Stories by @michaelcosby

Gotham Knights

Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, and Red Hood attempt to restore justice to Gotham City during a period of decline in the immediate aftermath of Batman's death. While investigating Batman's disappearance, the heroes come into conflict with the ancient Court of Owls and their legion of assassins.

J.J. Abrams' Spider-Man: Bloodline

When the horrific villain Cadaverous takes a huge bite out of Spider-Man’s life, what will it mean for Peter Parker’s family? What will it mean for…his son?! Years after a terrible tragedy, teenage Ben Parker is facing his own share of high school drama, from standing up to a bully to meeting the love of his life. But now Ben is about to find out that his dad was Spider-Man — and that the fiend who changed everything for their family is back…and out to get him!

Charles Stone III's Tekken

A high-octane action movie about a young man who discovers he holds a great power and must battle a team of elite fighters who will stop at nothing in order to get it from him.

Tekken: Bloodline (Live-Action)

Jin Kazama is a young martial artist living alone with his mother, Jun Kazama, on Yakushima. When she is killed by the ancient demon Ogre, Jin begins training under his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima, in order to become stronger. To draw out Ogre, Jin competes alongside many others in the King of Iron Fist tournament, hoping to kill the demon and avenge his mother's death.

Zack Snyder's The Dark Knight Returns

It tells the story of Bruce Wayne, who at 55 years old returns from retirement to fight crime and faces opposition from the Gotham City police force, the return of classic foe Two-Face and a final confrontation with the Joker.

Netflix's Bioshock

The film is set in 1960, and follows Jack who discovers the underwater city of Rapture. Built by business magnate Andrew Ryan to be an isolated utopia, the discovery of ADAM, a genetic material which grants superhuman powers, initiated the city's turbulent decline. Jack attempts to escape, fighting ADAM-obsessed enemies and Big Daddies, while engaging with the few sane humans that remain and learning of Rapture's past. Jack defeats foes in several ways by using weapons, utilizing plasmids that give unique powers, and by turning Rapture's defenses against them.

Star Wars Episodes VII-IX: The Legacy Trilogy

The story of Star Wars: Legacy starts 126 years after the film Return of the Jedi. The films feature Cade Skywalker, a descendant of Luke Skywalker, who was trained as a Jedi, but abandoned the New Jedi Order following its defeat by the One Sith. He apprenticed himself to the pirate Rav and lives among bounty hunters, smugglers and pirates such as his best friends Jariah Syn and Deliah Blue. Cade, in an attempt to avoid detection and his destiny, also dropped his last name and Jedi heritage while being reluctantly guided by Luke, now a Force ghost. The trilogy begins with an attack on the Jedi Temple and the overthrow of the Galactic Alliance and the Fel Empire by the Sith. Along with Cade and his friends, various other characters appear who are set against the Sith; including deposed Emperor Roan Fel and his Imperial faction, the remnants of the Galactic Alliance under Admiral Gar Stazi, and the remaining Jedi. After a large and costly war with the Sith Empire, Cade and his allies manage to kill the evil Sith Emperor, Darth Krayt. However, even without their leader, the Sith remain a powerful danger.

Michael Mann's Heat 2

One day after the end of Heat, Chris Shiherlis is holed up in Koreatown, wounded, half delirious, and desperately trying to escape LA. Hunting him is LAPD detective Vincent Hanna. Hours earlier, Hanna killed Shiherlis’s brother in arms Neil McCauley in a gunfight under the strobe lights at the foot of an LAX runway. Now Hanna’s determined to capture or kill Shiherlis, the last survivor of McCauley’s crew, before he ghosts out of the city. In 1988, seven years earlier, McCauley, Shiherlis, and their highline crew are taking scores on the West Coast, the US-Mexican border, and now in Chicago. Driven, daring, they’re pulling in money and living vivid lives. And Chicago homicide detective Vincent Hanna—a man unreconciled with his history—is following his calling, the pursuit of armed and dangerous men into the dark and wild places, hunting an ultraviolent gang of home invaders. Meanwhile, the fallout from McCauley’s scores and Hanna’s pursuit cause unexpected repercussions in a parallel narrative, driving through the years following Heat from the inner sanctums of rival crime syndicates in a South American free-trade zone to transnational criminal enterprises in Southeast Asia.

