How Disney Destroyed The Sci-Fi Masterpiece That Should Have Dominated The 90s

Tim Burton’s take on Batman in 1989 made Hollywood studios sit up and take notice of comic books. Instead of giving audiences the Teen Titans or the X-Men, they went back to the pulp serials of the 30s and pulled Dick Tracy, The Shadow, and The Phantom out of mothballs. Leave it to Disney to do something different, and adapt a comic from 1982. With an iconic outfit, a former James Bond as the villain, a rising star as the damsel in distress, and the weight of Disney’s marketing machine behind it, the movie should have been a HUGE success. This is why The Rocketeer FAILED.