- 2006: 'Rock Stars World Tour' along with Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Zayed Khan, Esha Deol, and Mallika Sherawat.
- (2013) In 2013,John Abraham was producing a film titled "Banana" starring Rohit Saraf,Zeishan Qadri,directed by Sajid Ali. The film was eventually shelved due to financial reasons.
- (2001) Was offered the film Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham. The role was Kareena's college friend and stalker, Robbie. John declined the role.
- (2004) Starred in the shelved movie Prime Focus LTD's "Mera Bharat Mahaan". Starring Sunil Shetty,Sohail Khan,John Abraham,Produced by Mahendra Dhariwal,Directed by Puneet Sihra.
- (2010) Starred in Studio 18's shelved untitled film. Starring John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandes,Naseeruddin Shah,Ranvir Shorey,Jaideep Ahlawat, Vijay Verma, Produced by Studio 18,Directed by Sabal Shekhawat. The film was about is a story about 5 ex-commandos and what happens to them. They were to shoot abroad in Turkey and other countries.Studio 18 eventually backed out due to the high budget and the project was put on hold. John Abraham wanted to co produce the film with the director, but was unable to find another production house that would back the film.
- (2007) Starred in the shelved movie Pritish Nandy Communication Ltd "Saheb Biwi Aur Ghulam".Starring Salman Khan,Priyanka Chopra,Vidya Balan, John Abraham, Produced by Pritish Nandy,Directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film was previously being directed by Deepa Mehta and was to star Salman Khan,Aishwarya Rai. This was back in 2003.
- (2009) Starred in the shelved movie "Exclusion"( Kamagata Maru) Starring Amitabh Bachchan (Later replaced by Akshay Kumar),John Abraham (Earlier Akshay Kumar was doing this role),Manisha Koirala,Mahima Chaudhary, Terrence Stamp,Seema Biswas, Padma Lakshmi,Music by A.R.Rahman, Written and Directed by Deepa Mehta.
- (2010) There were reports of Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision's "Aerial"(Aasman) being launched. The cast was Sanjay Dutt,Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Katrina Kaif and Sonal Chauhan,directed by Anthony D'Souza. John was upset with the announcement as he heard the script but did not okay his involvement. The project got shelved.
- (2013) The Tamil movie "Vettai" was going to be remade in Hindi . Abbas Mustan had signed Abhishek Bachchchan for the elder brother's role and John Abraham for the younger brother's. The film was finally shelved due to many delay's. Earlier in 2012, Karan Johar was to produce the Hindi remake of "Vettai" with UTV. Shahid Kapoor and Ali Zafar were signed for the project. Linguswamy was to direct the film. The project was shelved when Karan Johar pulled out of the film. It was eventually made as Baaghi 3 with Ritesh in Abhishek's role and Tiger in John's role.
- (2010) Starred in the shelved Hollywood movie "American Empire". Starring John Abraham, Genevieve Cortese, Arjun Rampal, Ashmit Patel,Megan Brown,Ross Francis,Nicole Trunfio,Antonio Tarver,Jim Fitzpatrick,Georgia Chris,Produced by Kevin D.Ward,.Tony Senzamici,Directed by Andy Armstrong.
- (2013) Starred in the shelved movie J.A.Entertainment and Anurag Kashyap Films "Kaala Ghoda". Starring John Abraham, Kunal Roy Kapoor, Produced by John Abraham, Anurag Kashyap, Directed by Aditya Bhattacharya.
- (2011) Starred in the shelved movie "Jaane Kya Tune Kahi". Starring John Abraham, Genelia D'souza,Imran Khan, Written and Directed by Abbas Tyrewala.
- (2001) Was to debut in the movie "Musafir Hoon Yaaron". It starred Jackie Shroff, Abraham, Sushmita Sen,and Isha Khoppikar. It was to be directed by Sanjay F.Gupta and was a remake of Hollywood movie, U Turn. The was shelved for unknown reason's . The film was eventually made later , but by another director with the same name "Sanjay Gupta". It was made as "Musafir" in 2004, with a different cast.
