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I think one of the most legendary canceled movies of all time was Willis O'Brien's Creation from 1931. In that canceled film, an American industrialist, his family and entourage were saved by Chilean Soldiers from a yacht devastated by a typhoon and then flung by a seaquake into a water filled caldera of a huge dormant volcano. Everyone's true natures were revealed amid a lost world of prehistoric life.
This was perhaps the most famous dinosaur movie that never was. It was first picked up by William LeBaron at RKO Pictures, but subsequently however, Creation was canceled by RKO newcomer, Merian C. Cooper, the guy behind King Kong (the second ultimate dinosaur movie of all time and of our lives, only second after Jurassic Park, which follows 60 years after King Kong fights a T-Rex.). But Cooper's excitement at seeing the awesome special effects that Obie's test reel possess, would lead directly, or indirectly, or so, to Obie's work in King Kong (the 1933 classic but not the 2005 remake by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson).
And I mean it. This canceled movie, Creation (1931) was the one movie that led directly to the original 1933 King Kong.
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