture of Missiz Freez's datacard. She finally came out as part of Series 5, with a fully reworked stat card. The earliest prototype for the game was promoted by the French-only Wakfu Mag magazine with the release of two promotional miniatures as a freebie with the magazine, Remington Smisse and Maskemane. While the former was released in the first wave of miniatures, the latter's mold was released, but recolored as a generic Masqueraider. It took 4 years for Maskemane to finally get his own miniature as part of a special pack themed around the Wakfu OVAs. A Chafer King miniature was presented in the first teasers for Series 4 but was not featured in the final release. He was finally released as part of the Krosmaster Blast spinoff game. While only two Duel Packs were released, two more were planned but never released: Duel Pack 3 was going to feature Anathar and Justice Knight, while Duel Pack 4 would have presented Adult Ogrest and the God reincarnation form of Tristepin from the Wakfu OVAs. The four miniatures were finally released as stretch goal additions for the Krosmaster Blast Kickstarter campaign.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_c5d7807c	comment	The pilot for Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom was made shortly after Season 1 of Peppa Pig finished production, but the series didn'tÂ premiere until shortly before the third season of Peppa Pig was started on TV, because Season 2 of Peppa Pig putÂ Little KingdomÂ in development hell. The character of Nanny Plum was almost scrapped before the series entered development hell, but revived while the series was in development hell.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_c9b854c4	comment	A live-action adaptation of Nancy Drew had been swirling for more than a decade, dating back to the early 2000s and involving multiple different networks. Each one passed on and the project was reworked numerous times, before The CW finally gave it a series order in 2019.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_cd55fd0f	comment	High Guardian Spice was supposed to come out in early 2019 via Crunchyroll as the first entry in their Crunchyroll Originals line of shows; however, after the initial announcement trailer, little was heard from the series and it missed its scheduled release date despite many of the crew stating it was completely finished. It was abruptly released in late October of 2021 with little fanfare.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_d12888b5	comment	The protracted development of The Tipping Point had the knock-on effect of delaying the completed Super Deluxe Edition for The Seeds of Love, which was initially planned as a 25 year anniversary edition. It eventually came out in 2020, just barely missing the 30th anniversary mark. Appropriately, the original release of The Seeds Of Love was originally announced in 1986, but due to the group deciding to completely change their production style, it took until 1989 to come out.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_d4412e3	comment	Shortly after releasing Tommy, The Who began working on an epic followup to be entitled Lifehouse, which would have been accompanied by a film and a series of experimental concerts involving using the vital statistics of audience members to produce synthesizer tracks. The project fell apart and most of the songs were released on the Who's Next and Who Are You albums. Pete Townshend ultimately released Lifehouse in 2000 as a six-disc solo album and a radio play for the BBC, and the synthesizer concept found its way onto the web in 2007. The album that became The Who's Endless Wire was announced in 1999 and hit the shelves in 2006, its release having been delayed by touring, Townshend's putting the finishing touches on Lifehouse, and the death of John Entwistle. Two "preview" tracks were released on a compilation album in 2003 - neither made it onto the final album.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_d461f757	comment	The Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica was announced in 2007, in July 2008 it was picked up as a 2-hour pilot and in December of that year finally chosen to become a series. It wasn't until April 2009 that the pilot was released as a DVD and the series itself aired in January 2010.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_d4fe0095	comment	K9 was first announced in 1997. It eventually premiered in the UK in 2009, airing its full season in Scandinavia in 2010.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_d69208d2	comment	Codename: Kids Next Door was supposed to come out around early 2001 but didn't start until late 2002.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_dcdb5ca9	comment	Type-Moon announced in 2008 that Tsukihime (2000) would be remade, with updated art, character designs and other details. Very little happened for the next half-decade, and then Fate/Grand Order seemed to consume the entire company, making fans lose hope and turning "Tsukihime remake when?!" into a sarcastic meme. The remake was rather unexpectedly announced to be in test play in 2019, and the first half was finally released in 2021. It not only features updated art, but also new characters and in some places a pretty divergent story. Fans are still waiting on the second half, but at least they're reasonably confident now that it's not too far in the future. The developers explained that progress had stalled five years in by 2013 because of focus on the aforementioned Grand Order and other projects but they had enough free time by 2017 to properly finish development for the game that would release in 2021.