6. Batman: Year One
After the ludicrousness of Batman and Robin, Joel Schumacher wanted to make a fifth film in the Batman series; one that was darker and more like the Tim Burton films. But despite his enthusiasm for the project, Warner Bros were done with the idea of him having anything to do with The Caped Crusader after the fall-out of Batman & Robin. Some years later, Darren Aronofsky was interested in adapting Frank Miller's Batman Year One; the same material that Schumacher wanted to translate to the big screen. In the early 2000s, Batman: Year One was among many attempts to make a new Batman film, and it certainly registers as one of the most exciting. There are an abundance of reasons why this didn't get made but the main one was because of its violent content - the studio didn't want to release an R-rated Batman film due to the risk of losing its target audience. Aronofsky and Miller's Batman: Year One had the potential to be the quintessential Batman movie, mainly because it wouldn't be restricted by a child friendly rating. By not being held back in anyway, this could have been the truest incarnation of the character. The film also troubled WB because of how it was to shuffle around Batman's origin story. Additionally, Alfred would have been known as "Little Al" who would have worked in a garage with his father and the Batmobile would have been a Lincoln Continental. The concept art that has recently appeared online for the rejected movie show how badass this film could have been and reveals what Aronofsky would have done with the Caped Crusader. Would it have been better than Chris Nolan's Batman Begins? Unfortunately, we'll never know.