How could Galactus work?

[Lord]

I think that it's actually broke

 

[bubbadoom]

I think that it's just fine...

 

[Lord]

I don't.....

 

[Dark Raven]

That Galactus design looks absolutely crap. He's even better as a fire cloud than that monstrosity. I would rather he not appear on screen if we're not going to have the classic Kirby design than to have that thing.

 

[Captain Marvel]

i like this guy http://anklesnsocks.blogspot.com/ take on Galactus...

My basic idea is that he is sort of a void of power. Make him a more visual representation of the “abstract” concept. The hole in his chest is where he eats planets. Afterwards his body physically becomes whatever main element of that planet was. So if he eats a star, his body becomes fire.

I don't think this person understands what a planet is. A star isn't a planet. Moreover, Galactus doesn't eat stars. Not only that, he doesn't eat any kind of planet. There are only certain kinds of planets which he can feed on. That's why after being driven off of Earth he didn't go on to eat the rest of the solar system, because none of the other planets had what he needed to survive.

And yes, the Kirby design DOES work, and that's what I want to see. And no, I don't want it to be self-contained. That look is specific to the Celestials. I want a Galactus whose eyes and mouth we can see, and who can emote. He's someone with a personality and with feelings, and we need to see that. Covering him up fully in armor or turning him into an energy being defeats that. It works for the Celestials because they're supposed to be mysterious, and don't even talk. Galactus isn't supposed to be mysterious, and he most definitely talks.

Incidentally...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXChBYE9Xig

Galactus should be like this. He looks human because humans (and Zenn-Lavians) perceive him as such. To a Skrull he looks Skrull. To a Shi'ar he looks Shi'ar, and so on.

 

[S. Grundy]

i like this guy http://anklesnsocks.blogspot.com/ take on Galactus...

Looks like a rejected Evangelion Angel.

 

[cherokeesam]

Well, of course we got what we did in FF2 because they were saving his reveal for the Surfer solo movie, but regardless just make him look like Kirby's drawings. It's not that hard. If Transformers can work on screen, and they do, then Galactus can.

Exactly.
I remember reading a quote from that useless waste of flesh named Tom Rothman (CEO of Fox) that he refused to make a classic version of Galactus because he refused to have giant robots in any of his studio's movies.

Two months later, "Transformers" came out.

 

[SPIDER-MAN-ROX]

May be a bad idea but I say ditch the colored suit & redesign him to be a more organic & inorganic creature/monster type being. He just looks like a giant man in a silly costume but if his body was made up of all the different elements & other things he absorbs he could be made to look much cooler & scarier.

 

[Jordacar]

^Now you're talkin. Let the design/fx department really go to town on the big guy, throw some stuff on that big screen that Lee & Kirby never would've thought of in their wildest hallucinations.

 

[GhostPoet]

I agree with what someone else said...he could still have the same basic design, but much more organic in appearance.

 

[gmanca]

And it all comes back to how much you spend on him. You can't do these things just by perspective because he has to dwarf landscapes and you have to depict severe destruction, all costing serious money.

 

[Brawl]

And it all comes back to how much you spend on him. You can't do these things just by perspective because he has to dwarf landscapes and you have to depict severe destruction, all costing serious money.

Not really as far as I understand how Galactus works he only looks human to us in order for us to grasp him as a entity. He can literally be any size. I think something like this look with his standard helmet can work today. In old FF comics he was not that huge.

 

[Captain Marvel]

Wow.

"Everyone" is eight people?

 

[Godzilla2014]

If we ever get the real Galactus, they need to stick to the Kirby design. That other take above lacks the power of Jack's original design. You can monkey with the color and details, but the overall looks still needs to be Kirby.

The Destroyer in this year's Thor movie proves that Jack's designs DO translate to the big screen. The Big G is no more outlandish than the robots in the Transformers movies, and we are up to our third one of those.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it - and Kirby's Galactus ain't broke!

To me, it is. Jack Kirby was a great artist, but all he could come up with for an entity that eats planets is a giant man in a purple suit? Seriously? That's just underwhelming and lame. I would want Galactus to be far more alien to us than that.

i like this guy http://anklesnsocks.blogspot.com/ take on Galactus...

I like that concept!

 

[bubbadoom]

so how is the weak looking poor man's version above any better than Jack's? It's pretty much the same concept - a large humanoid in purple - but it lacks any of the power or grandeur of the original. If anything is "underwhelming" it's this thing.
I do not mind the tweak that John B. added to the character, the notion that his looks is derived from the race of beings that sees him, but other than that it's a pretty cool and solid design.
Again, the Transformers movies are full of characters that are basically the same thing design wise, and I have not heard any one complaining about them.

