Twisted Metal is coming!....?

[Sundancer]

Basically it's a safe R to studio executives and smart business move with director and title.

Neither of us knows for sure, but I hope you're right.

So which characters do you guys really want to see make it into the movie?

I always figured Outlaw would be a good protagonist for the audience to center around. Somewhat of a cliche with the "rogue cop" but who knows. Maybe a made-for-movie protagonist will work.

Like 99.9% of movies based on video games...it will suck.

So what for you is that .1%?

 

[Ultimatehero]

PIPER:
One spelling mistake, out of working on hundreds of pages literally per day? I'm pretty sure I'm granted it...

ALCHEMYST:

With Freddy v. Jason though, still the teens were more the protagonist while the slashers were the stars. This wouldn't be a slasher film. As said, I haven't seen a film with a protagonist (who drives the story along) that an audience is supposed to not like in some way. If it has been done, from an artistic and business point of view - I'd love to see that film, because that'd be an awesome challenge to see or attempt.

SUNDANCER:

I'd say they're looking for a repeat of CRANK 1 type sales. It was made for 12 million and earned 42 million worldwide. When a studio has a certain requirement of the amount of films they need to put out per year - that seems like safe money in comparison to some of the other films they could put out there. Typically shelved or films released under-the-radar by studios (top level studios!) never had the support from the executives working on it and they just made it because... there was nothing better and they had no other choice. Here this property seems risk-less. It can be made cheap and has a clear target demographic. That's easy money.

 

[bullets]

I read up on the characters. They could focus on Marcus Kane. Sort of like they did with Statham as Frankenstein in Death Race.

 

[Ultimatehero]

I think Sweet Tooth (Kane's alternate person) should be the villain, we need to fear him.

One ideal hero is Mr. Grimm:

Even watching this video, I'm cheering for the guy. It could also do this take:



And you can still see this guy as someone to root for. Of course you wouldn't do everything here because it's pure Ghost Rider almost, but it seems he always has a very sympathetic past and a reason to fight.

"It turns out I'm the bad guy. But, what if my Dad didn't die? What if I could go back and warn him? If I die in this contest, I'm fine with that. Hell, I welcome it! But if I win? I'm going back to try to save my Dad's life. And maybe then my life will turn out different."

He's killed people due to a tragic and vicious past, but he's repentant and wants to risk his life to turn back the clock and change things - which would mean, those who he killed would also get a second chance. As a writer? There's just a lot of potential with that idea for a really intriguing character. You already have all these character dynamics and possibilities that without this film has a life of it's own - then you throw him into this world? It just seems like a great original screenplay could form from it.

 

[Slushy]

I have a feeling this will be horribly butchered so I'm fine that we got Death Race as a consolation prize. Coincidentally, there was a Mr. Grimm character in that.

 

[Ultimatehero]

^ By name, yes, by what matters no.

 

[Bruce Banner]

Sweet Tooth

Mr. Grimm

Axel

Thumper

Doll Face

and the guy that got jacked up by the crop duster dude's chemicals, can't remember his name and too lazy to look it up

Outlaw 1 or 2

Shadow

Roadkill

And...Minion?

 

[chaseter]

So what for you is that .1%?

Silent Hill is about it...and it's not great, just okay.

 

[Mike_D202]

Silent Hill is about it...and it's not great, just okay.

I liked it, could have used less CGI but I'm really looking forward to the sequel.