>Year One (2002)
>Dir. Darren Aronofsky
>There’s been a wealth of cinematic Batman origin stories but there was very nearly another one. Before Batman Begins hit theaters and began Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, director Darren Aronofksy was working on adapting the graphic novel Batman: Year One into a film, with the comic’s writer, Frank Miller. Batman: Year One was a very violent and depressing take on Bruce Wayne, an R-Rated movie and probably the darkest despiction ever made of the character. Wayne was a homeless, sadistic torturer who gets his superhero name because of the bat-like brand he left on victims after punching them with a signet ring. Bruce isn't alone in being a huge bummer, Commissioner Gordon is introduced on the edge of suicide and Catwoman was a dominatrix prostitute who happily beat up her clients. The script of Batman: Year One was, in fact, deemed too intense, dark and disturbing for a superhero movie, and that resulted in it getting cancelled to make the way for Nolan’s dark but relatively toned down Batman Begins. Aronofsky wanted Joaquin Phoenix to play Bruce Wayne and Bryan Cranston to play James Gordon.
Cancelled DC Movies
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>Justice League Mortal
>Dir. George Miller
>This is one of the more recent examples of a cancelled DC Comics film. Still it has quickly grown in mystery and interest. Back around the time that Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight’s trilogy was playing out George Miller, director of Mad Max: Fury Road, was crafting his own take on the Justice League. This would've put DC well ahead of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and The Avengers.
>Justice League Mortal made it through quite a lot of hurdles. The cast was mostly set, the plot was coming together and even some of the costumes were created.
>The movie would've been similar in tone and look to Fury Road, although Mortal predates the making of that movie by nearly a decade. Mortal would open one the death of Justice League member and tell the rest of the story through flashbacks.
>Due to a combination of factors, mainly budget concerns and the writers’ strike of 2007 and 2008, the movie was canned, leaving Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon's Justice League to be the team's live-action cinema debut. Only time will really tell if that is better for everyone involved.
>Superman Lives
>Dir. Tim Burton
>This might very well be the most famous (or infamous) cancelled movie in DC’s history. When Tim Burton’s Batman blew up in popularity and revived the dark knight from his cinematic slumber, Warner Bros. wanted to similarly reboot the man of steel. This is where Superman Lives entered its torturous production before being eventually cancelled.
>Superman Lives had a long and hellish life in the development process being passed from creative team to creative team. Tim Burton, Kevin Smith and, most famously, Nicolas Cage were all attached to the project at one point. While it started off as relatively simple adaptation of the Death of Superman story arc, things quickly moved out into crazy town.
>Some of the concepts that were toyed with the movie, included a gigantic spider creature that Superman would be forced to fight, villains Lex Luthor and Brainiac morphing into one evil entity and a robotic suit saving Superman’s life. If it had been made Superman Lives likely would’ve been one of the most insane superhero movies ever. So, perhaps, it's fortunate for everyone’s sanity that it was deemed too ambitious and costly to produce.
>Batman Triumphant
>Dir. Joel Schumacher
>It’s gone by a couple different names, but Warner Bros. was planning on creating a direct sequel to Batman & Robin. When Batman & Robin flopped, and flopped hard, that quickly ended. Still the movie had progressed beyond the vague concept of it hypothetically existed and to the surprise of no one, it sounds absolutely insane.
>Batman Triumphant (or Unchained) was meant to be Harley Quinn’s cinematic introduction as the character was proving to be a huge success in Batman: The Animated Series and comics. Yet rather than be The Joker’s girlfriend, this Harley would be his daughter.
>Harley would be joined in her villainous pursuits by the Scarecrow. (In true Schumaker fashion, rapper Coolio was the frontrunner for the role.) In additon, a big plot point of the movie would see Batman locked up in Arkham Aslyum and put on trial.
>Director Joel Schumaker envisioned the movie as his apology for Batman & Robin and wanted it to be a much darker and more mature take on the caped crusader. Yet no one was interested and the movie was quietly cancelled.
>Batman vs Superman
>Dir. Akiva Goldsman,
>Obviously, Batman v Superman exists, it's the movie that arguably launched the DCEU, even more than Man of Steel. However, DC nearly had a very different title fight that predated Man of Steel and even Marvel’s Iron Man, way back in 2003. While Batman v Superman was taken to task for being a dark and depressing slog, what was formed for the first (cancelled) version was much, much worse.
>Penned by Akiva Goldsman, the man responsible for I Am Legend, Cinderella Man and Batman & Robin, the movie saw introduced older, retired and deeply depressed. Bruce Wayne. Batman's entire supporting cast was dead which includes, everyone to Dick Grayson to Alfred. Superman, meanwhile, was going through a messy divorce with Lois Lane. Neither hero was happy, in the slightest.
>The movie wasn’t just about two middle-aged white men being in a funk. Similar to BvS, Lex Luthor manipulated the title fight and coaxed Batman out of retirement. While the movie lacked a ”Save Martha!” twist or death of Superman, it’s hard to argue that fans weren’t saved by never seeing it.
