development hell

English

Noun

development hell (uncountable)

  1. The situation where a movie, a piece of software, etc. is mired in problems that delay its production and release.
    Synonyms: development limbo, production hell
    The third movie in the trilogy has been in development hell for ten years already! I want to see how the story ends!
    • 2013, Peter Biskind, Down and Dirty Pictures, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
      In Hollywood, it was widely known that to make a deal with Redford was to fall into development hell—script notes, rewrites, and more rewrites—often going nowhere.

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