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We'll just have to make a faux-1990s version just to confuse future viewers.
Get Jeff Goldblum and Keanu Reeves on it.

This movie is absolutely, in every possible way, as much a product of it's time as 2001 was.
I wonder what we'd get if they did a 3rd one today?

Maxie Zeus, from the animated series was quite specifically intended as a Tut stand-in.
The relationship of DC Comics and the stuff produced for the Fox series is a tricky one; changes to existing characters were intergrated pretty easily (most notably a very revamped version of Batgirl), but no one was sure about

One DOES wonder if Tut was an influence on Ra's (although obviously R'as is first and foremost inspired by Fu Manchu, of course.)

Marvel had been talking with Simmons about returning to the role… but Warners just locked him up to play Commissioner Gordon in their new movies (and was pretty blatant about doing it as a way to keep him from Marvel).

Although they actually did something similiar with The Phantom Stranger: they gave him multiple, contradictory backstories in and issue of SECRET ORIGINS.
And the last couple of issues of THE SHADOW STRIKES! ret-conned The Shadow's origins… but ended with The Shadow openly dismissing all of it, including his earlier

Actually, I'd be cool with seeing a "straight" King Tut; all that Egyptian imagery is very cinematic.

Or being threatened: "Give my movie a good review, or we'll send Josh Trank's dogs over to trash YOUR house, too!"

It never WAS. It was always that hugely influential thing with the passionate cult that would have made more money if Max moved to LA, went back to being a cop, and teamed up with a nice middle aged family man.

I kept wondering if a good pirated copy would have leaked before it hit theaters.
Because if Disney WERE evil (AND I'M NOT SAYING THEY ARE), they would have considered that an option to take out the competition. Kill BVS, and the whole franchise goes down.
I mean, if Disney WERE evil (AND I'M NOT SAYING THEY ARE).

Worf's sense of "Klingon Honor" is built on the back of the moral and ethical values his human parents gave him.

That may not be TOO different from how the upcoming GOP convention plays out.

And yet… their culture had become a LITTLE bit more like The Federation by the time of NEXT GENERATION.

Even Garak and Quark do,, to a degree.
They may not have swallowed the Kool-Aid, but they've tasted the root beer.

"…anyway, we delivered the Kryptonite".

Even the episode BALANCE OF TERROR, as straightforward an action narrative as the show ever did, telling depicted the Soviet Submarine Comman- er, Romulan Bird Of Prey Commander -as EXPLICITLY being Kirk's moral and ethical equal (not to mention being Spock's physical doppleganger- which came in useful when casting

EXCEPT…. after a lot of talk about George Miller directing an "upcoming DC movie", Miller's recently been brought in on JUSTICE LEAGUE as a producer.

Basically, any guy who can boss around sharks is pretty badass.