Seems like a great idea-take a famous character and make a story about them growing up. So why no more after young Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones ?
Well, Young Sherlock Holmes was a one-fer movie, which I thought was a bit dumb (The plot was sort of Sherlock Holmes and the Temple of Doom, but with anachronistic Holmes and Watson teaming up as kids.
Young Indiana Jones was different. Sort of realistic, with Indy meeting the important and interesting figures of the time. I never watched it, so I can’t say more.
If you’re looking for something kinda sorta like that, look up the collected Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa, and its companion volume The life and Times of Scrooge mcDuck Companion:
I kid you not – in the style of the master Carl Barks, and well-researched. Scrooge McDuck meets Teddy Roosevelt and other historical figures as he seeks his fortune. Faithful to the Barks stories (as far as it can be) and an offbeat history lesson.
And Better than Young Sherlock Holmes.
Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa is another good example. I read the original 12 when they first came out. They are now all in storage.
Well, the YIJ series lasted just long enough that he wasn’t really all that young anymore by the time the show was cancelled.
One of us is being whooshed. Please read my post again.
I think “Young Darth Vader with Young Obi-Wan Kenobi With A Special Appearance By Young Boba Fett”, aka the Star Wars Episodes 1-3 might have killed that concept.
You lost me completely. Sherlock Holmes and Indy Jones were my two examples. I was just saying Scrooge McDuck is another example of the ‘Young famous character’. What were you saying?
Sorry – I misunderstood your post. Instead of seeing it as acknowledging my suggestion, I thought you were suggesting it, not noticing that I had just done so (or thinking the Don Rosa 12 issues were perhaps different from the collection)
Muppet Babies.
Dumb and Dumberer.
The bit from Goldmember with a young Austin Powers and Dr. Evil.
The apocryphal gospels purporting to show scenes from Jesus’s childhood.
Haven’t they been writing Teenage James Bond books or something?
Smallville, with Superman and Co as teenagers. (also I really recommend young Indiana Jones to folks that haven’t seen it. I believe its available on DVD now.)
I remember a “James Bond Junior” Tv-comic 15-20 years ago. But that might not be what you’re thinking about.
And that one doesn’t match the OP since it’s about Bonds relative.
Yes - Silverfin is one of them - written by Charlie Higson (A British actor known better for his comedy acting and writing for The Fast Show). I picked up a copy of it in a charity shop - it was kind of… meh. But:
-I’ve never read any of Fleming’s James Bond books
-Silverfin is targeted at a younger readership.
Well, Doyle already did some young Sherlock Holmes: “The Musgrave Ritual” and “The Gloria Scott” (I believe) are cases of Holmes’s when he was a lad.
The problem with young Holmes is that he wasn’t raised to be a detective, like Indy was raised by an archaeologist father. The problem with young anybody is you more or less cripple your ability to generate tension or alternate romantic interests; the reader already knows where the hero ends up.
[singing] He learned the game from his Uncle James… now he’s heir… to the name: James Bond!
James Bond Jr. chases S.C.U.M… (James Bond Jr chases SCUM…) around the world!
Noooooooooooooooooooooo. I did not need that song in my head now… please go away :mad:
Wasn’t there a young MacGuyver series around some eons ago?
Arguably, Cecil DeMille’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (at least the first two hours or so) is about young Moses. And full of in-jokes (wink, wink at the audience who knows what’s going to happen, although Charleton Heston’s Moses doesn’t.)
There’s also YOUNG MR LINCOLN (1939) by John Ford with Henry Fonda in the title role. Does that count?
There is Wicked, currently on brodway showing what happend in OZ when the witches were in college.
Actually, I generally don’t like people who do this, especially if it is someone else’s story. Young Sherlock Holmes offends me much more than Young Indy.
Although I do like the opening sequence in Indy III.