(last post of the night, I swear)
And…ditto on Miller’s (almost typed “Millar.” heh.) cycle scheme. Kinda solves the problems of the comic world remaining oddly paralel to “reality” with all the sci-fi/fantasy stuff happening all the time, and the issue of killing/not-killing supervillains, too (y’know—pragmatic and moral issues aside, if you kill the Joker, either you can’t use him in a story again, or someone’ll just bring him back to life later so they can use him).
Yeah, baby!
I’d take “Star Trek:TOS” and film stories about the original crew and its 5 year mission (with flashbacks as warranted), with a new cast of actors, of course. I’m thinking of Megan Good as Uhura, for instance.
I’d also like to do a sequel to “Bull Durham.” I think Crash Davis was an interesting character and that his struggles to make the major leagues as a manager would be a good story.
Everything involving Middle Earth:
– The Scouring was filmed. That’s about the only change I’d make to Jackson’s filmed trilogy. (Okay, unless you can think of a way to film the Barrowwights without working in Tom Bambadil. Come to think of it, considering the cheapo way Jackson filmed any undead besides the Ringwraiths, nevermind on that.)
– An anime-style movie would be made about the War of Wrath. Now to be sure there would be things there to offend the purists since it is not described in movie-length filmable detail, but any war so massive it has gods on one side and dragons on the other and is so furious it causes half a continent to sink can’t be all entirely unfilmable 
I’ve never wanted to write in somebody else’s fictional universe; rather create my own. (Except maybe a Doc Savage movie.)
WEll, I wrote “editorial,” not “authorial.”
What would your Doc Savage movie be like??
I’d take The X-Files. Mulder and Scully would continue their adventures on the big-screen with a second movie. And then several more. The first movie will have them get their six-year-old son back after he’s inevitably tracked down by the super soldiers and has his cannon-fodder adopted parents murdered, and explain why the gunmen aren’t dead, dammit! No more mythac in the movies, just Monster Of The Week, well make that Movie.
On the small screen Doggett and Reyes would star in a spin-off…which is probably ought to have been done after season eight. (because Scully and the baby ought to have gone with Mulder) Several talented fanfic writers would be hired to write the scripts and figure out a way to make sense of the last two season’s mytharc, which would be resolved and something else would be put in its place.
Street Fighter
Sagat’s scar is a deliberate mark made by Akuma after the SF1 tourney, not an unfortunate accident during one of his Ryu battles (and it’s vertical).
Any potential legal headaches over Mike Bison’s name are resolved by either: 1. simply calling him “Mike”, like they did in the first game, or 2. referring to him by nickname, which can be bison or basher or smasher or anything else. NOT by scrambling the names of three principal characters.
There is no “real” or “official” winner of anything. Every new game/tourney is a new beginning and is treated as such.
The Alpha series takes place chronologically at the same time the games come out. The initial fighters in SFA1 are from SF1. Can throw in Rose or Sodom or whatever (not Charlie; he’s complely redundant and adds nothing), but for the most part, it’s about the originals. And Birdie has one skin color.
Sakura Kasugano is a quiet, tall, elegant, graceful, beautiful, well-mannered schoolgirl of privelege who sees fighting as an honorable art and has no interest whatsoever in Dan Hibiki. (Her high status is how she gets tangled up with the Kanzuki family.) And she ages normally and graduates from high school right on time. (She becomes a cheerleader in college so she can keep on wearing a short skirt.)
Dan Hibiki starts out as a cold, rough-edged, quick to anger brawler with limited technique (he takes up Ansatsuken because he sees it as “the bane of Mueitai”). He eventually gains revenge on Sagat and slowly works on maturing and becoming a more complete fighter.
Zangief is motivated by a general disdain for funny-looking martial arts and is unconcerned with national politics.
The Xia Da Lu organization (screw “Shadaloo” and “Shadowlaw” and all those other ridiculous constructions) is already crumbling by the time of SFA3. Vega’s targeting of a major metropolis is the pathetic last gasp of a doomed dictator. Guile/Chun Li/Ryu/whoever (not “Charlie”) manages to stop it, and the organization is completely crushed.
Nobody knows for sure what Gill is, or what his purposes are, or what everyone wants from him. There are plenty of allusions, but nothing concrete. To most people, SF3 is just another underground tournament.
Yun and Yang are a pair of rowdy teenagers constantly looking for a good time. Ibuki became a ninja because it sounded cool; it’s not until Third Strike that she has second thoughts. Alex is an aspiring pro wrestler, for crying out loud. And Elena has dark (not tan) skin, brown eyes, and BLACK HAIR. (Sean’s more or less in the same boat as Dan.)
And lastly, Poison is a wrestling character. The one managing Hugo is female, because she’s A. Different. Poison. than the one who took on Mike Hagger & co. way back in the early 90’s. (Oh, BTW, “Hugo” is a different guy from “Andore”, too. )
Jules and Vern, now all growed up and after Doc Brown has died, return to 1985 Hill Valley with the Flux Compasitor powered steamtrain filled to the brim with dinosaurs, robots and sharks.
Now Marty, (just returning home from 1885) has to find Doc Brown somewhere in time to tell him “DOC! SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE ABOUT YOUR KIDS!”
and yes, they’re assholes.