1) I’d like to see a James Bond movie where it’s revealed that his parents survived the ski accident in which they allegedly died and are running an evil spy organization, and his parents are played by Sean Connery and Diana Rigg.
2) I’d like to see a rumor started that Adrian Brody will be starring as “The Shadow,” just so we see if we can actually make it come about.
3) I’d like to see James Cameron’s “Aquaman.”
4) I’d like to see Weird Al Yankovic write a song called “Snakes on a Plane” set to the tune of “Band on the Run.” (Admit it: You’re already singing it to yourself to see how it sounds. Perfect, isn’t it.)
5) I’d like to see in the next “Pirates” movie that Jack Sparrow got his hat from his dad (Keith Richards.)
6) I’d like to see George W. Bush as a guest on “The Daily Show.”
7) I’d like to see Jack Black playing Blackjack.
8) I’d like to see Geoffrey Rush starring as Doctor Syn in a remake of Disney’s “The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh.”
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>>>Well, since “Pirates” is set in the late 1600s and the Scarecrow was operating around the time of the American revolution, I’m moved to ask whether the Scarecrow aided Jack’s escape by having him jump into his time machine…(PAD)
Peter, you’ve gone a bit too far at both ends of the timeline. The time period is never specified for “Pirates”, but most of the costuming and tech ranges from early-to-mid-1700s. (For example, the tall ship Lady Washington, which plays the Interceptor, is a replica of the 1750-built ship of the same name).
And “Scarecrow” – at least the Disney version – is specified as 1736, about 40 years before the Revolution…and right in the time period that “Pirates” would seem to be taking place in.
Haven’t read the fan story in question, but it would seem to work, no time machine required.
Cheers!
Don Hilliard
Well, considering the news I just read, I’d like to see Stargate: SG1 go out with a bang, but with some dignity.
-Rex Hondo-
>>A sequel to “The Saint” where Val Kilmer is taken aside and told by Roger Moore that he’s no Simon Templar.
In a related (but not really) aside, I had a friend who used to have the theory that “James Bond” had evolved into a code name for whoever had the 007 number. After the real bond (Connery) retired, they took another agent (Lazenby) and gave him the name and number. Of course, he royally screwed things up by getting married and then losing his wife, so they fired him and coaxed Bond back for one more adventure.
When he retired again, the agency realized their mistake and brought in someone with more experience to take his place. Enter Simon Templar (Moore) as the new Bond. Then, years later when Templar retired, they tried to get Remington Steele (Brosnan) to take up the mantle, but that didn’t work out.
The whole theory sort of falls apart after that, but only because we couldn’t think of a reason why British Intelligence would have recruited Prince Barin (Dalton) before going back to Steele years later.
Keith Holt
That’s because they wouldn’t have recruited Prince Barin. However, they might very well have taken a chance and recruited Charles Lord (Permission to Kill) for his skills. It would also help explain the more rogue-like nature of his Bond and why he went *blip* so fast.
Hope that helps the theory get back on track.
i’d like to see Peter Weller as Mr. Freeze
The heck with Peter Weller as Freeze … I’d like to see Weller as Batman! (At least, the Weller of about 15 years ago.)
TWL
I’d like to go back in time and make the SPIDER-MAN movie with a teen-aged Peter Weller as Peter Parker.
As for the Bond theory about him being different people, isn’t this the theory that Robert Ludlum adopted for his Bourne novels, that it was a code name and a whole history? Same initials even….
EasterEggs – The DVD
One per year with all the years eastereggs on it. Just because I get so tired of looking for the ones that turn out to be crap.
🙂
All this Bond talk in the “Things we’d like to see” thread reminded me of something I’ve been wanting to see for a long time, but most likely never will. If done properly, I’ve always thought that a Bond/Batman crossover would be great.
SPECTRE starts up an operation in Gotham, and Bond is sent in to take it down. MI6 investigates various Gothamites, finds suspicious Wayne financial records going back many years and comes to the wrong conclusion. Bond and Wayne meet at the sort of social event they both frequent, and each realizes that the other is more than they claim to be. Etcetera…
Just make sure there’s a Batmobile vs. Bondmobile car chase and some gadget vs gadget action before they realize they’re on the same side (probably when Bond finds the Batcave) and you’ve got a 4-part mini easily.
-Rex Hondo-
Alan Coil says: “Devil Dinosaur.”
Okay, true enough. I now realize how vague I was being. There have probably been dinosaurs in comics as much as there have been gorillas in comics dating back to the ’60s (oh, DC and those crazy gorillas).
However, I was thinking about the sorts of comics we’ve been getting now for the range of ages that includes kids and have been noticing there seems to be a fair number of fantasy titles and some superhero titles, but I thought that it would be nice if there were something out there along the lines of “Land of the Lost” only moving past the simplictity of “there’s a T-Rex. There’s a duckbill dinosaur.” regarding the fauna (lets see creatures ranging from Carnotaurus to Baryonx to Garudimimus to Monoclonius and beyond). I’ve got an inkling of an idea for such a story, myself.
7) I’d like to see Jack Black playing Blackjack.
kind of nice to be able to give something back to peter david.
http://tsoya.blogspot.com/2006/08/jack-black-blackjack.html
Bladestar –
Bond is a Gallfreyan?
The spelling would be Gallifreyan, but I think the notion would be more that James Bond is a Time Lord.
Time Lords are Gallifreyans, but not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords. Although, I don’t believe to this day we’ve gotten an explanation for how a Gallifreyan becomes a Time Lord. Or whether all Gallifreyans have the ability to regenerate, or just Time Lords.
It’s quite a mess, isn’t it? 🙂
Adam, the only problem with having monoclonius in a book is people would only get it once, and they’d spend such a long time getting over it that they wouldn’t want to read it again.