Ongoing Sci-Fi, Comic Book Movie Thread v2

[FireGilbert]

Originally Posted by blankall

Pretty easy tweaks to the mythos...Bruce Wayne's parents are killed in a street racing accident after Dominic's car is sabotaged by one of his rivals. Bruce is out for revenge, and Dominic, who doesn't know why his car malfunctioned, is riddled with guilt (he's never brought this up in any of the other 10 F&F movies though, despite numerous monologues about talking about past griefs).

Just before a climatic duel, it becomes apparent that Dominic's car was sabotaged by none other than...Arthur Fleck. Both heros learn of Fleck's actions and unite to take him down.

This stuff just writes itself.

I was thinking a shot for shot remake of the original F&F but with Paul Walker's character replaced with Batman. I love your idea though.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Christian Bale is the new Thor villain according to Tessa Thompson.

[GreenLantern]

Originally Posted by Poe969

They looked at Blade's car and asked Ralp Wiggum for some design advice.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

[d_phaneuf]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Christian Bale is the new Thor villain according to Tessa Thompson.

Reports out now that the guardians of the galaxy will be in the new movie as well

[troutman]

https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-s...s-release-date

Marvel Studios' The Falcon and The Winter Soldier will debut on the streaming service in August. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Sam Wilson/Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) team up in a global adventure that tests their abilities—and their patience. The series welcomes the return of Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter and Daniel Brühl as the villain, Zemo, plus the addition of Wyatt Russell who will be playing John Walker, a character that most comic book fans will recognize. The all-new series is directed by Kari Skogland; Malcolm Spellman is the head writer. Debuts on Disney+ this fall.

While Marvel Studios' WandaVision will land on Disney+ in December. This series blends the style of classic sitcoms with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany)—two super-powered beings living their ideal suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems. Costarring with Olsen and Bettany is Teyonah Parris, whom Kevin Feige revealed during San Diego Comic-Con 2019 would be playing the adult Monica Rambeau, who was introduced as a child in Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel. As discovered at D23 2019, WandaVision will see Kat Dennings, as seen as Darcy in Marvel Studios' Thor and Thor: The Dark World; Randall Park, who played Agent Jimmy Woo in Ant-Man and The Wasp; and Kathyrn Hahn, who will play a new character. The new series is directed by Matt Shakman; Jac Schaeffer is head writer.

[Finger Cookin]

Figures a pandemic would end the world before New Mutants could make it to theaters.

[Harry Lime]

Just watched Bloodshot.

It was interesting in that they are lightly following the Marvel mode of worldbuilding, and have learned from how DC launched their shared universe. The Bloodshot story is one of the simpler ones in Valiant. It's easy for people to wrap their minds around, before the politics and mythical element comes into play later on. At it's heart, Valiant is pretty hardcore sci-fi, and then once that is established, they throw in a fantasy element to stir everything up. Bloodshot is entirely sci-fi.

How they departed from DC in narrative, is that they actually removed some elements of the Bloodshot origin story, which could be added later without losing anything in cohesiveness. They simplified. While this makes for a bit more bland movie to launch with, you never get the impression that they are leaving dangling ends of larger stories lying around.

As the Valiant universe goes forward, there is a nice simple backbone to build from here. There are not a lot of mental gymnastics needed. And I get the feeling that was the point. They introduce one of the major players, a couple of ideas about how the dynamics of the world works, add a bunch of action set pieces, and then get out.

As a movie, it's decent popcorn fodder. You won't be sad you've watched it, but it also doesn't leave you clamoring for more. It's an introduction, and not much more.

This is getting slaughtered critically, but I think that it will actually age well. To put it in perspective, it's on par with the best of the Van Damme flicks. Entertaining, but you're not going to download the script for it.

Done on a budget of 45M. Aquaman was 160M. And I do like this more than Aquaman, so that's a good sign going forward.

[blankall]

Is anyone watching some of these new Netflix graphic novel series?

