Directors that are impossible to get for superhero films

[Airwings]

...because they are either TOO BIG
or
their style is TOO DIFFERENT and they don't suit the genre
or
some OTHER REASON...

Yet people always suggest some of them as dream directors for one or two heroes.
Well, here's the chance to once and for all discuss everything related to the matter.

Some examples follow below. It's a combination of the biggest directors around, and the more serious ones, and the cult favorites.
Feel free to make your own list. There is only one rule here: none of your suggestions will ever happen. The chances should be slim or even zero for him/her to agree to helm a superhero adventure.
And if everything changes in the world and our dream actually comes true, the result will either be the best or the worst film ever to be made. That's a risk we'll have to take.

Steven Spielberg - Superman
Martin Scorsese - Batman
Ridley Scott - Green Lantern
James Cameron - Aquaman
Darren Aronofsky - Batman
John Carpenter - Hawkman
David Cronenberg - Batman
Peter Jackson - Wonder Woman
Baz Lurhmann - The Flash
George Lucas - ???
David Lynch - Batman
Ivan Reitman - The Flash
Terry Gilliam - Green Arrow
Walter Hill - Batman
Woody Allen - ???
John Landis - The Flash
Francis Ford Coppola - Batman
Quentin Tarantino - ???
Robert Rodriguez - ???
Sofia Coppola - ???
David Fincher - Batman
Wes Anderson - ???
Alfonso Cuaron - ???
The Wachowskis - ???
Coen Brothers - ???
Paul Thomas Anderson - ???
Clint Eastwood - ???
Michael Mann - Green Arrow
Peter Weir - ???
John Waters - ???
Oliver Stone - Captain America (sorry, but it's a Marvel character here)
Milos Forman - ???
John Woo - Wonder Woman
Wolfgang Petersen - Batman & Superman
Michael Bay - ???
Rob Reiner - ???
Frank Darabont - ???
Wes Craven - Batman
Roland Emmerich - ???
Jean-Pierre Jeunet - ???
Luc Besson - Wonder Woman
Spike Jonze - ???
Robert Zemeckis - Superman
Joe Dante - ???
Steven Soderbergh - ???
John Boorman - Wonder Woman
Peter Hyams - Green Lantern
Ron Howard - Wonder Woman
Werner Hezrog - ???
etc etc etc

If the first name is David or begins with "D".... it's always about Bats

 

[Airwings]

One could approach the list this way:

Superman
Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis

Batman
Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Walter Hill, Francis Ford Coppola, David Fincher, Wes Craven

Batman & Superman
Wolfgang Petersen

Wonder Woman
Peter Jackson, John Woo, Luc Besson, John Boorman, Ron Howard

The Flash
Baz Lurhmann, Ivan Reitman, John Landis

Green Lantern
Ridley Scott, Peter Hyams

Aquaman
James Cameron

Hawkman
John Carpenter

Green Arrow
Terry Gilliam, Michael Mann

 

[Rorschach2012]

wow awesome lists!

 

[Rorschach2012]

You made really amazing lists, my dream directors would be similar

Steven Spielberg in his nostalgic prime is THE choice to direct Superman

David Fincher directing a Blade Runner inspired Batman film would be amazing

Guillermo Del Toro on Wonder Woman

Ridley Scott on Green Lantern

Rian Johnson on The Flash

Alex Proyas on a noir Dark City esque Martian Manhunter movie set in the 50s

James Cameron on Aquaman would be unbelievable

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Kurosawa: Wolverine

Roman Polanski: Batman (starring Mad Hatter)

Darren Aronofsky: Batman (starring scarecrow)

 

[titansupes]

You made really amazing lists, my dream directors would be similar

Steven Spielberg in his nostalgic prime is THE choice to direct Superman

David Fincher directing a Blade Runner inspired Batman film would be amazing

Guillermo Del Toro on Wonder Woman

Ridley Scott on Green Lantern

Rian Johnson on The Flash

Alex Proyas on a noir Dark City esque Martian Manhunter movie set in the 50s

James Cameron on Aquaman would be unbelievable

... Wow, nice. I wouldn't change a thing on this.

 

[The Question]

Alfonso Cuaron would totally do a superhero movie. He did a Harry Potter movie, after all.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

Never say never!

 

[SymbioteKal-El]

I think for DC/WB they can get any director, they are not limited to a certain type like Marvel are.

 

[Airwings]

You made really amazing lists, my dream directors would be similar

Steven Spielberg in his nostalgic prime is THE choice to direct Superman

David Fincher directing a Blade Runner inspired Batman film would be amazing

Guillermo Del Toro on Wonder Woman

Ridley Scott on Green Lantern

Rian Johnson on The Flash

Alex Proyas on a noir Dark City esque Martian Manhunter movie set in the 50s

James Cameron on Aquaman would be unbelievable

Thanks for the kind words

However, Rian Johnson could work but compared to the others in your list he's a fish out of water. He isn't in the same league as the others yet.
Couldn't you find another suggestion for Flash. Zemeckis perhaps?