>Batman Beyond
>Dir. Bruce Timm
>Based on the animated series of the same name, Batman Beyond was an effort to revive the Bat name after the disaster that was Batman & Robin. The animated series' co-creators were attached to help to bring the movie to life and a director was even brought on board. Eventually though everything fell apart and Batman Begins became the Bats for the new millennium.
>Rumors still do persist that the DCEU will revive the project, in some form but there are no solid plans ... yet.
>The Watchmen (2004)
>Dir. Paul Greengrass
>Before Zack Snyder was chosen to direct it, Paul Greengrass was the guy leading the production for the movie Watchmen. Adaption the well known David Hayter script (but with a rewrite that according to scoops would include the iconic squid attack), Greengras wanted to make a darker and realistic vision to an alternate universe, set in the 2000s, exploring the fear and panic from that era.
>"My view was, I didn’t want to do a faithful adaptation, but a new take of it, and that might have been a disastrous endeavor and perhaps why I didn’t get the movie made"
>Greengrass detailed his vision for “Watchmen” by explaining, “I wanted to believe these characters lived in the real world, that they had changed the world, and that a lot of what they were thinking and doing was delusional.” As a comparison, the filmmaker said his vision was in a similar vein to what Todd Phillips executed with “Joker,” which Greengrass called “an absolutely brilliant film.”
>“There was something in ‘Joker’ that had [a similar] quality to it,” Greengrass said. “The Joker was in a real world, and he was filled with delusions, and [so the story idea was] superheroes’ identities were within people’s minds and were interior delusions as opposed to actualities. And the [movie] idea would have been where [the two ideas] join, if that makes sense, that these "vigilantes" and "supervillains" deep down were just people with agendas, or mental issues. Humans like us, with flaws, and fears, and even pathetic at points, or dangerous.
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>Joker (Jared Leto)
>Dir. Unknown
>It was promised to Leto by Warner Bros. that he’d feature in several more movies as the iconic character, but that never came to fruition. But while the actor’s depiction and the character’s gangster rapper-like look has their critics, it still was close to happening.
>According to leaks, Leto blamed the cancellation of his movie to Joker (2019), a movie which he tried to get cancelled during pre-production and failed. It is also know Leto proposed he should direct the movie himself when no director seemed to want their name attached to the project.
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>Ben Affleck's The Batman
>Dir. Ben Affleck
>Shortly after the release of Batman V Superman, Warner Bros. confirmed that Affleck would be co-writing, directing, and starring in a solo movie tentatively titled The Batman. As set up by the end of Justice League, it would have featured Batman going up against Deathstroke (Joe Manganiello) and The Riddler would have featured too.
>If it happened, not only would Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman movie and GCPD series not be happening, but the DC shared universe would be in a much stronger place. A Batman movie is a big deal, after all.
>According to rumors and leaks, Affleck's vision was not only a close adaptation to Batman: The Animated Series, but he also wanted to bring creators Bruce Timm and Paul Dini to help with the script and production. After leaving the project, and when comic book writer Geoff Johns took over the direction, Johns was totally against this idea, and when Reeves proposed his idea of a more realistic, closer to Johns comics, which he wanted to movie to be (and Affleck was against), he greenlighted Reeve's project and cancelled Affleck's idea.
i don't care about immersion, but this nigga phoenix has a scar on his lip, if the mask doesn't cover his mouth then everyone would recognize him
>New Gods
>Dir. Ava DuVernay
>Shortly after Justice League, Selma director Ava DuVernay signed on to direct a movie that was based on the New Gods series, created by comics legend Jack Kirby (which Darkseid, Steppenwolf, and Apokolips is all a part of).
>In fact, New Gods was intended to directly expand upon the backstory of Darkseid and the world hinted at in Zack Snyder's original cut of Justice League. Shortly after the recent release of Zack Snyder's Justice League, Warner Bros announced it was pulling the plug on New Gods, meaning that there are no movies featuring the DC universe's greatest villain, Darkseid, in production.
>Harley Quinn vs Joker
>Dir. Justin Hartley
>Hot on the heels of Suicide Squad's success, several movies featuring Harley Quinn as the lead were announced by Warner Bros - with the assumption that Suicide Squad 2 was also in the pipeline.
>Cathy Yan's Birds of Prey was the first to come along, but two others were in development: Gotham City Sirens, directed by Suicide Squad's David Ayer, and Harley Quinn Vs The Joker, which would bring back Jared Leto's Joker. The script was ready and production would've begun soon. If these movies were real, then the upcoming The Suicide Squad might not be coming out this year.
>Wonder Woman (2007)
>Dir. Joss Wheddon
>After Batman Begins reigned in a new, successful version of an iconic character, Warner Brothers was looking to replicate that success with another of their most popular characters. In 2006, Warner Brothers reached out to Joss Whedon for a Wonder Woman solo-film. Whedon's experience with strong, female-led shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer gave the studio confidence in the writer's ability to adapt the heroine's story. However, a recently leaked draft of the screenplay drew a myriad of controversy over the negative portrayals of Diana Prince and the feminist ideals she champions.