October Faction was entertaining but never really hooked me. There was something about the pacing that just fell kind of flat. Although, I did like the acting from the actors that played the parents.

Lock & Key. Not quite done this, but really enjoying it. The pacing is great IMO. I'm really liking the pace on how they are slowly unraveling the mysteries. This has me pretty interested in reading the actual graphic novels, which are supposedly more graphic and adult orientated.

[ResAlien]

Originally Posted by blankall

Is anyone watching some of these new Netflix graphic novel series?

October Faction was entertaining but never really hooked me. There was something about the pacing that just fell kind of flat. Although, I did like the acting from the actors that played the parents.

Lock & Key. Not quite done this, but really enjoying it. The pacing is great IMO. I'm really liking the pace on how they are slowly unraveling the mysteries. This has me pretty interested in reading the actual graphic novels, which are supposedly more graphic and adult orientated.

I loved the Locke & Key graphic novel series and completely abandoned the Netflix series after a few episodes. They took great source material and made it into an average CW show.

[Locke]

If you know nothing about the source material would you enjoy the show?

[blankall]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

I loved the Locke & Key graphic novel series and completely abandoned the Netflix series after a few episodes. They took great source material and made it into an average CW show.

I definitely get that vibe from it. They've made it much more of a teen-type drama than the books. I typically don't enjoy that stuff, but digging this for some reason. Maybe it's the general lack of things to do.

I definitely need to check out the graphic novels though. Everyone I've talked to agrees with you that they are far superior.

Edit: Indigo currently has a buy 2 get 1 free graphic novel sale...I might have to get the whole set of 6.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by Locke

If you know nothing about the source material would you enjoy the show?

I've never read the comics (but love comics in general) and I really liked the show. It's definitely geared towards more older teen audiences (minus a bizarre sex/choking scene at the beginning of the season) but it's definitely enjoyable and better than a lot of the stuff geared towards that audience.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Superman Red Son is one of the better recent Dc animated films.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

I loved the Locke & Key graphic novel series and completely abandoned the Netflix series after a few episodes. They took great source material and made it into an average CW show.

Just finished the first volume of the collected editions, which has the first 6 issues of the comic in it. Really liking it so far. Really easy read with great pacing. The plot is quite close to the TV show so far, but the comic has very little of the highschool drama in it.

[Harry Lime]

Well, Valiant got tired of the long delays that have plagued Sony, and have moved their properties to Paramount. It turns out that Bloodshot was supposed to be darker, but Valiant and Sony butted heads, which led to part of the delay problem.

Paramount have started prepping Harbinger and XO Manowar, which are two very different properties. Harbinger is more interesting to me, since it has a science and political thriller element, and XO Manowar is more traditional "man in suit".

The strength of Valiant is in their villains, and hopefully they exploit that.

I didn't mind Vin Diesel as Bloodshot, and Sony might sell that property back to Paramount down the road. He's an important part of their 'event' series. Honestly, he isn't needed before that, and an 'event' is at least four movies away. Another interesting part of the Valiant movies is that their budget sits at 80M per picture, and they can take some risks with the product that DC and Marvel can't. That was part of the problem at Sony, making the movie so risk free. I really want to see a superhero universe with a B movie mentality. Bring on the crazy.

[TheScorpion]

Sam Raimi is confirmed as director of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of madness

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Not sure how I feel about that.

[KTrain]

Raimi is touch and go. I enjoy a lot of his stuff but he has some stinkers (Oz the Great and Powerful)

He didn't handle the interference from Sony on Spider-man 3 very well so hopefully he's learned something since then.

[Harry Lime]

Raimi has a tendency towards camp, that only works in certain situations. I wrote a blurb in the 'need a new tv series' thread about a Raimi produced show called Legend of the Seeker, where the Raimying hurt the show instead of helped.

Because it's Dr. Strange, I can handle a darker Evil Dead style of Raimi, but if he goes light it could backfire. I would have wanted a Guillermo del Toro style director better.

Speaking of which, del Toro needs to pick a comic book property.