Directors And Ideas For Justice Leugue Members Solo Movies
Batman Reboot
Director – David Fincher –
Notable work - Fight Club, Seven, Girl With The dragon Tatoo
Why him?
David Fincher is really the only guy I can think of who could possibly make a cooler, darker and edgier Batman than Nolan. I think also, he would be able to keep the tone real world, but visually spectacular and he may even manage to get the supernatural elements in as well, spinning them into a modern neo-noir detective story, with eye popping visuals. He´s a master of the neo-noir genre.
Idea
A real neo-noir detective take on the Bat Man mythology, with a rock and roll edginess to it. A Gotham immersed in Black; a dark under world, where The Batman´s law reins supreme.
The Riddler a hacker and computer genius with a beef to settle with Bruce Wayne, terrorises the city, holding it hostage if he doesn´t receive one billion dollars from Bruce Wayne and the city.
He does things like hanging 11 members of Wayne Enterprises upside down from a building with bombs strapped to them. He gives the Dark Knight 30 mins. The only way to disarm the bomb is for Batman to work out a number of Mensa level puzzles, paradoxes and mathematical problems, which will give a clue to solve a an ultimate riddle. If he types the right answer he will disarm the bomb. If one answer is wrong, all the bombs go off. Batman disarms them in 3 minutes.
However, due to his ego he must continue to challenge The Batman and terrorise the city.
The Penguin a cold hearted, unpredictable, sociopathic gangster, that even the mobsters are like, this guy is scary, meanwhile takes over the Gotham underworld. Possibly a fan of hanging out in freezing temperature rooms, where he uses his enemies hanging frozen corpses as shooting practice with a machine gun umbrella. When The Riddler and The Penguin cross paths, the two together, devise the deadliest trap yet to kill The Batman.
Also it will have Dr. Harleen Quinzzel, as the a kind of femme fetal love interest of Bruce. A brilliant psychatrist and neurologist, who´s made headlines in Gotham for getting numerous criminals off death row and into psychiatric facilities like Arkum Asylum. Claiming they are victims of childhood abuse and trauma; she´s now writing a book in particular on a serial killer and cop killler, called Jack Napier, who seems to be suffering post traumatic stress and an obsessional fixation with Batman, due to his encounter with the Batman. She hates Batman, but is intrigued by Bruce. Incedently, we also learn she´s a fitness freak, whose studied, various martial arts, specifically Kung Fu and Krav Maga.
We don´t see Napier in the film at all.
Bruce saves Quinzzel in the end, from The Penguin, and it seems like Bruce may have found someone he can love.
In the credits of the film, we go into Arkum Asylum, behind a prison door, we hear quinzel say something. Then two laughs are heard, hers and someone elses. Hysteric, manic laughter.
Then the end.
Tone –
Neonoir detective story, with Batman having the coolest and realistic weapons we´ve seen him have on screen, to date. Everything from basic ninja weapons, to, high tech secret military weapons, and, computer on arm connected to from his bat suit. We want him really kitted up.
The Flash: Generation Speed:
Director:
The Wachowski brothers
Notable Work - Matrix Trilogy
Why them:
They are very passionate about comics, and they make intelligent comic or superhero movies, with real world or philosophical implications. I just think they´d really fit, especially in finding a way to capture the Flash in action and his humor.
Idea:
Wally West a young forensic science officer working for the Central City Police, investigates a murder at Star City science lab. While at the lab a mysterious group of criminals, throw him into a particle accelerator, and switch it on hoping to kill him. However he gets out. He now discovers that he is able to shift his fundamental body masses, basic constituents, from particles to light waves.
This new ability gives him incredible powers. When he shifts his body to waves, he has no mass, allowing for him to run at speeds, up to the speed of light and faze through solid matter.
With his new ability he decides to take on a persona as The Flash, to investigate the crime, so the criminal organization behind his attempted murder don´t realize it´s him, and come after those he loves. He also believes the murder at star labs is connected to his fathers false imprisonment, as the guy killed, was a witness who was going to testify that Wally´s father was not the one who committed the crime he´s accused of.
Tone:
I´d want to make the world very real, like ours in many ways. But it is the Flash, so while the world may well be gritty, I expect Flash himself to be more humouress, and, even more understanding with his villains than Batman. Reminding The Trickster to take his meds for instance, or, having a beer with him. Central City will be far more peaceful and crime free than Gotham, and, it is hardly likely to attract an alien power bent on taking over the world like Metropolis.
I´d want the humor of the character to be maintained, and to highlight the silliness of his archenemies.
So my idea for The Flash, would be he wants to get recognized for his heroics, but keeps getting shown up by the more exotic and mysterious alien superheroes who spring up just as he gains his super speed.
Our Flash is certainly still a hero, but he wants to be famous, get girls, become the cities most celebrated hero.
However, with all his attempts to make a name for himself, the media and people of Central City just aren´t as interested in him as they are Gotham´s mysterious Dark Knight (Man or myth), or Superman our alien visitor with unimaginable powers, or, Wonder Woman, voted FHM sexiest woman and People magazine most beautiful woman on Earth. Our Flash can´t seem to catch a break. He can barely make page 10, with Superman flying around.
