Wonder Woman
Don't blame me that studio execs are notoriously chauvinistic, or that Catwoman and Elektra were Amazonian level flops. They've been kicking around ideas for a live action WW movie for over ten years (Sandra Bullock? Beyonce? Catherine Zeta-Joes?) and the project even had Joss Whedon attached for a while. Why that news excited anyone is beyond me. Did Alien: Resurrection really - to paraphrase John Bender - really pump anyone's nads?
Warner Bros claims to be "nearing" a greenlight for both a Wonder Woman and and Aquaman film. Yeah. And I'm this close to playing quarterback for the Texans.
Besides, there's no hope of topping Lynda Carter.
Sandman
Neil Gaiman's Goth favorite about Dream (who looks like a skinny version of the Cure's Robert Smith) and the rest of the Endless consistently ranks alongside Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns as one of the most critically acclaimed comic properties of all time. Problem is, instead of punching things up with some boffo action sequences like its more violent brethren, Sandman relies primarily on a bunch of mopes with dark eyeliner nattering on for issues on end.
I crudely summarize because it's easy, but the fact is that a lack of action - and the length of the series (75 issues) - makes it a prohibitively difficult property to adapt for film. Maybe if the BBC had a spin-off network for young people ("BBC-X," perhaps) they could do a miniseries.
Speak of the devil...
Lobo
This Wolverine knock-off was inexplicably popular in the 1990s, probably among the same speculative fans who bought 12 variant covers of Spawn and Lady Death. He's a superhuman bounty hunter with a penchant for biker garb and extreme violence, something not quite so hip in today's Sons of Anarchy world.
Snatch director Guy Ritchie was attached to a movie version until Sherlock Holmes made him rich again. Now he's directing the sequel and Lobo will likely remain in limbo. Not because Americans are tired of assholes beating the shit out of each other (Real Housewives of New Jersey is still on, isn't it?), but because Warner Bros wants a PG-13 rating. Good luck with that.
