The technicians at the Marvel/Disney labs are hard at work trying to process materials like these

Odradek

Into yummy, delicious Content for the whole family.

Anonus

But Mr. Torgo, isn't it already delicious enough?

Odradek

There are lines of dialogue that aren't quips! It's totally unoptimized!

lee4hmz

if the future, we will speak only in evil laughs and dress in day-glo pajamas

Tachyon

no, in the future we will speak only in quips and dress in distinctive, marketable outfits

lee4hmz

that works too

Anonus

You could always dress in distinctive, marketable outfits and speak in lots of malapropisms

Sredni Vashtar

There needs to be a Doctor Strange film, but only if someone appropriately insane directs it.

Obā-san

Benedict Cumberbatch will play every role in the Doctor Strange film a la The Nutty Professor

Anonus

0vvvv0 said:

There needs to be a Doctor Strange film, but only if someone appropriately insane directs it.

Marvel's planning on making it

I don't know if they will go for an insane director

Sredni Vashtar

Any director but a visionary would undersell just how trippy that comic was. It is basically B-movie science fantasy meets transcendental surrealist odyssey. There is a universe-conquering demon made of fire and the protagonist uses his third eye and ancient grimoires to solve magical problems in interdimensional space.

Section42L

0vvvv0 said:

There needs to be a Doctor Strange film, but only if someone appropriately insane directs it.

I still maintain that you could make a really good Howard the Duck film if you gave it to an indie filmmaker and kept it as far away from the MCU as possible.

Sredni Vashtar

Marceline the Vampire Queen said:

0vvvv0 said:

There needs to be a Doctor Strange film, but only if someone appropriately insane directs it.

I still maintain that you could make a really good Howard the Duck film if you gave it to an indie filmmaker and kept it as far away from the MCU as possible.

I could buy that.

An animated film would suit the contrasts better than live-action, though.

Section42L

0vvvv0 said:

Marceline the Vampire Queen said:

0vvvv0 said:

There needs to be a Doctor Strange film, but only if someone appropriately insane directs it.

I still maintain that you could make a really good Howard the Duck film if you gave it to an indie filmmaker and kept it as far away from the MCU as possible.

I could buy that.

An animated film would suit the contrasts better than live-action, though.

I think the ideal medium for him would be a live-action/2-D animation blend ala Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Anonus

You think Walt Disney Animation Studios could pull it off?

Anonus

(no way Pixar would do it - Lasseter and Catmull are not about to milk IP other than their own over there!)

Sredni Vashtar

That makes sense.

Now my torn feelings about the concept of a Doom Patrol adaptation are rising up in me. How could anyone do it justice? Who could, for that matter?

Salix Babylonika

Doom Patrol would work better as an animated series.

Section42L

I feel like Brad Bird might be able to pull something off with Howard, but you would probably have to sell him on it first.

Anonus

Witchy Jane said:

Doom Patrol would work better as an animated series.

I've been tempted to do things with Doom Patrol in the context of ABC Warner's universe (ABC owns DC), but I always worry that it would be seen as a ripoff of X-Men

But yeah I would love to do cartoons for DC's not-huge properties!

Odradek

The Doom Patrol did make an appearance in Teen Titans.

Salix Babylonika

Doom Patrol would be like

a fuckin weird show.

It'd have to be

Anonus

I haven't seen that episode, it must not have been in Boomerang's rotation >_>

Anonus

seriously they did that thing where they ran like half the series - if that - and started over again

Salix Babylonika

it was in the last season which many people did not like, the wtf-ridden finale aside

Sredni Vashtar

Anonus said:

Witchy Jane said:

Doom Patrol would work better as an animated series.

I've been tempted to do things with Doom Patrol in the context of ABC Warner's universe (ABC owns DC), but I always worry that it would be seen as a ripoff of X-Men

But yeah I would love to do cartoons for DC's not-huge properties!

Even in the context of your imaginary universe, please read Morrison's run of the comics before even joking about that. Or making an X-Men comparison: The Premiani run was clearly influential on its rival, but even that was more subversive and whacked out.

