Cool Stuff: The Ones That Got Away Volume 2, Posters For Movie That Never Came To Be
Over five years ago we featured asmall batch of posters in a seriescalledThe Ones That Got Away. In the poster series, artistFernando Rezaand his Fro Design Company label created some awesome posters for movies that never came to be. Whether it’s because they got stuck in development hell or lost funding at the last minute, these movies simply never became a reality. The first series included posters for the likes of Stanley Kubrick’sNapoleonand Orson Welles’Don Quixote, and now a second series has been unveiled and made available for purchase.
See which posters make upThe Ones That Got Away Volume 2after the jump.
Here are the five printsFernando Rezacreated for his second round of The Ones That Got Away:
Kaleidoscopeis a repeat project that Reza actually used for his first series, but I must say that this print is infinitely better than the one he created the first time around. Otherwise, Stanley Kubrick’sThe Aryan Papers, Salvador Dali’sGiraffes on Horseback Salad, David Lynch’sRonnie Rocketand Guillermo del Toro’sAt the Mountains of Madnesshaven’t been done in the series before.
These are all stunning prints, and they actually feel like they could be book covers instead movie posters. I like that Reza doesn’t go for easy titles when it comes to the movies that got away. Sure, I wouldn’t mind seeing a poster for something like George Miller’sJustice League, but movies like these are much harder to create fantasy posters for.
If you’re not familiar with these abandoned projects (we’ve reported onAt the Mountains of Madnessplenty), you can get a brief history of themover at Fernando Reza’s page. All of these posters available for purchase as 18" x 24" prints for $30 each, all with an edition of 50. Or you can buy the set of all five for $110.
