A companion to "movies I was waiting for", and "franchises I didn't see coming" so here's those.
- Movies I was waiting for.
- Part 1.
- Part 2.
- Part 3.
- Part 3.5.
- Franchises I didn't see coming.
As I said here...
But, anyway, for the most part, 90's-Me's geeky movie dreams have come true.
Time to make a list of new dreams, I guess.
Hmm, that might be a good sequel idea....I'll think about it...
So, here we are.
Stuff that...seems to be developing into the next batch of up-and-comer young whipper-snappers.
I don't have a crystal ball, but....
Dune.
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The books here.
The Lynch movie here.
The miniseries here.
Jodorowsky's Dune here.
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Bladerunner 2049) is taking another crack at it.
I think he might finally be the guy, and this is finally the right time.
If it lands, we're looking at the next Rings/Thrones.
Stephen King Renaissance.
Dark Tower came out, IT came out, IT Chapter 2 is on its way, Doctor Sleep is on its way, and the Pet Sematary remake is on its way.
If it all crashed and burned after those, that's 5 movies, that's a franchise right there.
But we know even more are coming.
Come on.
It's Stephen King.
Transformers renaissance(?)
"Captain America: Civil War", fixed Spider-Man in 15 minutes, and "Bumblebee", fixed the Transformers franchise in 1 movie.
And yes, it made enough, the sequels are coming.
How many is anyone's guess, and I hope they don't taper off in quality.
If they stay good, damn, I'm finally happy to be a Transformers fan again.
Well, with this, and the Ghostbusters crossover.
Hasbro-verse.
They announced their intentions for this 4 goddamned years ago.
The intention being a crossover of Transformers, G.I. Joe, MASK, ROM, Micronauts, and Visionaries.
But Michael Bay wouldn't stop raping Transformers.
Now that its been soft-rebooted with Bumblebee, they seem to be back on track for their grand plan.
IDW already did it in the comics 2 years ago, so we know it works.
Oh, and Hasbro just bought the rights for Power Rangers, so they're going to be integrated.
Hey, if Voltron refuses to play ball, Zords will have to suffice.
Creed
Creed 1.
Creed 2.
Stallone officially retired the character of Rocky after Creed 2 came out, so, if they do Creed 3, and there's no way they won't, we'll have a truly Rocky-less Rocky franchise, and Creed will be its own thing.
So, that counts as new.
MCU/Fox-Men crossovers
So, yeah, Marvel bought Fox, X-Men are coming home, and being rebooted/recasted into the MCU,....BUUUTT, Bob Iger says Deadpool and other movies will be off in their own special little R rated universe.
So....a little pocket of Fox-Men will stay around for Deadpool?
It's...gonna be interesting how this is handled.
Sony-Marvel-verse.
Venom.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
Ranking the Sony-Marvel-verse so far (2018)
Yep, Sony may be loaning Spidey to the MCU, but they're still doing their own thing, and I'm actually excited for it!
Millarworld.
Mark Millar sold the rights to every napkin he ever scribbled on to Netflix, and they're going to start cranking out infinite shows and movies based on his stuff.
Valiant
This was also announced 4 years ago.
Sony got the rights to this whole universe, and I hear Vin Diesel is playing Bloodshot, and that one will start filming after Diesel gets done with Fast 9.
The one I'll make. ;)
Stay tuned. ;)
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Maximum Carnage the movie, blaugh? Remember 1994, when you couldn't look at a magazine without seeing that image of Carnage looming over NYC? Keerist.
*Nervously tugs as collar, and gulps*
Uh.....I thought a Maximum Carnage movie (complete with that old image for the poster, and the Green Jello theme song) would make a fun nostalgia trip.
I mean, as long as it wasn't all symbiotes, but had Morbius, and some of the other villain/anti-hero/monster characters in there.
It wouldn't be an Oscar nominee, but if done right, it could be dumb fun.
I think I brought that up because as someone with only a passing knowledge of comics I thought MC was one of the bigger comic events of the 90s but I recently found out it was really panned.
Huh...in fact I must be remembering ads for the cruddy video game, which, like most 16 bit comics games, was crud.
Oh, I'm sure Marvel WANTED "Maximum Carnage", to be the "Sgt. Peppers", of comics, but, um...yeah.
And the game was a watered down less fun version of the Avengers arcade game.
Lucasfilm pulled off the whole "multi-media event", thing way better just two years later with "Shadows Of The Empire".
The whole "everything around a movie without the movie", idea was cool, but died out.
"Shadows Of The empire", was the only successful one.
You know what killed it?
Chris Gaines.
The Chris Gaines album was supposed to be the soundtrack to a Chris Gaines movie, and then there was going to be all the other stuff, like fake magazine interviews, a fake autobiography novel, a "behind the music", episode, etc, etc, to create this whole imaginary career of this fake guy.
The movie fell apart, and poor Garth Brooks was left holding an unlit bag of dogshit like it was his fault.
*Googles*
Oh, nope, it was Garth Brooks's fault.
He invented the whole concept.
Nevermind.
It was my understanding at the time that it was the invention of some crazy rock/movie producers.
That was probably a cover story.
"Shadows Of The Empire" - Huh, I only remember the N64 game.
Chris Gaines: Oh, I remember that. Never forgot it, really. Fizzled out very quickly because the album got mediocre reviews, didn't it? Well what, any reason why Garth Brooks thought people wanted to hear him go from country to singing soul pop ballads? I did know that there was going to be a movie and that he practiced an Australian accent for several months or something to play the character, which strikes me as a)admirably ambitious, but b)totally ridiculous.
Fizzled out very quickly with just some jokes on SNL for a couple weeks after that. Sheez, what year was that? 1999?
I don't remember what became of ol' Garthy Garth after that.
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