Top 5 Heroes Who You Could Do A Batman Begins Or Man Of Steel Style Take On There Mythology
First things first, its best I explain what I mean by a Batman Begins or Man Of Steel style movie. What I mean is, we take Superheroes, with their powers - or perhaps slightly altered powers – so they could fit into a world that broadly speaking resemble our own. By doing this we can flesh the characters out, making them more 3 dimensional, and relatable, because they struggle in a world we ultimately recognize.
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The Sandman Wesley Dodd has had an excellent series of comics, that is just begging for a real world, dark, gritty film interpretation. The series was set in a pulp noir world, in which the Sandman Wesley, was frequently plagued with prophetic dreams, and embroiled in mysterious crime thrillers.
You could really play with this, questioning Wesley´s sanity throughout. Are these dreams really prophetic, or is he simply a mad, yet brilliant detective. It would be fun keeping people on the edge, while they try and work it out.
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Spawn is a really obvious one. They´ve already produced an excellent cartoon, where Spawns potential for a really cool movie was illustrated. Unfortunately when they made the Spawn film, no really good model for a dark, grittier, edgier comic book movie existed. It´s really time to revisit that guy, cause he had a really interesting story and great villains that could be modernized for our age.
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Witchblade is another superb and well received comic that came from Image Comics in the 90s.
It had a strong female lead, who was New York city detective. It would be very easy to transport her story into a real world film.
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Now this one I must admit I´m already working on. I think she gets ignored a lot of the time when DC are doing some very interesting things with the other two members of the trinity. It would be a pity if she´s missed in this update, because with a little imagination, her world, her story and her powers could make for a beautiful looking movie. A mixture of the ultra-real, and the utterly fantastical.
I´ve actually written a very brief Man Of Steel Style trailer for, Wonder Woman script I´m working on.
Check out the link
here
It even has a Hans Zimmer track to listen to, while reading. No good DC trailer can exist without one these days, after all.
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I personally think Marvel/Fox should drop Hugh Hackman, for a new Wolverine, and whilst they´re at it do a really kick ass 3d X-Men Reboot. This time set in a darker dystopian near future, with a real world edge. I mean after all, the X-men ultimately is a satire, critiquing very real world issues of exclusion and discrimination of groups. The closer you have that story to a world people can feel and recognize, and more complex versions of the X-Men characters, the more those themes will hit home.