Stories by @michaelcosby

James Bond 007: Blood Stone

In 2010, after stopping a terrorist from destroying a fundraiser, Bond is given a new assignment, a scientist who specializes in biological engineering goes missing, presumed dead as his boat was found capsized in the ocean. The US Echelon system picks up a cell phone call that pertains to his disappearance that he is alive and the call was made in Istanbul. Bond is sent to investigate whether it was the scientist or not.

James Bond 007: The Property of a Lady

007 is deployed to the Far East to investigate the prolific businessman Sir Henry Lee Ching. In Hong Kong, James Bond rendezvous with retiring spy Denholm Crisp, crosses paths with the Chinese Secret Service and teams up with jewel-smuggler Connie Webb to get to the bottom of Ching's shady past.

Quentin Tarantino's Casino Royale

Casino Royale takes place at the end of James Bond's career as Agent 007. The plot has Bond on an assignment to bankrupt terrorist financier Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro; Bond falls in love with Vesper Lynd, a treasury employee assigned to provide the money he needs for the game.

James Bond 007: Nightfire

The film's story involves British secret agent James Bond, as he undertakes a mission to investigate the operations of a noted industrialist, uncovering a plot by them to conquer the world via a major defence satellite created by the United States.

James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire

James Bond must thwart an attempt to replace world leaders with clones.

GoldenEye 007

Set in between Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, MI6 Agents James Bond and Alec Trevelyan are tasked by M with infiltrating a chemical weapons facility in Arkhangelsk, Russia, which is believed to be the source of weapons used by a terrorist cell to target British embassies around the globe.

The Godfather Part IV: The Family Corleone

The film is a prequel and a sequel told in a similar narrative to "Part II". It sees Vito Corleone and Sonny gaining the families' political power and racketeering empire during the 1930s; and with Vincent Corleone in the 1990s, haunted by Mary's death, running the family business through a ten-year destructive war and eventually losing the families' business interests, respect and power, seeing one final scene with Michael Corleone before his death, completing the 100 year story of the Corleone family's rise and fall.

Gore Verbinski's Bioshock

BioShock is set in 1960. The film follows the protagonist, Jack, after his airplane crashes in the ocean near the bathysphere terminus that leads to the underwater city of Rapture. Built by the business magnate Andrew Ryan, the city was intended to be an isolated utopia, but the discovery of ADAM, a genetic material which can be used to grant superhuman powers, initiated the city's turbulent decline. Jack tries to find a way to escape, fighting through hordes of ADAM-obsessed enemies, and the iconic, deadly Big Daddies, while engaging with the few sane humans that remain and eventually learning of Rapture's past.

John Woo's Max Payne

Renegade DEA agent and former NYPD officer Max Payne attempts to hunt down the ones responsible for murdering his wife and child, as well as framing him for the murder of his NYPD partner, Alex Balder. As the story unfolds, he gains a number of "allies", including Vladimir Lem, a suave, old-fashioned Russian mobster, and Mona Sax, a female vigilante who is out to avenge the death of her twin sister, and uncovers a major conspiracy involving the trafficking of a narcotic called V, or Valkyr—after the mythological figures in Norse mythology—which is somehow connected to the death of Max's family.

George Lucas' Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Leia rebuilds the New Republic while battling gangsters and former Imperials who have set up their own planets following the collapse of the Empire. Luke Skywalker attempts to rebuild the Jedi Order from scratch and trains a new generation of Jedi.

Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

Approximately five years after the events depicted in Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance, now known as the New Republic, has driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy and is attempting to set up a functional government. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting a son. Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited new line of Jedi Knights. Thousands of light years away, Grand Admiral Thrawn, the last and most brilliant of the 12 grand admirals, has taken command of the shattered Imperial Fleet and prepared it to attack the New Republic. Thrawn is searching for a Dark Jedi to join his side and is confident he can restore the Empire.

