^John Lithgow was intended to be cast for a part in De Palma's planned iteration of Fuzz.[6]
^In 1975, De Palma's oft-collaborator William Finley was attached to have a role in the film.[8]
^While in Rome shooting All Roads Lead to Rome, producer Silvio Muraglia told Askanews that he was developing a movie to be directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Ashton Kutcher. Muraglia said the film would shoot in Canada.[91]
^ abcBlumenfeld, Samuel; Vachaud, Laurent (2001). Brian De Palma: Entretiens avec Samuel Blumenfeld et Laurent Vachaud. Paris: Calmann-Lévy. ISBN978-2702130612.
^Coates, John (February 1975). "An Interview with Brian De Palma". Filmmakers Newsletter. I'm working on a suspense movie called Déjà Vu and writing a screenplay of a book by Alfred Bester called The Demolished Man, which is about a murder in a telepathic society. I'm changing it and making it an Oedipal murder, a primal murder, the killing of his father. If you're going to do a murder, you might as well do the big murder. [...] Oh, of course he is going to be sleeping with his mother. In the book he's killed his father and he's not sleeping with his mother, but I thought I might as well do the whole thing. [...] The Demolished Man is being written for Fox, and Déjà Vu is being produced independently.
^BRIAN DE PALMA COOL TV INTERVIEW. LCI.fr. July 1, 2008 – via YouTube. I've always wanted to make a movie of a very famous science fiction book called The Demolished Man. It's been a dream project of mine since I was in high school, and it will need [sic] an unlimited budget in order to do it.
^Beran, Geoff (December 4, 2019). "DE PALMA SOUGHT 'DEMOLISHED MAN' CIRCA 1998". De Palma a la Mod. Retrieved March 25, 2025. completely out of the blue, after the first Mission: Impossible movie came out and was a big hit, Sherry Lansing, then head of Paramount, asked Brian De Palma what he wanted to do next, and he said "I want to direct Stephen Tolkin's draft of Demolished Man." I was stunned when I heard this; I had never met De Palma and to this date have no idea why he would want to direct my version of the story rather than his own, or even how he ever came to read it. So Paramount hired me to rewrite the script but for some reason they chose not to do it under De Palma's supervision—which would have been fun, I think—and it never really came together; whatever the flaws are in my 1985 version, the 1998 version represented at best lateral, and most likely backward, movement.
^Dumas, Chris (2013). "Interview with John Farris"(PDF). Arrow Films. p. 13. About that time [Bob] Bookman put me together with another client, Brian De Palma, to work on an adaptation of the Mary Higgins Clark best-seller Where Are the Children? which Brian was attached to direct. I spent a couple of months on a screenplay that would work. By then Brian was bored with the project. Carrie had been released and was a big success and he wanted something more challenging than a fairly mild mystery.
^Dudar, Helen (July 27, 1980). "The Master Of Mayhem". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 26, 2023. He has a sackful of unrealized projects including a comedy he wrote with [Jay] Cocks a few years ago in which a character resembling Truman Capote wipes out a Carsonoidtalk show host in order to produce the ultimate nonfiction novel.
^"Congo Goes". Starburst. December 1982. p. 7. The film due to be produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Brian De Palma which wound up on the shelf has moved to Go again. Congo is the feature. Frank Yablans, often De Palma's producer, has now pacted Michael Crichton to re-write and direct the flick. Sounds a biggie. 20th Century-Fox and Paramount are becoming partners to handle it. Spielberg and De Palma are still talking of setting up the science fiction trip, Starfire, between them – once De Palma finishes his update of Scarface with Al Pacino, and Spielberg extricates Twilight Zone from the wreckage and makes Raiders II and E.T. II. Say, 1985, at the earliest...
^Cavazos, Norma (October 4, 1998). "TV questions and answers". Deseret News. Retrieved March 31, 2025. Also in her future, Ambrose Chapel with Liam Neeson and Brad Pitt.
^Schaller, Nicolas (February 13, 2013). "« Passion » : Brian De Palma, maître à panser". CinéObs (in French). p. 2. Archived from the original on July 26, 2013. Retrieved March 25, 2025. Currently, the filmmaker has two projects in the pipeline. The first, Happy Valley, is inspired by the true story of Joe Paterno, [...] The second is being developed by Saïd Ben Saïd: "This is a film about cinema that is not devoid of humor or cruelty. It happens on a shoot between a director, an actor and an actress. De Palma wrote it by drawing on things that have happened to him. It is a kind of film testament."
^Grasset, Alain (April 3, 2016). "Brian De Palma : «Hollywood, je m'en fous complètement»". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved March 25, 2025. The film is called Lights Out. Another thriller—but I love this genre so much—which will tell the story of a young, blind Chinese woman whose father is involved in a secret CIA operation. It will take place between China and Canada. I would like my film to be a sort of mix between Mission: Impossible and Wait Until Dark, with Audrey Hepburn. If all goes well, I will start shooting this summer.
^Fischbach, Hélène (March 29, 2019). "Les serpents sont-ils nécessaires ? Une heure avec Brian De Palma et Susan Lehman" (Podcast) (in French). Quais du Polar. Event occurs at 54:16 – via Sondekla. A friend of Susan [Lehman]'s turned us on to A French Village, and we were totally engrossed in it. And when we were on our last book tour—and if we had sold a few more books we wouldn't be back here—we talked about how much we loved A French Village. And the producer and showrunner contacted me with an idea of how to do A French Village in America. And we are meeting at a restaurant, dreaming it up.
^Helisek, Alex (October 14, 2019). Brian De Palma Interview- Lifetime Achievement Award. Breezeway Productions – via YouTube. I do have a kind of horror film I'd like to make and, also, different genres; an adaptation of a[n] old, classic noir picture called Palmetto.