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_dd5934e0	comment	Atelier Marie and Elie had various Fan Translation programs going on for both the original games and the PS2 compilation for well over a decade, before a French team finally delivered the game in English in March 2018, roughly 20 years after the games first hit shelves in Japan.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e179ec3a	comment	For a long time, Season 5 of Calvin & Hobbes: The Series updated bi-yearly, if at all, all throughout the serial "Nocturnals". Eventually, on September 1 2, 2013, garfieldodie uploaded Part 2 of Season 5 and revealed that it would update on a semi-regular basis and that the absence was caused by real life getting in the way.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e199d649	comment	The third book in the Inheritance Cycle took around three years to finish. Then Christopher Paolini said the book was too long so he split it in two and still took more time before releasing it. In the acknowledgments for Brisingr, he thanked one person in particular for "giving me a much-needed kick-in-the-pants early on" and mentions that without which, he would probably still be working on the book.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e1e175b1	comment	White Sand was languishing on Brandon Sanderson's shelf as a piece of literature for ten-odd years, always awaiting a rewrite, before Dynamite came along and asked if there's something Sanderson has that they could turn into a graphic novel.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner (in-universe) had Dangeresque 3 finally released in movie form, four years later than Strong Bad originally announced. In real life, it was the basis of the fourth episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e2e539a4	comment	It took Ricardo Pinto eight years to write the third book in The Stone Dance of the Chameleon trilogy, due to real life getting in the way. (His house burning down, for instance.) His British publisher picked up the book and reprinted the older two books, his American publisher did neither.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e2fa7287	comment	After two years, Maikaze finally released a trailer for the second episode of their Touhou fanime Musou Kakyou: A Summer Day's Dream, which had been rumored to have been scrapped over criticism, both from the series' original creator ZUN and from fans.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e3a1067	comment	Despite having been teased since 2011, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt's second season has been stuck in a state of limbo due to the people involved with the show leaving Studio Gainax to form Studio TRIGGER and legal issues preventing the latter from continuing it. Finally though, after twelve years, the second season would finally be announced in 2022 during Anime Expo 2022, by none other than TRIGGER themselves.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly — "A Shepherd's Tale". Announced in 2007, finally released in November 2010.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e8595ff9	comment	Tangled was originally announced in 2006 as a CGI Fractured Fairytale named "Rapunzel Unbraided" about a girl and a pizza delivery boy who was transported into the world of Rapunzel, where the actual Rapunzel and her prince had been transformed into animals. This concept was abandoned rather quickly and it was turned into a more faithful adaptation. Originally it was meant to look like a watercolor painting, but pulling off such a look was too expensive and difficult at the time, thus it was swapped for a more traditional All-CGI Cartoon. The plot at this point was a Darker and Edgier Genre Throwback to early Disney Princess films starring Rapunzel alongside a Gentle Giant thief named Bastion. However, it was lightened up considerably when directors changed. Due to how tasking animating Rapunzel's hair was, and the multiple story changes, the movie didn't end up coming out until 2010. Take into account Walt Disney's own aborted attempts at adapting Rapunzel, and the road to the premiere seems even longer.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e8bf42fd	comment	Squid Game creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk made the first draft for the show as early as 2008. However, his pitch had been rejected countless times for being "too grotesque and too unrealistic", and he believes that classist issues becoming more forefront as time went on is what eventually led to Netflix greenlighting the show in 2019, with the final product eventually releasing in 2021 to massive success. Prior to the show being picked up, Hwang had been a Starving Artist and at one point had to sell his $675 laptop to make ends meet.