12 Crazy Comic Book Movie Rumours That Thankfully Never Happened

11. Green Arrow: Escape From Super Max

Now, we're not saying a Green Arrow movie would suck as a general rule, but this one in particular was not the way to go about making one. In 2008, David S. Goyer and Justin Marks wrote a script called "Green Arrow: Escape From Super Max" which would have seen the titular hero locked in a high-security prison, for a crime he didn't commit, and then teaming-up with a series of villains (ranging from A-listers to C-listers) and rogue superheroes in order to escape. Of the project, Justin Marks had this to say:

It's a very, very awesome prison. I majored in architecture in college, and design is how I actually started in. For "Super Max", designing that prison, it had to be the kind of thing that was a character in and of itself. We're in a world where instead of just trying to contain a guy who's really big, you're trying to contain a guy who can €” in the case of Icicle €” who can freeze things. What kind of a cell would a guy like that need in order to have his powers neutralized? So to escape from Super Max they have got to go through the most elaborate heist we've ever seen, involving superpowers. Because the prison itself kind of has superpowers!

Frankly, it sounded ridiculous and rumours of it actually happening did not impress us one bit. Thankfully, we got the great Arrow television show instead!