Superman is supposed to be a major priority going forward for Discovery/Warner Bros. now that the merger is complete. There have been reports for years about new versions of the Man of Steel coming to theaters, and now rumors are circulating that those will either be cancelled or re-tooled into a sequel for Henry Cavill to star in. Hopefully, we will get some clarification soon, giving us a better idea of Superman's cinematic future.
Oh my god, '80s/'90s Fred Ward (RIP) as Metallo is the kind of The Lost Issues genius casting that I didn't know I needed.
ReplyDeleteAnother wacky crossover idea popped into my head: Matt Murdock trying a case and his legal opponent is Saul Goodman from Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad. Or maybe them, with Jenn Walters, Foggy Nelson, Lionel Hutz and Harvey Dent as a legal drama mash up.
ReplyDeleteDaredevil vs Lalo.
DeleteSomehow my brain registered that as Fred Willard, who would've been a very different -- but probably still effective -- Metallo.
ReplyDelete@Greggory: How about Aaron Eckhart's Harvey Dent vs Ben Affleck's Matt Murdock? Or, better yet, post-transformation Harvey being defended by Perry Mason (from the TV-movie era)?
Now, _this_ is one movie adaptation I would willingly shell out money for in the proverbial "New Yawk" minute!
ReplyDeleteRoss? You're a genius. :-)
P.S.--- for your next "movie poster," how about Fred Ward as Remo "the Destroyer" Williams vs. Dolph Lundgren as the Punisher? Special guest-star John Rhys Davies as the Kingpin!
ReplyDeleteYes! The past can be so much better on quality.
ReplyDeleteSuperman, Star Trek, and Star Wars seem to be of special interest to someone. Wonder why??
Love it when Superman is flying low like that. There is a different feel to seeing him flying under 20 feet high. Great job, Ross.
@Anon1112: As in, Lalo Schifrin (composer of the Mission Impossible theme)? If so, I have to be honest. DD can do a lot of things. But, when it comes to musical action scores, he can't hold a candle to Mr. Schifrin.
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ReplyDeleteHow bout Eckart/Dent as D.A., arguing against Affleck/Murdock as the public defender, with Judge Perry Mason on the bench?
Or a seemingly even more impossible mission. Have Perry defending Jessica Fletcher after she's framed for the murder of someone whose revolutionary new algorithm for probability analysis indicated she was a jinx! More specifically, that everywhere she goes, someone winds up getting murdered. Thereby making him adamantly hostile to the idea of Jessica's appearance as guest-speaker at some vital philanthropic function. Ross could entitle it...
ReplyDelete...The Case of the Superstitious Statistician!
@Carycomic: that'd make a great simulated movie poster, alright. But, while Jessica Fletcher and Perry Mason are extraordinary humans, they're still technically non-supers. Or, at least, non-supers who've never made it on to the covers of any comic book adaptations. Not even classic Gold Key Comics!
ReplyDeleteHence, lack of any comic book images to capture and splice together.
@Greggory: That could do.
ReplyDeleteFinally got the cycle to where it should be. Young KAL should not be taken for granted then or now. Would Discovery give more weight to the non Snyder traditional style? Hope abounds.
ReplyDeleteAny chance of having the Terminator with Vincent from Beauty and the Beast? Both looking for their own (reversed) Linda Hamilton characters.
Greggory Basore said...
ReplyDelete!How bout Eckart/Dent as D.A., arguing against Affleck/Murdock as the public defender, with Judge Perry Mason on the bench?"
Two-Face was the villain (or one of the villains?) in an actual DC/Marvel-published team-up between Batman and Daredevil: It turned out there that Dent and Murdock had gone through the same law school at the same time.