10 Insane Ways Movies Got Sabotaged

10. Neil Gaiman Leaked The Script Online - The Sandman

Neil Gaiman's legendary comic series The Sandman may have finally been recently adapted into a well-received Netflix series (pictured above), but Hollywood spent years trying to turn it into a blockbuster movie.

In the mid-1990s, infamous producer Jon Peters (Tim Burton's Batman) took a crack at it, with William Farmer penning a 1998 screenplay which Gaiman thoroughly detested, even deeming it the worst script he'd ever read.

This script turned protagonist Dream into a villain and made numerous other egregious changes, such as including a mechanical spider - a long-time obsession of Peters' which he finally managed to include in one of his movies with 1999's Wild Wild West.

As for how The Sandman never got made? In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Gaiman admitted that he leaked the atrocious script to Ain't It Cool News, who promptly posted a report rubbishing it, in turn killing any and all hype about the adaptation. Gaiman said:

"I sent the script to Ain't It Cool News, which back then was read by people. And I thought, 'I wonder what Ain't It Cool News will think of the script that they're going to receive anonymously.' And they wrote a fabulous article about how it was the worst script they'd ever been sent. And suddenly the prospect of that film happening went away. And instead Jon Peters turned his attention to Wild Wild West."