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GrandpaPants posted:Just put Zorro, Robin Hood, King Arthur, and whoever else into a superteam of unbankable franchises. You need the three musketeers and the lone ranger.
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The League of Arthurs teams up with the League of Robins Hood, made up of the main characters from all the various poorly performing King Arthur and Robin Hood adaptations.
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Isn’t Peter Pan public domain now too? Throw him in that supergroup.
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I think Peter Pan might actually still be covered under British copyright law. edit expired in 2007! Baron von Eevl fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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That just makes me think The Phantom 2024. We're kinda just reinventing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen again, but what the hell.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That just makes me think The Phantom 2024. The League of Public Doms.
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Please don't connect Doms to Alan Grant's work, he's a wizard he'll know it happened.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Please don't connect Doms to Alan Grant's work, he's a wizard he'll know it happened. He's actually a fictional paleontologist.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That just makes me think The Phantom 2024. Or that 80's cartoon Defenders of the Earth. Hell lets get a Defenders of the Earth movie going, I'll watch Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom running around punching dudes. Throw Holmes and Robin Hood and King Arthur in there somehow, I don't care, magic or time travel or some other bullshit. I'm saying we need more team up movies that are just various pulp heroes nobody has thought about in in about 80 years. drat it now I just want another The Shadow movie and I'm sad. 
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Grendels Dad posted:The League of Public Doms. Their nemesis : The Confederacy of Private Subs
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joylessdivision posted:Or that 80's cartoon Defenders of the Earth. The Phantom's canonically had an ancestor who was on the Round Table, and Excalibur is apparently resting in his treasure room. For a while I was wondering if we'd see a team-up of Star-Lord, Black Panther and Dr Strange as a MCU riff on Defenders of the Earth, but they're not cool enough to do that.
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And one of those people are dead and would’ve been dead before they even really got a chance too
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Phantom's canonically had an ancestor who was on the Round Table, and Excalibur is apparently resting in his treasure room. Admittedly my knowledge of The Phantom is "Wears a purple outfit and has a skull ring" which rules, and Billy Zane played him in the movie that I was insanely hyped to see as a child and somehow have still not seen, although I think I own a digital copy.
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joylessdivision posted:Admittedly my knowledge of The Phantom is "Wears a purple outfit and has a skull ring" which rules, and Billy Zane played him in the movie that I was insanely hyped to see as a child and somehow have still not seen, although I think I own a digital copy. The Phantom also routinely outsells DC and Marvel combined in Australia.
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joylessdivision posted:Admittedly my knowledge of The Phantom is "Wears a purple outfit and has a skull ring" which rules, and Billy Zane played him in the movie that I was insanely hyped to see as a child and somehow have still not seen, although I think I own a digital copy. The movie has a fun start with some nice stunts and stuff but is incredibly bad after in a few ways, but it's like just goofy enough you gotta see it. IIRC they were originally making a more 90s Batman sculpted muscle kind of outfit for Zane to wear instead of just the skull patterns but he got so ripped they didn't need it. I still LOL forever at those "SLAM EVIL!" posters Furthermore 
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Neo Rasa posted:The movie has a fun start with some nice stunts and stuff but is incredibly bad after in a few ways, but it's like just goofy enough you gotta see it. IIRC they were originally making a more 90s Batman sculpted muscle kind of outfit for Zane to wear instead of just the skull patterns but he got so ripped they didn't need it. The "SLAM EVIL" ads, which I saw a billion of in the back of comics at the time, were truly some 90's advertising lol. I think I'll do a triple feature of The Rocketeer (never seen it), The Shadow (I loved this movie so much in 1995 I dressed up as the Shadow for halloween that year) and The Phantom this weekend. Just melt my brain with 90's pulp movies.
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The Stan Lee-verse is here!quote:Wanted filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov and his production banner Bazelevs are in development on a new cinematic universe based on the unexploited horror works by Stan Lee. https://deadline.com/2021/12/timur-...een-1234882905/
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joylessdivision posted:Admittedly my knowledge of The Phantom is "Wears a purple outfit and has a skull ring" which rules, and Billy Zane played him in the movie that I was insanely hyped to see as a child and somehow have still not seen, although I think I own a digital copy. I watched it recently, and it's...not good, but in a charming way. I'd be down for a post-colonial riff on The Phantom. The 90's movie stuffs the pulpy racism of the premise inside camp, so it's constantly smirking at you. I'd love to see a version that meets the exotified colonial imagination of the premise head-on, all the "ancient pagan magic from the darkest heart of the jungle" kind of poo poo. I'm not even sure where The Phantom is supposed to take place...Africa? Indonesia? India? That those places are interchangeable across the canon is part of the issue. The new Rocketeer is going to be about a former Tuskegee airman living in the Jim Crow period, which sounds awesome, so it's not as crazy of an ask as it sounds.
