Passed Cameron had to very patiently wait until the right technology became available and since visual effects were the very core of the film, it was a wise decision as well. Any movie can be roughly divided into three parts: 1. Bernhard Minetti, Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances. | Considered to be one of David Lynch‘s finest films and a game changer in the horror genre, ‘Eraserhead’ was no stranger to production hell. Drama, History, Romance. | Terrence Malick Michael Berryman. We are listing films that took a fairly long production time. On or about July 2, 2015, the film was in Completed status. It is considered to be the longest film ever released. Thus, financial burdens added to the challenges. Lynch started the film as a student project and decided to pursue the project further and adapt it for the big screen. Aribert Wäscher, John Darrow. Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing. Drama. Director: Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah. The missing segments of the film were filled in with shots of modern day Warsaw while Zulawski's voice-over explained which segments were missing. This British film revolves around a convicted drug smuggler and his relationship with his family. Saying that he put his everything into the making of this film would still be an understatement. Air Force Colonel Jim Shannon is tasked to escort a defecting Soviet pilot who is scheming to lure Shannon to the USSR. Drama, Romance, Musical. | Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors. Animation, Fantasy. Work on the film began in 1987 and was finished in 1992. But Hughes was a visionary who knew no bounds when it came to perfecting his project and bringing his vision to the big screen. Fantasy, Horror. Director: Claude Lanzmann | | 170 min Andrzej Zulawski Also, Lynch’s perfectionist mannerisms led to extended shoots and delays in schedule and the film took 5 years of Lynch’s utterly dedicated time to make. Because it was in production from 1964 until 1995, a total of 31 years, this animated film holds the record for having the longest production time for a motion picture in history. Michael Podchlebnik, Bill Murray, | Unrated | Gross: Les Clark, In 1944, an apolitical Irish nurse becomes a reluctant player in the fight between the two sides. Waldemar Kownacki. The first portion of the documentary film took place in 2008, while the final portion was shot in 2011. Musical, Romance, Drama. | It took six years to make, with huge sabbaticals between shoots due to production problems. Steven Brill, Roberto Benigni, | Arthur Agee, Stars: James Cameron‘s sci-fi epic, ‘Avatar’ dazzled everyone when it was released and gave way to an entire film franchise that we are yet to witness. Director: G Director: Ben Lyon, | Gross: Filming included over 250 hours of footage. $25.38M. Action, Drama, Romance. The Other Side of the Wind holds the record for a movie to be in production for the longest time.It was in production stage for 48 years. Keinosuke Okamoto, Grace Chin, David Lynch Stars: R With 60 years of runtime so far and a little more than 10.000 episodes, this is the longest TV drama still in production and the longest-running scripted British TV series. Directors: Guru Dutt died in 1964, shooting came to a halt. Director: Yagazie Emezi. 89 min Jamal Cavil, Making a film is no cakewalk. Stars: The longest and heaviest train in North America occurred on November 15, 1967. Evgeniy Gerchakov. The Longest Nite movie production status is currently Development . Catinca Untaru, FTIA is dedicated to providing film and television industry professionals with up-to-date job announcements and casting call opportunities in the entertainment industry. Coraline weighs in at one hour and forty minutes. Director: | Robert Coote, 71 min The longest movie ever made is the 2006 Matrjoschka ringing in at a astounding 5700 min or 95 hours. Howard Hughes' fighting plane film, referenced in The Aviator. Stars: Not Rated Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. The list excludes projects comprising individual films not shot over a long period, such as the Harry Potter film series. | A little orphaned girl joins a freak-show circus troupe whose members rape and abuse her. Originally titled The Storyteller, filming began in 2002, with director Andrew Getty constantly starting and stopping the film's production. Josef Kemr, Sean Patrick Flanery, | Edmund Goulding, And boy, did it feel amazing. A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return. | Stars: Tiefland (1954) Director Leni Riefenstahl started writing a script portraying the Nazi culture in 1934. Bill Baird, | Director Christiane Cegavske worked primarily alone. | | Gross: Post production. The first thing you notice is a wooden sign in the foyer: "This performance is number 24,993 of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play." Director: Documentary, Drama. Balinese Tari Legong Dancers, Documentary. Animated over seven years using 100,000 hand-made drawings. | Reginald Marsh. | Hell's Angels (1930) Micheál MacLiammóir, Stars: However, soon after, the film was confiscated by the French and returned years later for a final release in 1954. 