I know, I know, I was trying to make a funny.
And wasn't there at least one case where a show could only use a character in their superhero identity because they didn't have the rights to their civilian identity?
I'm not sure if i'd count that since it was just a for a little while and wasn't an actual, official name change.
They changed Falcon to Captain America.
@Christopher , the smiley face indicates a joke.
I think since Tom Holland's character is so integrated into the MCU, it might be really hard to do something that can put in him something without it affecting the MCU.
When the relationship between Marvel and Sint broke down after Far From Home, I thought it would have been cool if Sony went to Warners about making a Batman/Spider-Man film. Of, course, given how long it's taken to get The Batman Part II off the ground, Siny's Spider-Man rights would've probably ended up lapsing.
I am not sure if Gunn would be down for that.... but this COULD be the only way (it seems) to finally do a LIVE ACTION Marvel-DC team-up. So if Feige or Disney ain't willing, Sony surely would see the $$$ in this, and find a way to make it happen.
Speaking of that, could the Marvel & DC actors theoretically do a fan film with their characters meeting up? (Other than an SNL skit)
Norman Osborn would make a fantastic Batman villain, imho. As Norman, his Oscorp would be a business rival of Wayne Industries. As Green Goblin, he would be a real threat to Batman. I might start there.
I’ve always thought a James Bond/Batman crossover would rock - they’re both orphans, both traumatised men masquerading as playboys, both womanisers, Bruce has Alfred and Gordon, Bond has Q and M (you can imagine eg the late Desmond Llewelyn as Alfred, while Ralph Fiennes has been both M and the Lego Alfred), they both have cool cars and gadgets and they both frequently fight grotesques. Christian Bale was supposedly on the shortlist for the next Bond before being cast as Batman, while Pierce Brosnan met with Tim Burton to play Batman.
A story where Bond is in Gotham because he thinks that Bruce Wayne is the sort of sinister millionaire he frequently encounters basically writes itself. But I guess unless WB buys out Amazon or vice versa, it’s not happening on the big screen at least.
A story where Bond is in Gotham because he thinks that Bruce Wayne is the sort of sinister millionaire he frequently encounters basically writes itself. But I guess unless WB buys out Amazon or vice versa, it’s not happening on the big screen at least.
Honestly, same. Ra's al Ghul is, essentially, a Bond villain. Talia is the Bad Bond Girl, though now she's a Bond villain in her own right.
Now that I think about it, the KGBeast is a Bond henchman, too.
The Hong Kong sequence in The Dark Knight is a Bond setpiece.
I don't know if Dynamite still has the James Bond comics rights, but they've done some other crossovers with DC. A Batman/Bond comic might be possible.
And Adam West was considered for the part of James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. He turned it down because he had another commitment, and because he thought, in his words, that "it should be an Englishman" (never mind that Connery was Scottish). https://www.slashfilm.com/1781705/batman-star-adam-west-james-bond-movie-diamonds-are-forever/
Just to get back on subject.... while i am EXTREMELY annoyed that Lord & Miller did NOT have at least a good draft of the 3rd SPider Verse movie in place (since the 2nd movie was clearly the first of a 2 part deal), if they did Project Hail Mary as a creative diversion in between the Spiderverse films, they did an excellent job of it. NOt sure if they had done the SPiderverse movie on time if that would have worked (especially with Brand New Day this summer), but Project Hail Mary really felt fresh and original, and so glad our family saw it)
She put out serious Bond villain vibes in Inception.
I said that the easy choice was for Sony to have put Spider-Man in everything, not Tom Holland.
The biggest reason for Beyond's delay is to allow the animators enough time to do their jobs without feeling overworked, which was a massive issue for Across (and the current animation film industry as a whole). I'm all for the film production taking its time for precisely this reason.
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