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joylessdivision posted:Admittedly my knowledge of The Phantom is "Wears a purple outfit and has a skull ring" which rules, and Billy Zane played him in the movie that I was insanely hyped to see as a child and somehow have still not seen, although I think I own a digital copy. This is the exact same as me.
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Tars Tarkas posted:The Stan Lee-verse is here! We regret to inform you that timur has split owing to Disney wanting to go in a different direction
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joylessdivision posted:Admittedly my knowledge of The Phantom is "Wears a purple outfit and has a skull ring" which rules, and Billy Zane played him in the movie that I was insanely hyped to see as a child and somehow have still not seen, although I think I own a digital copy. What I remember about The Phantom is that you could get a replica of aforementioned skull ring from participating Subway® franchise locations.
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Xealot posted:I watched it recently, and it's...not good, but in a charming way. The 2016 Tarzan movie took this approach. I thought it was at least decent, though I wouldn't give it anything beyond that.
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Xealot posted:I watched it recently, and it's...not good, but in a charming way. I think the jungle scenes in The Phantom are supposed to take place on a fictitious island somewhere in the Andaman Sea. So, somewhere south of Myanmar, I guess?
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I think 90s The Phantom is fine, though definitely the lesser of the 90s pulp revival attempts. I don’t really know dick about the source material. I had tapes of The Shadow radio show growing up so I was already going to like that.
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GrandpaPants posted:Just put Zorro, Robin Hood, King Arthur, and whoever else into a superteam of unbankable franchises. Aquaman was an entertaining King Arthur movie that’s getting a sequel!
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The Phantom owns. Billy Zane owns. I was struggling to decide what to watch tonight but luckily this is available on Prime. Edit: I completely forgot Catherine Zeta-Jones is in this, and somehow have seen this about a dozen times and didn't know his father is played by Patrick McGoohan. Honestly I don't understand how anyone thinks this somehow falls apart in the second half, movie is great, campy fun, Treat Williams chews all the scenery. My only complaint is we only get a single look at a shirtless Billy Zane in the entire 100 minutes. Sirotan fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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Maybe we could just not try to resurrect the fetid corpses of long dead franchises whose time is past.
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galagazombie posted:Maybe we could just not try to resurrect the fetid corpses of long dead franchises whose time is past. So, not the comic series that's been in continued publication since WW2, syndicated in newspapers and regularly outselling Marvel and DC? Xealot posted:I watched it recently, and it's...not good, but in a charming way. The Phantom specifically and rather consistently takes place in a fictional African country, and like half the plotlines by now are the Phantom defending it against white people trying to exploit and abuse the locals, while being on good terms with the country's president and specifically having good relationships with the native people of the country. Really the biggest step I can think of to make it properly post-colonial is to have the current Phantom be black or partly black, given there's always been a lot of contrived reasons why despite being a family line that's lived in Africa around black people and treating them as equals the Phantom always ends up have kids with a white woman.
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Someone should just make a new Phantom movie with Billy Zane as the phantom again
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I'd be down for that. Have Old rear end Kit Walker training a new Phantom before he becomes a force ghost, or whatever it is that happens to Phantoms when they die.
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“Billy, the Phantom doesn’t live under a bridge.” “This one does!”
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joylessdivision posted:The "SLAM EVIL" ads, which I saw a billion of in the back of comics at the time, were truly some 90's advertising lol. Don't forget Dick Tracy.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Don't forget Dick Tracy. I believe they put that on the poster for the movie. Didn't work
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Phantom specifically and rather consistently takes place in a fictional African country Right, I understand that of the comic, but the movie was definitely somewhere in Southeast Asia, and the country is “Bengalla,” which sounds suspiciously like Bengal, the region of India. It’s clear that the cultural specificity of where it’s located isn’t that relevant beyond its wildness or foreign-ness viewed through some colonial lens. You could say similar things about Wakanda, but at least that is necessarily placed in Africa, centered on an African character, and imbued with a lot of specifics regarding Wakanda’s culture, history, or language. The Phantom being a white savior is merely the most obvious and glaring problem with the premise.
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The same guy also created mandrake the magician, right? Which also has a sidekick character who is kinda African but also indigenous somewhere without specifying where he's from
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The same guy also created mandrake the magician, right? Which also has a sidekick character who is kinda African but also indigenous somewhere without specifying where he's from He's a prince of a neighbouring country to Bangalla and was best man at the Phantom's wedding iirc. Mandrake and Lothar are still canon too, retired from heroics last I heard.
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