Snake Featherston
Banned
Yes. That was the project that preceded the one unclepatrick mentioned, and came very close to film in 1995. It was shot down in the last minute because, as Emperor Norton said, an idiot at FOX wanted to see apes playing baseball and the writer kept refusing to write that scene in. The script was already weird as shit, so fans of the 1968 film would probably not have liked it anyway:
http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=386255
The really sad thing is if that movie had been made it would have probably been in the So Bad It's Good variety.