10 DC Comics Movies That Almost Happened

10. Batman Unchained

In fairness to Joel Schumacher, his third Batman films sounds like it would have been the most bearable of the bunch, had he been given the opportunity to make it.

Warner Bros misguidedly thought Batman & Robin would turn out well and, ahead of its release, they hired the director to work on another sequel titled Batman Unchained.

The third Schumacher film would have been darker in tone - basically a two-hour apology for its predecessors - and had bold ambitions to bring back all of the villains from the previous movies, including Jack Nicholson's Joker.

In the script, the main antagonists were the Scarecrow, whose fear gas causes Bruce Wayne to see visions of his past foes, and Harley Quinn, rewritten as the Joker's long lost daughter, rather than his abused love interest.

Nicolas Cage is said to have been sought for the role of Scarecrow, which would have been worth the admission fee alone, and Courtney Love targeted for Harley. Who knows how that one would have turned out?

Warner pulled the plug on Batman Unchained after Batman & Robin was savaged by fans and critics, instead turning its attention to potential adaptations of Batman: Year One and Batman Beyond, neither of which happened, but that's okay because the world got the Nolan trilogy instead.