What about a Crisis on Infinite Earths movie?

[Lord]

Yeah, the original comics didn't have the best story to adapt but it would be damn interesting if they toke some aspects of it and did their oun version with DC character's film and maybe even tv history, for example,
Earth Two or Three Batman could be the Serials Batman

And they could meet Adam West's Batman

They could even put Superman I-IV and Batman- Batman & Robin in the same universe, i don't mention Christopher Nolan's Batman because i don't think he would ever allow his realistic Batman to be in this.

Most universe's characters could be recast, exept for Adam West's Batman of corse

Think about it, it could be the begining of DC event films

 

[CAPT DAVO]

well...what a great idea for a series of flicks.....BUT...seeing as how DC would have to match the AVENGERS and the lead up films to it...they would have to do a damn better job than they have been doing....

 

[The Overlord]

It would never work, the crisis story is far too convoluted to work as a movie.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

It would never work, the crisis story is far too convoluted to work as a movie.

I agree with you.

 

[Lord]

I didn't say they should do it right now or evn make it a direct adaptation of the comics, i'm sayingt that i could be cool to have the idea of the Multiverse and it being at war with itself.

You don't even need to reboot all the DC movies after this, after DC has things right and makes one or two Justice League movies i think this is an option the could explore, it's a good way to show to introduce the multiverse to the audience and to do a big epic.

A crisis on Infinite earths would also open the possibilities in the future for Infinite crisis, Final crisis, Sinestro Corps and Blackest Night movies.

I say, take all the liberties needed to make this kind of movie but keep the Multiverse as a basis for it.

 

[The Overlord]

I didn't say they should do it right now or evn make it a direct adaptation of the comics, i'm sayingt that i could be cool to have the idea of the Multiverse and it being at war with itself.

You don't even need to reboot all the DC movies after this, after DC has things right and makes one or two Justice League movies i think this is an option the could explore, it's a good way to show to introduce the multiverse to the audience and to do a big epic.

A crisis on Infinite earths would also open the possibilities in the future for Infinite crisis, Final crisis, Sinestro Corps and Blackest Night movies.

I say, take all the liberties needed to make this kind of movie but keep the Multiverse as a basis for it.

The problem is its its still a bit too convoluted to work, almost no one remembers the Batman serials from the 40s, so making that Earth 2 would just be confusing to everyone except hard core comic book geeks.

The problem is the concept of this movie seems like something that would appeal only to hard core comic book geeks, rather then a boarder audience.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

It's a funny idea, but the only form i can imagine that as is some sort of cartoon like Turtles Forever!

 

[GhostPoet]

DC can't even get it's movie properties right for a single hero...no way could they do a group movie.

 

[DrCosmic]

Yeah, as cool as this would be for fans, I really, REALLY don't see anyone sinking the necessary 200 million into this. BUT it'd be retartedly cool, assuming the story is using the known media universes instead of the pre-crisis Earth 1/2/etc.

Imagine:

Brandon Routh, Henry Cavill, Tom Welling all side by side, Clark Kent at varying ages.
George Clooney as an aged Batman alongside Christian Bale
Linda Carter as an aged Wonder Woman alongside... heh

I imagine "Earth-2" would be Smallville-verse, but on further thought, in the current DC thought processes, each hero is the only hero on Earth... on their Earth. Perhaps a parallel universe merging is the only way to have a JLA film. Crazy.

 

[Cuyan]

Wouldn't it have to be preceded by some sort of Identity Crisis retelling? That would be a tough sell.

 

[Lord]

Crisis on Infinite Earths was made many years before Identity Crisis, in fact it was made almost 20 years before, i didn't watch much of the original serials either but i think that they could be used as the Golden Age versions of the characters.

The only idea it should mantain is that of various universes that are being destroyed, don't tell me general audiences won't buy this idea because Fringe is doing it very well, and the general audience also likes disaster movies as shown by 2012, Michael Bay's films and Emerich's films too.

