The Red Bulletin December 2019 (UK)

LOST MOVIE ART
As not seen
on screen
Illustrator Fernando Reza has an unusual passion:
he designs posters for films that don’t exist
Tim Burton’s Superman Lives,
Alfred Hitchcock’s Kaleidoscope,
Quentin Tarantino’s prequel to
Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs
– what do these three films have
in common? They don’t exist.
Cast but never made, they’re
among the forgotten movies that
didn’t make it to the big screen.
Illustrator Fernando Reza has
now created a series of posters
that imagine what some of these
lost features would have looked
like if they’d been released. “I
recall hearing rumours about all
these unfinished movies and
finding it super-intriguing,” he
says. “It was the early days of the
internet, so there was very little
information out there – a quick
line or maybe just the title – but
it sparked my imagination. I
thought it would be cool to delve
into the production history of the
films and put an image to them.”
Reza’s posters are available
online as numbered art prints,
each with a historically authentic
replica cinema ticket, and the
release of a book is planned.
“The good thing is that there
is such an interest in unmade
films,” Reza says. “There are
documentaries about Superman
Lives and Jodorowsky’s Dune,
and a book about Kubrick’s
Napoleon. There’s so much
curiosity about the ‘what ifs’ of
cinema history. I’m putting an
image to what could have been.”
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Clockwise from top left: Tarantino’s
The Vega Brothers (shelved in
2007); Kaleidoscope (1967); Orson
Welles’ Heart Of Darkness (1939);
Superman Lives (1998)
LOU BOYD
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