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DC Comics’cinematic macrocosm is in full baseball swing with the handout ofJustice League . It might not be as financially and critically successful as Marvel ’s cinematic universe but the DCEU presently has a full ticket of projects in various stage of ontogeny .
DC Comics and parent company Warner Bros. are work hard to capitalize on the big superhero boom . However , the twain have been boil out motion picture based on their iconic part long beforeMan of Steelever remove theaters .
While most of DC ’s old silver - screen oblation have rotate around just Superman and Batman , the two titans have n’t been the sole focal point . There have been plenty of motion picture , live - action mechanism and quicken , that were go after but ended up on the press clipping room floor at DC , cancelled before they could ever see the twinkle of daylight .
It ’s almost insufferable , not to mention , unfair to guess a potential difference ( and now cancelled ) movie found on rumour of its production and growth , even if touchable snatch like a book have been released . Making a film is an involved and complicated process , which happens to involve more than a bit of luck .
Still , by and large , DC Comics appear to make the right decisions when call it quits on the entries on this leaning . Some of the movies gathered here might worth a revivification or bear as waste potential , but most were clearly cancelled for a ( very dear ) reason .
Here are the15 Cancelled DC Movies We ’ll Never Get To See .
Green Lantern 2(and More)
It ’s no closed book that 2011’sGreen Lanternwas a suppress dashing hopes for DC . While the motion picture is not without fans , it greatly under - performed and put a tidy sum of plans on halt .
Green Lanternwas not only mean to set up a sequel , as made obvious by its post citation sequence with Mark Strong ’s Sinestro putting on a yellow power ring , but set in motion a whole inter - connected universe .
Green Lantern , notMan of Steel , was meant to be the first stone’s throw in a orotund MCU - esque plan . Yet , because the movie tanked commercially and critically , everything about its future was completely cancel and it was made into a ( pathetic ) standalone moving-picture show .
This very well might ’ve been for the best . Green Lanternwasn’t the best foot for DC to put fore with their cinematic universe and being free of Hal Jordan provide Reynolds to finally devolve toDeadpool . Still , the problem with the first pic could ’ve been ironed out in a second film and beyond .
Batman Beyond
DC and Warner Bros. have never been diffident about making film with Batman in the starring role , whether in live - action or alive form . It ’s very rare however that the man under the cowl is n’t Bruce Wayne . Yet back in the early 00’s , DC near move ahead with a live - actionBatman Beyondadaptationwhich would ’ve see Terry McGinnis as the ( future tense ) caped crusader .
Based on the animated serial publication of the same name , Batman Beyondwas an effort to revive the Bat name after the cataclysm that wasBatman & Robin . The liven series ' co - creators were attached to help to bring the movie to living and a managing director was even brought on board . Eventually though everything precipitate apart andBatman Beginsbecame the Bats for the young millennium .
Rumors still do persist that the DCEU will revive the project , in some form but there are no solid plans … yet .
Batman vs Superman - The Other One
Obviously , Batman v Supermanexists , it ’s the pic that arguably set up the DCEU , even more thanMan of Steel . However , DC well-nigh had a very unlike title fight that predatedMan of Steeland even Marvel’sIron Man , wayback in 2003 . WhileBatman fivesome Supermanwas taken to task for being a dark and depressing slog , what was form for the first ( cancelled ) version was much , much worse .
Penned by Akiva Goldsman , the man creditworthy forI Am Legend , Cinderella ManandBatman & Robin , the movie saw present old , retired and profoundly low-spirited . 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 slim .
The movie was n’t just about two mediate - aged white valet being in a funk . standardised toBvS , Lex Luthor manipulated the form of address engagement and inveigle Batman out of retirement . While the movie lack a ” Save Martha ! ” twist or death of Superman , it ’s grueling to argue that devotee were n’t saved by never seeing it .
Green Lantern Starring … Jack Black?!
Green Lanternmight not be a comedian but there ’s raft of humorous elements of the character , particularly when considering Hal Jordan in the role . Therefore , despite the movie surrounding him , the very comical Ryan Reynolds was perfectly chuck in his 2011 moving-picture show . However , DC most went with a much more comedic set with Green Lantern back in 2004 as they were design a movie with Jack Black , not Reynolds , in the star role .
It ’s obscure whether this take on Green Lantern would ’ve been any sound or not , but it would ’ve certainly been unlike . Though Black was n’t involved in more than an acting capacity , the flick was reportedly everything would expect from a Jack Black - led film .
There were musical issue , a mammoth version ofPokémon ’s Pikachu as a third act threat andthe claim character , an original innovation for the movie , wore a rear coterie . The movie turned closely all the Green Lantern mythology upside down but , somehow , Sinestro was still the baddie . Still all the change made it view as too risky and too bizarre to move forward into anything real .
Tim Burton’s Catwoman Spin-Off
Batman Returnsmight not be as darling or spat as Tim Burton ’s first take on the cap crusader . However , the film did offer what many ( truly ) consider to bethe unequivocal hot - activity of Selina Kyle AKA Catwoman with Michelle Pfeiffer . Burton reportedly knew what he had in Pfeiffer too and assay to fix up the actress for her own solo film but it , deplorably , fell asunder .
Burton wanted to employ his third Batman movie , which eventually became Joel Schumacher’sBatman Forever , to set the sage for Selina ’s own adventures . Yet when Burton exited the projection and franchise altogether , the idea was abandoned … until Warner Bros. revived and twisted the entire idea with the ill-famed Halle Berry movie .
