List of comics based on unproduced film projects

Often during development of film projects, the screenwriter's original concepts are rewritten or abandoned, and the "original" script is adapted as a comic.

• Phoenix Without Ashes began as a screenplay and plan for a TV series created by Harlan Ellison. The series was produced for 16 episodes as The Starlost, but many changes were made to Ellison's original concept, and he removed his name from the credits.^[5] The Phoenix Without Ashes graphic novel was based on Ellison's original script and was published in 2010.
• Frank Miller's RoboCop is a comic adaptation of a script by Frank Miller of his vision for a RoboCop 2 film. The script used in the film was very different from Miller's original concept.
• The Star Wars, an adaptation of the original rough draft of George Lucas's screenplay for Star Wars. The Star Wars was published as an eight issue series by Dark Horse Comics beginning in September 2013.
• The original script by Harlan Ellison for the classic Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever was adapted as a comic. It was published in 2014 as Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's Original The City On The Edge Of Forever Teleplay.^[6]
• Planet of the Apes: Visionaries is an adaptation of Rod Serling's original screenplay for Planet of the Apes. The comic was published in August 2018 by BOOM! Studios.^[7]
• An original script by William Gibson for the 1992 film Alien 3 was adapted into a comic in November 2018.^[8]
• A script for what ultimately became Godzilla (1998) was adapted into a fan-made webcomic in 2018.^[9]
• Colin Trevorrow's script for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker titled, Duel of the Fates was adapted into a fan-made webcomic in 2020.^[10]

In some cases, a TV series is canceled even though further episodes had already been written, and the unproduced stories are produced as comics.

• The 2006 series Jericho was canceled after two seasons, ending with a cliffhanger episode. The prepared story lines were adapted and published as a comic series and collected as the graphic novel Jericho Season 3: Civil War. The series continued with Jericho Season 4.
• When The Clone Wars was canceled, there were 65 more episodes in development. One 4-episode arc was adapted into the comic series Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer was cancelled after 7 seasons. It continued with Season 8 being adapted into comics.