William Friedkin Wanted To Make These Projects, but Never Did
The Big Picture There should be no doubt that William Friedkin was one of the best filmmakers who ever lived. He crafted an all-time horror classic with The Exorcist, a crime caper for the ages with The French Connection, and used his cult classic Sorcerer as a metaphor for his thoughts about the Vietnam War. Truly, he was a force to be reckoned with in the cinematic world, and more than worthy of the praise he received in his career.
'The Devil's Triangle' Would Have Seen Friedkin Take on UFOs The biggest project that Friedkin wanted to tackle was The Devil's Triangle, a thriller that would have pushed him firmly into the sci-fi genre. Details about the film are scarce, but it would have dealt with UFOs, as well as a mystery surrounding the Bermuda Triangle. But the biggest draw would have been the cast: Friedkin aimed for a mighty trinity consisting of Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, and Charlton Heston.
However, both Jones and Friedkin dropped out of the film. A number of rewrites led to Antoine Fuqua boarding the project, with Mark Wahlberg in the lead. While the action is intense the end result lacks the poignancy of Fuqua's better films like Training Day or Olympus Has Fallen. Shooter weathered critical fatigue and a middling profit to give birth to a television series of the same name on the USA Network.
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