I thought your plot idea was clear and workable.
Dude is an archaeologist. All his life, he feels drawn to images and artifacts from ancient Egypt. Once such artifact gives him a sudden flood of memories! He is reincarnated. That explains it! An enemy archaeologist wants this awesome artifact. He uses ancient spells/tech to make a thief into a shadow thief who steals the thing. Dude has to convince girl who he doesn't really know that she's really his girlfriend from two thousand years ago. Together they can recover the artifact. It's at the top of a tall tower,though. How to get up there? If only they could fly! The tower emits a magnetic pulse. Machinery won't work in it? If only they had ancient weapons! That seems really simple to me. I don't know why you think it's too complicated for people. You did a good job. Celebrate yourself! Shag, making him likable in the comics first before the movies is like whispering a recipe to your pets before you cook it. Whatever they do in the comics is unheard, unseen. -----Original Message----- From: Luke <[email protected]> To: The Unique Geek <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 12:48 am Subject: [The Unique Geek] Re: Hawkman Movie Is "What" Meets "The Hell?" Except it's not. I'm the biggest Hawkman fan I know, and I am willing to bet probably the biggest Hawkman fan any of you know, and even I think that the potential for a Hawkman film is incredibly slim. Could such a story work on film? Yes, I think so. Open in ancient Egypt, as Khufu and Chay-era oversea the investigation of the Thanagarian ship, followed by their murder by Hath-Set. Cut to present day and archeologist Carter Hall has recovered several mysterious artifacts from a dig in Egypt. This gets the attention of one Dr. Anton Hastor, who wants to study the properties of the strange metal artifacts. Carter ends up coming having all of his memories restored by one artifact (the Absorbascon), which leads him to a secret chamber where he finds Khufu and Chay-era's tomb and their wings. Hastor uses another one of the artifacts (Dimensiometer) to equip master thief Carl Sands with Shadow powers, allowing him to break into the Midway City museum to obtain the other alien artifacts. This leads to a fight with new hero Hawkman, and from there we introduce Shiera Saunders, get flashback montages of their past lives, and eventually lead to the final confrontation between Hawkman and Hastor, which brings in Shiera as Hawkwoman to make the save. But even as I read this as a Hawkman fan I KNOW that such a story is too convoluted to make much sense on screen. Audiences only like complex films when they are artsy like Inception. For now DC needs to focus on making Hawkman the best character they can in the comics and get his popularity and awareness up before trying to tackle such a project. On Jun 2, 12:45 am, [email protected] wrote: > It's like Die Hard in an ancient pyramid. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Bailey <[email protected]> > To: theuniquegeek <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 2:48 pm > Subject: Re: [The Unique Geek] Hawkman Movie Is "What" Meets "The Hell?" > > Part Indiana Jones/Da Vinci Code, Part Ghost actually works for me. You > start throwing around words like reincarnated prince to a movie executive and they will shut you down in a heart beat. You high concept the thing based on successful movies and you have a shot. > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://gammasquad.uproxx.com/2011/06/hawkman-movie-is-what-meets-the-... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- > This post/e-mail was written by Michael Bailey, Superman Apologist > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
