development hell
noun1
Colloquial The situation where a project (such as a movie, musical record, or piece of software) is mired in problems that delay its production and release.
- The third movie in the trilogy has been in development hell for ten years already! I want to see how the story ends!
- 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.2013, Peter Biskind, Down and Dirty Pictures, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- Related terms
- valley of death