USA Today Readers to Decide Next DC Superhero Flick

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― Huk-L, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Green Lantern is currently ahead by 15%.

(I voted for GL, not because I'm a big fan but because I can't stomach the thought of a Sandman or Kabuki movie, and I don't know who Jenny Sparks is).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I voted for Aquaman.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

The poll wouldn't come up on my crapulous work computer - I assume there is no way of voting for the film that really needs to be made:

AMBUSH BUG!!!

― Mark C (Markco), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't the Matrix basically a humourless take on AB? Idiotic character gets wise to his existence in a false world?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Jenny Sparks = (currently dead?) leader of The Authority.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What Kabuki is on Marvel?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(Or DC.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess technically the question doesn't specify DC, it just says 'previously unfilmed comic book character.' In which case, they probably could have come up with some better choices.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I posted the topic before I even checked the link. It's not my fault, the Parallax entity was controlling me.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

You yellow-bellied bastard!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, I relit the sun...cut me some slack already.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Jenny Sparks should totally win!!!!!!!!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I voted for THOR. This is because my hair is getting a bit Norse.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i voted aquaman too but green lantern's up big now

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Friggin' HEAT, now we'll NEVER see Kevin Sorbo in a Zucker Bros film...Aquaman: King of Six Seas and an Eye on the Seventh.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Weirdly, none of the choices excited me -- I think I'd just need more context, more of the package, cause by all rights "Catwoman," "The Hulk," and "Daredevil" could've been great movies.

"Green Lantern movie" doesn't grab me; "$100 million budget Green Lantern movie planned for tentpole summer release, with Milla Jovovich in a supporting role as Katma Tui," that grabs me.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Just as long as we get to see her do a roundhouse kick on a dog (maybe G'Nort?), I'm in. I'll put five bucks towards it.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 February 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ILC should back a movie!

I got seven bucks. That's twelve so far. Let's keep it coming.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 17 February 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I can just imagine a hollywood Thor film - an asgardian baddy goes form asgard to New york and starts wreaking evilness. Thor is sent to stop him/her and has fish-out-of-water comedy shenanigans until he teams up with a feisty female reporter/cop who is investigating asgardian evil. It would be like a cross between Crocodile Dundee and Terminator, but with lightning bolts and Thor saying "What is this diet cola of which you speak, give me some hearty mead!" and "Thou hast most moxie, fair wench" etc.

― Mark C (Markco), Thursday, 17 February 2005 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't decide if that's better or worse than the Thor who was in the Incredible Hulk. But one way or the other -- with the comics doing Thor well so seldomly, it's hard to imagine him working in a movie without being drastically different (at which point, why bother? "Thor" isn't a private property, if you're not going to do Marvel's Don Blake Thor, don't pay them for the option on it).

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 17 February 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

They should use the Ultimate Thor if they do a movie on him.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 February 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an old All-Star Squadron where the ASS fights Thor, and the cover is like "Look, we have a character named Thor too, FUCK YOU Marvel!"

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 February 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, not exactly, but close:
http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/2583/200/2583_2_18.jpg

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 February 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'm watching TV Land, and Scott Valentine -- Nick from Family Ties and The Art of Being Nick -- has grey-above-the-ears hair. Since Reed Richards is taken, obviously Scott Valentine has to be Hal Jordan now. I think he's the first real person I've seen with hair that actually greyed that way.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 19 February 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

[sigh] Sandman, of course. But it'll never be made. And if it is, it'll never be good enough.

Unless they got Peter Jackson to direct all 10 movies at the same time with a budget of 4 billion dollars.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Jackson, no. He what did the 3rd Harry Potter & Y Tu Mama Tambien, hell yeah!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Figuring out a Sandman movie really would be like trying to do LOTR -- the first storyline only works if you understand and accept that it's an introduction to a larger story, Doll's House uses him as a supporting character and includes weird overly lengthy bits with an obscure superhero who would seem out of place in a movie, Season of Mists would be odd out of context, and everything else relies too much on what came before.

It's almost completely unworkable as a movie -- my girlfriend's dream is to direct an HBO series of Transmetropolitan, and that route might be best for Sandman. It's right up their alley, structurally.

If I were a studio head with plenty of money and the rights to the property, though? I'd do a new story. One that didn't necessarily contradict the comics, but wasn't based on any of their plots, either. Get Gaiman to consult, possibly to co-write (I don't know yet if he's good at screenplays, much less Sandman screenplays). Make the wine fit the bottle.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend and I always regretted that Kurusawa never lived to make a version of The Dream Hunters after watching Dreams one night at film club in college. It's not the standard Sandman arc, but it is a more easily told story and wouldn't have a huge cast of characters to keep track of.
According to Gaiman's journal, he's working on a screenplay of Beowulf right now. I don't know how I feel about this, esp. since my best friend was gutted when I told her this, her dreams of writing one based on Heaney's translation/Viking history are now gone.
I think the Y Mama director (Alfonso Cuaran?) would make a great version of Courtney Crumrin.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd like to see George Lucas tackle a series of Fourth World movies.

What?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't they already do Beowulf?

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― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

When Gaiman visited a comics convention here a few years ago, he said that he was actually planning on directing a film based on Death: The High Cost of Living himself. I guess that project never went anywhere, but if I were to make a film out of one story in the Sandman mythos, I would choose that one as well, because it's good, short enough, and stands on it's own.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't he making a film with Dave McKean now?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Death would work, good point. And of all the Endless other than Dream, she's the most sensible character to work with -- even outside of that, the story itself seems very filmable and very easy to sell (whereas half of the marketing hopes for Sandman would have to be pinned on "the comics fans will provide good buzz and word of mouth.")

He made Mirrormask with Dave McKean -- co-writing while McKean directed, I think? -- for the Henson folks, I think it comes out later this year.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

And Christina Ricci could use the work!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

He still plans to direct Death next, after he and Avary do a new draft of their old Beowulf screenplay to adapt to the fact that Zemeckis is going to make it in motion-capture. (Supposedly making Polar Express taught him how to make it shit, now he wants to take those lessons and avoid them.)

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Zemeckis allergic to shit all of a sudden?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess my dreas of a Beanworld or Through the Habitrails movie are just never going to be fulfilled.

― Austin (Austin), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Bollocks to Gaiman, WHO'S SAUCY ENOUGH TO PLAY JENNY SPARKS??

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell

― Mark C (Markco), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Lady Sovereign for Jenny Sparks, obv.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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