crazy monkey
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TV shows, movies, comics, novels - whatever. And how would you like to see it done? I'll start:
STAR WARS: An anime remake is a perfect excuse to give the now-completed story a much needed rewrite. Since Anikan/Vader is the main character, I'd rather the show focus on him. He should be in the first shot of the first episode. Instead of starting with this childhood and moving forward, start the series just before Episode IV, and have the first season lead up to the destruction of the Death Star. All the aspects of Anakin's past, his childhood, training and betrayal, could be done in flashback as the story requires it.
The emphasis would be on Vader's trapped existence (pictured by the suit), his disillusionment with Palpatine, regret over the bleak, war-torn Galaxy they have created together, and the glimmer of hope he finds in the discovery of Luke -- a hope that is twisted by his Sith nature into a thirst for his master's power and a need to take revenge. However, by setting his plan into motion he unwittingly brings about the fulfillment of his own prophecied destiny, along with something else he thought impossible -- redemption.
We could fill in the gaps between IV, V and VI, retool the good guys a bit (Luke less whiny, Han more hardcore, Leia mas sexy), and make the Rebel's struggle for victory a bit more desperate. I'd also like to bring the fairy-tale feel of the prequels into the OT timeline, especially in the visual design. The clothes, the ships, the Stormtroopers -- everything should look less Robotech, more Escaflowne.
And now, for something completely different.
DICK TRACY: Noir is in, thanks to Sin City. Dick Tracy is ripe for revival. If you've only seen this character and his world as they are portrayed in Warren Beatty's film, then you don't know Dick.
The Tracy comics, especially the early classics, were hard-boiled, violent and brimmed with real emotion. They were instrumental in bringing adult readership and respectability to comics, and rightfully so. Tracy strips were sometimes brutal, but not for brutality's sake. Some stories had a light heart, and there were sillier characters for comic relief. But not the villians. Unlike the film, they were never played for laughs. Cold-blooded and calculating, they each posed a new challange for Tracy right down to their bitter end (usually in a hail of bullets.)
So I'm thinkin', the visual style of Gungrave with the writing style of Cowboy Bebop. The scripts could be adapted from the original stories, albeit with a view towards threading them together into a more cohesive continuity. That way we avoid mashing all those terrific villains together into one big gang and completely losing their characters (another mistake made by the filmmakers.)
OK, that's me for now. Thoughts? Ideas?
-- END!
STAR WARS: An anime remake is a perfect excuse to give the now-completed story a much needed rewrite. Since Anikan/Vader is the main character, I'd rather the show focus on him. He should be in the first shot of the first episode. Instead of starting with this childhood and moving forward, start the series just before Episode IV, and have the first season lead up to the destruction of the Death Star. All the aspects of Anakin's past, his childhood, training and betrayal, could be done in flashback as the story requires it.
The emphasis would be on Vader's trapped existence (pictured by the suit), his disillusionment with Palpatine, regret over the bleak, war-torn Galaxy they have created together, and the glimmer of hope he finds in the discovery of Luke -- a hope that is twisted by his Sith nature into a thirst for his master's power and a need to take revenge. However, by setting his plan into motion he unwittingly brings about the fulfillment of his own prophecied destiny, along with something else he thought impossible -- redemption.
We could fill in the gaps between IV, V and VI, retool the good guys a bit (Luke less whiny, Han more hardcore, Leia mas sexy), and make the Rebel's struggle for victory a bit more desperate. I'd also like to bring the fairy-tale feel of the prequels into the OT timeline, especially in the visual design. The clothes, the ships, the Stormtroopers -- everything should look less Robotech, more Escaflowne.
And now, for something completely different.
DICK TRACY: Noir is in, thanks to Sin City. Dick Tracy is ripe for revival. If you've only seen this character and his world as they are portrayed in Warren Beatty's film, then you don't know Dick.
The Tracy comics, especially the early classics, were hard-boiled, violent and brimmed with real emotion. They were instrumental in bringing adult readership and respectability to comics, and rightfully so. Tracy strips were sometimes brutal, but not for brutality's sake. Some stories had a light heart, and there were sillier characters for comic relief. But not the villians. Unlike the film, they were never played for laughs. Cold-blooded and calculating, they each posed a new challange for Tracy right down to their bitter end (usually in a hail of bullets.)
So I'm thinkin', the visual style of Gungrave with the writing style of Cowboy Bebop. The scripts could be adapted from the original stories, albeit with a view towards threading them together into a more cohesive continuity. That way we avoid mashing all those terrific villains together into one big gang and completely losing their characters (another mistake made by the filmmakers.)
OK, that's me for now. Thoughts? Ideas?
-- END!