Suicide Squad might be one of the hottest comic book properties around right now, but David Goyer nearly beat David Ayer to the supervillain punch with his plans for Green Arrow: Escape From Super Max, which would have seen the hero banged up with a veritable rogue’s gallery of Gotham's bad guys. Goyer has been discussing the doomed project with Den Of Geek, and explains that Warner wasn’t big on a villain-led movie when the film was pitched at the end of the noughties.
"I think if that script had come over the transom a couple of years later… it was completely ahead of its time," says Goyer, ruefully. "Everything I see about Suicide Squad looks fantastic and it’s a different story. But [ours] was absolutely ahead of its time. You know, Marvel was considering doing the Sinister Six and at the time, God, I think this was eight or nine years ago that we wrote a couple of drafts, but it certainly was like this oddball project at Warner Bros at the time, they were like - even though the script was good - 'why would we make a movie about a bunch of villains? That makes no sense.'"