- (2008) Starred in the shelved movie Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd's untitled romantic comedy. Starring John Abraham,Kareena Kapoor,Produced by Dhillin Mehta, Written and Directed by Rumy Jaffery.
- (2006) The film "Luck" was originally going to be produced by Karan Johar after "Kaal". Karan had even tried to get the rights to the title "Race" from Ramesh Taurani. Sanjay Dutt,John Abraham, Kareena Kapoor and Ritesh Deshmukh were signed. Later Soham Shah and Karan Johar had a misunderstanding and Soham decided to leave Dharma Productions. In 2007, Soham met producer Dhillin Mehta and decided to make the film with him. Sanjay Dutt was brought back into the film. John Abraham was replaced by Imran Khan, Kareena Kapoor was replaced by Shruti Hassan and Ritesh Deshmukh was replaced by Ravi Kishen.
- (2007) Rituparno Ghosh was planning to make a film titled "Draupadi". Bipasha Basu was signed for the lead role. John Abraham had agreed to play Arjun. Shabana Azmi was also signed. Naseeruddin Shah was also approached for the film. All plans were dropped for unknown reasons.
- (2010) Starred in the shelved movie S.L.B. Productions "Chenab Gandhi". Based on freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Rajeev Khandewal ( The role was first to be done by Harman Baweja, then John Abraham), Music by Vishal Bhardwaj, Produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali,Directed by Vibhu Puri.
- (2012) Anurag Kashyap had signed John for the lead role in "Bombay Velvet".
- (2010) Was the first choice for "Rockstar".
- (2009) Turned down "We Are Family". Arjun Rampal replaced him.
- (2009) John was the first choice was Shirish Kunder's "Joker". John was to co produce and star in the film. The film was titled "Alien Sahib". John later left the film and Akshay came into the project.
- (2009) John Abraham had joined hands with Milan Luthra to produce and act in a love story. Milan was to direct the film. It was a romantic film will be full of SXF. The duo has already visited studios in Las Vegas and London. In fact, they were searching for a lead actress. Rajat Arora was writing the script. The film got shelved.
- (2013) John Abraham had bought the remake rights for Prabhas's Telegu film "Mirchi". He was to act and produce the film in Hindi. All plans were later dropped.
- (2012) Starred in Siddhi Vinayak Creations untitled film. Starring John Abraham, Produced by Shyam Bajaj and Narendra Bajaj, Directed by Siddique.
- (2015) Producer Firoz Nadiadwala had announced "Welcome To The Jungle". The film starred Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor,John Abraham. They were to play army officers.
- (2015) John Abraham had signed Aankhen 2 with Amitabh Bachchan,Anil Kapoor,directed by Anees Bazmee. He walked out when his price was not met.
- (2015) Starred in Base Industries Group's shelved movie "Hera Pheri 3". Starring Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan,John Abraham, Paresh Rawal,Neha Sharma, Esha Gupta,Kay Kay Menon,Kader Khan, Music by Anu Malik,Produced by Firoz Nadiadwala,Directed by Neeraj Vohra.
- (2009) Hot on the heels of Slumdog Millionaire Firoz Nadiadwala (known for films like Welcome and Hera Pheri) was planning an international film titled Titled Jewel Of India to be directed by Hollywood's Rob Cohen (of The Mummy and The Fast and the Furious Fame.) This Da Vinci Code-esque truesure hunt movie was to be about a a student who discovers that the Kohinoor diamond in the Tower of London is a fake and the real one is in India. This time we' were to see John Abraham, Katrina Kaif and Amitabh Bachchan. Amitabh Bachchan teaming up with either Al Pacino or Robert DeNiro, and Eva Mendes. The movie's budget is a cool 300 crore rupees. The movie was later called off.
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