Think about it symbolically. I guarantee the showrunners did. In the show, they symbolize spirituality, strength, emotion, and power. Airbenders are nomadic monks. Earthbenders live in massive capitalist kingdoms. The water tribes live in family units, and the firebenders have an expanding techocratic empire.
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I know they won’t. That doesn’t mean they don’t need to do it anyway.
I always figured the alien was wanted by the “bioweapons division” to reverse engineer the blood acid and super-strong biomechanical armor, not because they wanted to train it as a soldier.
I’d say the genius was in the way they DID build the world with clear rules, without doing so obviously. How zeppelins and giant birds are established in the news footage, how the insane lifting power of balloons is shown off the first time we see Carl’s cart, even stuff like the “snipe hunt” and Russell’s GPS…
More. They need to erase the symbol as a code for gun-toting badass. How about sending him off with a story where he accidentally shoots some other guy’s family up trying to kill Kingpin or something? The other guy has every right to become the new Punisher, but instead becomes a community activist. The Punisher cries…
What a bad cop thinks: “Punisher exists where the liberal bleeding-heart feel-good politics have failed, he exists to do the job the democrats won’t let REAL cops do. I know how to enforce the law. With bullet and punch. Like Punisher. He tough, good. Being nice am girly, not work. Me man. Oog.”
You know why? Because the ONE thing they’ve never, ever, ever shown the Punisher being involved with is hurting an innocent person. None of his bullets ever go astray. He never mistakes a pedestrian for a criminal. He never makes a mistake. He’s always right in his murder, just like prosecutors assume cops are.
Marvel should kill the Punisher. A pathetic death. Show that his black and white views and his lethal methods are stupid, morally abhorrent, and that quite frankly, they make the lives of everyone his methods touch worse. Make the Punisher commit suicide. Make him Punish himself. Then keep him dead.
It’s at least part because 95% of movie critics are the textbook definition of “big city elite” and the main plot of the movie revolves around NASCAR, the favored sport of their sworn political opposite.
Well yeah, they don’t often make documentaries about hard-headed practical artists who work within established perimeters, do they? I’m happy he got as far as he did, and I wish he’d gotten farther.
The artist is Chris Foss! And his legion of impersonators!
That would be very cool. More likely, though is that they get permission to 3D-map the entire thing and build sets and digital models based on that.
Maybe they can get Gerald Scarfe to do the designs again. They could even pull a “Wicked” or a “Maleficent” and tell the whole story from Hades POV. Youngest brother, shunned by the family, takes his nephew under his wing to show him how to be a True Hero? Yeah, I’d see that, as long as the R&B stuck around.
Herc and Meg:
Personally, I’d lean into the music. It was a creative idea! Write some new songs, get Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson to perform on camera. The animated Hercules was already so far off from the original myths that you might as well go full Black Jesus. Cast the Rock as Zeus, Michael B. Jordan as Hercules, and Janelle…
My first guess: the main character is deformed. Do you try to find someone to fit that role? Do you leave it to costume and makeup? Do you go full motion-capture CG?
I don’t know if Hemsworth can sing. At the very least, I don’t know if he can pull off “I can go the distance.” I also consider that crazy-buff guy that was in High School Musical in my top 3.
They’ve done Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Eragon, and fucking Divergent. I still want an Abarat flick.
Not so, if memory serves me. Pinhead, in the book, was a female.