The comicbook film trend will continue for as long as it is profitable. Yes, many of them do indeed signify quick buck releases, but the fact that they are being made really does say something about the stories. I even heard they\'re branching out as far as Iron Fist for content. That\'s pretty impressive to say the least considering there are many more mainstream heroes to pool resources from.
I just hope that Darren Aronofsky doesn\'t f**k up Watchmen. Well, I hope he doesn\'t f**k it up any more than the feature film format is going to. Watchmen really, really needs to be a mini-series.
Truth be told, in all my comic readings, Watchmen was the only title of massive mainstream appeal that I loathed to no end. It just moved too slow and the characters were just too uninteresting for me to even get into the book. With that said, it\'s pretty obvious my interest in the film adaptation is equal to the height of a dust speck.
but what about a Captain America movie with shadow cat or w/e her name was, vision, and hawkeye. Oh and Iron man. How could i forget.
You\'re talking about The Avengers. Much like The Justice League, this can\'t happen. There are far too many big characters and they are spread across many studios. There\'s already an Iron Man movie in the works and I don\'t know which studio has the rights to Captain America since the 1980\'s film. I admit to the whole nerd-cool factor that an ensamble cast like that would bring, but it just can\'t happen.
I\'ve actually been writing a Captain America screenplay as I think the time is right for this character to come back to the bigscreen especially given the current state of the US and the world as well.
WB is by far the worst company as far as film franchises are concerned. It\'s like they keep throwing all this crazy-ass information out there to see how audiences would react and then changing that information and reguaging the reactions. I mean, they have some of the best heroes and some of the best comics on Earth and here they are trying to figure out just what Superman will be about. At least with Singer at the helm, he can start coordinating with the screenwriters to create something more akin to what he thinks Superman should be about. More power to him though as he seems to have down the scope of what these superhero movies could and should be.
Just thinking about some of the possibilities DC has to toy with just makes me giddy at the possibilities of future films. Here\'s a couple of examples to throw out there just to get the ball rolling --
Sleeper - A story about a CIA operative who encounters an alien artifact in the jungle that is absorbed into his body that allows him to transfer any pain his body absorbs unto someone else. This coupled with a near indestructable body and a type of healing factor makes him a tough as nails agent. Later recruited by a shady black ops operative as a deep cover agent, it\'ll be his job to infiltrate a tightly knit organization that basically sets the course of human civilization from the shadows. In the end, he\'ll have to choose between his country and this organization ruling the Earth begging the question of which is truly right and which is truly wrong.
Y-The Last Man - This is actually being developed into a film. It\'s about a catastrophic event on Earth where every male member of every species suddenly perishes except for a part-time magician named Yorich and his Colobus monkey, Ampersand. He\'ll join a scientist possibly responsible for the accident and an Israeli agent interested only in the preservation of the species on a journey across a torn apart America where freeways are littered with the dead, electricity is a rare and precious comodity, air travel is no longer a possibility, and groups who feel that the plague of society -- namely men -- are finally berid of the Earth.
H-E-R-O - This would be better as a weekly television series in all honesty on FX or HBO, but the story is about a magical dial that instantly transforms its current holder into a different type of superhero. Stories range from cautionary tales to tragedies where each person who dawns the device is changed for the better or for the worse. The possibilities are literally endless for this particular title.
And those are just three of the ideas out there that could easily be made into feature length or serial productions. What\'s best is that these don\'t even touch on the characters associated with DC comics on a daily basis and yet they remain untapped sources for possibly great films.
As for Catwoman, I\'m betting it will indeed suck horribly, but I\'ll let you all know on Monday when I see it. I got a free ticket with my Batman: The Animated Series DVD set from amazon.
