I know, right! Damn, but I wish we’d gotten to see that. It was supposed to be a Chinese co-production, but apparently the producer died and the whole thing got put on hold. Tom Hughes had been cast as Corto and Rasputin was to be played by James Thiérrée.

It’s a shame the Cristophe Gans film never got off the ground. No idea how it would’ve turned out, but the concept art was on-point. Between Tom Hughes, Michelle Yeoh, Milla Jovovic, Mark Dacascos and James Thiérrée, the acrobat grandchild of Charlie Chaplin, they’d gathered a great cast.