Hypothetical Crossovers: Film Continuities that would be cool in a shared universe.

[Lone]

John Wick and Taken.

 

[dude stannis]

Conan the Barbarian, Excalibur and Legend.

In the Hyborean Age a slave turned pit fighter named Conan unearths a sword forged when the Earth was young that helps him become king. His ascendency to royalty takes a toll and his reign riddled with battles and tragedy.

Then in the Dark Ages, Uther Pendragon is given a sword forged when the Earth was young, his lust for power ends up getting him killed, leaving it to his son Arthur, who eventually, much like Conan ascends to become a king. Once again like Conan he goes on many adventures, but it's ultimately another reign rife with conflict and tragedy.

In a later time, Princess Lilly is kidnapped by the Lord of Darkness, and a forest dweller named Jack sets about going to rescue her, at one point he even finds Mordred's armour in a cave. Eventually he finds Princess Lilly and it's in a huge part of Jack's trust in her that they're able to defeat Darkness. She doesn't need to answer the riddle of steel that those who came before her did, there's no thirst for glory, or power, or conquest, or immortality. Princess Lilly rules with love and compassion and Legend ends with the promise of a better future.

 

[DrCosmic]

Ninja Assassin and Pirates of the Caribbean

I don't know if plot is exceptionally necessary. Some weird portal from the PotC verse to the the sea in Japan, and then, y'know, conflict.

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[Primal Slayer]

Legally Blonde + Miss Congeniality

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Conan the Barbarian, Excalibur and Legend.

In the Hyborean Age a slave turned pit fighter named Conan unearths a sword forged when the Earth was young that helps him become king. His ascendency to royalty takes a toll and his reign riddled with battles and tragedy.

Then in the Dark Ages, Uther Pendragon is given a sword forged when the Earth was young, his lust for power ends up getting him killed, leaving it to his son Arthur, who eventually, much like Conan ascends to become a king. Once again like Conan he goes on many adventures, but it's ultimately another reign rife with conflict and tragedy.

In a later time, Princess Lilly is kidnapped by the Lord of Darkness, and a forest dweller named Jack sets about going to rescue her, at one point he even finds Mordred's armour in a cave. Eventually he finds Princess Lilly and it's in a huge part of Jack's trust in her that they're able to defeat Darkness. She doesn't need to answer the riddle of steel that those who came before her did, there's no thirst for glory, or power, or conquest, or immortality. Princess Lilly rules with love and compassion and Legend ends with the promise of a better future.

This is how it's done people. I F-ing love the bit about the armor.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

John Wick and Taken.

Oh, sounds interesting.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

TARZAN VS. CONAN

After many years of peace, the Lord of the Jungle has received some disturbing news. He is told that his previous journey to the earth's core (Pellucidar) that started simply as a resuce mission has blossomed into something more dire.

It seems a conquering brute has united the land of Pellucidar and is leading an invasion of earth that will enter thru the Lord's jungle.

[Entrance from earth's core to the jungle, midnite]

A long convoy of Ape-men, Brute-men & primitive warriors marching along by torchlight surfaces thru the jungle entrance lead by their hulking leader. A voice from a ridge above calls out.

Tarzan : Halt ! Whoever you are name your intentions in my domain.

[ looking up with a sinister smile]

Conan : Im glad to finally lay eyes on you Apeman....I am your King. Conan. Prepare for your new lord or....prepare to die.

 

[Frodo]

Heroes - Avengers meets Justice League
Directed by Joss Whedon
Producers- Kevin Feige, Geoff Johns, Laura Shunner Donner
Music by Danny Elfman
Script- Joss Whedon

Warner Brothers, Marvel Studios, and Sony Pictures production

Cast of characters - Batman , Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, Iron Man, Captain America, Spiderman, Thor, Hulk, Dr Strange, Thanos and Darkseid,


Plot synopsis- Thanos and Darkseid's unlikely, and unholy, alliance puts multiple realities and alternate universes , at risk , forcing a select few of one earth's mightiest heroes, and another earth's finest, in a desperate race to stop these two tyrants and their armies from enslaving all of the multiverses. Unprepared and over power, these heroes from different world's and realities must over look their differences in order to stop the greatest threat they've ever faced .

Featuring an all star cast , DC and Marvel comics most popular characters share the screen for the first time in this epic battle between good and evil.

