BTW, Heroes For Hire
Sep. 12th, 2011 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficAs long as I'm on the subject of Marvel movies, I was thinking about Heroes For Hire. It's a great concept for a movie--superhero buddy comedy. The thing is, I don't think it should be some 150 million dollar tentpole summer action flick. It's two guys with low-level superpowers fighting crime. They don't even have costumes (well, Iron Fist does, but you could ditch everything but the mask and people would understand).
I say take thirty million dollars or so, get the Old Spice guy to play Cage (you might as well), hire Scott Adkins for Danny Rand, get a bunch of stunt guys dressed up as ninjas, and make a Direct to DVD movie. Because c'mon, the Old Spice guy can't open a movie, but you could definitely turn a profit on a movie where the action is more about stuntwork and kung-fu than CGI. If you look at some of the action in stuff like Undisputed 2 or the latest Universal Soldier movie, they have action scenes that go on for forty minutes whereas with Iron Man, you have to pay fifty mil just to show Tony Stark blowing up robots for five minutes. This is a case where you can be Marvel-friendly cost-effective, and still get your money's worth.
Then maybe have the characters cameo in Avengers 2 or whatever as prospective recruits. "Yeah, okay, you want us to join, great... how much does it pay?" You might even be able to get a little TV series going.
ETA: And with a B-movie, you could make it a period piece in the swinging seventies. Include Misty Knight and Colleen Wing, as played by, say, Gina Torres and Gina Carone. And how great a gag would it be for Samuel L. Jackson to show up as a young Nick Fury, with a Pulp Fiction afro? Good stuff, good stuff.
I say take thirty million dollars or so, get the Old Spice guy to play Cage (you might as well), hire Scott Adkins for Danny Rand, get a bunch of stunt guys dressed up as ninjas, and make a Direct to DVD movie. Because c'mon, the Old Spice guy can't open a movie, but you could definitely turn a profit on a movie where the action is more about stuntwork and kung-fu than CGI. If you look at some of the action in stuff like Undisputed 2 or the latest Universal Soldier movie, they have action scenes that go on for forty minutes whereas with Iron Man, you have to pay fifty mil just to show Tony Stark blowing up robots for five minutes. This is a case where you can be Marvel-friendly cost-effective, and still get your money's worth.
Then maybe have the characters cameo in Avengers 2 or whatever as prospective recruits. "Yeah, okay, you want us to join, great... how much does it pay?" You might even be able to get a little TV series going.
ETA: And with a B-movie, you could make it a period piece in the swinging seventies. Include Misty Knight and Colleen Wing, as played by, say, Gina Torres and Gina Carone. And how great a gag would it be for Samuel L. Jackson to show up as a young Nick Fury, with a Pulp Fiction afro? Good stuff, good stuff.
