How should Galactus look?

[thegameq]

If this is old please forgive me. A semi confirmation of Galactus in the movie.
http://www.ifmagazine.com/new.asp?article=3965

Great sig.

 

[Zen Ith]

Have you noticed that despite the Dr.Doom "outrage"...the movie was still a success? Newsflash...studios don't care what fanboys think. The target is the masses. Not you.

I still think a faithful Fantastic Four movie done correctly and made with absolute quality in mind would be a massive hit. Heck, The Incredibles proves it.

 

[KALEL114]

Great sig.

Thanks.

 

[gambitfire]

If I was drinking something, it would've ended up on my monitor.

I second that.

 

[HoratioRome]

Well said. Exactly. It's all in the execution.

Many believed the SM movies would be silly as well...look how they turned out. All these types of films go awry when the producers and such run from the source material and try to make it something it was never intended to be. It's great scifi-fantasy storytelling done with artistic flair.

The scene in The Never Ending Story, where Atreau (?) speaks with the giagantic turtle comes to mind, regarding how important portrayal is. A giant talking turtle sounds silly. But taken and executed within the concept of the film (fairy tale, fantasy) in addition to the turtle's portrayal as an extremely wise old being---HELL, that brings to mind the portrayal of Yoda, it can't get much sillier looking than Yoda. Yet he's forever ingrained in the audiences mind as the wise and powerul, yet diminutive, Jedi master.

Portrayal, execution, sophistication.....Imagination.

Man I had so many raging argument before the Spider-man movies were made with people who just SWORE up and down that "the spider-man comics does not translate well, would never work on the big screen, would never eb accepted by the general public" that I almost lost my mind.

These guys kept thinking of the old cheesy Sm tv movies and thinking "spandex ca never work".

Problem is, despite the fact that the SM movies have PROVEN these guys wrong, they have never admitted it, and worse yet, are still making the same argument.

When are they going to realize that the WHOLE thing is "silly".

Cyclops with a leather outfit is still a guy who shoots energy blasts out of his eyes.

It's all how you handle the material.

 

[Isildur´s Heir]

that black galactus does look pretty awesome... but not for a movie! i've never read a comic book, really, in my life, all the comic info i get, i get from here, so consider mine a fairly objective viewpoint: that looks stupid. i don't care how faithful it is to the comics, it just looks dumb. same thing with doom in the first movie. i'm not pleased with how they portrayed him, either, but, an evil dictator who was scarred trying to do some dastardly expiriment, and blames reed for it? stupid!!! deal with it. changes need to be made to some things, and comics are far from perfect source material, i don't care how long they've been around, that doesn't make them perfect for a movie.

story can do whatever he wants to galactus, as far as i'm concerned. i don't want some 400 foot tall man in a stupid helmet floating around, trying to eat earth. i simply doesn't work on screen.

As opposed to Mr.Credible, i´m a huge comic book fan, and i´m also a amateur movie director, and i do know where he comes from, and i do agree with him to some extend.
Many people here, on this forum, on this board, don´t get (or don´t want to) that many of the things in a comic book don´t translate well on the big screen.
Many things are outdated, they were made in the 60´s and time wasn´t good for them, and others are plain ridiculous, even for comic book standards.
Sure, it all comes down to how well things are portrayed, but that doesn´t mean that anything can work, not even by a long shot.
Galactus has to be really thought out about before his cinematic treatment, because it´s not an easy thing to do, because if you fail the slightest, it will be totally ridiculous.
And to be quite frank, i do believe that they are going to fail big time.
Kudos to them if they get it right, but the movie doesn´t have the tone and atmosphere to handle a character like the big G.
If comic book fans got everything they wanted to see, the movies (and i mean all comic book movies) would be unbearable, only watchable for some.
Before a comic book is brought to "life", they need to get the real life treatment, because you are dealing with live action, that means things have to be enhanced, things have to be changed, but the thing is, you have to know what to change, and more importantly, how to change it.

But I've waited 35 years for a Galactus with a face. I guess that's what it comes down to for me.
I want Galactus.
Now if they eventually show that Galactus' true form is some glob of energy and that the humanoid Big G is how that entity projects itself to our little brains, something like that, that would be acceptable - To me, at least. But it's gotta start out with a face - and a big ol' spiked helmet or it just won't be Galactus to me.

