Stories by @visno

Wonder Woman (Visno DCEU Film #3)

more or less the same story as what was given to us by Patty Jenkins but with the ending altered to not include a big dumb monster fight. Wonder Woman is a near perfect film that stumbles at the finish line. in place of the original ending, it is revealed to Diana and the audience that Ares has no physical form yet or even power over the humans to engage in war, and he merely grows stronger to gain a physical form as humanity engages in more war and violence. the films climax will instead follow Diana and her friends as they engage in an air battle to attempt to rescue Steve, which again ultimately ends in his heroic sacrifice. rather than rescue Steve, Diana rescues Dr. Poison, who is a sympathetic villain this time, a brilliant chemist who was forced to do evil as it was the only way for her to do her life saving chemistry research in an oppressive society without women’s rights. the mid credits scene will show us wonder woman fighting crime in the modern day, fighting and capturing Giganta, for use later in our suicide squad film.

Gotham Knight (Visno DCEU Film #2)

Film opens with an experienced Batman catching the Joker and dropping him off at Arkham Asylum, where we meet a pre-Scarecrow Dr. Crane and Dr. Harleen Quinzel. throughout the course of the film as we revisit Arkham, we will get scenes of Dr. Quinzel’s interactions with the Joker, setting up her fall from grace. the films primary antagonist is the often forgotten and underrated batman villain, Mad Hatter; and the plot will revolve around a series of robberies that Batman originally suspects to be Catwoman’s doing, but thru detective work discovers that it is done by unrelated thieves and then revealed to be the hatters doing all along thru his mind control, the multiple suspects setting up our reason to continuously go back to Arkham and have more interactions with the doctors about possible motives of suspects, etc. One of the suspects being a young Dick Grayson, a couple years from being orphaned, but we don’t meet him, he is only mentioned. We also meet Barbara Gordon at the Gotham Main Branch Library, where she works, setting up our first meeting of a future member of the bat family. the film ends with batman and alfred discovering the origins of the modified mind control tech being sourced from LexCorp, helping set up a connection to Superman’s universe

The Man of Steel (Visno DCEU Film #1)

My version of Man of Steel would similarly follow the origins of Superman, focusing mostly on how he is secretly helping the people of Metropolis, and intercut with flashbacks to his discovery of his super powers with his Earth parents, slowly revealed over the course of the film, and ultimately coming to terms with his alien origins as revealed to him by Zod. In the end of Act 1, he encounters Bloodsport and takes him into custody, setting up the first member of The Suicide Squad, which will become a recurring theme in my version of the DCEU, laying the groundwork for multiple movies at once in each film to help them feel more connected and make the audience not feel lost by the time we reach our ensemble cast films. Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor meet at a fancy party, our first introduction to Bruce. Lex Luthor gets the arc that Bruce Wayne did in Snyder’s version, which makes much more sense for his character. Superman and Zod’s battle destroys parts of Metropolis, with Superman trying to take the fighting out of the city and Zod trying to bait him back each time by destroying it. The battle ends with the death of Zod over the ocean, and includes a mid credits scene with LexCorp exhuming his body from the sea, setting up Man of Steel 2, and this is where the audience will first encounter Aquaman.

The Black Pearl (2024)

The Black Pearl is a young adult novel by Scott O'Dell first published in 1967 about the coming of age of the son of a pearl dealer. Ramon Salazar finds a black pearl so beautiful that his father is certain Ramon has found the fabled Pearl of Heaven. This find will bring renown to their town, and to the Salazar name. However, the pearl also has a curse that haunts the town and Salazar's family.

The Lego Flash Gordon Movie (2024)

Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Alexis Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.

Sky Is Crying: The Stevie Ray Vaughan Story

Stephen Ray Vaughan (also known as SRV; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians in the history of blues music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He was the younger brother of guitarist Jimmie Vaughan. The dramatized film will follow the life, career, and death of SRV; adapted from the biography, Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan, by Alan Paul & Andy Aledort

The Brilliant & Eccentric Agent Garbo

Agent Garbo was a Spanish spy who acted as a double agent loyal to Great Britain against Nazi Germany during World War II, when he relocated to Britain to carry out fictitious spying activities for the Germans. He was given the codename Garbo by the British; their German counterparts codenamed him Alaric and referred to his non-existent spy network as "Arabal". The film will follow Agent Garbo’s entrance into the world of wartime espionage, leading all the way up to his critical misdirection before the events of D-Day; and the actor playing Agent Garbo will also play every fictional agent he created, including a pair of venezuelan brothers, a swiss-german businessman, and said businessman's ficticious widow after the businessman's imaginary demise; in this stylized drama-edy.

Kill Doctor Lucky (2024)

Kill Doctor Lucky is a board game, best summed up as “reverse Clue/Cluedo” in the sense that the objective of Clue was to discover who the killer was, where as in KDL, the objective is to, as the title implies, kill Dr. Lucky. This story is vaguely set in the victorian era. The film follows 8 guests of the titular Dr. Lucky are invited to his mansion for a dinner party to announce his retirement. Unbeknownst to the doctor, all of his guests hold a deep grudge against him, with murderous intent. The story is told thru the perspectives of each prospective murderer, each of which do not know that the others also wish to put Dr. Lucky into an early grave, believing that all of the others are his close friends, and the finale of the film ends with the death of Dr. Lucky; however multiple endings will be shot and different viewings of the film will end with different killers having succeeded in getting away with the murder; and this is where streaming services come in, as hypothetically they can deliver different viewings to different viewers unknowingly, and only upon talking about the film to other people that saw it would they learn that there are multiple endings to be seen.

