After SuperHeroes , What Do You Think Will be the Next Big Thing in The Movies?

[Overread]

You don’t think the Thor films were fantasy? Those costumes, huge swords, gods & monsters etc etc

Yes but to enjoy the Thor films you also have to watch two dozen other super-hero films for the mash-up films and also likely a TV series or two that's streaming and and - this is part of my issue with the comic burnout. It gets even worse when you've got multiple reboots - eg Spiderman has at least 4 different film reboots and that's before we start hitting the "spiderverse" lets mash all of the all the spiders into one


So yes they are in that science fantasy bracket, but its super super superhero messy. Also the superhero structure is way different to your classic Conan or Lord of the Rings style films. Some hope is that the DnD film did well and that's basically the same as "action flick fantasy". So we can hope that perhaps fantasy has a surge of popularity.

 

[Harpo]

Game Of Thrones inspired a new generation of fantasy filmmaking. Where is it?

 

[CupofJoe]

They are making Gladiator 2... So maybe Sword and Sandal is making a comeback

 

[Harpo]

They are making Gladiator 2... So maybe Sword and Sandal is making a comeback

2004 had Troy, Alexander, and King Arthur. And Shaun Of The Dead.
Maybe it’s time for more films like Army Of Darkness?

 

[BAYLOR]

2004 had Troy, Alexander, and King Arthur. And Shaun Of The Dead.
Maybe it’s time for more films like Army Of Darkness?

Bran Mac Morn The Legion From the Shadow by Karl Edward Wagner This book is based on the character created by Robert E Howard . It's a sword and sand heroic fantasy with plenty of horror in it.

 

[Harpo]

But is it enough for a decade of films in that genre?
Remember, this is to replace superhero films, and those have had over half a century of comics to build upon.

Whatever will replace them will need something like that.
Pulp westerns, rig veda, blues/jazz biopics, Enid Blyton On Mars, big budget remakes of stories from Penny Dreadfuls and 2000AD (not just Dredd) etc etc.

It may take a while, but this thread started way back when the entire MCU only had two phases

 

[Harpo]

But is it enough for a decade of films in that genre?
Remember, this is to replace superhero films, and those have had over half a century of comics to build upon.

Whatever will replace them will need something like that.
Pulp westerns, rig veda, blues/jazz biopics, Enid Blyton On Mars, big budget remakes of stories from Penny Dreadfuls and 2000AD (not just Dredd) etc etc.

It may take a while, but this thread started way back when the entire MCU only had two phases

Hmmm, something that has half a century of material to build upon?

What if Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey turns out to be the first hint of an entire swathe, nay an avalanche no less, of new films that play merry hells with old classic tales everyone knows, but which will become public domain?

Might we see horror/sci-fi/crimethriller/romcom/et blimmin cetera variations on these?

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And then after that, here are a few characters who (original versions only) might go that way, and when:

2024: Mickey Mouse & Popeye
2027: Conan The Barbarian
2028: King Kong
2029: Donald Duck & Flash Gordon
2030: Porky Pig
2032: Daffy Duck

And so on.....potentially for decades. What if (to take one example from the above) in 2029 we might get a big budget version of Flash Gordon, featuring King Kong, Conan The Barbarian, and Donald Duck? (Or whatever)

I just checked - WTP:B&H cost under $100,000 to make, and the box office was five million dollars. If that’s an average for how these things might do, it will almost definitely happen.

 

[BAYLOR]

Id love to see a new Conan the Barbarian film .

 

[Harpo]

Id love to see a new Conan the Barbarian film .

Yes, but what if it’s like Blood & Honey? What if somebody makes “Carry On Conan” or “Conan: The Musical” or whatever - and if their profit is fifty times their budget, they will make an entire series of such things.

When Asylum had been making films for a decade, they made Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus, Mega Pirahna, Mega Shark Vs Crocosaurus, and my favourite Mega Python Vs Gatoroid. And that was before they made six Sharknado films.
Now I’ve just seen they made a 25th anniversary film with all their monsters

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Asylum Films have led the way for the next bunch of such film companies, we might all be swamped by “Mecha-Conan And The Blustery Day” nonsense for decades.

 

[BAYLOR]

Yes, but what if it’s like Blood & Honey? What if somebody makes “Carry On Conan” or “Conan: The Musical” or whatever - and if their profit is fifty times their budget, they will make an entire series of such things.

When Asylum had been making films for a decade, they made Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus, Mega Pirahna, Mega Shark Vs Crocosaurus, and my favourite Mega Python Vs Gatoroid. And that was before they made six Sharknado films.
Now I’ve just seen they made a 25th anniversary film with all their monsters

2025 Armageddon - Wikipedia

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Asylum Films have led the way for the next bunch of such film companies, we might all be swamped by “Mecha-Conan And The Blustery Day” nonsense for decades.

Id like to see Asylum fro A Throngor film .

 

[Judderman]

Must be getting to time to remake all the Hammer Horror movies.

 

[BAYLOR]

Must be getting to time to remake all the Hammer Horror movies.

A few of those would make great broadways musicals .

 

[KGeo777]

Carry on Conan I could see being done. Funny enough, I was thinking of watching one of those Carry On films. I have only see Carry On Screaming. I generally avoid comedies.
Hammer didn't make those right? They did On the Buses?
I have only see the tv show of that.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Carry on Conan I could see being done. Funny enough, I was thinking of watching one of those Carry On films. I have only see Carry On Screaming. I generally avoid comedies.
Hammer didn't make those right? They did On the Buses?
I have only see the tv show of that.

Hammer didn't make the Carry-on films and you have probably seen the best of them in Carry on Screaming. Though Carry-on Cleo has its moments and looks like the biggest budget. This is because when The Taylor / Burton Cleopatra abandoned their British studio and decamped to Italy the Carry-on team shot their film using the abandoned costumes/props and sets.

 

[KGeo777]

I wasn't blown over by the humor of COS but since there are so many of them--I assumed they must have some humor value but I am not exactly looking forward to finding out.

 

[JunkMonkey]

I wasn't blown over by the humor of COS but since there are so many of them--I assumed they must have some humor value but I am not exactly looking forward to finding out.

They are lowest common denominator humour - culturally interesting I supose in demonstrating how sexually repressed and insular the British psyche was/is but I wouldn't want to watch more than one in a year

 

[Guttersnipe]

Apps. They will make films about apps.

 

[KGeo777]

Planet of the Apps

 

[Harpo]

Apps. They will make films about apps.

A bit like Tron?

 

[Guttersnipe]

A bit like Tron?

If you like.