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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 27, 2023 14:57:04 GMT -5
Since we're not limiting ourselves to superheroes, an Archie film set in the 40s could be interesting. Kind of a dark horse candidate as well, but how about a Dazzler film set in the disco era (or even the New Wave/Synth Pop era since the Dazzler comic came out near the waning days of Disco)? Have you seen the Andy Hardy or Nancy Drew movies? Squint mentally and you'll see Riverdale in the 40s.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 27, 2023 16:13:55 GMT -5
This is pretty much the only way I'd look forward to a "Big Two" oriented movie at this point. I've hit super-hero movie fatigue. Well really it's Marvel fatigue because I've had zero interest in DC's output as long as it still reeks of Snyder's influence.
Gimmee some Sandman Mystery Theater or some Crimson Avenger set in the very late 30s. Film noir with a little superhero tinge.
Some straight up Jonah Hex or Bat Lash western action.
A little Sgt. Rock or Enemy Ace.
I'm so incredibly burnt out on Batman that I don't care one bit about a character I used to love, but the right movie set in the late 30s or early 40s I might watch.
FF in the 60s sounds great.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 27, 2023 16:25:41 GMT -5
(...) Kind of a dark horse candidate as well, but how about a Dazzler film set in the disco era (or even the New Wave/Synth Pop era since the Dazzler comic came out near the waning days of Disco)? Interesting that you mention that. According to Jim Shooter, for a while in 1980 or thereabouts, Marvel was in serious negotiations for a Dazzler feature film and apparently there was even the possibility of casting Bo Derek as the star. Click here for more details at Shooter's now dormant blog.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2023 16:33:30 GMT -5
I’ll add a Challengers of the Unknown and Sea Devils crossover film, or maybe shared series (again, 60’s classic era). Just cause I have a soft spot for those non-superhero Silver Age DC titles. I’m so on board with the aforementioned Blackhawk as well.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 27, 2023 22:21:13 GMT -5
(...) Kind of a dark horse candidate as well, but how about a Dazzler film set in the disco era (or even the New Wave/Synth Pop era since the Dazzler comic came out near the waning days of Disco)? Interesting that you mention that. According to Jim Shooter, for a while in 1980 or thereabouts, Marvel was in serious negotiations for a Dazzler feature film and apparently there was even the possibility of casting Bo Derek as the star. Click here for more details at Shooter's now dormant blog. Yeah, that would have been a great film................................. While he was at it, how about an X-Men film, with the Sweathogs as the heroes and Gabe Kaplan as Professor X. I always brought up Marvel's track record in Hollywood, in the 70s and 80s (and most of the 90s), everytime someone online started one of those "Marvel is God and DC is crap" flame-wars.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 27, 2023 22:36:25 GMT -5
My only quibble with the idea is that Hollywood has become rather lazy about period stuff and has a tendency to screw up the details, unless the director really makes it a priority. The aforementioned X-Men First Class and Days of Future Past really did not look like the 60s and 70s. Catch me If You Can and Down With Love also suffered with this, when they came out. They are more like what someone who was born 20 or 30 years later thought those periods looked like. I find UK productions have a better handle on period detail, overall. The UK Life on Mars looked like 1970s Britain; or at least, 1970s tv Britain. The American adaptation looked like someone doing a 70s Night, at a dance club and even the buildings were not right (not run down enough to be New York, in the 70s).
That said, I would love a period Dominic Fortune or Sandman Mystery Theater, or a live action, period New Frontier or Golden Age adaptation, for superheroes.
Blackhawk would be awesome, so long as they keep it pulpy, with Nazi War Wheels and such.
One of my pet peeves is period setting; but technology that doesn't look of the period. The HYDRA stuff in Captain America looked a bit too modern for me. The tesseract as a power source was one thing; but, the design aesthetic should have been more Deco/1930s and 40s Futurism, rather than transplanted 21st Century, if you ask me. By contrast, Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy opening segment looked like the 40s and the Nazi technology was heavy electrical cables and vacuum tubes, and solid metal and such. That is the way to do retr0-Futurist; looking ahead, but of the time. When I think of Futurist ideas in the 30s, the film Things To Come leaps to mind as how you do that, especially for something like a period comic book tale, with a futuristic idea.
I'd love to see Terminal City adapted into film, as I love that whole retro-future look, but with a seedy, run down reality that Michael Lark captured. One of the reasons I loved the Venture Brothers was that whole failed Space Age design sense that filled the Venture Compound, with wood paneling and Mid-Century Modern furniture and wall decorations and room accents.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 28, 2023 8:42:44 GMT -5
I would certainly watch a movie based on the MGN "Arena". It was very well written and had a engrossing storyline that I think would make a good profitable movie in general. Not just because it would be Marvel. (I can only assume. I don't know the legality of who actual owns the rights to it, as it's possibly not an actual Marvel IP?)