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_e936047a	comment	Since 2003, there had been talks of doing another Hey Arnold! film known tentatively as "The Jungle Movie" which would be the Grand Finale of the series. It would have had Arnold discovering what really happened to his parents and resolving things with Helga. After the box office failure of Hey Arnold! The Movie, this was put on the back burner. In 2016, it was announced that the movie will finally be made (as a Made-for-TV Movie) with Craig Bartlett at the helm and was released in 2017.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ea0de5f1	comment	Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures was first announced in 2011 or 2012. There was no news for quite some time so people assumed it had quietly been canceled due to poor reception. It was eventually released in June 2013.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ea7ecbfe	comment	Decrepit Birth released Polarity in 2010, but it took seven years for Axis Mundi to follow. Why? It was a mix of things. Matt Sotelo had to focus on his family, numerous lineup changes occurred (Dan Eggers and Joel Horner left basically right after Polarity was released, they had a revolving door of bassists that only finally ended after Sean Martinez left Rings of Saturn, and Chase Fraser was fired in 2014 after a lengthy history of being a dick), Samus Paulicelli went back to school and moved to Canada, the actual writing process was rather slow (and didn't even really begin until 2013) and involved at least one massive overhaul of the material after Samus told Matt that he didn't think it was up to par, the recording process was similarly drawn-out, and, once the album was actually done, the label sat on it for months before giving them a release date. While it wasn't quite up to Necrophagist levels, people had given up hope that there actually would be a fourth album for a while.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ebd9895f	comment	Alice in Wonderland (1951) spent almost 20 years in development hell. Walt Disney reportedly conceived of the idea of making his first animated feature film in 1932, and that film was supposed to be Alice. He purchased the rights to John Tenniel's illustrations of the story and even had an actress in mind to hire. But then he found out that Paramount was working on an Alice film and discontinued the project. Alice was replaced in the production schedule with a feature film about Snow White. Disney revived the Alice project in 1938 and discontinued it again in 1939, this time over concerns with the budget. Disney revived the Alice project again in 1945, but delays in the scriptwriting process, redesigns of the characters and animations, and the studio's focus on higher-priority films kept it unfinished until 1951.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ec522504	comment	Speaking of which, the Groo vs. Conan crossover was originally announced in 2007, but got delayed several times for various reasons, the aforementioned operation being one of them. It finally came out in 2014, seven years later.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ef0f0be	comment	The follow up to Slaughter to Prevail's 2017 album Misery Sermon was stuck in the oven for quite some time due to various issues. They started work on the album sometime during 2017-18 but due to heavy touring it got put on the back burner. The decentralized nature of the band (Alex, Evgeny, and Mike are in Russia and Jack Simmons is in Britain) made it hard to get everyone on the same page. They did release two new singles ("Agony" in 2019 and "Demolisher" in 2020) and had other songs in the works, but Sumerian thought that the band wasn't writing their best material. After sorting out their issues with Sumerian, COVID-19 hit, making it hard to hit the studio (and in general slowing down music releases). According to drummer Evgeny, the instrumentals were all done as of September 2020, so the new album just needed mixing/mastering before it drops. KOSTOLOM finally saw the light of day in August 2021.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_ef8b81dd	comment	UglyDolls was announced in 2011 as a planned film based on the toys of the same name for Illumination Entertainment. After nothing for four years, in 2015, it was announced as STX Entertainment's first animated movie, yet still kept dark. Later, in March 2017, Robert Rodriguez was announced as director for the film, only to later be replaced by Kelly Asbury. The movie eventually was solidified with an official May 2019 release date, eight years after its announcement.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_f0a86c12	comment	When the final season of How I Met Your Mother was airing at that time, CBS announced in the fall of 2013 that there will be a spinoff entitled How I Met Your Dad which would be aired in 2014. By that time, various news sites revealed the new characters unrelated to HIMYM cast and the new lead to be played by Greta Gerwig with Meg Ryan as the lead's voiceover and the pilot was already made. But after the mixed reception of the HIMYM finale, interest slowly dwindled, the pilot wasn't picked up by CBS, Carter Bays called it quits due to disagreements with CBS and the contracts of the actors expired at the end of the year. In December 2016, there was an attempt to produce the spinoff which is renamed How I Met Your Father with This Is Us producers, Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. However after the success of This Is Us which promoted the two producers as co-showrunners, the spinoff is on hold again. In August 2017, there was another attempt to revive the spinoff with Alison Benett as the writer. Then on April 2021, Hulu ordered the series with Aptaker and Berger as the creators, writers, and executive producers along with the three original staff of How I Met Your Mother (original creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and producer Pamela Fryman) as executive producers. The spinoff was eventually released on January 18, 2022.