 

[childeroland]

The MCU and the Malickverse. Iron Man and Captain Marvel fly into the scene and then stop and start twirling around each other while the Vision's voiceover whispers meditations about the universe.

 

[godisawesome]

A group of idiot criminals have a very bad day. Due to some really bad drugs, they wind up taking hostages inside a museum when it was supposed to be a quick smash and grab. When they begin to sober up, they realize that one of the hostages is... John McClane. After he easily kills a few of them, they successfully run the police blockade outside with just a few hostages... Only to find out that one of them is Brian Mills's niece. After losing some requisite members to Brian, they drop all the hostages and the remaining four guys take shelter in a bus station... Only to find out that the museum items they stole belong to the CIA, who have hired Barney Ross and the Expendables. One criminal manages to betray his colleagues and run out side, steal a car, and takeoff...


... And runs over John Wick's dog.

DEAD MEN WALKING. Coming soon.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

A group of idiot criminals have a very bad day. Due to some really bad drugs, they wind up taking hostages inside a museum when it was supposed to be a quick smash and grab. When they begin to sober up, they realize that one of the hostages is... John McClane. After he easily kills a few of them, they successfully run the police blockade outside with just a few hostages... Only to find out that one of them is Brian Mills's niece. After losing some requisite members to Brian, they drop all the hostages and the remaining four guys take shelter in a bus station... Only to find out that the museum items they stole belong to the CIA, who have hired Barney Ross and the Expendables. One criminal manages to betray his colleagues and run out side, steal a car, and takeoff...


... And runs over John Wick's dog.

DEAD MEN WALKING. Coming soon.

You magnificent bastard!

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

TARZAN VS. CONAN

After many years of peace, the Lord of the Jungle has received some disturbing news. He is told that his previous journey to the earth's core (Pellucidar) that started simply as a resuce mission has blossomed into something more dire.

It seems a conquering brute has united the land of Pellucidar and is leading an invasion of earth that will enter thru the Lord's jungle.

[Entrance from earth's core to the jungle, midnite]

A long convoy of Ape-men, Brute-men & primitive warriors marching along by torchlight surfaces thru the jungle entrance lead by their hulking leader. A voice from a ridge above calls out.

Tarzan : Halt ! Whoever you are name your intentions in my domain.

[ looking up with a sinister smile]

Conan : Im glad to finally lay eyes on you Apeman....I am your King. Conan. Prepare for your new lord or....prepare to die.

What's your casting on this?

 

[Peyton Westlake]

What's your casting on this?

Well if this were made in the 80's , I would have re-cast Arnold in this instead of that god awful Conan sequel we really got. If it were present day...i'm not 100% sure. The public didnt seem to buy Momoa as Conan or didnt like another other then Arnold as Conan for the movie. Tarzan would be just as tricky to cast if you didnt like the recent one with Alexander Skarsgard. Have any suggestions?

 

[Frodo]

Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula
Cast : Tom Hiddleston as Holmes, Tom Hardy as Watson, Michael Fassbender as Dracula , Ian Mackellan as Van Helsing, Felicity Jones as Irene Adler, and Daniel Craig as Moriarty

Plot synopsis - As a depressed, and drug addicted Sherlock Holmes finds himself struggling with own his inner demons, he's forced to face a foe unlike any other he's encountered and one in which he does not believe exists.

The stakes are raised as Dracula and his brides begin to terrorize the streets of 1888 London, and when Count Dracula becomes intrigued and obsessed with Holmes's one true love the mysterious Irene Adler.

In order to stop the charismatic and dangerous Count, Holmes and Watson are forced to not only enlist the aide of the eccentric Professor Van Helsing, but also the aide of his worst enemy... Professor Moriarty.

 

[Peyton Westlake]

Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula
Cast : Tom Hiddleston as Holmes, Tom Hardy as Watson, Michael Fassbender as Dracula , Ian Mackellan as Van Helsing, Felicity Jones as Irene Adler, and Daniel Craig as Moriarty

Plot synopsis - As a depressed, and drug addicted Sherlock Holmes finds himself struggling with own his inner demons, he's forced to face a foe unlike any other he's encountered and one in which he does not believe exists.

The stakes are raised as Dracula and his brides begin to terrorize the streets of 1888 London, and when Count Dracula becomes intrigued and obsessed with Holmes's one true love the mysterious Irene Adler.

