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The Island of Dr Moreau Another H.G Wells story that had Ray Harryhausen fascinated, one that he had considered doing many times during is early years after watching the 1932 film Island of Lost Souls starring Bela Lugosi and Charles Laughton. Unfortunately this project never saw the light of day. Jack and Jill Another segment for the Mother Goose series that he worked on early in his career. According to him he figured the segment would have been fun! Jack Sprat This could have been a comic segment for the mother goose series. Looks like he wanted to overcome the downside of the story by developing the comic side. But this never became a reality. John Carter of Mars Soon after the completion of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad Ray and Charles received an outline of the story by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They had long wanted to make this into a full length feature film but the story wasn't strong enough, in the end the film never was created by them of anyone else. King Kong In 1970/1971 Michael Carreras at Hammer Films contacted Ray about doing a possible re-make of the classic Kong film. At first he thought that this was a no-no but then he saw it as an opportunity to respect O'Brien work by improving the animation and making it in color as a tribute to his old friend. But it seems that Michael Carreras had a difficult time getting the rights for the film from RKO. Soon the project faded away until Dino De Laurentiis made the film without the advantages of stop motion animation.... The Labrinthodon An idea conceived by Willis O'Brien that spoke about a group of explorers who discover the lost grave yard of whales in an undersea land. The sketches of the whales and a submarine that he showed to Ray were magical so much that those images remained in Rays mind for years. In 1968 Ray approached Charles with the story and during the promotion of The Valley of Gwangi Ray spoke to the Nasseur brothers who at the time had purchased the rights for the story and the drawings from O'Brien. But unfortunately nothing came out of those talks and the story never became a film.
The Lost City
An idea that came to Ray during the time of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms here is the script An archaeologist and his sister discover a statue of a centaur on which are inscriptions to an underground city where the centaurs lived. Along with their guide they search for the buried city in a remote area of Italy. Eventually they find the city which is hidden under another city (like the excavations of Ur) and discover a huge, seemingly bottomless dark pit. Somehow they find a way down (either by rope or a pathway) and find themselves in a lost world populated by the living creatures.
Fascinating story that had potential, unfortunately he never finished the script...
Mary had a little Lamb
Another addition to the Fairy Tales series of stories, but he dint develop it beyond a few rough storyboard sketches.
The Monster Story
A story that he came up with in a quest to animate more dinosaurs, not a truly epic story but it did had its high points. It tells the story of two brothers David and Al Winder and a publisher Eleanor Landing who discover a cave high on the Rockies where a scientist by the name of Paul Hendrix has been experimenting with a new weapon the A2 that alters the molecular structure of animals. Apparently the cave dint exist prior to the testing, so they enter it and find a giant ant and spider. Later they witness a fight between a brontosaurus and a pterodactyl. In the end David is killed by a Neanderthal man and Al and Eleanor escape before another A2 weapon explodes destroying the valley..
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