What Superhero movies would you have these directors make?

[Parker Wayne]

Let's play a game. Someone puts a director up, and others post what superheroes or superhero groups they would best for. Any Superhero is elgbible. If it's a director who already made a superhero movie, post a movie that doesn't have the character the director made (Ex: No Nolan for Batman or Justice League).

Okay, so to start, I'll post a few directors:

Quentin Tarantino
Nicholas Winding Refn
David O'Russell

[gwynplaine]

Quentin Tarantino's The Spectre.
NWR's Dr Strange
David O'Russell's Daredevil or Iron Fist


I'd like to see Ang Lee tackle another superhero movie than Hulk.
Any ideas?

[James]

Tarantino...hmm...tough one. His style doesn't really lend itself to the big colorful explosiveness generally expected from a superhero film. I'll have to give this one some more thought.

As for the other two, I could easily see either of them taking on the Punisher quite well. Perhaps Daredevil too, or similar 'street level' heroes.

EDIT: I'll just point out real quick that I hadn't seen gwynplaine's post when I posted mine, great minds think alike!

[gwynplaine]

Originally Posted by James

Tarantino...hmm...tough one. His style doesn't really lend itself to the big colorful explosiveness generally expected from a superhero film. I'll have to give this one some more thought.

As for the other two, I could easily see either of them taking on the Punisher quite well. Perhaps Daredevil too, or similar 'street level' heroes.

EDIT: I'll just point out real quick that I hadn't seen gwynplaine's post when I posted mine, great minds think alike!

I like The Punisher suggestion.

[Parker Wayne]

Originally Posted by gwynplaine

I'd like to see Ang Lee tackle another superhero movie than Hulk.
Any ideas?

I think he's very big on philosophy, and his style of filmmaking (this is no bearing on race) consists of eastern storytelling tropes. I think he'd do really well with Batman.

I actually think Tarantino would do the best with a Daredevil movie. I'd pay to see that, even if he does change stuff around.

Refn I could see with the Punisher.

O'Russell I honestly can see him doing great with a big screen Green Arrow movie. He loves doing political stories with a twist (like with three Kings, his cancelled project Nailed, and his upcoming movie), along with what he's been doing lately is family drama, which even though it isn't in the comics as much it's in the tv show arrow. I think Green Arrow would be the best character for him.

[gwynplaine]

After watching Life of Pi for the 2nd time today, I would really love to see Ang Lee, an exceptional director, return to the superhero genre. And I like the Batman idea


Let's make this fun, how about Steven Spielberg?

[Eddie Dean]

The obvious choice for Spielberg is Captain Amierca. Or Superman.

Can we do dead directors?

Sam Peckinpah
Akira Kurosawa
Robert Aldrich
Mario Bava
Fritz Lang

[Parker Wayne]

Originally Posted by gwynplaine

After watching Life of Pi for the 2nd time today, I would really love to see Ang Lee, an exceptional director, return to the superhero genre. And I like the Batman idea


Let's make this fun, how about Steven Spielberg?

What Eddie Dean said. Captain America or Superman. They're the too most sentimental heroes.

Oh, what could have been if Spielberg accepted to do Superman back in the 70s.

Originally Posted by Eddie Dean

The obvious choice for Spielberg is Captain Amierca. Or Superman.

Can we do dead directors?

Sam Peckinpah
Akira Kurosawa
Robert Aldrich
Mario Bava
Fritz Lang

Yes dead directors too.

Peckinpah would do an awesome Wolverine
Kurososawa would've also done a great Wolverine
Fritz Lang I can see making X-Men
Bava's pretty obvious: Blade
Aldrich I can see making a Nick Fury and the Commandos movie.

[gwynplaine]

Originally Posted by Eddie Dean

The obvious choice for Spielberg is Captain Amierca. Or Superman.

Can we do dead directors?

Sam Peckinpah
Akira Kurosawa
Robert Aldrich
Mario Bava
Fritz Lang

Good ones.

Peckinpah's The Crow
Kurosawa's Baby Cart
Aldrich's The Twelve
Bava's Jonah Hex
Lang's Mandrake the Magician

How about Todd Browning?