In order to stop the charismatic and dangerous Count, Holmes and Watson are forced to not only enlist the aide of the eccentric Professor Van Helsing, but also the aide of his worst enemy... Professor Moriarty.

That is a really edgy & progressive idea for a plot regarding those two characters. [golf clap]

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula
Cast : Tom Hiddleston as Holmes, Tom Hardy as Watson, Michael Fassbender as Dracula , Ian Mackellan as Van Helsing, Felicity Jones as Irene Adler, and Daniel Craig as Moriarty

Plot synopsis - As a depressed, and drug addicted Sherlock Holmes finds himself struggling with own his inner demons, he's forced to face a foe unlike any other he's encountered and one in which he does not believe exists.

The stakes are raised as Dracula and his brides begin to terrorize the streets of 1888 London, and when Count Dracula becomes intrigued and obsessed with Holmes's one true love the mysterious Irene Adler.

In order to stop the charismatic and dangerous Count, Holmes and Watson are forced to not only enlist the aide of the eccentric Professor Van Helsing, but also the aide of his worst enemy... Professor Moriarty.

That's a hell of a cast and they all fit the parts really well.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Blade and the first Underworld.

Blade ends up joining forces with Seline and Michael.

 

[Thundarr]

Conan the Cimmerian while stopped at a local tavern is hired by a small village to locate warriors to help defend a village from an army of bandits under the command of a rumored to be immortal war lord. CONAN does his best and collects a rag tag band with the meager offerings the village has. He finds the now wondering King Dar, also known as the Beast Master, an aged swordsman of incredible skill called Mad Martigan (WILLOW), a former wizard's apprentice that has slain a dragon (DRAGON SLAYER), a mystic blade weilder called Hawk (HAWK THE SLAYER) , the She-Devil with a sword Red Sonja and a wondering elf archer, perhaps the last of his kind named Legolas. CONAN will need all the help he can get, for he soon learns that the war lord's immortality is no myth or rumor, for this war lord goes by the name, The Kurgan!



And yes... I am well aware that this is a SEVEN SAMURAI riff.

I have actually begun writing a very similar story as a piece of fan fiction. In fact I was inspired to do so by your post. It's called "The Seven Swords Of Conan The Barbarian". I made a few changes to your proposed story, but it's still a retelling of The Seven Samurai set in th Hyborian Age. Instead of Legolas, I used Gerry Lopez's character Subotai from the first Conan film (recast as Al Leong). Instead of the wizard's apprentice from Dragon Slayer, I used Malak from Conan The Destroyer (once again played by Tracey Walter, but I made the character a mute so we won't have to put up with any more stupid lines). And Hawk The Slayer is changed to Deathstalker (Richard Hill being replaced by Dolph Lundgren). And the villains in this movie are the Juns (from the first Beastmaster movie) led by an original character played by Brian Thompson (looking very much as he did as Shao Khan in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation). Other than those changes, exactly the same.

It can be found here: www.fanfiction.net/s/12518758/1/The-Seven-Swords-Of-Conan-The-Barbarian

 

[Rowsdower!]

Said this in another thread, but I would love to see an expanded universe of all the iconic Blaxploitation characters. They could do some solo films and then all team up in an Avengers-style crossover.

Some casting ideas...

John Shaft: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Dolemite: Craig Robinson
Foxy Brown: Tessa Thompson
Cleopatra Jones: Danai Gurira
Youngblood Priest: Keegan Michael Key
Willie Green (The Baddest Motherf***er The World Ever Seen): Anthony Anderson

 

[Frodo]

Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula
Cast : Tom Hiddleston as Holmes, Tom Hardy as Watson, Michael Fassbender as Dracula , Ian Mackellan as Van Helsing, Felicity Jones as Irene Adler, and Daniel Craig as Moriarty

Plot synopsis - As a depressed, and drug addicted Sherlock Holmes finds himself struggling with own his inner demons, he's forced to face a foe unlike any other he's encountered and one in which he does not believe exists.

The stakes are raised as Dracula and his brides begin to terrorize the streets of 1888 London, and when Count Dracula becomes intrigued and obsessed with Holmes's one true love the mysterious Irene Adler.

In order to stop the charismatic and dangerous Count, Holmes and Watson are forced to not only enlist the aide of the eccentric Professor Van Helsing, but also the aide of his worst enemy... Professor Moriarty.

