Meaning of development hell | Babel Free

Definitions

The situation where a movie, a piece of software, etc. is mired in problems that delay its production and release.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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