Great movie ideas come and go with most of them dying out before their time. It's a shame that such awesome plot lines never made it past the drawing board and I being the harbinger of bad news, must tell you about the very best ones, killed off before you and your nerd petitions could do anything to save them.

 

13) "Batman: Triumphant"

What would've been Joel Schumacher's third attempt at a Batman movie, "Batman Triumphant" had the Scarecrow as the main villain. Through the use of his fear toxin, he resurrects the Joker. Harley Quinn appeared as a supporting character, written as the Joker's daughter and George Clooney and Chris O'Donnell were set to reprise the roles of Batman and Robin, and Jeff Goldblum was rumored to play the Scarecrow. As we all know, "Batman & Robin" would be the worst superhero movie ever made, which lead to the cancellation of this movie. So say what you will, but I think this would've been quite a movie to watch. As we all know, the cancellation of this movie lead to the reboot of the Batman franchise which gave us "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight", so maybe this is one of those movies we'd be better off not seeing.

12) "Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon"

"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was a fantastic movie, which is as good of reason as any to allow a prequel which involved cartoons fighting Nazis. That's right, "Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon" would've been about cartoons fighting f*cking Nazis! It would've began with Roger Rabbit's early years, living on a farm in the Midwestern United States. With human Richie Davenport, Roger travels west to seek his mother, in the process meeting Jessica Krupnick (the future Ms. Rabbit), a struggling Hollywood actress. Jessica is kidnapped and forced to make pro-Nazi Germany broadcasts, thus Roger and Ritchie must save her by going into Nazi-occupied Europe. After their triumph, Roger and Ritchie are given a Hollywood Boulevard parade, and Roger is finally reunited with his mother, and father, who, get this, is Bugs f*cking Bunny. I don't think Edgar Allan Poe himself could've came up with a better sounding sequel than that. Unfortunately, producer Steven Spielberg (who was the big guns for financing this movie) left the project when deciding he could not satirize Nazis after directing Schindler's List, which is one of the most anti-American things ever stated. I don't think there will ever be a time when Nazis can't ever be made fun of. However, Spielberg went on to direct "Jurassic Park" so he's forgiven of just about every wrong he's wronged... except for the cancellation of this sure-to-be gem.

 

11-10) Kevin Smith's "Superman Lives"/ J.J. Abram's "Superman: Flyby"

F*ck. F*CK! F************CCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!! Why wasn't this movie made? I'm not favorable of Superman in the slightest. He's just too... strong. I want my superheros to be vulnerable. However, I would've paid top dollar to see this movie monstrosity. Kevin Smith pitched to Jon Peters his story outline for "Superman Lives" in August 1996, in which Peters gave him permission to write a screenplay. However, Peters presented Smith with three rules, such as wanting Superman to wear an all-black suit, feeling the more traditional suit was "too faggy"; not wanting to see Superman fly, saying that Superman would "look like an overgrown Boy Scout." and have Superman fight a giant spider in the third act. Peters and Warner Bros. also forced Smith to write a scene involving Brainiac fighting polar bears at the Fortress of Solitude, and Peters wanted Brainiac to give Lex Luthor a space dog, stating "Chewie's cuddly, man. You could make a toy out of him, so you've got to give me a dog." Peters wanted Brainiac's robot assistant L-Ron to be voiced by Dwight Ewell, calling him, "a gay R2-D2 with attitude."

Smith's draft had Brainiac sending Doomsday to kill Superman, as well as blocking out the sun to make Superman powerless, as Superman is fueled by sunlight. Brainiac teams with Lex Luthor, but Superman is resurrected by a Kryptonian robot, The Eradicator. Brainiac wishes to possess The Eradicator and its technology. Powerless, the resurrected Superman is sheathed in armor formed from The Eradicator itself until his powers return, courtesy of sunbeams, and defeats Brainiac. Nicolas Cage, Will Smith, Dean Cain, Keanu Reeves, and Tom Cruise was looked at to play Superman, Jack Nicholson as Lex Luthor, Famke Janssen as Mercy, John Mahoney as Perry White, David Hyde Pierce as The Eradicator, Jason Lee as Brainiac and Jason Mewes and Chris Rock as Jimmy Olsen. Essentially, this would've be View Askew's version of Superman, and really, could you ask for anything better? The movie eventually fell through when Tim Burton signed on to direct, ripped the screenplay to shreds, had it rewritten, and walked out of production leaving behind a disemboweled "Superman Lives" screenplay and a rotten trail of great movie innards.

