In 1963 Aldrich was going to make a $14 million slate of eight feature films and one TV series for his production company, The Associates and Aldrich Company, using the success of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", "Sodom and Gomorrah" and "4 For Texas" to raise finance. The film projects were "Cross of Iron" by Lukas Heller, "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte", "The Tsar's Bride" by Robert Sherman, "Brouhaha" by George Tabori, "The Legend of Lylah Clare", "Paper Eagle", "There Really was a Gold Mine" (a sequel to "Vera Cruz"), and "Genghis Khan's Bicycle" with the TV series being "The Man" by Heller. Screenplays had also been completed on "Now We Know" by John O'Hara and Halstead Welles, "Vengeance is Mine", "Potluck for Pomeroy" and "Too Late the Hero" by Robert Sherman.