Elseworld movies

[Isildur´s Heir]

From time to time i catch myself thinking about it, wouldn´t it be cool to make Elseworld movies?
To make a stand alone or trilogy or whatever of Batman in the Dark Ages (for example) or Superman in the future or whatever?
This way, we wouldn´t have to bother of movies being untrue to the mythos, like Catwoman or the Jack Black´s GG rumour, and you could even end with very interesting twists on the mythos, because directors could do their thing.
And this could even go to Marvel, not DC alone.

 

[CConn]

Superhero movies already are Elseworlds, it's just most fans aren't open minded enough to accept them as such.

Personally, I can. Batman Returns, the X-Men movies, the Blade movies, those are films that I don't really think capture the characters they're supposed to be about very well, but I still like/love and enjoy them as movies. And in some cases (Blade) the movie version even surpasses the comic.

As Elseworlds. And honestly, if Catwoman was actually made well, I could've lived with those changes as well. I could live with changes done to GL if they're done well. But the changes they made to Catwoman, to GL, they weren't good changes. And for that reason, I don't accept; not simply because they're inaccurate.

As for your idea of more "out there" Elseworlds - Batman in the Dark Ages - I would say no to those. Some of those ideas are just a bit too...nonsensical to work right for films, I think. But I'd be perfectly fine with seeing some of the better, slightly more realistic, Elseworld stories adapted - The Dark Knight Returns, Superman: Red Son, Kingdom Come, etc.

 

[Drakon]

As far as I'm concerned, I'm always up to see sdome of my favourite heroes in a different setting, but it'd have to be a TV Movie, because I'd have for something like "Red Son" to flop just because the audience didn't understand it, or thought they were just ruining Superman.

 

[CConn]

That's true. There is the matter of the general public's perception to worry about, as well...

 

[Chris Wallace]

It'd never work.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Elseworlds: The Animated Series

 

[Drakon]

^^ Not a bad idea.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Elseworlds: The Animated Series

Maybe.

 

[Speedball]

Kingdom Come: CGI
But there would have to be a message at the very beginning about what Elseworlds is, and that this film is only a POSSIBLE future.

 

[CConn]

Elseworlds: The Animated Series

Damn, that would be good. Granted, they're already sorta doing that with the DTV movies...