And that´s problem right there, fans want...

No, it's not fact. It's not fact because it hasn't ever been attempted. If you put things in the right context, anything can work. Comic Galactus would look ridiculous in a setting like Bryan Singer's X-Men movies, I agree, but in a movie with a very light tone, such as Fantastic Four, Galactus would fit in quite nicely.

Terminator 2 is a great example. Robots from the future, one with the ability to change shape? Sounds ridiculous, but in the way it is depicted it feels completely real.

I´m sorry to say, but Galactus would work much better in a setting like Bryan Singer's X-Men, than a very light tone like Fantastic Four.
In fact, Galactus will not work in a very light tone because of reasons i stated before (but no one gave a rat´s ass about)...

Galactus should be, IMO, portraited as a cosmic force, as something bigger than we all, than life itself.
Not just as a villain, but, on the contrary, not as a villain, because he is no more a villain than an Earthquake is.
Galactus should give the notion that there are things out there bigger than anything the mind can conceive, bigger than the Fantastic Four and Doom and whatever.
Galactus is like the Big Bang incarnated, he is one of the five essential entities of MU, with Eternity, Death, Infinity, and Oblivion.
The coming of Galactus is almost like the coming of God, and that is to much for a kid friendly movie to handle.

Galactus is like death with a physical form, and dead is not bad, it´s just.....inevitable.

And no, Terminator is not a good example...

 

[Hotwire]

Re: the increasingly common argument against Galactus: " It Simply doesn't work on screen"....

My first thought when I read absolute statements of fact like that is "how can you know that until it's actually tried"?

It has been tried. I was know as the 1960's Godzilla movies.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Yeah and that was 40+ years ago

 

[The Apatow Crew]

Have you noticed that despite the Dr.Doom "outrage"...the movie was still a success? Newsflash...studios don't care what fanboys think. The target is the masses. Not you.

I've been saying that all along. and then the come and say i don't wanna hear that excuse that's not a reason.

 

[GhostPoet]

I only have one sentence for you ALL.

James Earl Jones as Galactus.
Oh...and he has to wear the costume.

 

[Savage]

Lol!

 

[wobbly]

It has been tried. I was know as the 1960's Godzilla movies.

Apart form them both being big (and 60's Godzilla is waay bigger than Galactus usually is) neither have anything in common in what they do or how they look.
Seriously, I cannot think of anything like Galactus bring tried...a giant armored alien with a god-like demeanor and power, with all manner of exotic machinery designed to consume our world? Nothing similar springs to mind-off hand.

But if we are gonna go down the route of citing prior giants in the big city on screen as valid examples (I dont think any are really) there are better ones to choose than those cheapo Toho rubber suited efforts...the 90's remake effects for Godzilla worked fine (imo) for instance (it was just the overall plot that sucked in that film) and the even more recent Kong worked damn well too.

 

[wobbly]

I only have one sentence for you ALL.

James Earl Jones as Galactus.
Oh...and he has to wear the costume.

His voice would be so perfect it hurts to think he cannot be used cos' of Vadar.

But him wearing the suit?...Lol...The Big G has been eating well then.

 

[thorstone]

I want Galactus' suit to have intricate lines that glow-- the glowing lines would communicate his form and scale in the darkness of space.

 

[Malus]

I want Galactus' suit to have intricate lines that glow-- the glowing lines would communicate his form and scale in the darkness of space.

Could work.
That great-looking Ultimate Alliance screen shot has Big G in what looks like black with purple highlights & "circuitry."

 

[Vartha]

Yeah I like that look, It's not so bad that way.

 

[deemar325]

I think Galactus should be a vaguely humanoid technorganic behemoth 1/4 the size of the moon. His overtly human (Traditional Kirby) features should be toned down, I'd go as far as doing things like giving him ten digits on his hands and extremely alien eyes. His color scheme I'd more or less keep darken the shades of purple and more blacks.

Another notion is maybe he appears in stages, his form in the movie when he's first resented is a spherical almost Nautilis/space ark form (His universal space travel mode.) sort of a semi biological space ship. When he arrives in Earth space he alters his appearance to a more humanoid form.


