Batman Begins...thoughts of my own comic to movie wish list!
With the debut of Batman Begins on Wednesday, I am thankful that the last two Batman incarnations did not totally wipe away all hope for a renewed franchise. Christian Bale looks like the best actor yet to don the mantle. While I did enjoy the Michael Keaton version, I always felt that he seemed just a bit too soft. Bale looks the way Bruce Wayne should have on screen: young, athletic, stern, tragic. But the movie has also made me wonder what other comics should be considered for moviedom. How about:
Zatanna - a minor DC character whom I felt really hasn't been given a chance to develop. A raven haired magician who dons a half-tux and fishnet stockings, she regularly fought the occult by casting spells in backwards English. Joss Whedon should revisit the post-modern horror genre and cast Thora Birch who really needs a re-boost in her career after starring in the dreadfully plotted Dungeons and Dragons movie.
Mars, Texas - is the name of a Texan town full of little anthropomorphic animals and the young sheriff wannabe named Red, on account of her red hair, who battles the real but evil animal-trafficing Sheriff. She can also shoot rays from her fingers, I reckon. It's a little known indie comic written and drawn by Paul Dini, whose credit includes the Batman Animated series (the one aired during the 90s, not the current one with title music by The Edge). Turns out the animals were genetically mutated by accident to walk on their hind legs and speak with a Texan twang by radioactive waste from a nearby factory. Factories. Why'd it have to be factories? Anyway, cast Alyson Hannigan as Red (she did play one on Buffy TVS) and use CGI to create all the cute little animals.
Cloak and Dagger - are two runaways, a young black kid and a blonde girl, who, through the miracle of potent, illegal and experimental drugs given by really bad people, are transformed, respectively, into Cloak, ever hungry for men's evil souls whom he traps in his, uh, cloak, and the all white spandex clad, acrobatic Dagger who can purify men's corruption with painful, pure light in the form of, well, daggers. I believe they first appeared in a Spiderman comic but then had a small run and cult following. Anyway, with CGI, you can finally do justic to Cloak's ever-flowing, uh, cloak and Dagger's bright, well, daggers. Cast Scarlett Johansson as Dagger and a young, black actor with experience playing angst ridden characters, like J. August Richards.
I know no one will ever consider my picks. There really aren't enough fans who know or care about them. Still, that's what blogs are for. Dreams.
Zatanna - a minor DC character whom I felt really hasn't been given a chance to develop. A raven haired magician who dons a half-tux and fishnet stockings, she regularly fought the occult by casting spells in backwards English. Joss Whedon should revisit the post-modern horror genre and cast Thora Birch who really needs a re-boost in her career after starring in the dreadfully plotted Dungeons and Dragons movie.
Mars, Texas - is the name of a Texan town full of little anthropomorphic animals and the young sheriff wannabe named Red, on account of her red hair, who battles the real but evil animal-trafficing Sheriff. She can also shoot rays from her fingers, I reckon. It's a little known indie comic written and drawn by Paul Dini, whose credit includes the Batman Animated series (the one aired during the 90s, not the current one with title music by The Edge). Turns out the animals were genetically mutated by accident to walk on their hind legs and speak with a Texan twang by radioactive waste from a nearby factory. Factories. Why'd it have to be factories? Anyway, cast Alyson Hannigan as Red (she did play one on Buffy TVS) and use CGI to create all the cute little animals.
Cloak and Dagger - are two runaways, a young black kid and a blonde girl, who, through the miracle of potent, illegal and experimental drugs given by really bad people, are transformed, respectively, into Cloak, ever hungry for men's evil souls whom he traps in his, uh, cloak, and the all white spandex clad, acrobatic Dagger who can purify men's corruption with painful, pure light in the form of, well, daggers. I believe they first appeared in a Spiderman comic but then had a small run and cult following. Anyway, with CGI, you can finally do justic to Cloak's ever-flowing, uh, cloak and Dagger's bright, well, daggers. Cast Scarlett Johansson as Dagger and a young, black actor with experience playing angst ridden characters, like J. August Richards.
I know no one will ever consider my picks. There really aren't enough fans who know or care about them. Still, that's what blogs are for. Dreams.
posted by Alan at 4:53 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting list. As for my personal preferences, I don't really have any. They've mostly been fulfilled by the series of DCU
cartoons created by Bruce Timm and the people over at the WB.
Long live hand drawn 2-D animation!
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