50 Comic Book Movies That Almost Got Made

39. James Cameron's X-Men

During the €™90s, Spider-Man wasn€™t the only superhero franchise that James Cameron was interested in. He also gave the X-Men a brief whirl with a studio pitch written by his then-wife (and future Academy Award-winner) Kathryn Bigelow. There were many drafts of this would-be screenplay over the years, one involved the X-Men vs. The Brotherhood vs. Sentinels; another involved Magneto turning Manhattan into a mutant homeland (probably inspired by Christopher Golden€™s X-Men: Mutant Empire trilogy of novels); and another one had Magneto responsible for Wolverine€™s adamantium. One of the most interesting aspects of the ultimately abandoned film is the fact that it would have starred none other than Bob Hoskins as Wolverine, which seems fairly odd in retrospect. Though, with Cameron€™s track record it can almost be guaranteed that the film would have at least been a huge hit financially - if nothing else.