Rogers: The Musical

A Broadway musical based on the life of Steve Rogers, the first Captain America, with music by Marc Shaiman.

Spider-Man: The Movie

The variation on the origin story had Otto Octavius as a teacher and mentor to a college-aged Peter Parker. The cyclotron accident which "creates" Spider-Man also deforms the scientist into Doctor Octopus and results in his mad pursuit of proof of the Fifth Force. "Doc Ock" reconstructs his cyclotron and causes electromagnetic abnormalities, anti-gravity effects, and bilocation which threatens to engulf New York City and the world.

The Amazing Spider-Man 3

Although Gwen Stacy, Peter Parker's first love, died a decade ago, he still feels blue for her to this day. On Valentine's Day, Parker goes back to the place where Gwen died. He leaves her a red rose, and then the flashback about how Peter and Mary Jane Watson met begins. The film retells the memory of Gwen standing between Mary Jane and Peter, who is berated by his friend Flash Thompson. Peter states how her death has scarred him and reveals to Mary Jane how much he misses Gwen. Instead of being angry, Mary Jane feels deep sympathy for her boyfriend and tells Peter to say hello to Gwen for her and to tell her how much she misses her, too, as they break up. Back in the present, it is implied that Harry Osborn is behind Silver Sable's attacks on Spider-Man. In the end, Black Cat asks Spider-Man to be her valentine and teaches him to love again.

Bruce Wayne: The WB Series

A television series focusing on a young Bruce Wayne before he became Batman. The supporting characters include a grandfather-type, two-faced friends, only one trustful cop, and an empire the hero would inherit. Everyone knows the origin of Batman, but what was never answered in comics or any media were the questions of "why and how".

David Fincher's The Amazing Spider-Man

The Green Goblin abducts Peter Parker's girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, and lures Spider-Man to a tower. The Goblin and Spider-Man clash, and the Goblin hurls Stacy off the bridge. Spider-Man shoots a web strand at her legs and catches her. As he pulls her up, he thinks he has saved her, however he quickly realizes she is dead. Unsure whether her neck was broken by the whiplash from her sudden stop or had been already broken by the Goblin prior to her fall, he blames himself for her death. The Goblin escapes to Europe where Norman Osborn can move freely and unnoticed by the general public. A decade later, Harry, Parker's best friend and Norman's son, has become addicted to drugs and is sequestered in the Osborn home for detoxification. Norman's parental grief, combined with financial pressure, triggers a breakdown resulting in him resuming his Green Goblin identity and again targeting Spider-Man for misery.

Spider-Man: The MTV Series

Set shortly after the events of the 2002 film, Peter Parker starts attending Empire State University. Peter and Mary Jane Watson try to establish a relationship without much success. Peter's superhero duties, and later his involvement with Gwen Stacy, interfere with his romance with Mary Jane, while Harry Osborn continuously blames Spider-Man for the death of his father Norman. Peter faces an assortment of other villains including Black Cat, Kraven the Hunter and Electro while trying to maintain a job and his studies, causing Peter to consider giving up being Spider-Man and try to live a normal life.

Richard Donner's Superman III

A bright, shining day in Metropolis is interrupted by a mysterious drone that crash-lands in the city and starts wreaking havoc. This looks like a job for Superman! But where did the metallic menace come from, what is its purpose, and who is Brainiac?

Pokémon: The Movie

Ash Ketchum is allowed to start his journey in the world of Pokémon and dreams of becoming a Pokémon master,.

Shane Black's Death Note

The story follows Light Turner, a teen genius who discovers a mysterious notebook: the "Death Note", which belonged to the Shinigami Ryuk, and grants the user the supernatural ability to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages. The film centers around Light's subsequent attempts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals whom he deems immoral and to create a crime-free society, using the alias of a god-like vigilante named "Kira", and the subsequent efforts of an elite police task force, led by enigmatic detective L, to apprehend him.