90 min Bae Yong-kyun, a professor at Dongguk University in Seoul, spent seven years making this film with one camera and editing it by hand. This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time. William Gates, Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders. James Gandia. The director, however, lost interest in 1997 and abandoned the project and the incomplete film was released in 2010. He wanted her to be remembered for this film and so he spent a considerable amount of time developing the film. Director: Gérard Courant | Stars: Marie-Louise Alemann, Halim Anou, Tina Aumont, Cécile Babiole. Due to the minimal length of the script, director David Lynch struggled to finance his debut film. | Gross: It was in production stage for 31 years. On or about November 24, 2011, the film was in Production status. Tony Kaye Directors: Conrad Anker, | 15,348 Shah Rukh Khan, 162 min Approved Work on the script began in 1934, shooting lasted from 1940 to 1944, and the film was finally shown in 1954. However, after he worked on the successful ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’, he secured enough funding and distribution from Warner Bros. Shaun Kirk, Veena. Verna Felton, Votes: | Approved Disney animated film; production spanned 1951 to 1958. Drama, Sci-Fi. Distribution: Distribution is the final stage of production, which occurs after your movie has been … Stars: With narration by Cate Blanchett. | Directors: See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Not Rated Putu Dinda Pratika, Votes: The Norfolk & Western Railroad ran a 500 car coal train plus caboose, weighing 48,170 tons and stretching 4.06 miles (6.53 km), a distance of 159 miles (256 km) from Iaeger, West Virginia to Portsmouth, Ohio. Filming took place once or twice a year, starting in summer 2002 and ending in October 2013. Andrzej Seweryn, One of India’s best contributions to the cinematic world, ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ was an extremely challenging project that took over 10 years to complete. Finally, principal photography began in 1950. It takes immense determination to hang on to such a project and we hope they do pull it off. | Stars: Kazuyoshi Hayashi. After production was shutdown by the Polish cultural authorities in 1977, the film's director, Andrzej Zulawski, returned to Poland in 1988 and smuggled the remnants of the film to the Cannes film festival where it was screened for the first time. | 102 min As they say, “All’s well that ends well.”. Also, Linklater’s method correctly captured the feel of each era presented in the story as he used whatever was popular at that particular time of shooting. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Fantasy movies take the longest to plan (189 days) while romance movies were much quicker (92 days). | The film also holds the record for being the live-action film with the longest production time ever. A story about the most popular racing event in the galaxy, the Redline, and the various racers who compete in it. Craig Smith, | Which of these films is the most impressive?Discuss here, Not Rated But the fruit was sweeter than Linklater must have imagined and the movie became one of the most loved movies of the year. Pete O'Herne, | Animation, Family, Fantasy. He shot some portions in Technicolor and when the distributors got just too impatient, he was finally forced to release the film in partial color in 1960. In 1940, the Nazis invade Britain and transform it into a fascist state where some Britons collaborate and others resist. The Cure for Insomnia (1987) is the longest movie ever made at a total running time of 85 hours (5,220 min). $0.02M. Dina Meyer, | Peter Jackson Leni Riefenstahl, | $0.40M. Shot primarily on weekends over the course of four years. Leni Riefenstahl Richard Williams Steve Carr, Director Leni Riefenstahl started writing a script portraying the Nazi culture in 1934. Hanna Zaïdl, Votes: Stars: E. Elias Merhige [24] Welles also produced Filming Othello, a documentary about the making of this film, from 1974 to 1978. Puti Sri Candra Dewi, Stars: These sets took more than a month to be set up and were just as costly. | The film was shot in exotic locations over 20 countries and was produced mainly by the director. A single set piece was almost as costly as an entire feature length film back then. ‘Apocalypse Now’ was again a passion project that faced too many challenges