I imagine that we are already passed the highwater mark of the trend for superhero movies for the time being. I think we’ll be seeing less of them, or they just won’t be dominating the box office as much as they have in the recent past. But at least we got a Wonder Woman movie, which is something apparently a lot of people have been waiting a long time for.
Regardless of whether or not it’s LIKELY that the character(s) will get a big-budget, live-action movie treatment, what would seriously pique your interest and prompt you to go to the theater?
A few months ago, in an attempt to get through some writer’s block, I began writing a screenplay for a “Doom Patrol” movie - the original team set in an early 1960s scenario. I never got very far into it, but I’ve always liked the idea of it. I imagined it having the tone of a Sean Connery-era Bond film.
One character I am actually surprised they haven’t brought to the screen, big or small, is Marvel’s Spider-Woman. Given that she is a fan favorite with very close ties to both the Avengers and Hydra, and that her own history opens up a lot of new story possibilities (Wundagore, the High Evolutionary and his Knights, Morgan Le Fay), I would have thought she would be a natural fit.
Anyway, what superhero (or comic book series) would go see a movie about?
It’d probably be a better fit for a TV show than a movie, but I’d like to see PS238. For those who don’t know, it’s a comic book by Aaron Williams (best known for gaming comic Nodwick) about a school for metahuman children (many of which are the children of superheroes or supervillains, but there are also some first-generation metas). Most of the characters are superficially similar to the familiar stars, but once you dig deeper into their stories, turn out to be completely different. And since it’s all done by one man, it’s mostly free of the continuity issues and other inconsistencies that the big universes are rife with, and it’s more aware from the ground up that it’s an entire world with many different characters who interact.
That’s easy: Top 10, by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, and Zander Cannon (a former Doper). Basically it’s Hill St. Blues, in a city populated by superpowered beings.
The characters are rich and layered and are featured in various weaving storylines with all sorts of humor, horror, and human emotion. The first ten issues have a bigger arc that is amazing.
I’d like to see an entire bio of him. His childhood, time in the camps, hunting nazis, time with Charles, leading the anti-human mutants, etc. Not a superhero, but supervillian.
That would make a great biography. We didn’t need 3 Wolverine movies, we could’ve done fine with 2 Wolverine movies and 1 Magneto movie.
Dr. Doom would also be great.
Galactus
Am I misunderstanding the definition of superhero?
I’d like to see Moore’s TOM STRONG: a pulp adventurer using retro futuristic tech to play explorer – and, okay, to play ‘superhero’, if someone is dumb enough to attempt a crime spree in the area, but, honestly, he’d rather try to talk some sense into them. (Which, granted, is a lot easier to do from a position of strength; and, at a minimum, requires him surviving whatever gets thrown at him; so, yes, cue some over-the-top action before he can be the reluctant-hero voice of experience.)
An attempt to show what would really happen if a team of overpowered metahumans came together. The end up changing everything in the world - running it, in effect - because they can’t stand the corruption in high places. They’re hated by politicians and despised - at times - by the population due to collateral damage. But they’re really frustrated by how ordinary people just let corruption happen. They’re motto, “PAY ATTENTION!”