Overall what I don't want to see is a bloated Anthony Hopkins (or Any shakespearian british,deep voiced actor) in a Purple Mu-Mu and Bucket on his head spouting 1963 Stan Lee monologues with a obvisous greenscreen behind him. Yeah Kirby was the greatest and all, but a good amount of his designs would look like hot steaming ass in a realworld context, unless it was in a more animated or spoof type movie.

All I need in a movie version of Galactus that's taking a more realistic tone with the material is the purple color scheme, prongs on the side of the head, Massive size (Not just a 100 story white guy in a purple toga) and weird alien terraforming tech.



The posters who want a exact version of Kirby's Galactus are f--king crazy, the movie established by Tim Story isn't a cartoon. The average movie goer who could give a crap about the comic are gonna laugh their ass off at Giant Purple Toga Bucket head.

 

[deemar325]

I only have one sentence for you ALL.

James Earl Jones as Galactus.
Oh...and he has to wear the costume.

I second that!!

 

[deemar325]

i like comicbook movies. that's why i hang out in the movies sections as opposed to the comics sections.

and i may have never read a comic, but i do my homework, and i don't talk about things i don't know about.

I gotta say this guy is a total ****. ^


While I get his meaning about the look of Big G, saying comic aren't a viable source for movies then why the f--k is he even watching stuff like X-men and Spider-man?

 

[Savage]

I think Galactus should be a vaguely humanoid technorganic behemoth 1/4 the size of the moon. His overtly human (Traditional Kirby) features should be toned down, I'd go as far as doing things like giving him ten digits on his hands and extremely alien eyes. His color scheme I'd more or less keep darken the shades of purple and more blacks.

Another notion is maybe he appears in stages, his form in the movie when he's first resented is a spherical almost Nautilis/space ark form (His universal space travel mode.) sort of a semi biological space ship. When he arrives in Earth space he alters his appearance to a more humanoid form.


Overall what I don't want to see is a bloated Anthony Hopkins (or Any shakespearian british,deep voiced actor) in a Purple Mu-Mu and Bucket on his head spouting 1963 Stan Lee monologues with a obvisous greenscreen behind him. Yeah Kirby was the greatest and all, but a good amount of his designs would look like hot steaming ass in a realworld context, unless it was in a more animated or spoof type movie.

All I need in a movie version of Galactus that's taking a more realistic tone with the material is the purple color scheme, prongs on the side of the head, Massive size (Not just a 100 story white guy in a purple toga) and weird alien terraforming tech.



The posters who want a exact version of Kirby's Galactus are f--king crazy, the movie established by Tim Story isn't a cartoon. The average movie goer who could give a crap about the comic are gonna laugh their ass off at Giant Purple Toga Bucket head.

Aside from Galactus having never worn anything resembling a toga, I agree with you. I'd like the character to be all cgi as opposed to having a guy in a suit. This isn't Godzilla.

Also Kirby's Galactus showed skin (like arms and such). I prefer the only "flesh" being shown being the mouth area and even then restrict it like shown in the pics. Everything else should look ver mechanical. Was always a fan of those glowing, square irises he has in his eyes.

 

[deemar325]

Dude your avy is killer

 

[deemar325]

I have a drawing of what I think Galactus should look like I'll get to a scanner later and post it hopefully.

 

[Zen Ith]

The posters who want a exact version of Kirby's Galactus are f--king crazy, the movie established by Tim Story isn't a cartoon. The average movie goer who could give a crap about the comic are gonna laugh their ass off at Giant Purple Toga Bucket head.

I believe it can work if done right. You just have no imagination.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

the movie established by Tim Story isn't a cartoon. The average movie goer who could give a crap about the comic are gonna laugh their ass off at Giant Purple Toga Bucket head.

I'd say the exact same thing about Batman's pointy little ears and Superman's ridiculous PJ's. But if done well, comicbooky things can be translated to real life while being sort of faithful.


Anyway, in the new Wizard magazine, the guy who wrote the movie said Galactus won't be so much a "person" as much as a "force", which is very unencouraging.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

I hate the idea of an armada of ships and feel that so takes away from the idea of galactus as a force of nature rather then a classicla villain.

As Wilhelm states above, the whole premise is ridiculous if you want to go there and it is not because there is an armada of ionsect like creatures that use a silver like being who uses a surfboard to fly that it becomes more realistic realtive to an entity that portrays itself as a giant human for humans who eats planets to survive.

this is comic books and they will never be realistic.