The film was adapted from a script titled The Girl Who Wouldn't Die.

He began work on a script titled Gardenback, based on his painting of a hunched figure with vegetation growing from its back.

A script titled The Return: Down 2 Hell was subsequently written and development for the film began.

A 30-minute script titled The Destroyers was created for a potential pilot episode which was never produced.

Hubbard had written a treatment for a script titled "Influencing the Planet" and, apparently, intended to direct it.

Robert Specht's original script titled 'Natural Selection' was slightly different.

Lynch had initially begun work on a script titled Gardenback, based on his painting of a hunched figure with vegetation growing from its back.

Andrei Tarkovsky wrote a script titled Hoffmaniana in which the writer himself is the main protagonist.

Rodriguez had written a script titled Predators before he had filmed Desperado.