After completing Il fantasma innamorato (1990), Minghella wrote a screenplay titled 'The Seven Deadly Sins' in which the sins were to be portrayed by animatronics from the Jim Henson Creature Shop. The film remained in pre-production for at least ten years, in which Minghella kept working on the script. At first, Duncan Kenworthy was attached to produce and later Saul Zaentz. Originally Minghella was set to direct, but later he was replaced by Stanley Donen. The film remains unproduced.
