Terry Gilliam's Watchmen

Many years before Zack Snyder adapted Watchmen for the big screen, director Terry Gilliam and producer Joel Silver wanted to bring the iconic novel to life. So, back in 1991, they forwarded a script to the studio and began raising money.

Reportedly, the movie would have cost $100 million, which was a gargantuan sum at that point. The duo managed to raise just $25 million, so they decided to scrap it. In all honesty, given Gilliam's movies, I would have watched it.

And that’s even though Joel Silver later revealed that the movie would have strayed considerably from the novel. Basically, the movie ended with Doctor Manhattan going back in time and preventing his own creation, effectively creating an alternate universe, in which he and the rest of the Watchmen were nothing other than comic book characters.

Yes "“ it's not the Watchmen novel. But Gilliam's track record (especially the dystopic Brazil) made him a better director for such a project.