Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made will be published in hardcover and e-book on May 25 via Abrams. Presented by PosterSpy, the 256-page book is written by screenwriter Joshua Hull.
It chronicles 50 movies that never reached the screen, including Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, Steven Spielberg’s Oldboy remake starring Will Smith, Stanley Kubrick’s take on The Lord of the Rings with The Beatles, and Neill Blomkamp’s direct sequel to Aliens.
Each essay is accompanied by an original poster from artists such as Scott Saslow, Matt Talbot, Liza Shumskaya, Sam Coyle, Tom Coupland, Ben Turner, Mark Levy, Bella Grace, Julien Rico Jr, Si Heard, and more.
Filmmaker Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad, Night of the Creeps) provides a foreword. The synopsis is below.