Even if the serials and tv shows universes are used they can be something only recognised by big DC fans while the general public can only see them as alternate universe versions of the characters, they could also invent their oun Earths One and Two with their versions of the Golden and Silver age characters but i only proposed this because like with the comics it conects the previous movies and tv shows.

The Adventures of Superman show could also be interesting as one of the main universes, Superboy and Lois & Clark could be set in the same universe, i think, i never really watched either, maybe the multiverse could be introduced in a Justice League movie before a Crisis one.

A crisis on Infinite Earths movie should be only introduced after DC has a DC film universe shared universe, and in least 2 Justice League films, in the end the present DC film universe should survive, one of the changes that i would make to the original comic.

 

[The Overlord]

Crisis on Infinite Earths was made many years before Identity Crisis, in fact it was made almost 20 years before, i didn't watch much of the original serials either but i think that they could be used as the Golden Age versions of the characters.

The only idea it should mantain is that of various universes that are being destroyed, don't tell me general audiences won't buy this idea because Fringe is doing it very well, and the general audience also likes disaster movies as shown by 2012, Michael Bay's films and Emerich's films too.

Even if the serials and tv shows universes are used they can be something only recognised by big DC fans while the general public can only see them as alternate universe versions of the characters, they could also invent their oun Earths One and Two with their versions of the Golden and Silver age characters but i only proposed this because like with the comics it conects the previous movies and tv shows.

The Adventures of Superman show could also be interesting as one of the main universes, Superboy and Lois & Clark could be set in the same universe, i think, i never really watched either, maybe the multiverse could be introduced in a Justice League movie before a Crisis one.

A crisis on Infinite Earths movie should be only introduced after DC has a DC film universe shared universe, and in least 2 Justice League films, in the end the present DC film universe should survive, one of the changes that i would make to the original comic.

But why should a member of the general public, who doesn't know what the Golden and Silver Age is, care about an Earth 2 universe based on 1940s super hero film reels?

2012 was nothing do with alternate universes and this only works in Fringe because its a TV show that has time to build up this story, its not a movie that throws several different universes at you at in the span of 2 hours.

It seems like you are just outlining why comic book geeks would like this movie, rather then why members of the public would. It just comes off as convoluted, like you have to know about all obscure DC media projects to get it and if that isn't the case, then why base this stuff on lot of obscure DC media projects in the first place? Who would care about all this besides a fan boy who has aware of this level of DC lore?

Its appealing to extremely obscure in some case, so I think a lot of people would just find it confusing.

 

[Lord]

But why should a member of the general public, who doesn't know what the Golden and Silver Age is, care about an Earth 2 universe based on 1940s super hero film reels?

2012 was nothing do with alternate universes and this only works in Fringe because its a TV show that has time to build up this story, its not a movie that throws several different universes at you at in the span of 2 hours.

It seems like you are just outlining why comic book geeks would like this movie, rather then why members of the public would. It just comes off as convoluted, like you have to know about all obscure DC media projects to get it and if that isn't the case, then why base this stuff on lot of obscure DC media projects in the first place? Who would care about all this besides a fan boy who has aware of this level of DC lore?

Its appealing to extremely obscure in some case, so I think a lot of people would just find it confusing.

Making the Marvel Movies crossovers was also something more for the fans at first, i can see why you think a crisis movie wouldn't work but i not exploring the idea of a multiverse is madness.

The multiverse is one of the most important things in the DC universe, it's one of the things that defines it, and even if there's not any crisis movie it should in least be explored for characters like Ultra-Man and others.

If they ever made a Crisis movie they could build the story arc in the previous movies, opening the concept of the multiverse in Justice Leaue or even Flash movies.

I would open the idea in a Flash movies and then explore even more of it in a Justice League movie, if they used characters from previous movies as alternate earths heroes but didn't want to use the serials then Superman I-II, Batman - Batman & Robin, and Superman Returns could be used as one of the Earths while Smallville could be another.

