My concept for a Teen Titans Movie

[ShadowBoxing]

Teen Titans the Movie

When hunter extrodinaire and billionaire Slade "Deathstroke" Wilson gets tired of hunting wild game in Africa, he sets his sites on new prey -- Superheroes.

Slade realizes going after high profile prey would be too costly and would attract too much attention and therefore sets his sites on lesser heroes.

Through one of his telecommunications companies, Titan Television, he sets up a faked reality TV show a la "The Real World" which he is filming set to air the following Fall called "Teen Titans". He gathers Nightwing, Donna Troy, Raven, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Starfire as the stars of his false attraction.

In reality the set and camera crew are merely recording videotape for Slade to study before he begins his hunt.

Slade fakes villain attacks by Warp, Plasmus and Dr Light in order to study and observe the heroes in action.

Tension builds amongst the housemates. However Nightwing, a detective protege', discovers that this "show" is more than meets the eye.

However Nightwing has only weeks to figure out what and who is pulling the strings.

Can the Titans resolve their differences and stop Slade before he and his Brotherhood of Villains use Titan Tower as their personal hunting ground.


.................I think this idea bypasses the problem of having them as "sidekicks" without removing their connection to their mentors. While Batman, Wonder Woman and others will not be part of the movie, it could still be implied that they were once sidekicks.

 

[The Question]

Why have Deathstroke create the Titans? I much prefer his origional motive for hunting them down. His son, who becomes a mercenary to try and be like his father, is hired by a criminal organization to kill the titans. He is accidentally killed in battle, and Slade takes up the contract to honor his son's memory and get revenge.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Why have Deathstroke create the Titans? I much prefer his origional motive for hunting them down. His son, who becomes a mercenary to try and be like his father, is hired by a criminal organization to kill the titans. He is accidentally killed in battle, and Slade takes up the contract to honor his son's memory and get revenge.

Because you need to find a way to bring in the Titans and Deathstroke. You also need to be able to create the Titans independent of the heroes they are mentored by.

However Deathstroke could start wanting to hunt superheroes because his son gets killed trying to become a superhero himself. Maybe have Deathstroke feel like he is saving these young teens from more gruesome fates.

Actually I like that. I like the idea of a false TV show being created as a trap for heroes

 

[The Question]

I would simply have them together as a team from the getgo. Have their origin mentioned, in that Raven summoned them all to deal with a major threat, and chose them over the older heroes because they didn't beleive her and thought she was some kind of demon (which she is, but she's not an evil one).

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I would simply have them together as a team from the getgo. Have their origin mentioned, in that Raven summoned them all to deal with a major threat, and chose them over the older heroes because they didn't beleive her and thought she was some kind of demon (which she is, but she's not an evil one).

I don't know, I mean I think that works for the cartoon (and the upcoming Judas Contract), however for a movie I feel like you'd want to make it new and different. Also, I think for them a setup is important. And after the first you'd have them as their own team, however I think this gives the team something to separate them from other team films.

Actually if Slade's motive was to scare teens away from being Superheroes you could have the show be televised, as if Slade was trying to scare teenagers straight.

 

[The Question]

I suppose. Really, I've just always prefered Slade being portrayed as a sort of masterless samurai. Very strong sense of honor and nobility. Taking up the contract of his dead son fits that very well. How about the team is brought together as a reality show/corperate stunt type of thing. They're treated as a joke for a while, but then actually do something big by saving the mayor of New York from a terrorist organization called H.I.V.E. They then begin going after H.I.V.E. personally. H.I.V.E. hires Grant Wilson to kill them, and he ends up dead by accident while fighting them. His father, Slade, then comes to fullfill his son's contract.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I suppose. Really, I've just always prefered Slade being portrayed as a sort of masterless samurai. Very strong sense of honor and nobility. Taking up the contract of his dead son fits that very well.

Oh very much so. Actually I have re-revised the idea

His son becomes a mercenary for the Government at a young age (without his father's knowing...who trained him). Deathstroke never wanted his son to follow his lifestyle. His son is badly burned during a raid by an inexperienced Superhero (you could even have that be one of the Titans). He is hospitalized and dies in front of Slade.

Slade decides that teenagers are far to unpredictable and dangerous as heroes and decides if some young heroes were to die on national television, it would set an example.

So he starts a reality TV show about young heroes and when his own villains (perhaps the H.I.V.E...so be it) fail to eradicate the youngersters....he sets out to do it himself.

 

[The Question]

I suppose. Still, I'm just not a fan of Slade being the mastermind. He's like Darth Vader. He's not the mastermind, but he's so cool that even as a henchman he overshadows the masterminds.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

I suppose. Still, I'm just not a fan of Slade being the mastermind. He's like Darth Vader. He's not the mastermind, but he's so cool that even as a henchman he overshadows the masterminds.

I don't like making Slade a henchman of any sort. He may be just a mercenary who overshadows his bosses, however I think giving him a mastermind personality makes it easier to show that he A) Is the Titan's most recognizable (if not biggest) foe and B) That he is incredibly smart as well as a great mercenary. He would not be a Lex Luthor or Kingpin here. Deathstroke would get dirty, hence his costume, however I would save him off for the big finish.

 

[The Question]

But he's not a mastermind. He's a henchman. He's just such a cool henchman that he becomes the main villain of the story. Like Darth Vader.

 

[The Batman]

Personally, I'd do this:

Have Slade and his son as mercenaries of HIVE. Ravagers mission is to keep the Teen Titans from rescuing a young girl named Terra. He accidently dies in the battle, and Slade decides to destroy the Titans himself and get Terra.

The Titans would already be established, and there'd probably be no mention of them being sidekicks