Alpha Flight Respect from Cube and Splice Movie Director

[Tiberius Bane]

Just read this this morning.

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/05/17/splice-director-alpha-flight-movie/

Too bad Joe Q doesn't think a Canadian superhero team is interesting enough.

MikeM

[Legerd]

Thank you Bane for posting this link, and thank you Natali for getting the idea of an Alpha Flight movie out there big time. As a fan of Cube I'd give this guy a shot at bringing the Flight to the big screen.

[Ahab]

No joke - this can be found on the CBR website:

ALPHA FLIGHT
"Splice" director (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26274#) Vincenzo Vitali suggests to MTV News (http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/05/17/splice-director-alpha-flight-movie/) another superhero title he might like to take on. "I'll put this out there: maybe 'Alpha Flight,'" says the director. "I thought that would be interesting, to give a little Canadian angle on the superhero mythology .... It's an interesting group and it had a lot of different members, so you can take it in a number of different directions. I think it would be cool." No deal is in place and, for the most part, Vitali is thinking out loud, but its one of the more interesting ideas a director has expressed when asked, "What comic book would you make into a movie?"

How CRAZY would THAT be???

[DelBubs]

Threads merged. Seemed simpler

[SNOWCHILD]

No joke - this can be found on the CBR website:

ALPHA FLIGHT
"Splice" director (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=26274#) Vincenzo Vitali suggests to MTV News (http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/05/17/splice-director-alpha-flight-movie/) another superhero title he might like to take on. "I'll put this out there: maybe 'Alpha Flight,'" says the director. "I thought that would be interesting, to give a little Canadian angle on the superhero mythology .... It's an interesting group and it had a lot of different members, so you can take it in a number of different directions. I think it would be cool." No deal is in place and, for the most part, Vitali is thinking out loud, but its one of the more interesting ideas a director has expressed when asked, "What comic book would you make into a movie?"

How CRAZY would THAT be???

Oh God, this interview made my day, absolutely terrific.

[Ben]

One of the authors (the only Canadian) of the website Screen Rant sent me this article link:

http://screenrant.com/vincenzo-natali-alpha-flight-movie-rob-60617/

[MistressMerr]

Loving how much attention a few comments from a random director is getting! Plenty of great Alpha fan comments in that last link, too, but Screenrant's always had a pretty cool user base.

[Le Messor]

Would the director of Cube be a good choice, though?
It was, as I remember, a bleak movie, with a very cynical outlook - not sure how I'd like an Alpha Flight movie like that.
And Splice? The way I remember it, it has that whole 'I've never seen it' vibe going, which I would truly loathe in an Alpha Flight movie, even a bad one.

That said, I don't know how versatile he is as a director. Could the guy who made Brain Dead make Frighteners? Could he make a good Fellowship of the Ring? Turns out, the answer is 'yes'.

So, I'd have to see the finished movie before I could judge - but yay to the respect! And if he wants to make one, more power to him!

The second article: I really wish they hadn't led with an image from v3, but otherwise good. I especially like their suggestion of Nathan Fillion as Guardian, since we know (http://www.alphaflight.net/showthread.php?4860-Nathan-Fillion&highlight=Nathan+Fillion) he's at least read AF.

- Le Messor
Buffy: "Have I ever let you down?"
Giles: "Do you want me to answer that, or shall I just glare?"

[suzene]

Eh. They got Rawston "Dodgeball" Thurbur to do the Elfquest movie, so there have been weirder matches of directors to comic properties. At least Vitali seems to be fond of the team.

[Le Messor]

The question is, did Thurbur do a good 'Elfquest' movie?
There's an Elfquest movie?

My mind is still blowing over M. Night Shyamalan doing Avatar: The Last Airbender. He couldn't be any more opposite to the show; I'm hoping we'll get to see Aang smile at some point in the movie, but knowing Shyamalan (as a fan), we won't.

- Le Messor
"Have we got a college? Have we got a football team?....Well we can't afford both. Tomorrow we start tearing down the college."
~ Groucho in Horse Feathers

[cmdrkoenig67]

This could be good or it could be bad...I don't see Marvel going for it, though...There's far too much bias going on there against Alpha these days.

Dana

EDIT: OOOOH!...How about Steve Bacic for Mac? He's tall (6'1"), dark (hair and eyes) and built...He's done a lot of TV, a few movies (he was Henry McCoy in X2) and he's Canadian.

[suzene]

The question is, did Thurbur do a good 'Elfquest' movie?
There's an Elfquest movie?

It's still in pre-production -- they just finished the first draft of the script last year. He's definitely been passionate about the project, but we'll have to see so far as execution goes.

I wonder if Marvel even has the rights to do an AF movie right now. Depending on how closely they're bundled up with the X-Men franchise, that might be Fox's decision.

[Ahab]

OOOOH!...How about Steve Bacic for Mac? He's tall (6'1"), dark (hair and eyes) and built...He's done a lot of TV, a few movies (he was Henry McCoy in X2) and he's Canadian.

I may be wrong, but I thought Kelsey Grammar played the Beast in X2. Or was that X3?

