More 'doable' as a movie than He-Man?
This would lend itself to a less complicated movie than Bravestarr's stablemate He-Man.
CGI would be needed for the planet and Fort Kerium! Ask 300 makers
30/30 would be difficult, maybe use the people who did Narnia?
But 30/30 would be so f**ck**ing cool in live action CGI! And besides, didn't He-Man ride a tiger? I thought CGI makers say that it's more time consuming to make fur like critters into CGI than it is to make robots or dinosaurs!
shareI think MOTU is more on the scale of something like of the LOTR trilogy or at least in my mind, so it would be much easier.
Try not to take life too seriously, no one gets out alive.
As an apsiring filmmaker who grew up on Filmmation cartoons, I would love to take a crack at doing both He-Man and BraveStarr. And you're right, He-Man would be a more grand scale project of the likes of LOTR, Dark Knight, Harry Potter, Avatar, Narnia.
BraveStarr, while not a small budget film by any means, would require a lesser budget along the lines of a 300, Kick-Ass, Battle:Los Angeles, and the Fast & Furious films. All of these films were done with a budget from 60 to 100 million dollars as opposed to the other films mnetioned above which were all like 200 million dollars or more. While He-Man may require a 200 million dollar budget to do right, I can envision BraveStarr done on a 60-85 million dollar budget.
I would give it more of a look of cyberpunk meets the old west. A bit more of the "grimy fingernails" element of the old west. Big Blade Runnerish video screens. Old West dancing girls with mohawks and cybernetics. The frontier settlements of this world needs to look like its been there for a few decades. Futuristic building that look run down and grimy. Broken windows and barbed wire.
Also, avoid the "Origin" format. Just go in as if it's buisness as usual and Tex Hex and Bravestarr have already butted heads a number of times. Maybe have a flashback to when Hex got corrupted into Stampede's enforcer. No "Rise of Cobra" origin crap and just dive in like Master of the Universe's movie did. We dont need everything explained for us.
Also, avoid the "Origin" format. Just go in as if it's buisness as usual and Tex Hex and Bravestarr have already butted heads a number of times. Maybe have a flashback to when Hex got corrupted into Stampede's enforcer. No "Rise of Cobra" origin crap and just dive in like Master of the Universe's movie did. We dont need everything explained for us.
Well, Masters of the Universe did that and flopped at the 1987 box office. Just saying. ;) share
And Tim Burton's Batman did the same and performed incredibly well. All they had was a 2-3 minute flashback. Just saying.
"GI Joe: Rise of Cobra" did the origin as well and flopped, too. It barely made enough to justify a sequel.
John Carter of Mars: Origin story. Flopped
The Lone Ranger: Origin story. Flopped.
Need I go on?
Besides, you're not seriously suggesting that not adhering slavishly to the origin story format was the reason MotU fared poorly, are you? You cannot possibly be that big of a rube. That movie had more valid reasons behind it's failure.
I'm certainly not going to say doing an origin story was why John Carter and Lone Ranger did badly. But by your own scenario there, those two movies did exactly what you faulted MotU for NOT doing and STILL happened to fail miserably.
Does todays moviegoing public need to have everything spoon fed to them now?
I am very much aware of the other reasons why the 1987 MOTU film flopped - among them being the simple fact that the property's popularity was fading into irrelevance - I am merely pointing out that it tried the hit the ground running approach you are so very much in love with and failed to make money with it.
As for the other "origin story" films you listed - while ignoring other very successful origin films such as 1978's Superman, 2002's Spider-Man, 2008's Iron Man and this past summer's Guardians of the Galaxy - well, frankly they just weren't very good films. Even if they had done the "hit the ground running" approach odds are they still would have done poorly at the box office.
But intentionally or not you're coming across with a bit of an elitist attitude in which you regard yourself as too good for an origin story and too good to associate yourself with those who enjoy origin stories, as evidenced by your remark about modern audiences needing everything "spoon fed to them now", as such I'm opting not to continue this conversation beyond this point, as I feel odds are we won't be able to keep the discussion civil.
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MOTU flopped primarily because it was a piece of crap with almost no relevance to the cartoon, and an extension of the cartoon is what the MOTU fanbase wanted to see.
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