But in the end The Flash stumble on a dastardly plan that will destroy Central City and is forced to become the hero we all know he is.
Tagline: "This is no job for Superman."
Villains:
The Trickster
Creed Philips – The eradicator
Martian Manhunter:
Film title MARTIAN
Director: Ridley Scott – Gladiator, Prometheus, Alien
Why Him? – He is brilliant at making epic movies. I think this will be a trip around the galaxy, meeting totally alien civilisations. Ridley could make that visually spectacular. Especially in 3D.
Idea
A space epic, in which, Jónn Jónnz a visitor from a distant galaxy, crash lands his space ship into Mars. When the ship sends off a distress signal it is picked up on the radio telescopes of SETI (Search For Extra Terrestrial Life). Dr. Saul Erdel head of SETI, is given the job, of organizing and supervising a mission to mars, so as to discover where the mysterious signal is coming from. The team of Astronauts sent to Mars discover Jónn. Erdel eventually is charged to discover where the aliens from and why he is here. Erdel in shocked to discover that Jónn is from another galaxy and that his planet far less technologically advanced than Earth, was a attacked by another alien race called The Imperium, whose sole mission is to colonise every habital planet they can, and massacre the native peoples or creatures of those planets. He was able to escape them after all his people were exterminated in a cruel and senseless genocide. He stole a ship from their fleet and set it for the nearest galaxy with a habitable planet, it took him to Earth.
Tone
A kind of dark operatic space epic; like if Donner´s Superman, met, Batman Begins.
Wonder Woman
Mary Harron
Why Her? -
I think a female, who could be passionate about the feminist implications of Wonder Woman should do the film. Also, one who can make it dark, but also find humour in WW fish out water story.
She has always been interested in the subversive, or bringing extreme post modern feminist characters to screen; I really can´t think of any better director, to take WW mythology seriously and bring out its feminist implications to the modern world.
Notable Work
American Psycho, I Shot Andy Warhol
Idea:
Astronaut Steve Trevor, tests a new Government technology that allows humans to space jump. Affectively sending them hurtling through time and space to another part of the universe, simply by flying through a portal. However when he goes through the Portal, it actually takes him to an alternate reality. A paradise world exclusively inhabited by women, who seem to believe in the old Hellenic mythologies and gods. They are a group of technologically advanced women warriors, living on an island called Themyscira, who call themselves the Amazons and who have isolated themselves from men so as to escape the violence, suffering and hatred that mans world inspires.
They for years have had the technology that sent Steve to them, but refused to use it, preferring to stay anonymous in their island paradise.
The queen of the island decides to have one Amazon return Steve back to his world, and destroy the technology that brought him their, so that men can never again come upon their shores. A contest is declared to decide who will be the Amazonian to go. But the Queen forbids her only daughter Diana from participating. However, her daughter royal princess of the Amazonians is fascinated by Steve, having been born on Paradise Island and never met a man before. So she joins the competition by hiding her identity.
Meanwhile, the God Ares imprisoned in an island dungeon, who draws energy from war, actually gains energy when the portal is open and escapes through the portal to our earth.
Diana wins the competition, and, is given some armor forged Haphaestus, that give her extraordinary powers. Now she is sent on two missions, return Steve and stop Ares from plunging our world into all out war.
Tone
I think again dark and gritty. The light side of the story will come from the kind of fish out of water situation Diana finds herself in, in our world; with a lot of feminist undertones. But Ares should interfere with real world political situations; like starting genocides in African states, enflaming the situation further in the Middle East, and WW will have to stop him.
For a fuller account see my article.
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Green Lantern
Director – The Hughes Brothers
Notable Films
From Hell, Dead Presidents.
Why Them?
I´m not all that interested in Green Lantern, but if there´s anything that I think is interesting about any of the Green Lanterns, it´s John Stuarts military background. I think in an origin that should be explored. How he was part of special ops in Vietnam. The Hughes brothers would do a good job of that.
Idea –
Haven´t really thought about this but off the top of my head.
A former Vietnam war veteran John Stuart, comes in contact with an alien species that have created the most powerful weapon in the universe. An energy based weapon in the form of a ring that can transform ones thoughts into energy based weapons.
He is thought to be the man who can rightly wield the weapon, as earth is now on the verge of opening up into the galaxy. These peaceful aliens, whose civilization has existed millions of years and has faced many threats, always contact any civilization that enters into its age of space exploration. Knowing the dangers they face they choose a champion, to protect the world, who has the strength, will and sense of sacrifice to be its hero.
Tone -
I think Green Lantern is hard. There´s something a bit lacking in his mythology for me. To be honest I think thats part of why his film failed. However, there´s a writer out there who is passionate about this character, and i know theres something that be done to make him really interesting.
Superman
Stick with Snyder, brilliant choice.
Justice League –
I think Snyder as well.