Did I dream about these?

There are lots of movies and TV shows that are never made. They may be talked about; there may be screen treatments floating around; there might even be completed scripts. But the celluloid never gets an image on it.

Here are three movie projects that I'm sure I read or heard about at one time, many years ago. Or was I dreaming?

• Ron Howard was going to direct a movie inspired by Anne Murray's hit song “You Needed Me, and his Happy Days colleague Anson Williams (Potsie) was going to star. (A script may have been written by a guy named Craig Buck.)


• Sonja Smits was going to star as a ghost in a tragic film set in Newfoundland.


• Olivia Newton-John was going to play the wife of an industrialist in 19th Century Australia, in a mini-series.

Maybe these projects were talked about. Maybe not.