Ridley Scott and 'Project Hail Mary's Screenwriter Almost Made This Violent, Gritty Western

Movies are expensive and really hard to make — but despite the odds, a lot of them still do get made. Unfortunately, even after big names have signed on, there's never a guarantee that the project will ever see the light of day or have a single frame of footage shot. In some cases, these hypothetical movies become famous "What If" stories, like Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek, or Tim Burton's Superman movie, written by Kevin Smith and starring Nicolas Cage. Projects like these are often doomed to lay dormant in "Development Hell," which also seems to be the case with a film called Wraiths of the Broken Land, which both director Ridley Scottand Project Hail Mary screenwriter Drew Goddard had plans to make back in 2016.