Or any other way, other earths characters could even be different and not related to any previous movie or tv show

 

[The Overlord]

Making the Marvel Movies crossovers was also something more for the fans at first, i can see why you think a crisis movie wouldn't work but i not exploring the idea of a multiverse is madness.

The multiverse is one of the most important things in the DC universe, it's one of the things that defines it, and even if there's not any crisis movie it should in least be explored for characters like Ultra-Man and others.

If they ever made a Crisis movie they could build the story arc in the previous movies, opening the concept of the multiverse in Justice Leaue or even Flash movies.

I would open the idea in a Flash movies and then explore even more of it in a Justice League movie, if they used characters from previous movies as alternate earths heroes but didn't want to use the serials then Superman I-II, Batman - Batman & Robin, and Superman Returns could be used as one of the Earths while Smallville could be another.

Or any other way, other earths characters could even be different and not related to any previous movie or tv show

They already kinda did that with Crisis on Two Earths DTV cartoon. The problem is Crisis on Infinite Earths was a story set to deal with a particular problem, the fact that multi-verse of DC was confusing, so they decided to get rid of all those alternate dimensions and just merge aspects of the most popular dimensions together, it doesn't work as a stand alone story. I don't see what the appeal would be to a non comic book fan and studios aren't spend hundreds of millions dollars on something that only appeals to hard core DC fans. I think the only thing that could work is an adapted DTV based loosely on this story, which have a much smaller budget and thus easier to make money. I don't think it would work as a live action big production.

 

[gkokujin]

i would LOVE to see an animated (CG by BLURR or Traditional animation) miniseries...

 

[Lord]

See, the truth is that i don't know that much about the multiverse, only from wikipedia and some crisis stories i read, i'm not an hardcore dc fan, yet the idea of various universe is interesting, expecially with an universe as big as the dc universe.

And you still didn't answer the fact that Ultraman and other good things about the multiverse could be explored, you only reference that crisis can't be adapted, i know that, as i said before some ideas could be explored, the multiverse is a must, spending millions? only if you tried to do it exactly like the comics my friend.

The good thing about the movie adaptations of comics is that in most of the cases we get a new story based on some of the comics, that's the way i vview a crisis movie, The Avengers won't work as a stand alone story, i also said that before a crisis the multiverse should be explored in other movies.

Fringe may have developed the other universe in many episodes but the main crisis where both universes are going to clash happen in the 3-4 last episodes of the season, in least that's what happened in season 3, you can have the multiverse already explored in previous movies but have a 2-3 hours movie where in least 2 universes begin to clash.

Even if there's no Crisis on Infinite Earths movie the Multiverse should be explored as it is one of the best concepts in the DC universe

 

[cabel]

An animated series built around the concept of a DC multiverse? Maybe. Incorporating the multiverse into a live action film series? I don't see it working. At least not in a way that would do it justice.

It's hard enough trying to establish one universe, but to also establish 2-3 alternate universes, have them interact with the original universe, and present it in a way that won't confuse the audience. I don't see it happening.

 

[superhero]

irecomd checking out justic leauge cirsie on two worlds

 

[DCUmoviepage]

I would love see "Crisis" as a Justice League movie. Like catching all these heroes of diferent universes, and putting them together.Will be fun seen, for exemple, how Nolan's Batman will act fighting a epic-multiverse-catastrophe event.And, as @Lord said, have the possibility of putting the different version of this heroes together.

 

[Kurosawa]

COIE was a sucky bloodbath. I wouldn't mind seeing actual classic crossovers between Earths One and Two adapted as animated films, however.

 

[dnno1]

It would never work, the crisis story is far too convoluted to work as a movie.

It doesn't have to be. That angle has worked with the Star Trek franchise very well.

 

[Lord]

Exactly, and i must say that the Crisis on Two Earths animated movie introduced the multiverse concept very well, i know Crisis on Infinite Earths wasn't the best storyline ever but that's why i've been saying from the begining that only some plot elements should be used.

And as a matter of fact there were some really great stories about the multiverse, some examples are Infinite crisis, 52 and Final Crisis