12 Shocking Batman Movie Plans That Almost Happened

7. Adam West's Batman Pitch

Back when Batman '89 was coming out, Adam West was disgruntled that he'd been cast aside entirely (despite Tim Burton apparently wanting him to play Thomas Wayne) and called the film out as "Robocop in Gotham City".

He also revealed that he tried to get his own Batman movie made, which would have been one of the most insane movies of all time:

"Bruce Wayne had basically retired to his ranch in New Mexico after having cleaned up Gotham City. Most of the main villains were in madhouses or penitentiaries. So I invented a new supervillain called Sun Yat Mars, who was so heinous he inspired to spring them on one horrible stormy night, making them his minions - Marsies. Moreover he was kidnapping college kids from all over the world, taking them to his Zombie Satellite, which was very Alien looking, and there they marched like Dacua, filing in long lines into these terrible machines that sucked their brains out.

On top of that, the film would take in alien invasion, moonlit romantic horse-rides and Robin as "a singing medical intern "chasing nurses around with his guitar [like] the Bruce Springsteen of Mercy Hospital." It's basically like he was trying to prove how little he should have been allowed to make a Batman film.