[Eddie Dean]

Todd Browning's magnus opus would have been a silent Batman starring Douglas Fairbanks as Batman and Lon Chaney as The Joker.

How about David Lynch or Cronenberg?

[childeroland]

Todd Browning - Deadman.

Kim Ji-woon?

[gwynplaine]

Kim Ji-Woon's Judge Dredd

Don Siegel
John Carpenter
Jean Renoir

[SoNicRaDiATioN]

Don Siegel - The Punisher
QT - Heroes for Hire, Iron Fist
Spielberg (in the 80's) - Spider-Man
Michael Mann - Batman
David Fincher - Daredevil
Jean Luc Godard - Captain America
François Truffaut - Spider-Man
Edgar Wright - Fantastic Four
Roman Polanski - Dr. Strange
Nick Ray - X-Men

[dgnightwing]

Coppola- Batman
Scorsese- Daredevil
Spielberg- Superman

[Eddie Dean]

Don Siegel's Dredd starring Clint Eastwood
John Carpenter's Ghost Rider starring Kurt Russell
Jean Renoir's Rubrique-à-Brac (I have no idea how this would be made into a movie, but you know)

Howard Hawks
Woody Allen
The Coen Brothers
Jean-Pierre Melville
Otto Preminger

[Parker Wayne]

Woody Allen - Animal Man
Howard Hawks - The Shadow
Coen Brothers - Deadpool
Jean-Pierre Melville - The Spirit
David Lynch - The Spectre


Joe Wright
Sam Mendes
Paul Greengrass

[DarkSovereignty]

Originally Posted by Parker Wayne

Woody Allen - Animal Man
Howard Hawks - The Shadow
Coen Brothers - Deadpool
Jean-Pierre Melville - The Spirit
David Lynch - The Spectre


Joe Wright
Sam Mendes
Paul Greengrass

Joe wright- batman
Sam mendes- spider-man
Paul greengrass- nobody lol.

[gwynplaine]

Originally Posted by Eddie Dean

Don Siegel's Dredd starring Clint Eastwood
John Carpenter's Ghost Rider starring Kurt Russell
Jean Renoir's Rubrique-à-Brac (I have no idea how this would be made into a movie, but you know)

Howard Hawks
Woody Allen
The Coen Brothers
Jean-Pierre Melville
Otto Preminger

You really surprised me there. I would have gone with Asterix myself. How do you know Rubrique a brac lol (unless you're French maybe)? I grew up on it and love everything Gotlib and of course Goscinny have ever done. Good one!

Ok, let's see.

Howard Hawks' Blueberry
Woody Allen's Plastic Man
The Coen Bros' Popeye
Jean Pierre Melville's Tintin
Otto Preminger's Dick Tracy

Next:

Stanley Kubrick
John Ford
Sidney Pollack

[kedrell]

Kubrick - Silver Surfer
Ford - Jonah Hex
Pollack - A Shield/Nick Fury espionage thriller

next...

David Fincher
Gregory Hoblit
Curtis Hanson
Neil Burger

[bbf2]

Am I the only one who thinks Tarantino could make a pretty great Punisher movie? I actually thought that to myself in to the theater while watching Django unchained...

[gwynplaine]

Fincher's Archie

[grout]

Originally Posted by bbf2

Am I the only one who thinks Tarantino could make a pretty great Punisher movie? I actually thought that to myself in to the theater while watching Django unchained...

I can kinda see it... Just with Tarantinos style it be like 10 minutes of dialogue with the punisher telling the villan why he gonna kill him.

[gwynplaine]

P.T Anderson
Gaspard Noe
Neil Blomkampf

[Number 6]

Anderson - Phantom Stranger
Noe- ****, I don't know...Wonder...Woman?
Neil Blomkampf - Harbringer

Also,
Akira Kurosawa probably would have made the perfect Wolverine movie.

Also, David Lynch? He'd be perfect for something like Doom Patrol.

Anyway, next:
Spike Jonze
Darren Aronofsky
Micheal Gondry
Judd Apatow

[gwynplaine]

Good ones.

Jonze's X-Statix
Aronovsky's Blade
Gondry's Bat-Mite
Apatow's Concrete


Karl Freund
Sidney Lumet
Abel Ferrara