Some movie stuff

[seriousfic]

As cool as it would be to have DC pull a Marvel and do a one-two punch of movies about Teh Trio leading up to a JLA movie... yeah, it'd be really cool if Superman or just Clark Kent showed up in Batman 3 or in WW, Diana and Kal just spent a lunch break shooting the shit... I don't know if it's really possible to have a Superman, a Wonder Woman, and a Batman franchise running at once. You've seen all the harping on Thor? Well, now imagine most of the cast is attractive ladies and you've got people trying to make Wonder Woman. We'd be lucky to get someone other that Jessica Alba as Hippolyta. And with Nolan seeing Batman as the only superhero on Earth, well...

I mean, it's be great if they just started seeing the Batman movies as something like the Bond franchise, and after Batman 3 they just kept the principals and moved on to someone else with a different creative vision, sorta do a soft reboot, keep the Nolanverse in the vague past as an origin story but start including more outre elements like Poison Ivy, Robin, and Mr. Freeze... but who knows, it's just as likely we'll get Gotham High. ("What our movie presupposes is, what if Batman and the Joker shared Home Ec?")

But you know what would work? The Bwa-Ha-Ha League. You'd have to play it a little straighter, say about Iron Man levels, in fact just get Jon Favreau and have him do the same kind of ensemble cast, just with all superheroes instead of all Tony Stark's friends... that'd be plenty awesome. Get Martian Manhunter, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Guy Gardner, Fire, and Ice, maybe Rocket Red, Mr. Miracle, Big Barda if necessary. Make J'onn black, which is pretty much canon already, and you've even got some real diversity (Fire is Brazilian, in case you're going "oh, a token black guy, SOOO diverse." Also, lesbians). You wouldn't even have to do an origin for Guy, just say he's some schmuck who got a power ring like Ryan Reynolds. Done. You've got your comedy, you've got your action... there you go, perfect summer movie.

Also, Superman movie, picture this... we start after Superman has been doing his thing for a while. Rivalry with Lex, love triangle with Lois/himself, maybe have Lois dating Lex, whatever. All of a sudden, Scott Free drops in through a Boomtube. He's be kinda the goof to Clark's straight man. Think David Tennant, constantly fascinated by random Earth stuff and at the same time able to connect with Kal-El based on being an alien. He's there to warn Superman that 1. Apokolips destroyed Krypton and 2. They did it for the Anti-Life Equation, which Jor-El discovered and hid in Kal's ship, just in case he should ever need to use it as a bargaining chip (naturally, he will). Oh, also, Scott's ex-girlfriend is leading the invasion force, just for the possibility of an epic verbal smackdown between Barda and Lois. And for a nice Beta Couple.

Barda: You left.

Scott: I escaped! Difference!

Barda: In the middle of the night! After we... after date night.

Scott: I saw an opportunity, there was no time, I sent a letter.

Barda: It was a stupid letter!

Scott: I'd been trying to escape for ten years, what did you think that was--

Barda: A hobby!

CAN THIS RELATIONSHIP BE SAVED? Also, can Superman save the Earth from Darkseid and will Lex betray humanity to Apokolips and stuff? Jon Hamm as Superman.

ETA: It would be SUPER-AWESOME-INCREDIBLE if the Nick Fury of the DC universe were... lovable capitalist Max Lord, trying to recruit people for the Super-Buddies. The adventures of Scott Free and Big Barda trying to settle down and have a normal life of only moderate craziness would also make a fine spin-off.

Comments

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

You're evil. Eeeeeeevil. You've infected me with a burning desire to see this. I loved the DeMatteis-era Justice League comics. We'd HAVE to include the scene where Black Canary is inconsolable because she misses seeing Batman drop Guy Gardner with one punch.

Yeah, the Bwa-Ha-Ha League would make a killer movie if it could be done right.

And John Hamm as Superman/Clark Kent. Inspired. (He's even doing the "secret identity" thing on Mad Men already!)

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

That's all Christian Bale does in the movie. He shows up, punches Guy Gardner, and leaves.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

And change Black Canary into Fire (who I kinda picture as Rosario Dawson? Maybe?).

[jlbarnett.livejournal.com]

they could do Mr. Miracle as black too. If they had multiple New Gods cast they ought to go out of there way to be as random in racial casting as possible.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

Judging by the costume, maybe he should be Hispanic. *dodges tomatoes* Whaaat, it worked for Jaime Reyes!