10 Dead Comic Book Movies That Need To Be Revived

When was the last time a superhero film was truly weird? The most recent example I can think of is James Gunn's Super, which was rendered weird by its closeness to reality and the fact it was filled with black humour. The likes of Guardians Of The Galaxy and Ant-Man might have bizarre premises, but chewed up and spat out by the MCU machine, they're slightly homogenised. Even Deadpool didn't really stray far enough to really be classified as truly weird.

This leaves the gate wide open for Plastic Man. Who the hell is Plastic Man? He's a superhero originally published by Quality Comics, later acquired by DC. He's a bit like Mister Fantastic, except rather than merely stretching his limbs, he contorts his body into any imaginable form. Scenes in the comics show him becoming an enormous ladder to save people from a burning building and morphing himself into a suitcase in order to trick an alien bad guy.

A Plastic Man screenplay was written in 1995 by the Wachowskis, who later went on to make The Matrix films. It'd be brilliant to see the film revived with the Wachowskis directing, because weirdness is what they do best (2012's Cloud Atlas was bonkers, and absolutely nothing is weirder than 2015's Jupiter Ascending).

Something genuinely weird is what the superhero world needs right now.