"Superman: Flyby" is another superman movie I wouldn't have minded seeing. J.J. Abram's wrote a treatment of the Superman story that involved a civil war being fought of Krypton which replaces the normal "Kryptonian Apocalypse" plotline that has been around since the '20s., which I could see happening like "300". Also involved was a Kryptonian heaven, and a cliffhanger that ends with Superman going back to Krypton to fight in the civil war. McG was hired as the director, who approached Shia LaBeouf for Jimmy Olsen, Scarlett Johansson as Lois Lane, Johnny Depp for Lex Luthor, with an interest to cast an unknown for Superman. McG eventually dropped out and Bryan Singer took over directing reigns, which eventually led up to "Superman Returns", the biggest film disappointment of the 2000s if you ask me.

9) "Rambo V: The Savage Hunt"

This is one of those movies I'd love to see if it were not for the risk of completely sh*tting on the tiny bit of validity the "Rambo" franchise has left. Honestly though, odds are "Rambo V" will suck, and after you see that suckage, you Internet nerds who prevented this concept from happening will wish you could've seen Rambo fight genetically altered Were-beasts, which is exactly what this script called for.

8-7) The Original "Alien 3"/ James Cameron & Ridley Scott's "Alien V"

We're not talking about the 1990's Aliens sequel directed by the guy who would go on to make "Se7en" and "Fight Club". Oh no. We are talking about the original Alien 3" whose plot went a little something like: Aliens invade a dystopian future-earth and get it on in the sewers until there are so many baby xenomorphs below ground that they have to come boiling up out of manholes by the hundreds. The only things in their way from devouring a planet full of fleshy earthlings are a bunch of future-marines who use pulse rifles to quickly make alien-sushi out of the not-so-cuddly E.T.s. They was even an actual trailer made for this movie released in theatres that highlights this synopsis and is available online . Unfortunately the producers had stumbled through concepts, sets, actors, directors, crew., and even filmed scenes, which were simply tossed into the garbage. Even the totally bad ass headburster idea was tossed quickly into the "what-if" file. Eventually, Alien3 is what we were left with and all hope of successfully re-adapting the franchise was lost...

...Until it was reported that James Cameron and Ridley Scott had teamed up to make Alien 5 after seeing the bastardization the previous two films were to the good "Alien" name. Ridley Scott had talked with Jame Cameron and stated that he thought "it would be a lot of fun, but the most important thing [was] to get the story right.", a story Cameron himself would write. apparently, the plot for that story was "to go back to where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were created", but after learning that Fox intended to create "Alien vs. Predator", Cameron believed the film would "kill the validity of the franchise" and ceased work on his story, because to him "it was Frankenstein Meets Werewolf.". So Fox f*cked up one great movie by making a movie with a fantastic concept that was executed beyond poorly. Also, I'm sure that Cameron and Scott's Alien V would not have looked like that poster, I just posted it because It made me laugh so f*cking hard.

 

6) "Gump & Co."

Everybody loves Forrest Gump... Well, actually there are quite a few people who disliked it... a lot, with quite a few notable critics calling the movie about as enjoyable to watch as Hell. One of those critics being the author of the Forrest Gump novel, Winston Groom. Apparently this is one of the main reasons there has not been a "Gump" sequel. Groom was actually cheated out of his share of the money his movie made, as Paramount claimed they lost money on the film (which a. we all know is total bullsh*t and b. Is another reason we are apparently not getting a sequel to this movie anytime soon) However, Groom did write a sequel to his novel when the movie came out. The first chapter of the book suggests that the real life events surrounding the film have been incorporated into Forrest's storyline, and that Forrest got a lot of media attention as a result of the film. During the course of the sequel novel, Gump runs into Tom Hanks, and at the end of the novel is the film's release, including Gump going on The David Letterman Show and attending the Academy Awards. It is mentioned Hanks plays Gump, and Forrest seems to have a positive look on the film. Other event in the novel include Gump playing football for the New Orleans Saints, selling encyclopedias door-to-door, working on a pig farm, and helping develop the infamous New Coke! He accidentally crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, and also fights in Operation Desert Storm with his pet orangutan which blows my mind to even try to imagine. A script was written in 2001 based on this novel, but was considered irrelevant after the 9/11 attacks. It was looked at once more in 2007 but nothing was greenlit. Too bad, as I'm pretty sure Forrest helping invent New Coke would've been the only way society would forgive that debauchery.

