TheVelvetOnion
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I've recently been re-watching Harvey Birdman and although the shows untimely end, i realised something about it... That show would make for an excellent live action movie... A true spoof on the superhero franchise but with the unique twist that it was originally a serious cartoon, turned comical adult swim cartoon, i think the best next transistion would be a 2 and a half hour movie...
The good thing about this property as a franchise is that you wouldnt really need to work to hard on the script because you could generally take the best gags from the entire 4 series, bearing in mind there are only 15 minute shows, taking them gags and formulate a plot. To me this would make for a great spoof on the superhero genre, they already tried to spoof superhero movies with The superhero Movie... which spoofed mostly spiderman. Personally i think if your going to make fun of a franchise at least be original or take an original property that hasnt been even made as a normal movie to yet spoof.
The Live Action would be an easy cast too... Majority of the voice actors could be made to look like there counterparts, with exception to some of the younger characters like Peanut and birdgirl... The way i see it is, you get all the cast to return, but for the parts of Peanut and Birdgirl, we get actors of that age and we dub them with the true voice actors to give it more of the effect that this is the transition from little screen to big...
Gary Cole as Birdman
Thomas Allen as Peanut (Voice Dub)
Jorma Taccone as Peanut
Stephen Colbert as Phil Ken Sebben/Reducto
John Michael Higgins as Mentok The Mindtaker
Paget Brewster as Judy/Birdgirl (Voice Dub)
Alyson Hannigan as Birdgirl
Peter MacNicol as X-The Elimator
Chris Edgerly as Peter Potamus (Voice Dub)
Characters as such - Peter Potamus and Avenger should be CGI, For Potomus im thinking a simular technique they used to create the hulk in the recent style.
The Plot would have to be a complete run of the history... somewhat of comprising over 3 acts.
The first part of the story recaps how Birdman became Birdman, a somewhat new origin story i guess. this would initially parody of how X-Men Origins: Wolverine starts. But then we have Birdman start his new career as an attoney at law, The overal plot of the entire film has F.E.A.R employe X-The Elimator to obtain the Crest of Birdman, after he kills him. However X is constatly uncessful at doing this throughout the movie, the major villian of the movie would have to be a character like the head of F.E.A.R, and they aim is to get rid of Birdman, X is employed but is uncessful... so they send others after him, Think of the scene like in star wars when Darth sends out all the bounty hunters but really you focus on Boba Fett. Through-out the movie we learn that Avenger birdmans faithful companion leaves the law firm and gets a job with vulturo who is a rivial lawyer, Birdman then employes Peanut as his new leagle aid, we also learn of Judy who is Phil Ken Sebbens daugther who has a fascination with birdman. You also have Birdman and Reducto chat over beers seemily as friends and colleages discussing cases. Plus the crazy off the wall antics of Mentok in court. The overal outcome would be initially birdman being run over by phil like in the finel episode of the cartoon series.
I think if they did this, it would be an excellent stand alone tribute to the comic book world, the superhero genre and the role cartoons from the early days of hanna barbara was intwinde with our lives...
anyone else share this passion#?
The good thing about this property as a franchise is that you wouldnt really need to work to hard on the script because you could generally take the best gags from the entire 4 series, bearing in mind there are only 15 minute shows, taking them gags and formulate a plot. To me this would make for a great spoof on the superhero genre, they already tried to spoof superhero movies with The superhero Movie... which spoofed mostly spiderman. Personally i think if your going to make fun of a franchise at least be original or take an original property that hasnt been even made as a normal movie to yet spoof.
The Live Action would be an easy cast too... Majority of the voice actors could be made to look like there counterparts, with exception to some of the younger characters like Peanut and birdgirl... The way i see it is, you get all the cast to return, but for the parts of Peanut and Birdgirl, we get actors of that age and we dub them with the true voice actors to give it more of the effect that this is the transition from little screen to big...
Gary Cole as Birdman
Thomas Allen as Peanut (Voice Dub)
Jorma Taccone as Peanut
Stephen Colbert as Phil Ken Sebben/Reducto
John Michael Higgins as Mentok The Mindtaker
Paget Brewster as Judy/Birdgirl (Voice Dub)
Alyson Hannigan as Birdgirl
Peter MacNicol as X-The Elimator
Chris Edgerly as Peter Potamus (Voice Dub)
Characters as such - Peter Potamus and Avenger should be CGI, For Potomus im thinking a simular technique they used to create the hulk in the recent style.
The Plot would have to be a complete run of the history... somewhat of comprising over 3 acts.
The first part of the story recaps how Birdman became Birdman, a somewhat new origin story i guess. this would initially parody of how X-Men Origins: Wolverine starts. But then we have Birdman start his new career as an attoney at law, The overal plot of the entire film has F.E.A.R employe X-The Elimator to obtain the Crest of Birdman, after he kills him. However X is constatly uncessful at doing this throughout the movie, the major villian of the movie would have to be a character like the head of F.E.A.R, and they aim is to get rid of Birdman, X is employed but is uncessful... so they send others after him, Think of the scene like in star wars when Darth sends out all the bounty hunters but really you focus on Boba Fett. Through-out the movie we learn that Avenger birdmans faithful companion leaves the law firm and gets a job with vulturo who is a rivial lawyer, Birdman then employes Peanut as his new leagle aid, we also learn of Judy who is Phil Ken Sebbens daugther who has a fascination with birdman. You also have Birdman and Reducto chat over beers seemily as friends and colleages discussing cases. Plus the crazy off the wall antics of Mentok in court. The overal outcome would be initially birdman being run over by phil like in the finel episode of the cartoon series.
I think if they did this, it would be an excellent stand alone tribute to the comic book world, the superhero genre and the role cartoons from the early days of hanna barbara was intwinde with our lives...
anyone else share this passion#?
