Sahara (2005)
Despite being quite an enjoyable ride, Sahara failed to live up to the book’s expectations. The author, Clive Cussler, was handed $10 million and plenty of say when it came to the script’s creation for passing permission on to Paramount. Although the cast was as charismatic as possible, this film still crashed and burned at a cost of $100 million. Cussler started cussing when he saw how badly the film performed, with his lawyers calling the studio to inform them of a pending lawsuit.
Fantastic Four (2015)
This is another horrible abuse of the original material. The cinematic comic book adaptation of Fantastic Four suffered a poor casting choice, a flat and uninteresting story, and a severely annoying script. These failures combined to drain somewhere between $83 and $103 million.