 

5) George A. Romero's "Resident Evil"

In 1999, Sony and Capcom greenlit a Resident Evil film with George A. Romero signed on as the film's director and screenplay writer. Romero's association with Capcom, the Resident Evil video game series creators, had extended from 1998 when Romero directed an ad campaign for Biohazard 2 (Resident Evil 2) in Japan. Romero, being the rich and lazy bastard he is, had his secretary play the entire game through and record the gameplay so he could study it as a resource. Romero's screenplay revolved around the plot of the Arklay incident and included characters from the Resident Evil video games. Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine were the lead characters, involved in a romantic relationship. Barry Burton, Rebecca Chambers, Ada Wong and Albert Wesker were to also appear. The ending to the film would have been similar to that of the Resident Evil video game. However, Romero's script was disapproved of and production was placed into development hell. He eventually went on to direct three more sequels to his "___ of the Dead" Trilogy, thus ruining it. Considering how the "Resident Evil" movies were equally panned, we should've just took a chance on Romero, and Romero might just have two excellent film series on his hands

 

4-3) James Cameron's "Spider-man"/ "Spider-man 4"

 

Looking back, James Cameron not making Spider-man maybe the best thing to happen to films in the past ten years. It gave him more time to flesh out Avatar (which I still haven't seen) and practically rebooted Sam Raimi's career and gave hopes that he will one day get to make the Evil Dead 4. However, you can't help but to wonder what would've happened had Cameron really got his wish to make the Webslinger flick.

First of all, Raimi actually kept a lot of the changes Cameron made to Spider-man, most noticeably the organic web shooters. However, there were quite a few differences in Raimi's film as well, such as replacing Cameron's villain Electro with the more popular Green Goblin, which is a shame as Cameron's treatment for the comic’s super-villain called for Electro to be a robot, Carlton Strand, that functioned on pure electric power, and could touch a computer or a cable and absorb the data flowing through it—an acknowledgement that information itself is real power. Cameron’s scriptment is darker and more adult than anyone expected from a comic-book movie in the 1990s—Peter Parker says “motherf*cker” and Spider-Man and Mary-Jane have sex atop the Brooklyn Bridge. It was like Watchmen but with teenagers. Sure, I've stated before that I don't think a dark and gritty Spider-man movie fits the character but it would've been interesting to see nonetheless.

And you may be asking yourself why would I have chosen Raimi's Spidey 4 as a movie well unfortunately never get to see, considering how much of a sh*tfest Spider-man 3 turned out to be? Well mainly because Anne Hathaway was to play a character called the Vultress, thus preventing us from ever seeing this:

2) "Indiana Jones & The Hidden Valley Of Dinosaurs"

This is with out a doubt be one of the great "what if" movie premises that would've been horrible on the big screen (Indy fighting aliens sounded cool at the time too). Lucas made the film a prequel as he did not want the Nazis to be the villains once more. For the originally planned Indiana Jone sequel, Lucas created an opening chase scene that had Indiana Jones on a motorcycle on the Great Wall of China. If that wasn't badass enough for you, later on in the movie Indiana discovered a "Lost World pastiche with a hidden valley inhabited by dinosaurs". however, Chinese authorities refused to allow filming of the movie to take place there, so that sequel was cancelled. I feel "Temple of Doom" is the weakest of all Indy movies (even weaker than Crystal Skull), but as I said before, this probably would've been a bad movie, ruining all credibility Indiana Jones would have... But damn! A valley of dinosaurs!

 

1) "Ghostbusters In Hell"

Ghostbusters never got a shot to get sh*tty, got it? In other words, it's one of the few badass action movies with a hint of comedy (okay, so the whole thing was a comedy with a hint of action) that never got a full trilogy. The something that always seems to be preventing a script from seeing the light of day is convincing all the big names to sign on. We all know now however, that there is a "GB3" being made at this very moment with all the big names signed on thus getting it farther than any other "GB3" script, which kind of sucks considering one of them was called "Ghostbusters In Hell"! Harold Ramis wrote the script with positive reaction from his fellow Ghostbusters... Well, all except Bill Murray. But that's okay, as Ramis was just going to replace him with Ben Stiller anyway (Take that as you will, but after seeing "Tropic Thunder" I don't have too many doubts that that would've been too terrible.) Unfortunatley, the project fell through in the early 2000's, which means we will never see Dan Aykroyd fight Satan, or Ernie Hudson sail down a river of molten lava whilst fighting the souls of Hitler, John Wilkes Booth, and another historically racist figure who I will not name as I can't remember anymore. And this is all because of Bill Murray. He's lucky he was so badass in "Zombieland" other wise I'd be pissed.