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3 Abandoned ‘Saturday Night Live’ Movies (and Why We’ll Never See Them)
A few other popular characters from the show came close to getting their own big-screen adaptations
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During its 50 years on TV, Saturday Night Live has introduced the world to countless memorable characters. A select few even had their sketches spun off into movies, from Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s Blues Brothers to Will Forte’s MacGruber. But several others came close to getting their own big-screen adaptations as well, and some pretty big stars were attached to them at one point or another.
Let’s take a look at the ones that fell apart at the last second.
Following the success of the second Austin Powers movie, Mike Myers was planning to bring another one of his famous characters to the silver screen: Dieter from SNL’s Sprocket sketches.........