 

[WildcatNC]

Why can't this work on film? Is it any "goofier" than a man dressed in an American flag throwing a metal frisbee? Any more bizarre than an angry green giant? Does it require any more suspension of disbelief than an alternate dimension populated by Norse gods?

Galactus works. Fox was scared.

 

[batpirisss]

How can the fans be making the same mistakes as the idiot execs? Every superhero made to wear black for 10 years of film? He doesnt need darker anything just do the source material justice and be creative. How does he work. Any way hes Galactis.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Galactus is an alien. Why are we afraid to have an alien being in a bizarre costume?

 

[Jay#1]

I just think it'd be difficult because he's so powerful he'd require a high budget... He eats planets for crying out loud

 

[Godzilla2014]

so how is the weak looking poor man's version above any better than Jack's? It's pretty much the same concept - a large humanoid in purple - but it lacks any of the power or grandeur of the original. If anything is "underwhelming" it's this thing.
I do not mind the tweak that John B. added to the character, the notion that his looks is derived from the race of beings that sees him, but other than that it's a pretty cool and solid design.
Again, the Transformers movies are full of characters that are basically the same thing design wise, and I have not heard any one complaining about them.

The difference is there's no human face to make it obviously human, only featureless head. My problem with the classic Galactus design is that even his herald Silver Surfer looks more alien than Galactus. I don't pretend to be a fan of the character, I am just offering my opinion as a viewer.

Galactus is an alien. Why are we afraid to have an alien being in a bizarre costume?

Let's have him look more like a damn alien and less like a man.

 

[cherokeesam]

The difference is there's no human face to make it obviously human, only featureless head. My problem with the classic Galactus design is that even his herald Silver Surfer looks more alien than Galactus. I don't pretend to be a fan of the character, I am just offering my opinion as a viewer.



Let's have him look more like a damn alien and less like a man.

He looks human to other humans. He looks like a Skrull to other Skrulls. et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

The ability to morph into a form that mimics a species gestalt is about as alien as you can get.

 

[Captain Marvel]

The difference is there's no human face to make it obviously human, only featureless head. My problem with the classic Galactus design is that even his herald Silver Surfer looks more alien than Galactus. I don't pretend to be a fan of the character, I am just offering my opinion as a viewer.

Let's have him look more like a damn alien and less like a man.

Oy vey. Commenting on yet another character you don't know anything about.

Galactus doesn't actually look human. No normal race can comprehend his true appearance, and as such, they perceive him as looking like a member of their own race. For an example of what I mean check out this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXChBYE9Xig

The alien in that video is called a Vorlon, but to the other aliens he looks like a angelic member of their own race. To a Minbari he looks like a Minbari. To a Narn he looks like a Narn. To a Drazi he looks like a Drazi. And to a human he looks like an angel, with all the usual assorted human features.

The same is true for Galactus. Every single race in the universe sees something different when they see Galactus. The Galactus which we're familiar with is just what he looks like to Humans and Zenn-Lavians.

 

[Captain Marvel]

He looks human to other humans. He looks like a Skrull to other Skrulls. et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

The ability to morph into a form that mimics a species gestalt is about as alien as you can get.

Well, it's not that he morphs. It's just that his true form is completely incomprehensible to the minds of most sentient species, so they see him as something which their minds can understand. As a result, when they look at him, they see a being which resembles themselves. Galactus himself, however, doesn't change.

Here's another example of how aliens view Galactus. Here the Korbinites see him NOT as a member of their own species, but as a squidlike creature, which is how one of their gods, "Ashta", looks (Ashta is apparently the closest analog they have to a god who devours worlds). If you notice, you can get a full view of how Galactus looks to them. You can see a bit of the familiar silhouette of his helmet, but the rest of him is squid.

 

[Saitou Hajime]

The regular Galactus without a human face is pretty much Tenebrous with a purple motif.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Be respectful to what Kirby intended with him. Here's Odin in the comics:

http://www.**************.com/images/users/uploads/22251/odin%20by%20kirby.jpg

And here's the film version.

Different, but they work under a certain logic. If I may, I'd prefer they drop the whole notion of Galactus's appearance depending on who is perceiving him and emphasise armour containing an energy being.

A good designer can also look at the Celestials:

I support this argument.