Hollywood loves to make superhero movies -- more to the point, it loves to make specific kinds of superhero movies.
Hollywood has a real thing for origin stories -- if a superhero movie isn't about the origin of the superhero itself, it likely mostly revolves around the creation of the film's villain. Hollywood has of course also recently discovered the magic of the superhero crossover with The Avengers.
But not all comic book stories are origins or crossovers! There are all sorts of other well-worn comic book story types I'd like to see Hollywood tackle. Such as...
Hollywood loves Christmas movies, it loves superhero movies, so where's our superhero Christmas movie? Having the save Santa Claus (or alternatively, defeat an evil Santa Claus) is a superhero tradition - everyone from Superman, to Green Lantern to the Fantastic Four has had to do it.
Time travel is, in general, underused in superhero movies. I can't really think of a comic book movie that's used it (well, aside from the flying backwards around the planet business from the first Superman movie).
I don't just want a time-travel focused superhero movie though, I want a movie based on a very particular type of time-travel story -- the ones where superheroes go back and team up/fight with historical figures. I want that story where The Thing becomes Blackbeard playing at my local multiplex dammit. I want Benjamin Franklin saving Batman with his famous electrified kite. I want The Avengers to collectively punch out John Wilkes Booth.
Yeah, there've been weddings in comic book movies before, but they're usually skimmed over pretty quickly. I want a movie that draws inspiration from giant-sized superhero wedding extravaganzas. In other words, I want a superhero movie that's all about a superhero wedding, and all the wacky things that would entail. Bridesmaids for the masked vigilante crowd.
Whoever's working on the Avengers 2 script, trash whatever you've got and get working on a Black Widow/Hawkeye, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Hulk/Thor triple wedding.
Yeah, the Green Lantern movie tried a little of this, but it was still primarily an origin story that mostly took place on earth. Plus it had Ryan Reynolds in it, so I'm just going to go ahead and completely discount it.
What I want is an entirely set in outer space, trippy, cosmic, Silver Surfer in the 60s style tale. It's not like people are afraid to see a movie that doesn't take place on earth -- the Star Wars and Star Trek movies have done just fine for themselves. Give it a shot Hollywood.
There are plenty of comic book movies about young heroes in the early stages of their careers, but what about going the other direction? What about stories like Dark Knight Returns and Days of Future Past that feature curmudgeonly older heroes? Hollywood has done plenty of movies featuring grizzled older protagonists -- entire film franchises such as Die Hard, Dirty Harry and Indiana Jones are built around guys who are "too old for this s--t", but still manage to get it done.
Basically, if half the movies in theatres are going to be comic book based anyways, make a few for old coots like me.
How about you folks? Any common type of comic book story you'd like to see Hollywood tackle?
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No superhero swimsuit movies?
That’s reserved for my upcoming article “Comic Books San Fernando Valley Has Yet to Tackle, But Should”.
If you consider the turtles super hero’s, their third movie was about going back in time. I forget if they hooked up with any legendary ppl though :S
I get wet dreams about Old Man Logan staring Mickey Rourke. The good kind of wet dreams too.
In watchmen they kinda do the old washed up hero thing/ most of it is glazed over in the intro. but basically all of them are except for silk spectre 2
YES to the big wedding spectacular. I want my Scott Summers & Jean Grey U2 montage.
Dark Knight Returns with Stallone as Bats.
yes … that is an awesome idea
OMFG That works +1
“Whoever’s working on the Avengers 2 script, trash whatever you’ve got and get working on a Black Widow/Hawkeye, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts, Hulk/Thor triple wedding.”
That was actually Hulkling/Asgardian, but since I’m the only one who read Young Avengers, I’ll forgive you.
No, I meant Hulk/Thor.
I realize that. I was pointing out that…nevermind, not worth explaining myself.
But kudos on being the first one to make that joke.
How about “A Day in the Life of (Secret Identity)”? I don’t mean fucking Smallville either.
She-Hulk would be good for this.
What about an Elseworlds? I hope League of Extraordinary Gentlemen didn’t put Hollywood off of superheroes in history forever.
Trying to explain an “Elseworlds” or “What If?” movie to a studio executive would be like trying to explain sexting to the Amish.
XMen First Class did alright as an alternative Cuban Missile Crisis story. Hoping the second movie continues that trend and we get a Magneto-Magic Bullet-Kennedy Assassination.
I think we can all agree that the best parts of Green Lantern were the space scenes (which usually lacked Ryan Reynolds).
Hopefully the Guardians of the Galaxy movie will help with this type. Now if they will just do a Victorian-era Steampunk Justice Society I’ll be happy.
I agree. Everything on Earth except for that racetrack effect looked like a CW pilot. The space stuff was decent.
I womder if they should make certain one off storylines into movies. What about Batman: cataclysm?
Superman: Red Son
With Nick Offerman as Stalin.
The Christmas Superhero movie was already done, it’s Called Batman Returns.
Yeah, but Santa was never saved and/or fought, so it wasn’t a full-on Christmas superhero movie.
Old Man Logan would be really dope.. No Hugh Jackman…
Watchmen was about old man superheroes
The average age of the actors in that movie was maybe 35.
Eh, John McClane was not particularly old in the original Die Hard. He wasn’t too old for this shit so much as he was too snarky for it. Maybe a little drunk, too. Indy was hardly an old man in his first outing(s) either. Basically any franchise that we see that way now is only that way out of necessity. Studios don’t want to make a movie about an old dude unless that old dude made a successful franchise for them when he was a young dude.
It’s kind of like whenever they have a pregnancy arc in a tv show and you read about it, it’s always “yeah, the actress got pregnant, so we had to deal with that”. If the big wigs could just freeze the actors between films, we’d never see a movie that doesn’t take place in high school ever again.
Harrison Ford in Raiders looks really young compared to the super old codger Ford of today, but he was already over 40 in that movie and Indy was a rumpled “too old for this s–t” character right from the start. In fact he straight up used that line (or something very similar) more than once in the movie.
I think a crossover where 2 teams of good guys fight each other would be kinda righteous. Like Agents of Atlas vs X Men, or Avengers vs Fantastic Four or whatever.
I guess everyone has forgotten the wedding in the Fantastic Four?
No, we just forgot Fantastic Four.
A “What If” movie would be cool, but I don’t think the mainstream audience would realize what was going on.
I’ve been saying since Dark Knight that Nolan should have closed the series by re-casting Batman as George Clooney and the Joker as Jack Nicholson and doing the plot to “The Dark Knight Returns.” There aren’t any Batman enemies more compelling than the Joker, and that would have been a convincing way to end the trilogy and cleverly keep continuity.
Plus we could have given Clooney a chance to play the caped crusader sans bat-nipples.
Clooney doesn’t have chops, but Nicholson would be perfect.
Instead of Clooney, I’d go with Bronson.
X-Men vs. Fantastic 4 in the 60s. Christ, that wasn’t hard at all.
How about a decent Fantastic Four movie?
A trippy space opera superhero movie would be amazing. I watched the Green Lantern trailer almost every day for weeks because that is what I thought it looked like and considering I read that was the direction the movie was going/attempting. Unfortunately, most of us know how Green Lantern turned out…
Maybe if it was a bit more existential, someone else played Hal, and Kubrick was still alive we could have got something better.
I don’t know much about Watchmen but a Dr. Manhattan spin off would be interesting.