The Director: Christopher Nolan
The IP: The Punisher
The Reason: Nolan turned Batman into a quitter who took his words of wisdom from the people around him who were clearly smarter than he was. I believe that Nolan would make a Punisher movie in which Frank is only able to take vengeance on organized crime after receiving help from the police people whom the movie is actually about. Also, after he kills Fisk or whomever, Frank will quit being The Punisher because of broody reasons. He might come back in a sequel if he can find a magical knee-brace.
The Director: Zack Snyder
The IP: Blue Beetle
The Reason: Dan Garrick might be the most serious Blue Beetle but he's still a man who wears blue chainmail and punches bank robbers in the face. Ted Kord is a goofball who could easily be re-written to have been in love with Booster Gold. Jaime Reyes is...not necessarily Spider-Man but I wouldn't be surprised to see him written as Spider-Man in a film. What I'm getting at here is that Blue Beetle is a colorful, silly kind of super hero no matter what iteration you're looking at. Zack Snyder has proven that he's incapable of understanding levity.
The Director: Frank Miller
The IP: DC Bombshells
The Reason: I don't want to say that Frank Miller is a sexist hack who can write about as well as he can direct but looking at his body of work, I don't really think I have to say that. DC Bombshells seems like it would be the antithesis of everything Miller has done in the last 15 or so years.
The Director: Micheal Bay
The IP: Hokuto no Ken/ Fist of the North Star
The Reason: Bay might seem like a good fit for HnK at first but keep in mind that there's a difference between exploding machinery and exploding humans. Bay is decent with large-scale destruction loosely tied to a narrative that...exists but Fist of the North Star's violence and explosions are much more violent and much more intimate. What's more, the plot is much more nuanced than Bay would bother with. Peter Jackson in the 1990's would have been perfect for this IP, at least from an effects point of view but out of everybody who might make a live action HnK film, Bay would be my last choice.
The Director: Tim Burton
The IP: Petshop of Horrors
The Reason: Petshop of Horrors is my all-time favorite manga franchise and basically it's a series of short-stories about hubris. They're not all horror stories but they're all really entertaining. Given the subject matter of a lot of the stories, the setting, the characters, I can see Tim Burton jumping in to make a western adaptation of this into a movie or two. As marketable as it could be, as well as it could work, I really really don't want to see a Tim Burton version of this series. The manga is in black-and-white but it's really easy to see a Burton-esq color palette in many of the scenes and creature designs. A part of me would like to see this but I don't think Burton could capture the horror in some of the stories and instead focus on slapstick and the lighter stories; he might hint at the scarier stories and keep spookier motiffs but when Tim Burton Presents Petshop of Horrors, it'll likely just be wacky old Count D (played by Johnny Depp in yellow-face) sells mystical creatures (maybe one or two from the manga but something new will be added to get that sweet Fantastic Beasts money) and spooky shenanigans ensue!