Alright, so people that read this probably don't really know my history as a writer, nor would I really expect them to. Back in the late 1990's and early 2000's, I wrote comic books for 5th Panel Comics, SCC Entertainment, A-Bomb Comics and Blatant Comics, introduced my characters LANDIS, ARDY and TAGGER. SCC Entertainment became KEENSPOT.COM, now one of the largest distributors of online comics in the world (kudos to them!). In fact, LANDIS can still be read on there at www.elisalandis.com, which is still part of the Keenspot network.
Finally, after writing those comics, I was tasked with writing one more comic recently, called DEAD SONJA, a parody book based on Red Sonja. Some reviews were decent, others were brutal, but that's why you write for yourself, and not other readers. If others enjoy your vision, you gain a following, but it's still yours when it's creator owned.
After writing Dead Sonja, I wrote a movie treatment for Landis, so I understand the format, and tried to remain within the confines of a really cheap (Sci-Fi Channel) budget, so if it got picked up, it would have been profitable for all parties. It's still in limbo, somewhere, mainly because I don't have the connections to get it out there.
All in all, a lot of credible comic writers and artists know who I am, as I've worked with Ryan Stegman, Ethan Van Sciver, Owen Gieni and Anthony Furtado, so I've written some interesting premises for established characters as well.
Now that I've given you some background on me as a writer, ever since Ryan Reynolds played "Deadpool" in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, people have been up in arms about whether they'd let him play the Merc with a Mouth again. Heck, with the found BLUR Studio footage, people believe now might be the time to get a Rated-R version of Deadpool on the big screen from FOX, but that leads to one very important question...how do you get rid of that ridiculous version of him we already saw?
My answer is simple, and it is below. If this movie happens, and this occurs, you better believe I'll lawyer up, though, lol.
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DEADPOOL Intro Sequence
The last moments Deadpool's act of X-Men Origins: Wolverine is playing...As you see his head get chopped off, you see a very "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" moment, like the old cartoons, where someone is walking in the audience, with the whole "Excuse me, Pardon Me" dumping popcorn. He's in the front row, someone yells at him to sit down. He walks up to the screen and you can now see that it is Deadpool, in the full red costume,voiced by Ryan Reynolds, and he yells...
"Hey, tubby on the projector...Pause that shit for a second." (just as the head's flying off)
He turns around to the crowd and asks, "Come on, now. Did you guys really think this would happen to your favorite Merc with a Mouth? You can't shut me up, and no pussy like Wolverine would ever get close enough to chopping my head off..."
"Right? Right?"
One of the other voices in his head would be a voiceover box saying, "Wade, they aren't laughing..."
"I ain't laughing, either. This is deplorable, a travesty of justice, and there's only one way to make it right..."
At this moment, he pulls out a blowtorch from nowhere, starts firing up the screen, and then we pan out to the entire theatre running out, screaming "FIRE!" and "He's Crazy!" and finally, after all that, we see him walk out the door, he gets far enough away, the whole building explodes, and he turns to the camera and says:
"Now that's how you make an entrace, bitches!"
"DEADPOOL" Flashes across the screen,
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and that is how you start a DEADPOOL Movie.
Finally while I agree that it should be action heavy, I'd give it a Johnny Dangerously feel, where it was corny, but funny, yet people really bought into the characters. I always loved that movie, and Deadpool really fits that old school Michael Keaton vibe.
Leave comments if you agree, disagree, or send this to your friends who are Deadpool fans. Who knows, maybe we can kickstarter this bitch!
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