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Failure is an inescapable part of life, even for Hollywood big-shots.

The library of unreleased films, so bad they didn’t dare see the light of day, shows how even the most successful stars suffer moments of defeat.

The likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, and Bill Murray could have had a few scratches against their name if these failed films were released, but alas, the film companies decided to take the fall instead – financially, of course.

Warner Bros’ poorest decision might just have been the making and then de-releasing of DC Comics’ Batgirl, a film that cost the publishers a reported $100 million.

Sky News notes how it ranks among the most expensive films to have been pulled while in post-production.

After all that hard work, Leslie Grace (landing the title role) and co-stars Michael Keaton (as Batman), J.K. Simmons (as her character’s father, Commissioner Gordon), and Brendan Fraser (as the villain, Firefly) all went down hard, per Variety, thanks to tax issues related to a merging of two companies.

Here’s a little of what we missed:

It’s neither here nor there, right?

Also among the exclusive club of films so bad they never aired is Don’s Plum, a 2001 black-and-white film that would have starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, who both refused to allow it to be released:

Looks…quirky?

Nothing Lasts Forever, a 1984 sci-fi comedy, was also bad enough to be scrapped, featuring Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd:

This appears even quirkier.

Then there was the 2013 film featuring Hollywood stars Christopher Walken and John Turturro as Greek gods Zeus and Hades respectively.

Sharon Stone and Alicia Silverstone were also featured in Gods Behaving Badly, which The Hollywood Reporter compared to a bad Saturday Night Live sketch.

Here’s some unreleased footage from that, as well as a snippet from the unreleased Big Bug Man starring Hollywood great Marlon Brando, among other failed films:

You know how it goes; you win some, you lose some.

[source:skynews]