Trying to think if they’ve ever really done this before. By “this” I mean have a handful of characters that have their OWN feature film(s) all appear together in the same movie.
Honestly the closest I can think of is the Meh-inducing satire Murder by Death. But that wasn’t like this where the characters’ original movies all had a thread tying them together… that was just taking a bunch of film characters and plopping them all in the same movie.
Alien vs. Predator
Not movies, but I’ve seen at least two cartoon movies where several different cartoon and comic strip characters get together and have an adventure. One was called Yogi Bear’s Laugh-a-lympics which pretty much featured every character ever created by Hanna-Barbera and a second movie whose name I don’t remember which featured quite a few of the humorous characters owned by King Features. Also I seem to recall that outside of movies there were only a few (if any) Warner Brothers cartoons where all the characters ever meet each other
Note that this is exactly how both the Justice League (DC) and the Avengers (Marvel) were created in the first place. The companies had several standalone comic books, and thought they’d have their bestselling superheroes team up with each other, on the theory that awesome times awesome equals superawesome.
Well you raise a good point, in a weird way that’s what happens in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. But in that one, the featured stars from other movie franchises are just sorta ancillary characters here.
Most of those characters have had their own movies, with a couple having secondary roles.
Aside: It annoys me when people post links to iMDB without saying what they are. The URL’s no clue, so you can’t just mouseover, and I had to follow another link just to make any sense at all out of that post (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, incidentally). Amazon links used to have the same problem, but now thankfully they incorporate the title into the URL.
Freddy vs Jason.
Halle-frickin’-lujah! I’ve never been annoyed enough to say anything, but the death by 1000 cuts was getting up to 800 or so.
Wasn’t there a Jetsons go to visit the Flintstones cartoon?
Are you nuts? Murder By Death kicked ass.
Hell yeah. Yes, I can open the link in another tab, but I probably won’t. I will mouse over, though.
The X-Men: Origins series is still in progress, with Deadpool and another Wolverine movie on deck.
I remember some really awful Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn TV movies w. Ronnie Howard and Donny Most. Howard was first chair in both movies and Most was the sidekick in both. Note: I can only find one of these on IMDB and may be hallucinating the other.
Some other pairings to consider: Buddy Holly Story/La Bamba, Coal Miner’s Daughter/Sweet Dreams, Julius Caeser/Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra, Dracula/Van Helsing, Three Musketeers/Man in the Iron Mask.
Amazingly, none of the spinoff characters from Beverly Cleary’s “Ramona” books ever got a feature film.
Wait - a Deadpool movie?
How are they going to get the little yellow boxes to work on-screen?
Don’t forget Destroy All Monsters.