development hell
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[edit ]Noun
[edit ]development hell (uncountable )
- (colloquial ) The situation where a project (such as a movie, musical record, or piece of software) is mired in problems that delay its production and release.
- Synonyms: development limbo , production hell
- The third movie in the trilogy has been in development hell for ten years already! I want to see how the story ends!
- 2013, Peter Biskind, Down and Dirty Pictures, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- In Hollywood, it was widely known that to make a deal with Redford was to fall into development hell—script notes, rewrites, and more rewrites—often going nowhere.
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[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- development hell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia