# You're the producer/director of a comic book movie: make the fans angry! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275 "2014-02-01T11:57:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/1 "2014-02-01T11:57:38Z")
Time for a new game: It’s common these days for people to voice their frustrations about various comic book movie adaptations—the ones that failed spectacularly, anyway. Now, a lot of people have said how they could do better. But I’ve got a little turnabout in mind: how could you do _worse?_ The setup: You’ve become the head of the motion picture studio arm/licensee of the comic book company of your choice. Greenlighting projects, hiring writers/directors/producers, and all creative control is in your grubby hands. You’re basically the god, now. So, your assignment: piss the fans off. Break the characters, drive the plotlines before you, and hear the lamentations of the canon. Recklessly retcon, reboot, revanche. Stop short of completely driving the company out of business. If you can. Do this either by A) Starting films, or making changes to the franchise that you, personally, would actually _like_ to see, but know would never float with the critics and view base (Deliberately botching a potential good idea works, too, if you say how you’d do it), or B) doing something stupid or awful on purpose. I’ll leave the details of that to your imaginations. The only major limitation, for this project? Whatever you make, it has to be something you can at least semi-plausibly release to theaters in the United States. So you can’t just release a four-hour snuff film “starring” a kid in a Robin costume, while racial epithets are screamed over bullhorns in six different languages. (You have a _little_ more leeway with deliberately filming stuff for the unrated DVD cut, but major felonies still aren’t going to cut it) Extra points to whoever can do the most damage with the subtlest amount of changes. Try me. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/2 "2014-02-01T13:04:24Z")
Clark Kent seeks to avenge his parents’ murder… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/3 "2014-02-01T13:24:00Z")
Hasn’t Zack Snider already won the threat? In my case, I’d do Batman exactly as he appeared in the 40s and 50s: well-adjusted, smart, showing off his detective skills, and fighting the Tweed brothers with a giant penny involved. We could go with a chubby Alfred, and, of course, Bat-Mite. So that would massively piss off the fans without a single change from the original. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/4 "2014-02-01T13:46:47Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > So that would massively piss off the fans without a single change from the original. Well, if that’s the standard: Wonder Woman gets tied up a lot, never gets naked. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/5 "2014-02-01T13:49:16Z")
How about an absolutely faithful adaptation of Eisner’s great run on THE SPIRIT, complete with Ebony White? _“No suh, boss, but ah sho is de fastest!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/6 "2014-02-01T14:07:34Z")
I would revive [_Superman Lives_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/death-superman-lives-trailer-nicolas-621007), starring Nicholas Cage. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/7 "2014-02-01T14:21:36Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I would revive [_Superman Lives_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/death-superman-lives-trailer-nicolas-621007), starring Nicholas Cage. Too late to add: When you hear [Kevin Smith talk about his involvement with the project](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk#t=31), you’ll find it pretty hard to top. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/8 "2014-02-01T14:42:48Z")
I’d base the Batman/Superman movie on the silver age era comics. At this point, why not right? You’d have great elements like Supes becoming a hobo, Batman spouting homosexual innuendos to Robin, Wonder Woman marrying an alien, and Lex Luthor creating an antidote for Kryptonite poisoning! It’d be a bonafide hoot. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/9 "2014-02-01T14:46:32Z")
Any of them as an evangelical fundamentalist. Have Pat Robertson direct. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/10 "2014-02-01T14:51:45Z")
I’d make Deadpool a mild-mannered, well-adjusted ladies’ man. Fans would go out of their minds. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/11 "2014-02-01T14:59:13Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > I’d make Deadpool a mild-mannered, well-adjusted ladies’ man. > > Fans would go out of their minds. They already made him a mute teleporter in the first _Wolverine_ movie-kind of hard to top that. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/12 "2014-02-01T15:03:58Z")
Wonder Woman and Bat Girl in a lesbo-love affair. ETA: wait a sec, I might want to watch that. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/13 "2014-02-01T15:29:54Z")
Nicholas Cage as _The Punisher_. A 90 minute live action version of the entire _Cerburus_ saga, staring Jason Alexander. How about a _Batman_ movie where his recurring arch-enemy, The Joker, Is just killed off at the end of the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Orr\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ee59a6/32.png) [@Orr\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orr_G)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/14 "2014-02-01T15:31:16Z")
While it doesn’t quite fit the reqs of the OP, I was strongly reminded of this: [Saturday Morning Watchmen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w) ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/15 "2014-02-01T15:32:46Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > How about a _Batman_ movie where his recurring arch-enemy, The Joker, Is just killed off at the end of the movie? That would be Batman '89. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/16 "2014-02-01T15:35:33Z")
> [@Roundabout](#): > > That would be Batman '89. Yep. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/17 "2014-02-01T15:37:39Z")
Gotcha. ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/18 "2014-02-01T15:40:53Z")
My next X-Men film would have Wolverine killed off. After five movies of ridiculously making him the leader, that’d be a fun twist. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/19 "2014-02-01T15:43:20Z")
My dark-and-gritty reboot of Sugar and Spike might just work here… Or just an Ambush Bug film,. Doesn’t matter if we got a young Jim Carrey to play Irwin, nothing would work on screen. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275/20 "2014-02-01T15:48:16Z")
At the end of the movie, the camera pulls back and reveals that the action has all been happening inside a mental hospital. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-producer-director-of-a-comic-book-movie-make-the-fans-angry/680275.md?page=2)