>Whedon's Wonder Woman was apparently told from Steve Trevor's point-of-view, guiding Diana through a new world while she pursues the villains Strife (a woman in the comics, a man in the script) and Spearhead. The script had many questionably weak moments for the powerful heroine, and her attachment to Steve Trevor was used as her driving force and eventual weakness. A few other writers later tackled a different version of the script, establishing the idea of a World War II time period, but the unfortunate truth was that executives at the time just weren't confident that a female-led superhero film could perform at the box office.
>Live action B:TAS soul was cancelled for Reeves' hack writing
>Vertigo/DC Black Label for movies.
>Not really a "movie" but a whole brand that was pitched by Todd Phillips before the release of Joker (2019), which was going to be the first movie of a trilogy, each movie centered around a character from the DC universe, most likely R, and then would start adapting DC's most well know and darker works. There were already two directors in mind for the next two projects, but Warner rejected the idea believing Joker would fail at the box-office.
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>Justice League Part 2
>Dir. Zack Snyder
>By far the biggest casualty of the DCEU and the one that fans of Zack Snyder's Justice League lament the loss of the most is the planned Justice League 2 - and possibly a third movie too if the initial plan was to be believed. Warner Bros commissioned Zack Snyder to shepherd the DCEU, along with at least two Justice League movies.
>However, following the lukewarm critical reaction to Batman V Superman, Warner Bros. got cold feet and pulled Justice League back to one movie. The studio then essentially began dismantling the "Snyderverse." once Snyder left. Zack Snyder's Justice League and the storyboards left behind showed off an epic tale that would have linked all the DCEU movies, but sadly it was not to be.
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>The Flash
>Dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
>While Cyborg was canceled without finding a director, none of the members of the Justice League have had as difficult a time getting to the screen as Ezra Miller's The Flash movie. Even ignoring the fact that Warner Bros has been trying to get a Flash movie into theaters since the late '80s, the DCEU version has gone through multiple directors and was originally due March 2018, mere months after Justice League.
>Originally down to be directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the duo behind the likes of The LEGO Batman Movie and Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, the pair sadly dropped out. Now, years later, and The Flash has turned into a crazy movie that could possibly reboot the whole DCEU.
>Vertigo's works adapted
>Shit
Faggot are you stupid? Vertigo has the most kino stories.
It’s a travesty this was never made.
Almost all of that is made up, you're making it seem more edgy than what it originally was
>made up
Faggot I didn't make that shit up. The description is from some news I found. And the script is in the internet
yeah and look at the adaptations of the stories, all of them are shit
>retarded zoomer doesn't know about Aronofkys' Year One kino
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Final one
>The Flash
>Dir. Rick Famuyiwa
>The script was written in 2016 and was canon to Zack Snyder’s Justice League. The plot follows Barry Allen’s evolution both as a hero and as an investigator. At the start, he still fights crime in secret and is only concerned with reinvestigating his mother’s case. In the end, he becomes a public hero and proves himself as a forensic scientist. The villains are Captain Cold and Golden Glider, who are hired to steal the components of an electromagnetic weapon from S.T.A.R. Labs. Captain Cold has exoskeleton with cryogenic weapons and Golden Glider has a device that allows her to glide through solid matter.
>There is a major subplot about Barry trying to prove that a reformed black criminal was framed for a murder he didn’t commit, and exposing corrupt cops who have been fabricating evidence for years, including for Barry’s father’s case. Racism and black discrimination made by cop towards black people. Iris West helps Barry expose the corrupt cops because her brother was also framed and died in prison, and she bonds with Barry over losing people to the corrupt system. She knows about Barry’s powers from the start after he saved her in Justice League and is the one who names him “The Flash”.
>Cyborg helps Barry investigate the Rogues and joins in on the final battle to fight Golden Glider. Barry’s father Henry Allen helps Barry expose the corrupt cops by saving an informant who is locked up with him in Iron Heights after the cops attempt to have him killed.
>The supporting characters include Roman Burke, the leader of the corrupt cops; Alex Petrov, Barry’s boss at the crime lab who is working with Burke; Captain David Singh and Detectives Fred Chyre and Jared Morillo; and Paul Gambi, the Rogues’ handler. Lex Luthor is revealed as the Rogues’ employer in the end.
>There are three major action scenes: The opening with Barry fighting crime across Central City and foiling the Rogues before they get their weapons and the second confrontation where the Rogues nearly kill the Flash. In the final battle, Barry and Cyborg fight the Rogues, who use the electromagnetic weapon to cause several disasters across the city that Barry and Cyborg must deal with, while also having to protect Iris from the corrupt cops.
>Golden Glider dies when her device malfunctions and disintegrates her. Captain Cold blames the Flash and ends up in jail, but Luthor breaks him out and recruits him for the Injustice Gang.
>Burke is killed by Chyre and Petrov is arrested. Having proved they fabricated evidence against Henry, Barry convinces the judge to grant Henry an appeal to overturn his sentence.
>Barry’s time travel in Justice League is referenced, and he briefly reverses time again. He also learns how to phase through solid objects, become invisible, create vortexes, move so fast he is in two places at once and bring others into his “speed aura”.
>Reverse Flash is only alluded to in a nightmare that Barry has about his mother’s death and a brief moment when he steps into the Speed Force and senses someone else there with him.