I would add to the cast

Burn Gorman(The Dark Knight Rises) as Renfield

Ben Mendelson( The Dark Knight Rises , Rogue one) as Inspector Lestrade

Etta Candy(Wonder Woman) as Mrs Hudson

Elizabeth Debicki( Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2), Annet Mahendru(The Americans), and Lea Seydoux(Spectre) as Dracula's Brides

 

[Peyton Westlake]

Said this in another thread, but I would love to see an expanded universe of all the iconic Blaxploitation characters. They could do some solo films and then all team up in an Avengers-style crossover.

Some casting ideas...

John Shaft: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Dolemite: Craig Robinson
Foxy Brown: Tessa Thompson
Cleopatra Jones: Danai Gurira
Youngblood Priest: Keegan Michael Key
Willie Green (The Baddest Motherf***er The World Ever Seen): Anthony Anderson

Just something I found that seems to fit your idea.

 

[Micromind]

WB's Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

That Dynamite/Samurai cover is gold.

 

[Sawyer]

The Warriors --> Escape From New York
*flip side of the globe*
Mad Max --> The Road Warrior

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

The Warriors --> Escape From New York
*flip side of the globe*
Mad Max --> The Road Warrior

***COUGH***

The idea for this thread came to me when I happened to have to spend an extra day at my mothers house in the Poconos, and we had to wait because a delivery had to be rescheduled for the next day. So I had time to chill and did a little film festival. I watched THE ROAD WARRIOR (which I had forgotten I even had on DVD) and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK on AMAZON PRIME. After I finished I thought about how the characters of Max and Snake Plisken have similarities and differences that would make the two meeting interesting, and other ideas also started swirling that even if they didn't meet it could be cool in a LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Alan Moore way if these two films were in a shared film universe. They are the cream of the crop of the late 70's/early 80's post apocalyptic thriller/action films, so why not link them instory as well? It's a cool thought experiment in the least.

To my mind you could go at least two ways with it. You could have it that the events of EFNY happened before the first MAD MAX film. The breakdown of society was in it's first stages because of the actions that Plisken takes at the end of his film perhaps only 20 years or less in the past, where he throws away the fusion formula that the President was going to offer to the Chinese and the Russian governments as part of a peace process. This could gibe with the Feral Boy from RW's recollections of the history he learned about a clash of super powers that sent the world into chaos and a new era of resource scarcity that cause a massive collapse of modern civilization. It's Plisken's actions that help to the continuation of the hostilities that inexorably leads to the world that Max inhabits in the wastelands of Australia.

I also think you could do it where the film's continuities are more or less concurrent. The fact that Australia is so messed up in this world wouldn't be too out of line with what we learn about America in EFNY. The rise of crime causing the use of Manhattan as a prison could still be in line with a world that has had a huge collapse. So while Snake was fighting crazies in NYC and tangling with the Duke, Max was running the gauntlet of Lord Humongous' dogs of war in the wastelands down under. This would allow for the meeting of the two protagonists in a story. My hypothetical tale would be Snake Plisken is brought into a Suicide Squad/Dirty Dozen black ops mission. He along with some other characters from some other dystopian future films have been given the task to halo into deep Australian wastelands. The nuclear fusion process has been recreated but the scientific team that headed up the project in secret has gone missing, shot down while in transport and the future of the world hinges on finding them and bringing them back. Snake's crew is ambushed immediately, leaving Plisken the only survivor, the team's equipment a valued prize to the attacking force of desert Reavers. Snake is brought back to the bandit's camp where he is tied up to a stake next to another prisoner: Max. He was taken as well and has been roughed up so as to tell how to unlock the booby trap on his Interceptor. The two manage to work together to kill their captors, but Plisken double crosses Max and steals his car, intent on completing the mission so as to get an airlift out of this particular crap hole of a situation he is in. Max follows him, intent on getting back what's his, and the two meet again and Max, the survivor with an honorable core of humanity actually becomes more dedicated to finding and rescuing the sympathetic scientists than the nihilist survivor anti-hero Snake, who reveals to Max his part in shaping the world as it is now. Such a story could go many ways but that would be my bare bones concept pitch.

So... What sort of hypothetical continuity mixtures would you like to see and how would you as a fan go about constructing them?

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