The Shining, The French Connection, The Candidate, Network, Apocalypse Now, All The President’s Men, Alien, Three Days of the Condor, Chinatown—I can’t really agree Carter only watched “pablum”.

Yeah, TSR used to have cartoonists do stuff like this in the back of Dragon magazine going back over 30 years ago. It’s a long and proud tradition. :)

Check out Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula. It’s conceived as an alternate ending to Bram Stoker’s novel where the Count kills Van Helsing, and eventually becomes King of England.

Write a thinly disguised celebrity memoir informed by your own experiences. Replace the usual vices with blood-drinking. And print!

This. I’m not sure what you can do with vampires that hasn’t been done already.

Momoa was a great Conan, Rachel Nichols was a good co-lead, the action scenes that didn’t rely too heavily on crap CGI were appropriately brutal and kickass. It’s the script that fails that movie.

No, they tried to have it both ways: Reboot and in-continuity with the original. Just because your setting’s assumptions allow you to do this without your SF-savvy fanbase immediately going “WHA...?”, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

So disappointing. There were 2 or 3 good ideas and themes and 1 pretty damn mediocre idea, but the movie couldn’t make any of them work. This smacks of too much meddling.

1000% on board for a Batgirl show (if my avatar wasn’t a dead giveaway)!

Mainly because there’s not much of a werewolf political arena.

No way, Order of Hermes! Your mystical distinctiveness will be codified and added to our own.

The studio didn’t respect the property enough. The movie didn’t even get a tenth of the budget of the first Transformers. The Purge: Anarchy got double the budget of Jem, for crying out loud.

Ramirez was a recurring character in Inhumanoids as well, and IIRC, at least one episode of Transformers.

That Io9 article yesterday, where Chu said he called up Christy Marx and she said, “Focus on the girls and their bonds of sisterhood”? I imagine it going more like this:

Are you saying this is like the urban fantasy John Wick? Well now I’m doubly sold!

The signs were there...

Die Hard’s the extreme example. I think only the 5th one was originally written to be a Die Hard film. It’s also the worst one. Make of that what you will. :)

I’ve heard that’s exactly what happened. Peter Berg wanted to make a movie about the US Navy. The studio said, “something with that big a budget needs a licensed tie-in of some kind”. So Berg looked around and said, “Fuck it, Battleship: the Movie.”

A complete lack of synergy with the original!