Alpha Flight movie ideas

[Le Messor]

Alan Rickman as The Master! (I just thought of that.)
There's a whole other thread devoted to casting ideas. (But, evenflow, they all look great; I don't know about Fillion as Puck, but I do know he's read Alpha Flight, and deserves to be somebody. How 'bout Guardian? Your Langowski would look like him if he were twenty years younger.)

I don't know where it is.

As to basic plotting ideas:
Usually in a movie of this sort, you need a POV character, somebody for the audience to latch onto. Somebody they can relate to, who starts out knowing as much about the team as the average audience member: Nothing.

I think Marrina could be that character. She comes in, joins the team, learns about it along with the audience.

OR... The alien invasion idea; this could be what brings the team together in the first place. They've never met before now, but the invasion makes a bunch of supers come together. (N'star would obviously need a personal reason. And I suggest, for the first movie, that we imply without saying that he's gay; but we can say it, too. Aliens killing a lover would be an easy motivation.)

But I've had thoughts... If AF were a TV series, couldn't it follow the LOST format?
We have a plot of the episode, mixed with the partial origin story of the character? I think that'd work well.

- Le Messor
"Accessing sympathy... Access denied."
-- Legostar Galactica

[shaman]

http://forum.alphaflight.net/viewtopic.php?t=1139

this was the other thread, it has some pretty interesting choices on it.



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[SasqFan]

I remember from the last discussion we had about actors and stand by Peter Dirkledge as Puck http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227759/

That's....actually a good pick

He'd have to be aged, and he's nearly a foot taller (4'5") than Puck's Alphanex entry (3'6"). He's got a good look for Eugene, however so the other factors are probably incidental.

Found this image online of a professional dwarf acrobat:


He's a few inches short for Puck's 'official' height but it's something to ponder that there are real acrobatic dwarves who might at least be able to do the stunts or wear a CG suit like was done for Golum.

[shaman]

that may be but look at Hugh Jackman as wolverine, he's 6'1"

[Le Messor]

I've been imagining Puck in biker gear.
My image for an Alpha Flight movie is that the costumes we see in comics are art 'shortcuts'; like seeing a telekinetic effect, or speed lines. The costumes really look like what we see, but not -exactly- like it; certainly not the body paint model we usually get.

- Le Messor
"Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap all human sadness lies."
- Blue Dog

[Effexxor]

Might I suggest Jonathan Rhys Meyers? He's already got that slim, fey look and he's got the most perfect blue eyes and dark hair... He's freaking gorgeous too. That, and he's fantastic with accents. [/img][/right]

[Le Messor]

As Northstar? His face is a little blunt, but I can see it working.

- Le Messor
"I want a new duck."
- Weird Al

[shaman]

I wish I could find this ad I saw for Molson, It was of this "little person" in a one piece silver spandex suit with mask and a big red leaf on his chest. Anyway, he was taking this big wrestler down on the mat

[shaman]

found the pictures
http://www.strategymag.com/aoy/2005/zig/

[Snowsquatch]

Cool ads. He'd need some "muscle enhancement" for his arms and chest to really look like Puck, though.

[Snowsquatch]

A crappy photoshop for everyone's amusement:

[Banshee]

Excellent!!