It reverse out that Burton drop dead Batman , ended up having deeper and more dramatic consequences than two underwhelming follow - ups . It robbed the human beings of more Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman .
Hawkman
Hawkman is , easily , one of the mostconfusing heroes in DC ’s crease - up . The fictional character is full of contradicting backstories , powers and motivating . Yet DC nearly moved ahead with a film with the confusing paladin at the center back in 2011 , putting him ahead of other more popular characters like Wonder Woman , Aquaman and The Flash .
The logline for the film was nearly as complicated as the character itself being described , as“Indiana JonesmeetsThe Da Vinci CodemeetsGhost . ”This make slightly more sensation when it ’s considered that Carter Hall AKA Hawkman has usually been depict as a constantly reincarnate champion that see back to Ancient Egypt .
Still , unsurprisingly , the movie never moved past the development stage . Carter Hall ’s only alive - action appearances amount to two very underwhelming TV roles onLegends of TomorrowandSmallville . Some thing work better on the Thomas Nelson Page than the screen and , for now , Hawkman seems to be one of them .
Justice League: Worlds Collide
The adored sketch , Justice League Unlimitedwas cancel before its timebut there very nearly was more stories told in its universe of discourse . An animated movie calledJustice League : Worlds Collidewas being be after back around the time ofJustice League Unlimitedseason 1 .
The reanimate feature was designed to bridge over the gap between spin - offJustice League Unlimitedand original seriesJustice League . Justice League : Worlds Collidewas going to take billet in the meter spread between the two series and see the heroes confront off against their alternate earthly concern evil version , The Crime Syndicate . The plan , however , never materialise into a full - length film .
TheJustice League Unlimitedversion story was canned but the projection did eventually become another animated film . Justice League : Worlds Collidemorphed into the standalone , Justice League : Crisis on Two Earthsin 2010.Crisis on Two Earthsstill insure a version of the Justice League face off against the Crime Syndicate but the voice cast ( and continuity ) was whole different fromJLU .
Superman: Flyby
Superman has see two cinematic reboots since the iconic Christopher Reeve days . The first was the pannedSuperman Returnswith Brandon Routh in the lead role and the other was , of grade , Man of Steelwhich infix Henry Cavill ’s Clark Kent . Yet there was another Superman movie being developed that foredate both versions , Superman : Flyby .
Flybywas write by J.J. Abrams the same man who , for serious or worse , resurrected both theStar TrekandStar Warscinematic franchises . However , Abrams ’ Superman script predate both of those revivals by quite a routine being craft in the former ' 00s . Flybytook several autonomy with the Superman mythos .
For illustration , Krypton rather than being destroyed still existed and there was a overweight stress on Clark Kent seek to hide out his business leader withMartha and Jon Kent being afraid that their adopted son would ( unwittingly ) kill them . Flybywas a much dour and more alien take on Superman than usual .
Maybe most interesting thing about the moving-picture show is n’t the plot of ground but the near molding . Brandon Routh and Henry Cavill both auditioned for the character inSuperman : Flyby , filming sieve tests . However , since the movie did n’t move onward beyond early growing , it would n’t be until their respective flick that either actor got to play the title role .
The Wachowski’s Plastic Man
Plastic Man is , to put it quite manifestly , a weirdo . Plastic Man is not only DC ’s only stretchable wedge , Ralph Dibny as The Elongated Man also be , he ’s such an undeniable and unremorseful goof that he sticks out . It ’s only natural then that when news show of Plastic Man movie pop to spread back in 2008 , two of Hollywood ’s most bizarre filmmakers were impound , The Wachowski siblings .
It ’s indecipherable what degree of development the Plastic Man solo flick bugger off to before being cancelled . Still back in 2008,rumors circulated that the Wacowski siblings , who are responsible forThe MatrixandJupiter Ascending , were interested in bringing Plastic Man to live - activity .
Perhaps the strangest matter of all was n’t the Wachowski ’s wanting to get into a superhero franchise . It was that they wanted thespian Kenau Reeves for the lead role . Although Kenau has history with the Wachowski ’s , he ’s not exactly renown for having a all-embracing chain of mountains of facial expressions as an actor , which is moderately important for the improbably malleable fighter .
Batman Triumphant(orUnchained)
It ’s snuff it by a couple unlike names , but Warner Bros. was planning on creating a lineal sequel toBatman & Robin . WhenBatman & Robinflopped , and flopped hard , that apace ended . Still the picture show had progressed beyond the undefined concept of it hypothetically existed and to the surprise of no one , it sounds perfectly harebrained .
Batman Triumphant(orUnchained ) was meant to be Harley Quinn ’s cinematic introduction as the character was proving to be a immense achiever inBatman : The Animated Seriesand comics . Yet rather than be The Joker ’s girlfriend , this Harley would be his girl .
Harley would be joined in her nefarious pursuits by the Scarecrow . ( In true Schumaker fashion , rapper Coolio was the frontrunner for the role . ) In additon , a braggy plot of land point of the moving picture would see Batman locked up in Arkham Aslyum and put on trial .
Director Joel Schumaker envisioned the moving-picture show as his excuse forBatman & Robinand desire it to be a much darker and more mature take on the caped crusader . Yet no one was interested and the motion picture was softly offset .
