Link to the trailer on YouTube
The CGI in some cases doesn't look like it's finished, but since the movie is set to release next february, I imagine they're going to be cleaning up a lot of those effects. Khyron fucked around with this message on 05-26-2006 at 08:08 AM.
+ Eva fucking Mendez. I pop wood just thinking her name.
Trailer looks surprisingly good for a film coming out in February. Means they have more than six months to edit, tweak special effects, etc. Could be good. This morning I was worried it was going to suck ass, but that looks better than I was expecting.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael attempted to be funny by writing:
Dr Strange maybe but you can't do a film on him
Why not?
Start at the begining, take a sort of "Batman Begins" approach on it. Maybe put more of a horror spin on it.
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael obviously shouldn't have said:
Word is they'd like Ghost Rider to either take the place of the Blade franchise (which is going to a TV series) in the movies
Who is going to be played by Sticky Fingaz from Onyx. D:
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Palador ChibiDragon had this to say about Matthew Broderick:
Why not?Start at the begining, take a sort of "Batman Begins" approach on it. Maybe put more of a horror spin on it.
Dr Strange would come off as being very much like Hellboy (which I liked), without the humor elements balancing out the fact you're dealing with some seriously grim stuff. Besides, Strange isn't a supernatural investigator.
And to be blunt, you can't DO a "Batman Begins" approach. Keep in mind that what made "Batman Begins" cool is that everyone knew the story, or the general shape of it, going in. Fleshing it out is what made it cool. Dr Strange was an arrogant asshole of a surgeon with amazingly skilled hands who got in a car wreck, essentially joined the new-age hippy movement, and eventually found a wizened master who taught him the arcane arts. Without getting dangerously close to Hogwarts territory (sad, but true; Harry Potter has a near-monopoly on wizard themes these days) how would to discuss his training?
Besides I've yet to see a movie, TV or Big-Screen, that handled wizards well. Comic books barely handle it, and that's mainly because you can see what the wizard is thinking. You can tell a fighter sort is exerting himself because it's all these big macro-visual movements and signs of fatigue. How do you convey how difficult a spell is to cast in the heat of the moment? Sweat running down your face?
Besides...who would Strange talk to? How would you keep Strange from turning into another "Constantine" movie?
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Who is going to be played by Sticky Fingaz from Onyx. D:
Yeah I saw an interview with him in Wizard a few months back. Bugger.
And yeah, Tok, Cage is an insane fan of comics. That's where he got the "Cage" in his name from. He's actually Francis Ford Coppola's nephew or something. Took "Cage" from Power Man/Luke Cage.
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...Dr Strange maybe but you can't do a film on him).
And why the hell not?
Dr. Strange is one of my favorite characters 
I could easily see them taking a little liscense with the character and doing a whole awesome paranormal X-Files-meets-X-Men sorta thing.
The Dr. Strange story line has been played with so much that one more rennovation really wouldn't hurt much. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 05-27-2006 at 02:15 PM.
I still disagree though. Dr. Strange started out as an arrogant prick of an antihero sure, but the basic idea is that he becomes sorceror supreme and guardian of earth.
There was even a series of comics retelling Dr. Strange's origins, just called "Strange" I believe, based off the unused script for a proposed movie.
In terms of consistency and from a storytelling perspective, the good doctor is little more than a character comprised entirely of deus ex machina. He can never really be in trouble because he can just pull a spell out of his ass and win or at least escape. As I understand it you saw a lot of this in the formative years of a lot of super heroes, however, it's just that the Strange writers never gave it up.
That said, the reason I like the character is because it has such potential. It's the story of an arrogant and self-centered prick who goes searching for power for all the wrong reasons, and upon finding it discovers altruism.
In the comics, Strange was something of a playground character where the writers did whatever over the top crap they wanted to, but in my opinion if you establish a set of rules for the guy, his origin is compelling and original enough to make a really appealing story.
Further, the nature of his powers as a superhero opens the door to all sorts of dramatic extra-dimensional conflict, a`la Constantine and Hellboy, without seeming too out of place or excessively over-the-top as it tended to in those stories.
Plus Strange has style and he's a badass, and he's got a "Juliet" love interest plot built right in.
