I have an interesting idea here. Hope it's the right board. If not, please be kind and movie it to the right place.
Take a look at the franchises that have given us a string of films! In genres such as horror, sci fi, action etc there are a lot of popular characters, and each one of them is a pop cultural thing of its own.
If we take two franchises, and mix them up What would it be like?
It has been done before, for real, with Friday the 13 th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The main characters Jason and Freddy meet in one film. That was a little bit of entertainment, but the film itself wasn't a masterpiece.
Both of them are horror villains. Perhaps that was what made it kind of wrong in the first place?
When connecting two storylines and mash them together, the differences should perhaps be bigger.
Both Friday and Elm Street are franchises that seem to go on forever. It has even gone so far that reboots have been made. What other films have got a lot of sequels, in some cases a few too many?
Harry Potter
James Bond 007
Star Wars
Batman
X-Men
Halloween
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Final Destination
Saw
Indiana Jones
Star Trek
Superman
Alien
If you can come up with more, just tell me. But I must warn you that Evil Dead and Back to the Future have too few films to actually count as franchises that "seem to go on forever". Spider-Man on the other hand may work here, since there will be a fourth film out next year.
I am not sure how we should rank The Ring and The Grudge, because of both the originals and the remakes.
Now let us play a little game. Take two different franchises, and let their stories intervene. Not only one time, but twice.
I do it first.....
1. James Bond on a mission in a big city. Make it Chicago, Tokyo or whatever. At the same time, a few Aliens appear there. They are not a part of Bond's mission, he just crosses their paths by accident. What will happen? The rule is that the character 007 must leave his own type of story, and be put in completely different situation. He's still the same character with all the personal traits he's known for, but everything around him is different.
He may have a few gadgets, since that's what we would expect of him. But no M, no Moneypenny, no Felix Leiter etc. Bond must follow the route of a typical Alien film. Will he survive?
Then we mix these films again, this time by doing it vice versa. The Aliens comes in Bond's way when he's on mission, but this time in a typical Bond film with that kind of structure, and that way to tell a story. Then it is the Aliens who must leave their own style of doing things behind. Will the same things still happen when it's the other way around?
Another mash up is a "Michael Myers come to Hogwarts" type of thing?
-first a typical Halloween film where the school of witchcraft and wizardry just happens to be where the story takes place. He's the main character. Then we have to tone down the magic several degrees since it doesn't suit a Halloween film where a murderer - somewhat above human strenght - manages to kill lots of teenage characters
-second, a typical Potter film, where Harry, Ron & Hermione are on another of their adventures... and just happen to meet Myers with a big sharp knife. He must face their level of magic. Can he bring them down by sneaking around, taking them by surprise, each one at a time?
Now it's your turn to come up with ideas. As long as each mixing is done twice, and between different genres.
Take a look at the franchises that have given us a string of films! In genres such as horror, sci fi, action etc there are a lot of popular characters, and each one of them is a pop cultural thing of its own.
If we take two franchises, and mix them up What would it be like?
It has been done before, for real, with Friday the 13 th and A Nightmare on Elm Street. The main characters Jason and Freddy meet in one film. That was a little bit of entertainment, but the film itself wasn't a masterpiece.
Both of them are horror villains. Perhaps that was what made it kind of wrong in the first place?
When connecting two storylines and mash them together, the differences should perhaps be bigger.
Both Friday and Elm Street are franchises that seem to go on forever. It has even gone so far that reboots have been made. What other films have got a lot of sequels, in some cases a few too many?
Harry Potter
James Bond 007
Star Wars
Batman
X-Men
Halloween
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Final Destination
Saw
Indiana Jones
Star Trek
Superman
Alien
If you can come up with more, just tell me. But I must warn you that Evil Dead and Back to the Future have too few films to actually count as franchises that "seem to go on forever". Spider-Man on the other hand may work here, since there will be a fourth film out next year.
I am not sure how we should rank The Ring and The Grudge, because of both the originals and the remakes.
Now let us play a little game. Take two different franchises, and let their stories intervene. Not only one time, but twice.
I do it first.....
1. James Bond on a mission in a big city. Make it Chicago, Tokyo or whatever. At the same time, a few Aliens appear there. They are not a part of Bond's mission, he just crosses their paths by accident. What will happen? The rule is that the character 007 must leave his own type of story, and be put in completely different situation. He's still the same character with all the personal traits he's known for, but everything around him is different.
He may have a few gadgets, since that's what we would expect of him. But no M, no Moneypenny, no Felix Leiter etc. Bond must follow the route of a typical Alien film. Will he survive?
Then we mix these films again, this time by doing it vice versa. The Aliens comes in Bond's way when he's on mission, but this time in a typical Bond film with that kind of structure, and that way to tell a story. Then it is the Aliens who must leave their own style of doing things behind. Will the same things still happen when it's the other way around?
Another mash up is a "Michael Myers come to Hogwarts" type of thing?
-first a typical Halloween film where the school of witchcraft and wizardry just happens to be where the story takes place. He's the main character. Then we have to tone down the magic several degrees since it doesn't suit a Halloween film where a murderer - somewhat above human strenght - manages to kill lots of teenage characters
-second, a typical Potter film, where Harry, Ron & Hermione are on another of their adventures... and just happen to meet Myers with a big sharp knife. He must face their level of magic. Can he bring them down by sneaking around, taking them by surprise, each one at a time?
Now it's your turn to come up with ideas. As long as each mixing is done twice, and between different genres.
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