While we seem to be in an era where comic book movies are killing it at the box office, and the technology is available to fantastically translate the comic book panels to the screen, it hasn’t always been that way. For decades, Hollywood’s been trying to translate the success of the comics into blockbuster franchises, but just couldn’t figure it out.
Here are some examples of Marvel properties that were viewed as being viable on the big screen, only to crash and burn in the development process.
Man, the superhero landscape could have looked much different that what we’ve got today.