cover image The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made

The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made

David Hughes. Chicago Review Press, $17.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-1-55652-449-3

It's a muted celebration and a ""melancholy examination"" of what might have been in movie buff David Hughes's (The Complete Kubrick) The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made. In brief, slap-happily titled chapters (Twin Freaks; Alienated; Lights, Cameron, No ""Action!"") Hughes explains David Lynch's difficulties with movie financing, how a Spielberg project called Night Skies became the genesis for both E.T. and Poltergeist and why the Six Million Dollar Man never made it to the silver screen. Illus.