7. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The beloved comic book series by Alan Moore had a brilliant concept: taking Victorian Era literary characters and putting them together to form an elite team. Which is why it was so disappointing to watch the botched 2003 film adaptation. Its poor execution serves to justify why Moore hates movie adaptations of his works, as among the many changes they made, it ignored the characters’ complex personalities and faults and treated them like boring do-gooders.

The cross-fictional hero mashup idea is too good to completely forget. Talks of a reboot already surfaced last year, but so far there are no new and more tangible developments. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would perhaps be best told as a TV series to capture the episodic pace of the original stories.