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Starting from Nothing...

Started by pauljholden, 17 January, 2021, 09:47:40 PM

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pauljholden

Was thinking today how odd it is that the entire Marvel film/tv universe was more-or-less kickstarted by Iron Man - a decidedly C-list character who was so obscure that Marvel - when desperate for cash and filling for chapter 11 practically couldn't give the movie rights away, leading to the marvel cinematic universe as we know it.

I've been watching Legends of Tomorrow (the CW tv series, that's basically a DC comics series) and thinking how odd it was that the entire CW tv series was more-or-less kickstarted from the Green Arrow who, presumably, DC couldn't get arrested in a film, leading to his tv success.

So, just wondering, let's play an imaginary game.

For 2000AD the big characters are off the board, you can't have Dredd, Strontium Dog, or indeed anything that has had multi year success in 2000ad - you can have weird one offs, series that were done in one.

What do you pick for your starting from nothing 2000ad universe ... does a Wolfie Smith tv series lead, somehow inevitably to Strontium Dog (via about half a dozen other characters?)

Do you start with Banzai Battallion (stripped of its Dredd world trappings) to get to a Robohunter movie?

What do you start with and how do you get to a Dredd film/tv? (please explain your thinking... :P)

-pj

Colin YNWA

Oh fun.

Tyranny Rex - she's about the same level as Iron Man and Green Arrow right. Nice out there crime caper. End of the first Season we get introduced to Indigo Prime, Second season dimension hoping ago-go and before you know it the last scene of season 2 sees Tyranny and say Danny land in a crazy future city only to have a gun pointed at them by a behelmeted future cop....

... though maybe that's end Season 3 maybe we take them to Flesh in Season 2 so we can create a link to Satanus for like Season 5 or whatever.

Jim_Campbell

Bonjo animated series in the style of Bananaman leads into Gerry Anderson-style Nemesis the Warlock puppet show, followed by stop-motion/live action Flesh series in the style of The Valley of Gwangi. After that, it's straight into the $10M-an-episode live action/CG Judge Dredd TV series.
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rogue69

you could start with Invasion with a secondary series that works around life in Volgan occupied UK, follow that into Savage for season 2/3 then bring in the war robots which could lead to a series about the Volgan war on Mars/ABC Warriors and a Ro-Buster's spin off series.

Tiplodocus

Start with OUTLAW... oh, hang on a minute...
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Funt Solo

A Department K cartoon - you get an episodic format built-in because of the random dimension-hopping, and can insert any other strip into that on your way to an eventual return to Mega-City One. You even get to play with alternate dimension versions of Earth - maybe they only think they've found their way home!
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Funt Solo

Mr. Amperduke is relocated to the Hoop, so that you can spin into Halo Jones. She hears at some point that Rodice has moved to Mega-City One...
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The MACH 1 trilogy of films ends with John Probe being killed protecting the aliens who are on Earth looking for Skizz, who got separated from an alien delegation here to secretly ally with a politician. Then Origins and a shedload of Dredds.

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Andrew_J

Some elevator pitches for Netflix tv shows to get the MCU (Mega City Universe) rolling:

Al's Baby - "Pregnant Tony Soprano. Bada bing, bada boom!"
PJ Maybe - "Dexter Howser, M.D."
Cadet Dredd - "The Inbestigators with mild violence!"
The Helltrekkers - "Star Trek in the Wild West" (geddit?)

All of these would lead inexorably to:
Dredd 2
Fargo: The First Dredd
Dredd 3
Death: The Dark Judge
Armageddon: The Nuclear Winter
Justice Department: Civil War
Hershey: Far From Home

As for a Noam Chimpsky sitcom; am I the only one who hears the Seinfeld bass guitar riff whenever I imagine this?

Trooper McFad

To get the USA on board I'd go for the all conquering Harlem Heroes. They do like their winning teams. Take your sporting hero and put in Inferno and we obviously know where Giant's blood line leads.
You could also throw in Mean Arena for more future sporting carnage.
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Andrew_J

Quote from: Trooper McFad on 18 January, 2021, 07:49:52 PM
To get the USA on board I'd go for the all conquering Harlem Heroes. They do like their winning teams. Take your sporting hero and put in Inferno and we obviously know where Giant's blood line leads.
You could also throw in Mean Arena for more future sporting carnage.

"All or Nothing: Harlem Heroes". Amazon need to commission this straightaway.

Funt Solo

A violent future sports saga lends itself to an episodic format, right enough.
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Tiplodocus

I'd start with a series about the courtship rituals and societal mores impacting the lives of young eligible law enforcement officers. Rakishly charming lawmen,  Unjudicial liaisons, bastard children, bare knuckled fights between officers in their codpiece, uniform zips straining to contain heaving bosoms etc.

Call it JUDGERTON.

Old Stony Face can turn up in Season 2.
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Funt Solo

Quote from: Tiplodocus on 18 January, 2021, 09:28:39 PM
uniform zips straining to contain heaving bosoms etc.

Yeah, as if that'd ever arise from 2000 AD.
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