DC developing Suicide Squad, Team 7, Deathstroke and Booster Gold films
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Excited, but I'm not holding my breath. Guess this means a SyFy Booster Gold series is out. It worries me that they are already touting them as "low-budget" though. Still, I'd live a Suicide Squad movie, especially if it's inspired by Ostrander's run.
Excited, but I'm not holding my breath. Guess this means a SyFy Booster Gold series is out. It worries me that they are already touting them as "low-budget" though. Still, I'd live a Suicide Squad movie, especially if it's inspired by Ostrander's run.
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Since DC is struggling to get out any character who isn't from a destroyed planet or a billionaire orphan, we'll see if this gets any momentum for fruition.
M
With the exception of Loki, when does that happen?
Could they find a less-interesting title?
Well... they're a team, see... and there's SEVEN of them!
"Team 7: When all the good names are taken!"
M
Scarecrow- Batman Begins
Joker- TDK
Sandman- Spider-man 3
The Abomination- Incredible Hulk
Magneto and most of the mutant villians- the x-men franchise
There's a decent argument to be made That Red Skull survived- Captain America.
Riddler- Batman Forever.
Everyone in Batman and Robin
Kingpin and Bullseye- Daredevil
Doctor Doom- Fantastic Four
Curt Conners- Amazing Spider-Man
So, a lot actually.
Justin Hammer: Not really a supervillain, just an antagonist.
Who's Mr. Zsasz?
He appeared in Batman Begins; Crane was justifying on the stand why Zsasz should be in Arkham. He later appeared during the inmate escape.
M
In all honesty, I could see myself throwing cash down to see any and all of them. Deathblow seems like the hardest one to make stand out as the solo ubermensch military operator has been done over and over again.
I would in on them like crazy.
"Booster Gold" on the other hand... What the fudge is that even. Is that a beer? Car battery? Vitamin Supplement? I think it's an impossible sell to people who've never seen a Booster Gold before.
Pull in a core cast that can't get killed (Rick Flag, Deadshot, Boomerang, Nightshade, Vixen) and a whole bunch of them who can (Vertigo (from Arrow!), Enchantress, Tiger, etc.) and you've got an episodic show that would be the epitome of "No One Is Safe". Pull a Whedon and get people to like a character then off them a la LOST.
I'd even tolerate skinny Amanda Waller if you get Angela Bassett to reprise the role. :)
I have no issue with the character of Booster Gold. I think he's great and a lot of people recognize it, otherwise he would not be this perpetual adaptation bridesmaid. But I don't think he's any more sellable than Jonah Hex, who's movie didn't fail because of the quality (it's a factor) but because no one knew what that movie was about except that maybe it took place in the old west.
1) Make it funny. Booster Gold is a comedy at its heart. The story is right there in the comic - a kid wants to make it at all costs, cheats to get there, gets caught, learns nothing from the experience, and tries to go back in time to fix things and still get famous in the process. It's relevant to our times - who hasn't read an article lately about people who want to be famous but don't want to put in the hours to become so? So you throw in a theme of "Learning what it means to be a hero." and you have a great movie people will relate to.
2) Pacify the new crowd. Get (and pay for) an actor people will go see regardless of what he's in. If he wasn't too old already Owen Wilson would make a perfect Booster. He can pull off the goofiness of the character, while bringing seriousness in when needed. Chris Evans could do it now, but he's pretty much playing every superhero in the book. :)
3) Pacify the old crowd. Give us a working, funny Skeets. Give the Blue Beetle a cameo/backup role. Use slogans from the comic to promote the movie ("Go for the Gold - Booster Gold") Have the actor do advertisements in character.
Gee...now I kinda want to see this happen. :)
I don't know whether they would try to connect him with the universe they are building out of Man of Steel movies, or whether he would be his own thing. I do think that- at least in the case of how the comics have worked in the past- that part of the core idea of Booster relies on how he fits into a world already populated with superheroes. Unlike, say, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman-- who in their original publishing history started out in their own worlds, and as the only superhero in their world-- Booster was created to interact with a universe of heroes.
I would say, specifically, he was one of those characters that contrasted the largely earnest, respectable, and often very establishment-feeling heroes of the DCU. Part of what made him work was how he fit into a world of popular superheroes because that was what he chose to do as a time traveler that selected that era.
Booster was a post-modern in that way: there was a down on his luck, disgraced guy who comes up with a scheme, creates a persona, and adds himself to a golden age of heroes... for glory and a buck.
So it would help if a Booster Gold movie was one that had some heroes, whether established or invented for the movie, for him to play off of. At least, if they want to try to make use of the ideas of the character that have worked in the past. We'll see.
Oh... and he'd better be blond. Particularly a natural blond. That is not me being resistant to change. That is VITAL. He is, perhaps, the very blondest of blond male superheroes. And I feel I am in a position to judge. I am two of those three things.
Lots of precents after 2 Mr. Jimmy Beams.