Seriously, that is probably my favourite mainstream comic series ever. Tread lightly or I will eat you.

Witchy Jane said:

Doom Patrol would work better as an animated series.

Yes. It would be difficult to sum everything that is worthwhile about it up in a film, and more difficult in live action by far. But the director would have to be pretty inventive.

Obā-san

0vvvv0 said:

Tread lightly or I will eat you.

but i thought you only had eyes for me

Salix Babylonika

chill, Sredboy Vash

Anonus

You told me DP was a ripoff of X-Men yourself...

But sure, I'm interested

Salix Babylonika

................................

why didn't I go as Crazy Jane for Halloween this year on the forums

Odradek

Anonus

you're going to call attention to that grody old thing every time someone brings up X-Men aren't you

Anonus

we HAVE a thread for complex, subtle plots man

Salix Babylonika

remember that Youtube video that's just like a random montage of contextless clips from that cartoon

Odradek

I love that clip so much.

Odradek

This is my thread, and I can do what I want provided I keep to the rules of the forum and don't act like an asshole.

Sredni Vashtar

Anonus said:

You told me DP was a ripoff of X-Men yourself...

But sure, I'm interested

Other way around. Sort of. They borrowed from each other, but I think Doom Patrol was out a few months earlier, or was supposed to be but got pushed back? It was a weird time. Marvel and DC had similar ideas at the same time and ran with them in slightly different directions.

The real differences came later. The earlier Doom Patrol revivals that overlapped with Teen Titans were apparently pretty lame and much indebted to the likes of X-Men, yes, but when Grant Morrison took the reins at the end of the 1980s, things got very weird very fast. Grant Morrison loves obscure comics continuity minutiae and all forms of the bizarre in about equal measure. It shows.

That would make for an amazing show, but nobody would broadcast it. It's wacky, sure, but it also gets heavy as hell, and early.

Salix Babylonika

I love that clip so much.

*extends adamantine claws*

...turkey

*cuts off turkey leg, eats leg while walking away*

Sredni Vashtar

Witchy Jane said:

................................

why didn't I go as Crazy Jane for Halloween this year on the forums

...next year you must do this. You will make my month.

Salix Babylonika

this is actually worse than when I realized I should've gone as Shirley Temple With A Gun

Sredni Vashtar

:3 said:

0vvvv0 said:

Tread lightly or I will eat you.

but i thought you only had eyes for me

Not that way, darling.

I would cross the Wall of Severance only for you.

Odradek

Salix Babylonika

could we be under attack....on CHRISTMAS EVE?

Anonus

0vvvv0 said:

Anonus said:

You told me DP was a ripoff of X-Men yourself...

But sure, I'm interested

Other way around. Sort of. They borrowed from each other, but I think Doom Patrol was out a few months earlier, or was supposed to be but got pushed back? It was a weird time. Marvel and DC had similar ideas at the same time and ran with them in slightly different directions.

The real differences came later. The earlier Doom Patrol revivals that overlapped with Teen Titans were apparently pretty lame and much indebted to the likes of X-Men, yes, but when Grant Morrison took the reins at the end of the 1980s, things got very weird very fast. Grant Morrison loves obscure comics continuity minutiae and all forms of the bizarre in about equal measure. It shows.

That would make for an amazing show, but nobody would broadcast it. It's wacky, sure, but it also gets heavy as hell, and early.

yeah I meant the other way around

Section42L

Witchy Jane said:

remember that Youtube video that's just like a random montage of contextless clips from that cartoon

Not that clip, but this is obligatory anyway:

Anonus

also these kinds of shows are what my version of Toonami is for :n

Salix Babylonika

I think you better watch your mouth....and mine!

Salix Babylonika

now clean it and cook it for lunch!!

Salix Babylonika

Anonus said:

also these kinds of shows are what my version of Toonami is for :n

Doom Patrol would actually make a terrific Midnight Run show

Sredni Vashtar

I want to see "The Beard Hunter" animated. It would be like if Archer was actually good.

Salix Babylonika

what is that object?

it appears to be the ace of spades