10 Insane Movie Sequels Actors Actually Wanted To Make

10. Silver Surfer

Tim Story's two Fantastic Four movies earn their damning with the faintest of praise as "the best live action Fantastic Four" through playing it as safe as possible.

Story made Marvel's first family into a middle of the road action film, downplaying any of the weirder cosmic elements of the comic to keep the scope narrow and earthbound. He turned gargantuan planet devourer Galactus into a vaguely sinister cloud. A proposed spinoff, however, would have gone in a very different direction.

After doing the performance capture to portray the titular shiny board-rider in sequel Rise Of The Silver Surfer, star Doug Jones was excited to talk up the possibility of a solo movie for the cult favourite character. Jones, who spoke of his love of Norrin Rad at any opportunity, became even more keen on the project once Fox agreed to a pitch from Babylon 5 creator and sci-fi icon J. Michael Straczynski.

In contrast to its unambitious predecessors, Straczynski's Silver Surfer script would have fully embraced the outlandish weirdness of Marvel's cosmic universe, journeying to Radd's home world of Zenn-La to defend against a vengeful Galactus in a movie that Straczynski described as an adult sci-fi epic.

Fox instead went ahead with rebooting the Fantastic Four, although now that the rights have reverted to Marvel an MCU Silver Surfer movie is a distinct possibility. They could do worse than calling on Jones again, given his passion for the character.