Punisher: War Criminal

For years, Frank Castle has been fighting a one-man war against criminals who endanger the innocent, but when a certain one-eyed operative offers him the tools to take his fight global… how could he say no? Better armed than ever before, nothing can stand in the way of the Punisher’s mission. With his War Machine armor being tracked, Frank needs to stay one step ahead of Nick Fury if he wants to keep a handle on this heavy artillery. First on Frank’s big targets list: Baron Zemo. Frank’s uses the War Machine armor to cross lines from which he can never come back.

Wolfgang Petersen's Batman vs. Superman

Bruce Wayne attempts to shake all of the demons in his life after his five year retirement of crimefighting. Dick Grayson, Alfred Pennyworth and Commissioner Gordon are all dead. Meanwhile, Clark Kent is down on his luck and in despair after his divorce from Lois Lane. Clark serves as Bruce's best man at his wedding to the beautiful and lovely Elizabeth Miller. After Elizabeth is killed by the Joker at the honeymoon, Bruce is forced to don the Batsuit once more, tangling a plot which involves Lex Luthor manipulating a fight between Batman and Superman, while Clark begins a romance with Lana Lang in Smallville.

Daredevil 3: Born Again

The Kingpin has the IRS freeze Murdock's accounts, the bank foreclose on his apartment, and a police lieutenant testify that he saw Murdock pay a witness to perjure himself. Nelson saves Murdock from a prison sentence, though he is barred from practicing law. His initial plan foiled, the Kingpin has Murdock's apartment firebombed. Murdock confronts the Kingpin in his office and is brutally beaten. The unconscious Murdock is strapped into a taxi cab, which is then pushed into the East River. Murdock regains consciousness and swims to safety. There he is found and nursed back to health by his mother Maggie who has become a nun at a local Catholic church. The Kingpin arranges for Nuke to dress up as Daredevil but Nuke rebels. Murdock, who has been shadowing Urich since hearing of the articles he is writing on the Kingpin, defeats the imposter and leaves him for the authorities. Nuke offers to testify against the Kingpin in exchange for a reduced sentence, but he is killed. Having failed to draw Murdock out of hiding, the Kingpin orders Gladiator to destroy the diner where Murdock works. Appearing as Daredevil for the first time since his apartment was destroyed, he is left with no choice but to kill Gladiator. However, Gladiator survives the attack and names the Kingpin as being behind the assault on Hell's Kitchen, setting off a wave of lawsuits. Daredevil systematically destroys the Kingpin's reputation and worldly possessions, winning back his attorney's license.

Daredevil 2

Foggy Nelson is accused of murdering Roaslind Sharpe, his boss and a wealthy divorcee with whom he was having an affair, affecting the financial future of their law firm. Daredevil speaks with Karen Page, his love interest that has been contacted by a man named Mr. Fear, who left him a small crucifix. Daredevil asks his mentor, Stick, for help. Stick tells Daredevil that the cross Mr. Fear gave him was tainted with an undetectable drug. Stick is able to purge the drug from Daredevil's system. Daredevil arrives at Karen's just in time to confront Bullseye, who has murdered her. After briefly contemplating suicide, Matt tracks Mr. Fear to his headquarters, where Mr. Fear reveals that he is actually Lawrence Cranston, a law school classmate of Matt. Cranston was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and resolved to die after enacting his greatest scheme, turning his attention to Daredevil and designed a frightening costume for himself as Mr. Fear. Kingpin sold information about Daredevil to Mr. Fear, who began to set up his scheme. He drugged Foggy, killed Sharpe and hired Bullseye to lure Daredevil to him for a final confrontation. Mr. Fear believed that Daredevil would kill him but is dismissed. Despondent, Mr. Fear frees a baby he kidnapped and shoots himself. After Karen's funeral, a conversation with Stick leads Matt to realize that the infant he had saved represented a positive outcome among the tragedy. Elsewhere, Bullseye is killed by a revived Elektra Natchios.

The Spider Wars

Spider-Man is taken to an alternate dimension where due to a series of events in The Amazing Spider-Man films, its native Peter has bonded with the Carnage symbiote to become the maniacal Spider-Carnage, who has devastated and demolished New York City with the aid of Black Cat, The Vulture, Mysterio and Alistair Smythe. Madame Web calls on Spider-Girl, Anti-Venom and Sandman to help Spider-Man restore balance to the multiverse and save their realities.

