Unfinished Projects and Current Work
- In 1979 John Calley of Warner Bros offered Weir Salem's Lot but he turned it down.
- In 1980 he worked on an adaptation of The Thorn Birds but pulled out of the project.
- In 1993 Weir spoke about making an adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker, focusing on the theatre profession in Australia at the turn of the 20th century, but this did not see production.
- In the 1990s, Weir was considered as a director for the film adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, but he was ruled out in favor of Jonathan Demme at an early stage, allegedly due to conflicts over the casting of star/producer Oprah Winfrey.
- In the mid-2000s, according to The Internet Movie Database, Weir was attached as director of several other projects. He was to direct a film adaptation of William Gibson's 2003 novel Pattern Recognition. He was also attached to a film adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' book Shantaram, starring Johnny Depp; he left the project, which later folded in 2009. He was also planning to direct two other films: War Magician and Shadow Divers.
Weir wrote and directed The Way Back, which was released in late 2010.
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