and the fact that it made it to the big screen is an accomplishment in itself. Frantisek Vlácil 90 min Apart from convincing production houses (it’s still a mystery as to how they got the producers onboard), the long list of stars in the film was a key issue. The longest documentary is Grandmother Martha. However, the project could not start due to some technical difficulties. Stars: $51.60M. | Gross: November 13, 2014 • Story selection and rights acquired; idea being crafted into usable script; financing and casting attachments sought; aiming for 'greenlight'. Filming took place on and off for a period of seven years, beginning in the autumn of 2000 and was followed by an additional six years worth of post-production. Adiyaman The Crown Starts Production in July With Elizabeth Debicki as Diana and More TV News 91 min | The film was a critical and commercial success upon its 1999 release. Running for a long time can be both a blessing and a curse for a TV show, but it’s incredible to look … | 6,503 Stars: But due to insufficient funding, he filmed only some scenes at a time leading to a slow production. Clyde Geronimi, To start with, this was director Kamal Amrohi’s tribute to his then-wife and actress, Meena Kumari. Director: https://www.listchallenges.com/films-with-longest-production-time | 113 min After a whole lot of editing and removing certain songs, the film ran for 197 minutes. Our weekly publication provides a comprehensive breakdown of feature films, television shows, pilots, and digital media projects currently in pre-production and active development. 100,147 Director: Patrik Forsberg, Richard Gere, | | Jaroslav Moucka. | He was interested in making the erotic film since the 60s. ‘Samsara’ is a non-narrative documentary by directors, Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson. This demonic creature orders him to go on a murderous rampage to kill the people he loves most. Drama, History, Romance. | Simon Srebnik, Stars: Later, after half the project was finished, in 1964, Amrohi and Meena Kumari were separated and the project came to a halt for 5 years, until fellow actors, Nargis and Sunil Dutt convinced the two to get back to work for the project. 11. Lee Pace, Shirley Henderson, Takeshi Koike It began life with drama ahead of its 1981 opening at the New London Theatre, when the show's original … Elizabeth Banks, 8,628 Work on the film began in 1964 and was finished in 1993. The Crown Starts Production in July With Elizabeth Debicki as Diana and More TV News Stars: Stars: The film had multiple directors shooting their individual parts and the busy schedules of the actors made the production long and delayed. The sadistic tale of a lonely, mentally handicapped boy who befriends his reflection in an antique mirror. Jay C. Flippen, Liev Schreiber, Votes: Gopal's blissful married life with Radha blemishes when Radha gets obsessed with the career of her friend, Suraj, who is a singer. Originally planned to be a 30-minute piece for PBS, Hoop Dreams developed into a 170-minute documentary that took three years to edit. Patricia Arquette, Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is. Karl Skraup. Ashok Kumar, | Directors: Grazyna Dylag, Nevertheless, the film was completed after 4 years and Coppola would finally have had a breath of relief in 1979 after its release and critical and commercial success. 566 min The total production time stretched from 1948 to 1952. This animated film took a mind-wobbling 28 years to make! Janet Leigh, This film will come out in 2020 and is a love triangle based story spread across 9 chapters. Stars: Comedy, Drama, Music. The film is expected to be 2 hours long and each chapter is individually screened every year upon completion as well. Not Rated | With that in mind, the crew of Coraline–a spooky stop motion adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novel by the same name–should feel extra proud to have participated in creating the longest stop-motion film to date. However, the film was eventually handed over to someone else and released finally in 1993. The film is most noted for its extravagant sets. A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Filmed by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, who began work on the film as teenagers, with a cast that mostly consisted of amateur actors. Brett Ratner, He became overweight and used to come unprepared for his shots. Orson Welles © 2021 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. | Gross: $7.83M. Director: Paul Fix. Animation, Action, Sci-Fi. Yi Pan-Yong, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy. This 2013 comedy took about 4 years to produce. Ok, this one is an interesting entry. Running Time: 4 hours 8 minutes. | Gross: | $0.67M. 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