X2: Wolverine's Revenge

Wolverine fights his way past the heavily guarded areas of the Weapon X Facility to piece together fragmented clues to his murky past and to save his life. Wolverine has 48 hours to find an antidote to the deadly Shiva Virus circulating in his bloodstream and the clues point to the Weapon X facility, the Canadian fortress where he had his skeletal structure fused with adamantium.

Batman: Blind Justice

When Bruce Wayne refuses to allow illegal mind control experiments to continue at Wayne Technology, he finds himself charged with being involved with organized crime. During the police investigation, Wayne is forced to confront memories of the man who trained him to become the feared Dark Knight - Batman. Wayne not only must clear himself, but also protect his secret and save his company from ruin.

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie

The plot centers on a mysterious terrorist planning to destroy the human population on Mars using an unknown pathogen. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop work to find the terrorist and discover the pathogen's source before the attack can take place.

Drew Goddard's Sinister Six

The film portrays the Six and it's members as sympathetic enough that they can redeem themselves. After breaking out of the Ravencroft Institute, the Six retreat to the Savage Land, a hidden island in the comics which was an ancient preserve to surviving prehistoric species hidden in Antarctica. By the end of the film, Spider-Man joins forces with the Six, who return to New York City, against an interdimensional threat brought on by Harry Osborn: the Carnage symbiote.

Star Wars: Episode IX - Legacy of the Force

Darth Caedus is now the declared enemy of nearly every other major character: His mother and sister have disowned him, Luke is sworn to redeem him, Ben and Mara Jade are driven to seek justice for themselves. Caedus kidnaps Allana so Tenel Ka and the Hapans will not decide to leave the government, but Luke, Jaina, Mara Jade, Ben, and their allies save Allana. After saving Allana, Leia tells Jaina to become a Jedi again. Caedus takes on a new apprentice, Tahiri Veila, to replace Ben and turns to the task of ending the war. Caedus then takes control of Coruscant and claims sole control of the Galactic Alliance. Jaina trains to help her face off against Caedus, taking it upon herself to defeat her brother. Caedus's meditations, a vision of his daughter Allana on a white throne in a time of peace, are disrupted by Luke Skywalker, in an attempt to hide Jaina's attack. This vision convinces Caedus that he has won—he would bring peace to the galaxy, and prevent his visions of war and suffering from coming true. At the film's climax, Caedus and Jaina face off in a final lightsaber duel aboard Caedus' flagship, the Anakin Solo.

Star Wars: Episode VIII – Shadow of the Sith

Jacen Solo attempts to further his plan for peace against the wishes of his own family. Lumiya says she is pleased by his progress, but instructs him that to truly become a Sith he would have to undergo the Trial of Sacrifice: to kill that which he loves most. Doing this, he believes, would allow him to use the powers of the Sith without becoming evil and would "immortalize his love" for his sacrifice. Nevertheless, after Ben tells Mara that he overheard Jacen communicating with Lumiya, Mara tracks Jacen down in the Hapes Consortium. After a long and heated battle, Jacen almost kills Mara Jade; the sacrifice necessary to becoming a Sith Lord is not Jacen's love, but Ben's. Ben suspects Jacen almost immediately, upon seeing his mother. Eventually, Jacen chooses the Sith name Darth Caedus. Jacen, now known as Darth Caedus, fights everyone he once loved to bring his plan for prosperity to the galaxy.

Star Wars: Episode VII – The New Jedi Order

When a mission to uncover an illegal missile factory on the planet Adumar ends in a violent ambush—from which Jedi Knight Jacen Solo and his protégé and cousin, Ben Skywalker, narrowly escape with their lives, while Han Solo is killed—it's the most alarming evidence yet that political unrest is threatening to ignite into total rebellion. The specter of full-scale war looms between a growing cadre of defiant planets and the Galactic Alliance that some fear is becoming a new Empire. Civil war looms as the fledgling Galactic Alliance confronts a growing number of rebellious worlds-and the approaching war is tearing the Skywalker and Solo families apart. Leia Solo returns to Han's homeworld, Corellia, the heart of the resistance. Their children, Jacen and Jaina, are soldiers in the Galactic Alliance's campaign to crush the insurgents. As civil war threatens the unity of the Galactic Alliance, Leia has enraged her family and the Jedi by joining the Corellian insurgents. But she draws the line when she discovers the Corellian's plot to make the Hapes Consortium an ally - which rests upon Hapan nobles murdering their pro-Alliance queen