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Gerard Soeteman (born 1 July 1936 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch screenwriter. He worked together with Paul Verhoeven on several films, such as Turkish Delight and Black Book . He also wrote the screenplay for The Assault , which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.
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The following is a list of unproduced Paul Verhoeven projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven has worked on many projects that never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these projects fell into development hell, were officially cancelled, were in development limbo or would see life under a different production team.
