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Orson Welles' jungle book, Bilbo on mushrooms: the great unmade movies

For every glittering Hollywood project that hits cinemas, there’s a whole lot more that don’t make it. Here are five of the most fascinating films you’ll never see

It has been a big year for lost movies, with the completion and release of both Orson Welles’ long-shelved experimental drama The Other Side of the Wind and Terry Gilliam’s decades-in-the-making The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. But what of those major movies that never even made it past the script stage?

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