10 Dead Comic Book Movies That Need To Be Revived

Film projects get canned all the time, whether it's for financial reasons, creative issues or just because the project is unable to ever really get much traction. The same goes for superhero films - with such an abundance of source material, it's inevitable not everything will get made. Besides, back in the early 2000s, general audiences weren't quite ready to accept a man who could shrink to the size of an ant.

But that doesn't mean they shouldn't be made now. What was once deemed too "out there" is now totally feasible, especially with films like Guardians Of The Galaxy and Doctor Strange doing so incredibly well at the box office. Nothing is unfilmable, and even reboots are acceptable after only a couple years.

With superhero films being at the height of their popularity, and with a massive audience hungry and open minded, what better time to revisit some of the many projects that never made it off the ground...

The world has changed immensely since iconoclastic direct Terry Gilliam attempted to get Alan Moore's Watchmen off the ground. For a start, it's now totally fine to reboot superhero material before its most recent adaptation is even half a decade old (see: Spider-Man, Batman).

Zack Snyder's attempt at making Watchmen was admirable, but it was also pretty soulless, and for adapting source material that is so strange it felt remarkably bland. Say what you want about Terry Gilliam, but his films are legitimately bizarre in a way that Snyder's simply aren't (the guy is responsible for everything from Monty Python And The Holy Grail to 12 Monkeys).

Honestly, it's this edge that an adaption of Watchmen needs. Sure, Snyder's version was violent, but it felt artificial as hell. Now, several decades on, technology has improved sufficiently so that Gilliam could give the project a good, solid try.

Especially since his proposed alternative ending - in which Doctor Manhattan prevents himself from ever being created - sounds so fascinating.