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_f57c42c3	comment	The Croods was in development for around a decade. It was originally set to be a Aardman Animations film animated in stop-motion and written by John Cleese titled "Crood Awakening" but it ended up falling through. When DreamWorks Animation broke off their deal with Aardman, they retained the rights and different directors tried working with it until it was given to Chris Sanders and gained its current form, released in 2013.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_f6da9a18	comment	Keroro Gunsou: ADV Films announced their license of the series in early 2006, then went completely silent about it for two years and never released so much as a cast list, let alone a DVD or anything close (all we got were trailers for the show appearing on some of ADV's releases from 2007, and some of the actors mentioning it in commentaries and convention appearances). Then ADV lost the rights to Frog â€” along with nearly 3 dozen other titles â€” in July 2008. Funimation picked up the distribution rights and released a "test episode" on their YouTube channel seeking feedback in late 2008. The response was less than stellar, so FUNimation went back to the drawing board to tweak the scripts and casting. The first batch of episodes was eventually released on DVD in September 2009, and some of the episodes of the final version are up on their video portal. Six months later all of Season 1 (split into two "seasons" due to its length) had been released. The series then went through this again. FUNimation had originally announced the acquisition of the first 102 episodes, but stopped halfway through. It took another year for Funimation to announce 26 more episodes, which were released in quick succession in July and August 2011.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	A ride based on The Little Mermaid (1989) began planning in the early 1990s. The plans went on hold due to the sluggish business of EuroDisney. During the following decade, a project to renovate California Adventure prompted production on a Little Mermaid ride to resume. It finally opened in the summer of 2011.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_f988b606	comment	In 2004, the CGI film Foodfight! was announced (it had been in development since the '90s, but production was halted in 2002 when the files containing the animation were stolen from a hard drive and the animators had to start over from scratch). Best described as "Toy Story in a supermarket", the film promised to bring together over 80 famous beloved advertising characters (the process of licensing that many food mascots took YEARS, and even then, they couldn't license all 80 they wanted, so the characters they couldn't license were replaced with rather unintelligent Expies) with voice talent including Charlie Sheen, Hilary and Haylie Duff, Wayne Brady, and Eva Longoria. The creators expected it to be a real commercial hit, merchandise for the movie started appearing on store shelves before the movie even had a release date... unfortunately the film ran into countless problems as detailed here, or perhaps in this New York Times article. After many years, a trailer was finally shown at AHM in 2011, and a company has the bought the DVD rights for this film in Europe, and a quiet American release though Video-On-Demand came in 2013, at which point it was quickly destroyed by internet critics.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_f98c0423	comment	The Giant Robo OVA, The Day The Earth Stood Still, took ten years to finish. There are seven episodes.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_fa85cc4f	comment	The Lakewood Plaza Turbo pilot came out in 2013. This lead to the OK K.O.! Lakewood Plaza Turbo mobile game and accompanying short series in 2016, 3 years later. The full series, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, would premiere the following year.
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Saved from Development Hell / int_fe955835	comment	Sailor Moon Crystal was announced in June 2012 with a tentative premiere scheduled for Summer 2013. The year went by with no updates on the project, and it missed its announced premiere window. Then producers suggested it was pushed back to Winter 2013, and then it failed to make that window. Then updates finally started happening, the first promo image was revealed in March 2014, and the series finally premiered in July 2014, a year behind schedule.
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