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 28, 2023 13:03:33 GMT -5
The Incredible Hulk belongs in the 60’s, an era when being “different” was something to hide, and never to celebrate…or to even acknowledge. I imagine a spartan military aesthetic dominating the desert southwest setting in a film dripping with Cold War anxiety and paranoia and propaganda. Hippies, LSD, communes and cults and conservative conclaves, Reds collaborating with aliens on American soil, psychedelic music, with a Hulk proportioned like the early Kirby and Ditko versions, not an impossible-to-hide 8 foot 1000 lb monstrosity.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 28, 2023 16:00:32 GMT -5
The Incredible Hulk belongs in the 60’s, an era when being “different” was something to hide, and never to celebrate…or to even acknowledge. I imagine a spartan military aesthetic dominating the desert southwest setting in a film dripping with Cold War anxiety and paranoia and propaganda. Hippies, LSD, communes and cults and conservative conclaves, Reds collaborating with aliens on American soil, psychedelic music, with a Hulk proportioned like the early Kirby and Ditko versions, not an impossible-to-hide 8 foot 1000 lb monstrosity. And filmed in black and white.
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 28, 2023 19:29:05 GMT -5
Since we're not limiting ourselves to superheroes, an Archie film set in the 40s could be interesting. Personally, I'd prefer an animated Archie special or series set in the late 60s/ear;y 70s that actually looks like the best of the publisher's illustrators at that time (Lucey, Schwartz, Hartley, et al), rather than the changes made by Filmation (and other animators in the decades to follow, for that matter).
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Post by spoon on Sept 28, 2023 21:48:35 GMT -5
I'd love to see a late 60s X-Men movie from the period when they had their individualized costumes and Professor X was supposedly dead.
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 28, 2023 22:56:05 GMT -5
I'd love it if someone with an understanding of the old serials of the 40's did a sincere - not tongue-in-cheek - serial of, say, The Green Lantern or Spectre or Flash or whoever. Something where the objective is to look not like a high budget period piece made today, but a hitherto unknown respectably made in the 40's serial more on par with The Adventures of Captain Marvel or Spy Smasher than Sam Kaztman's Batman, for instance. Avoid your character turning into a cheap little cartoon character every time you need him to fly, but if a few wires can be occasionally seen you don't have to sweat.
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 29, 2023 6:45:18 GMT -5
Here' a very different sort of "period piece" adaptation I've fantasized about seeing: 40's/50's style pulp adaptations of classic DC characters. I'm talking text magazines with short novels and short stories, B&W illustrations, doing the characters as if they were pulp heroes rather than conventional superheroes. For example... TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED, with stories of Alan Scott, whose magic ring and green lantern allows him to walk through walls and hypnotize people operating rather like The Shadow, the reincarnated Carter Hall and sorcerer Kent Nelson and ghost-in-disguise Jim Corrigan facing Lovecraftian menaces out of Weird Tales... STRANGE ADVENTURES, a sci-fi pulp with stories about Ray Palmer as a shrinking scientific explorer rather than crime-fighter, Adam Strange, the Man of Two Worlds (a straightforward adaptation, right?), Rip Hunter the Time Master, Robot Man, the human brain in a metal body, the Metal Men... MY GREATEST ADVENTURE, a men's adventure pulp starring the Sea Devils, Challengers of the Unknown, Cave Carson Under Earth, Blackhawk... HOUSE OF MYSTERY, a horror/scary pulp with features like the body-possessing Deadman, Phantom Stranger in short stories reminiscent of The Whistler or Mysterious Traveler, Swamp Thing... SWORD OF SORCERY, a fantasy pulp with characters like Nightmaster, Claw the Unconquered, Hercules Unbound in the new post-apocalyptic age of reborn gods, Stalker, Atlas, the Black Pirate... ACTION DETECTIVE, a down-to-earth pulp with stuff like heavyweight champ Ted "Wildcat" Grant cleaning up corruption in the world of sports, the Hourman with modest one-hour power boosts, Mr. Terrific, the man of 1000 talents, and Sandman with his gas gun...
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 29, 2023 22:13:46 GMT -5
Since we're not limiting ourselves to superheroes, an Archie film set in the 40s could be interesting. Personally, I'd prefer an animated Archie special or series set in the late 60s/ear;y 70s that actually looks like the best of the publisher's illustrators at that time (Lucey, Schwartz, Hartley, et al), rather than the changes made by Filmation (and other animators in the decades to follow, for that matter). I still say Dazzler should have been a Roller Derby queen, who generated light from the sound of the skating and violence. Then she could have had the ultimate two-fer; a crossover with Skateman...... and could have had a movie, starring Raquel Welch..... or James Caan....
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Post by mikelmidnight on Oct 3, 2023 11:48:45 GMT -5
I’ll add a Challengers of the Unknown and Sea Devils crossover film, or maybe shared series (again, 60’s classic era). Just cause I have a soft spot for those non-superhero Silver Age DC titles. I’m so on board with the aforementioned Blackhawk as well. Or simply a Forgotten Heroes film, which featured the full teams rather than just the leading men. All the greatest adventurers of a bygone age against a thread that takes place underground, under the seas, and across time itself!
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