We seem to have had a whole pile of comic-related threads lately, a lot of them negative. So I thought, hey let's have a positive one where we can all nerd out with "wouldn't it be cool if...." thoughts Plus I know there's a few people here who know waaaaay more about comics than I do so I'd be interested in hearing ideas I don't know about.
Adaptations I'd like to see:
Batman Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
Essentially this is a story about the lunatics taking over the asylum, and Batman having to liberate it from them. Stylistically the story is told like a dream, with lots of disturbing and nightmarish imagery. As Bats moves through the various parts of the asylum, it starts to feel like he's losing his mind.
Batman The Killing Joke
The Joker breaks into the Gordon home, cripples and abuses Barbara, and takes the Commissioner hostage. He then does his very best to drive Jim mad by showing him pictures of his bleeding and crippled daughter being abused, while Batman races against time to rescue him.
This would absolutely be more of a psychological thriller than an action movie, so it's probably a bit too out-of-step for average moviegoing audiences. But I'd still love to see it.
Marvel Civil War
A grand, huge story that would probably be difficult to tell in a single film but I'd still like to see it. The US government enacts the Superhero Registration Act, and it divides all the superhumans (hero and villain alike) into 'support' and 'oppose' camps. Enemies become allies and allies become enemies in possibly the most significant conflict of the Marvel universe.
X-Men Days of Future Past
More specifically in the vein of the 90s cartoon rather than the original comic version.... Bishop travels back in time from a ruined, Sentinel-dominated future to stop a traitorous X-Man from assassinating Senator Kelly and destroying all hope of a peaceful future. In his time, Sentinels openly patrol the streets of ruined cities hunting mutants, who are housed in internment camps.
Bishop succeeds in preventing the assassination, but upon returning to his own time, still finds it in ashes--this time as the result of a plague created by Apocalypse. When he returns to the past to stop the plague, we see an even further distant future where Apocalypse rules virtually the entire (destroyed) world. When 'time storms' start wiping out his mutant allies, rebel Cable is forced to travel to the present to stop Bishop--and help his enemy Apocalypse in the process.
It was done so so well in the 90s cartoon, I'd just love to see someone tackle it with a big budget. Plus I'm really tired of origins stories and just not as jazzed about projects like First Class or The Wolverine as I would've been a few years ago.
X-Men Beyond Good and Evil
A sequel of sorts to the Days of Future Past storyline. In that distant future, Apocalypse steals Cable's time machine but accidentally travels to the Axis of Time. From there, he has access to the whole of creation. He recruits Mr. Sinister to abduct the most powerful mutants from all of history, whom he will use to destroy and rewrite all of time to his own specifications. The traditional good guys and bad guys of the X-Men universe (vis a vis Xavier's X-Men and Magneto's Brotherhood) must come together to defeat Apocalypse forever.
Yours?
Adaptations I'd like to see:
Batman Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth
Essentially this is a story about the lunatics taking over the asylum, and Batman having to liberate it from them. Stylistically the story is told like a dream, with lots of disturbing and nightmarish imagery. As Bats moves through the various parts of the asylum, it starts to feel like he's losing his mind.
Batman The Killing Joke
The Joker breaks into the Gordon home, cripples and abuses Barbara, and takes the Commissioner hostage. He then does his very best to drive Jim mad by showing him pictures of his bleeding and crippled daughter being abused, while Batman races against time to rescue him.
This would absolutely be more of a psychological thriller than an action movie, so it's probably a bit too out-of-step for average moviegoing audiences. But I'd still love to see it.
Marvel Civil War
A grand, huge story that would probably be difficult to tell in a single film but I'd still like to see it. The US government enacts the Superhero Registration Act, and it divides all the superhumans (hero and villain alike) into 'support' and 'oppose' camps. Enemies become allies and allies become enemies in possibly the most significant conflict of the Marvel universe.
X-Men Days of Future Past
More specifically in the vein of the 90s cartoon rather than the original comic version.... Bishop travels back in time from a ruined, Sentinel-dominated future to stop a traitorous X-Man from assassinating Senator Kelly and destroying all hope of a peaceful future. In his time, Sentinels openly patrol the streets of ruined cities hunting mutants, who are housed in internment camps.
Bishop succeeds in preventing the assassination, but upon returning to his own time, still finds it in ashes--this time as the result of a plague created by Apocalypse. When he returns to the past to stop the plague, we see an even further distant future where Apocalypse rules virtually the entire (destroyed) world. When 'time storms' start wiping out his mutant allies, rebel Cable is forced to travel to the present to stop Bishop--and help his enemy Apocalypse in the process.
It was done so so well in the 90s cartoon, I'd just love to see someone tackle it with a big budget. Plus I'm really tired of origins stories and just not as jazzed about projects like First Class or The Wolverine as I would've been a few years ago.
X-Men Beyond Good and Evil
A sequel of sorts to the Days of Future Past storyline. In that distant future, Apocalypse steals Cable's time machine but accidentally travels to the Axis of Time. From there, he has access to the whole of creation. He recruits Mr. Sinister to abduct the most powerful mutants from all of history, whom he will use to destroy and rewrite all of time to his own specifications. The traditional good guys and bad guys of the X-Men universe (vis a vis Xavier's X-Men and Magneto's Brotherhood) must come together to defeat Apocalypse forever.
Yours?
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