DhampyrX2 said:
Contrabardus said:
I'd like to see Adi Shankar Produce something for Marvel with Pete Travis directing. Given what they did with Dredd and a limited budget, I say let them have a Marvel property and decent budget, even if it's not something on the level of Avengers.
Those two could probably pull off a Venom project. Adi Shankar already has dabbled in it with
Truth in Journalism. Though I wouldn't mind seeing them tackle something else either. Moon Knight, for example, seems right up their alley.
Moon Night would fall flat with all but the hardest-core of Marvel fans. The casual fan would see a ripoff of Batman and feel like the studio was either getting lazy or jumping the shark.
Not if it's done right. There's enough of an angle on it with him being legitimately insane and the Moon God, along with several interesting elements to him. The guy has several identities, a military history, a much meaner violent streak than Batman, living family including a psychotic brother who likes to chop people up with a meat cleaver, and in all honesty he's more like The Shadow than Batman.
It's a property that has enough interesting elements, including a supernatural angle, that it could work if put to film by the right people. I think Adi Shankar is a guy who could pull it off.
Moon Knight only comes off as a Batman clone if it's done lazily and ignores the lore in favor of a generic vigilante story. Marvel has a pretty good track record of not doing that with movies over the past several years.
Also, like I said, I could see Adi and Pete doing a good, if not great, job on a Venom project too.
An MCU tied in Punisher might be a good fit for the two of them as well. Blade is another decent possibility as it would really need to be R rated, Punisher would be best that way as well. Ghost Rider is another possibility that's likely getting an MCU reboot in the future that would fit with either of the film makers.
Any of those movies could be given a decent, but smaller than the big blockbuster films budget, and get tied into the rest indirectly for older fans and probably do all right in theaters.
Better chance of that happening if Deadpool is a success as an R rated film and it won't be anytime soon no matter what.
I don't see any of those as a 'main' project, but rather as one of the side movies that ties into the rest of the universe, but really doesn't need to be there to hold the whole thing up either. Some of those might work to forward Marvel's larger plans because with Dr. Strange they're introducing the mystical side of the Marvel Universe into the movies. Moon Knight, Blade, or Ghost Rider would all work well to expand on that either as films or as series in the vein of what Netflix is doing right now.