Kurosawa: Wolverine

Roman Polanski: Batman (starring Mad Hatter)

Darren Aronofsky: Batman (starring scarecrow)

Polanski? Oh yeah, let it happen!!!

But Kurosawa? Now we're entering a forbidden domain here lol
Find the right superhero for the following then:

Frank Capra
Sam Peckinpah
John Ford
Billy Wilder
Blake Edwards
Mel Brooks
Don Siegel
Sydney Pollack
Federico Fellini
Ingmar Bergman
François Truffaut
Jean-Luc Godard
Louis Malle
Vittorio De Sica
Fritz Lang
Cecil B. DeMille
Howard Hughes
John Houston
Sergio Leone
Alfred Hitchcock
Stanley Kubrick

I wish you good look!

 

[baerrtt]

Spielberg, after being initially asked by then producers Salkinds, eventually agreed to direct SUPERMAN '78 but apparently asked for too much money and creative control and Bob Zemeckis was a contender for MOS I believe. He was also offered SPIDER MAN (2002) by Sony but later said in an interview to promote Minority Report he turned it down because it would be too 'easy' for him to do.

Scorsese was interested in directing DICK TRACY at one point but left due to scheduling issues with GOODFELLAS.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Cecil B. DeMille's New Gods

starring

Charlton Heston as Orion
Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Highfather
Burt Lancaster as Mister Miracle
Jane Russell as Big Barda
Edward G. Robinson as Oberon
Woody Strode as Black Rider
Bette Davis as Granny Goodness
Ernest Borgnine as Kalibak
Vincent Price as Desaad
and Orson Welles as Darkseid

 

[Airwings]

First Joe Wright's Peter Pan happened. Now we will get Pinocchio by PTA.
Are fairy tales more interesting stories than superheroes?

If not Ridley, Spielberg and those big shots, maybe we atleast get David O Russell for a future film in either MCU or DCU (or perhaps an adaption of a children's story by Grimm or H.C Andersen).

EDIT: Don't forget Scorsese made Hugo Cabret and he said he liked doing it because it was different from his previous work. A superhero next for him?

EDIT 2: Fellini had plans for Mandrake. Apparently, Sergio Leone had the same character in mind for a second film in the genre after his version of The Phantom... that unfortunately never say the light of day (some of us know already know about this).

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Don't think Qunetin Tarantino will attempt any superhero franchise, buuuut, I think he can do a great job with Deadpool, not making him the Waypool who we'll most likely see on film.
I'm joining the club of QT for Deadpool.

Alfonso Cuaron would totally do a superhero movie. He did a Harry Potter movie, after all.

Not necessarily.
Steven Spielberg had a hand in the making of Transformers first movie.

First Joe Wright's Peter Pan happened. Now we will get Pinocchio by PTA.
Are fairy tales more interesting stories than superheroes?

Maybe.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Christopher Plinkerton

Manny Roth

Ellie Nevile

Roxxane Sasha

Shoeb Ali


Completely out of the realm of any sort of possibility to get these directors to helm a superhero movie.






Because they don't exist.

 

[nite-owl]

Kurosawa: Wolverine

Roman Polanski: Batman (starring Mad Hatter)

Darren Aronofsky: Batman (starring scarecrow)

A villain that he can relate to.

 

[Ken Briefman]

Spielberg, after being initially asked by then producers Salkinds, eventually agreed to direct SUPERMAN '78 but apparently asked for too much money and creative control and Bob Zemeckis was a contender for MOS I believe. He was also offered SPIDER MAN (2002) by Sony but later said in an interview to promote Minority Report he turned it down because it would be too 'easy' for him to do.

Scorsese was interested in directing DICK TRACY at one point but left due to scheduling issues with GOODFELLAS.

I thought I read/heard somewhere that Spielberg wanted to do Superman, but Alexander Salkind wanted to see how Spielberg's "big fish picture" would turn out first, and then when it was a huge success, the Salkinds approached Spielberg, but he'd already committed to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Don't think Qunetin Tarantino will attempt any superhero franchise, buuuut, I think he can do a great job with Deadpool, not making him the Waypool who we'll most likely see on film.
I'm joining the club of QT for Deadpool.
Not necessarily.
Steven Spielberg had a hand in the making of Transformers first movie.

Maybe.

Waypool?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Waypool?

You know how they name a version of a character by associating it to the writer who made that style?
Daniel Way made Deadpool a basic caricature character with two inner voices and a pool-o-vision, Waypool is how he reimagined the character.

 

[Ken Briefman]

You know how they name a version of a character by associating it to the writer who made that style?
Daniel Way made Deadpool a basic caricature character with two inner voices and a pool-o-vision, Waypool is how he reimagined the character.

Oh, OK.