[DelBubs]

I may be wrong, but I thought Kelsey Grammar played the Beast in X2. Or was that X3?
He played the Beast in X3, just recently watched all the X-Men movies again, don't recall the Beast in the second one?

[mreeez]

He played the Beast in X3, just recently watched all the X-Men movies again, don't recall the Beast in the second one?

Brief shot doing an interview on a TV in the background. I forget which scene it is on but the caption on the bottom of the TV screen has his name.

[DelBubs]

I should be more observant when watching these things.

[Alpha Rider]

I realy hope that it's made, and not just talks. Though I always felt due to the complexity of the charators, Alpha would be better as an on going T.V Series.

[Le Messor]

The Henry McCoy scene in X2 (where he's debating Sebastian Shaw) was on a TV in the background in a bar - I believe when Mystique is picking up the security guard?

I thought he looked a little overweight there, but it's hard to tell with such a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo. (And some of you blinked!)

Alpha Rider: 1) welcome aboard. viii) TV series? Agreed. If they do it right.

- Le Messor
"Have you ever talked into an acoustic modem?... Did it answer?"

[Alpha Rider]

Thanks Le Messor. My Thoughts is that they focus more on the Charaters than CGI SFX.

[Le Messor]

Absolutely; though both would be nice. (Though no TV series would have the budget to do a super team full justice.)

- Le Messor
"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."
~ William Shakespeare

[Alpha Rider]

Smallville seems to do okay, from what I saw from time to time.

[Le Messor]

It doesn't regularly have a full team; just one super character. (And they downplay the powers a bit, too.)

- Le Messor
"What do you want to do when you grow up?"
Clark Kent: "I don't know, I just know I don't want to put on a suit and fly around a lot."
~ Smallville

[suzene]

OK, saw 'Splice'.

If this guy didn't adapt one of the Plodex stories to the screen, it would be a crying shame.

[DIGGER]

Either Alpha movie or t.v. series would be cool (won't hold my breath for them though), but just to add another name to the big "Mac" debate howabout Yannic Bisson from the Murdoch Mysteries. He is Canadian and would portray a troubled Hudson better than Fillion.

[Legerd]

I'd love to see an animated AF. Marvel and DC are both pumping out animated flicks like they'll lose all their copyrights tomorrow; if only there was some love for AF at Marvel.

[Le Messor]

Legerd... Did you hear Puck's voice last time they animated him?
How 'bout Snowbird's?

(To the second - no, you didn't. Nobody did, that's the problem.)

- Le Messor
"Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked in the head with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. Sorry, Ted, that's a dumb question... skip that."
- Flying High

[Legerd]

Legerd... Did you hear Puck's voice last time they animated him?
How 'bout Snowbird's?

:. Yeah, I remember, but they don't have to use the same voice talent now.

[Le Messor]

True dat - or they could use the same guy, but this time not let him near a helium balloon.

- Le Messor
"He knows the precise psychological moment when to say nothing."
~ Wilde

[DIGGER]

Le Messor, I have to agree with you on the last time Alpha was animated. Thrilled when it aired all those years ago (until I saw how they portrayed Alpha in both character and voice). Still, I bought the dvd when it came out just to see them on t.v. again (once again with mixed emotions). If they do another animated version Alpha has got to be shown as the heroic group, not "repo men" or a bunch of keystone cops.

[Le Messor]

Digger, you're not the only one with mixed emotions. You're not the only one adrift on this ocean.
I bought the DVD too. Now I just need to see the Sasquatch episode of Hulk...

- Le Messor
"He put the stomach back and began to feel around for the small intestine ... That's when something bit him."
~ Simon Ian Childer, Worm

[DIGGER]

The what?

DIGGER

[cmdrkoenig67]

Sasquatch/Walter Langkowski appeared in an episode of the Incredible Hulk animated series from the 90s, Digger.

Dana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDdLo4j1So8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9yVlvwv_hA&feature=related

[DIGGER]

Dana,
Thanks for the thread. Watched it just now....talk about taking creative liberty with an existing character. Getting real tired of seeing Canada's heroes portrayed as unstable morons who haven't got a clue!

DIGGER

[cmdrkoenig67]

Yup...It was a pretty awful take on the character IMHO. The Walter we know from the comics was certainly very driven to repeat Banner's experiment, but the cartoon exaggerates this a bit much and makes Walt an obsessed loonie.

Dana

[Alpha Rider]

The ending reminds me of Frankenstine, where the monster loats away on an iceflo.

[cmdrkoenig67]

Yeah...I think that's what the writers were going for with that scene.

Dana

[mreeez]

Good advocate for AF to have since he's got the gig for Neuromancer.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/10/vincenzo-natali-officially-announced-as-director-of-neuromancer/

[Le Messor]

Digger - sorry, I really thought you'd know about that. Still, problem solved, eh?

Dana - um, thanks? Now I've seen it at last...
Ugh. This episode was badly written! And I don't just mean how badly they did Sas; reversing which is the monster out of him and Hulk.
Though I did notice it was by Len Wein. Wow.

- Le Messor
"You've watched it, you can't unwatch it!"
- Futurama, Scary Door

[cmdrkoenig67]

LOL...You're welcome, Mik? ;) It was a pretty bad episode...Shame on Len Wein!

Dana