Blackthorne (2024)

Set on the planet Tuul, which has existed for centuries without human knowledge. Tuul's people have been ruled over by a single shaman who "was blessed with all knowledge". Thoros, the latest ruler, finds it near impossible to choose between his two sons as the next ruler. Believing it will solve the dilemma, he leads them to the deserts and kills himself. His body becomes two stones, light and dark, and he gives one to each boy to rule their own kingdoms respectively. The people of the lightstone form the kingdom of Androth, and the people of the darkstone form Ka'dra'suul. But while Androth respects their stone, Ka'dra'suul reject theirs, and are transformed into monsters by it. In this time, a ka'dra named Sarlac seizes power & forms an army and leads them against Androth. Knowing of his people's doom, King Vlaros of Androth, aided by the magi Galadril, sends his son Kyle to Earth to save his life and gives him the lightstone for safe keeping. 20 later, Kyle has become a renowned military captain and mercenary. After breaking out of prison facing court martial, he begins having strange dreams, and is eventually confronted by Galadril. He is told that it is time to return to Tuul and save his people. The story begins here with Kyle setting out to kill Sarlac and reclaim his throne.

F-Zero (2024) Live Action Adaptation

A new, over-the-top, high octane, neon-coated cyberpunk, action comedy racing story to help flesh out F-Zero's rather weak and nonsensical backstory, focusing more on the racing with an underground illegal sports gambling subplot. Story centers around Rick Wheeler, an undercover police officer placed in with an F-Zero racing team, Team Apex; comprised of Jody Summer, Dr. Stewart, Tanaka, and Baba, replacing retired racer Silver Neelsen, by his superior, Commander McCloud, tasked with uncovering an underground gambling ring run by mafia boss Don Genie. Wheeler initially struggles to gain the trust of his racing team, but grows to earn their respect thru a series of race victories for the team over rival teams Team Samurai; comprising of Goroh, Guster, Brilliant, Blitz, and Buster. Team Nebula; comprising of Pico, Octoman, Draq, Gomar and Shioh. Team Beast; comprising of Beastman, Leon, Billy, Chain, and Dr. Clash. Team Arrow; comprising of Super Arrow, Mrs. Arrow, Lucy Liberty, Kate Alen, and Jack Levin. Team Shadow; comprising of Black Shadow, Rex, Gazelle, Skull, and Zoda, and the mysterious Team Falcon; comprised of a single pilot, the GOAT racer Captain Falcon, and his engineer, Mr. EAD. over the course of the story Wheeler unravels a deeper conspiracy surrounding the gambling ring involving the kidnapping and replacing of Captain Falcon with a clone known as Blood Falcon by the true kingpin, Deathborn.

Characters with the Most Punchable Faces

some faces are in terrible need of punching

Perfect Dark (2024) Live Action Adaptation

Perfect Dark is set in an alternate 2023 against the backdrop of an interstellar war between two alien races the Maians and the Skedar, reptile-like creatures who use a cloaking device to appear human. On Earth, there is an ongoing rivalry between two companies: The Carrington Institute, a research center founded by Daniel Carrington that secretly operates an espionage group in league with the Maians; and dataDyne, a defence contractor corporation headed by Cassandra de Vries. In exchange for creating an AI with code-breaking abilities to access an ancient alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, the Skedar agree to supply dataDyne with enough alien technology to become the biggest corporation on Earth.

Fictional Characters with Iconic Hair

Often times in film and television, a character has a hair style that is so iconic you always remember it as that character's signature look. Upvote for Iconic, not for if the style was cool.

Appleseed (2024) Live Action Adaptation

After World War 3 the General Management Control Office construct an experimental city known as Olympus inhabited by humans, cyborgs and bioriods. Bioriods are a genetically engineered being created to serve mankind. They run all administration of Olympus. Olympus was meant to be a utopian society. But for some it is less of a utopia and more of a cage. Calon Mautholos, an Olympus city police officer, is one of these people. Calon secretly conspires with a terrorist, A. J. Sebastian, to destroy Gaia, a super computer that runs Olympus. Out to stop them are Olympus city police SWAT team members Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires. Deunan and Briareos are determined to stop the terrorist plot by any means necessary.

Secret of Mana

The story takes place in a high fantasy world, which contains an ethereal energy source named "mana". An ancient, technologically advanced civilization exploited mana to construct the "Mana Fortress", a flying warship. This angered the world's gods, who sent giant beasts to war with the civilization. The conflict was globally destructive and nearly exhausted all signs of mana in the world, until a hero used the power of the Mana Sword to destroy the fortress and the civilization. The world began to recover in peace. As the game opens, an empire seeks eight Mana Seeds, which when "unsealed" will restore mana to the world and allow the empire to restore the Mana Fortress.

Final Fantasy VI

Based on the Super Nintendo Classic

MCU X-Men (2024)

everyone has their own list, so i guess here’s mine.

Resident Evil Outbreak

Outbreak begins a few days after the initial outbreak of the T-virus in Raccoon City, before the crisis escalates into chaos, some people in J's Bar, unaware of what's happening until a zombie wanders in and attacks them, escape the bar and make it through the city to safety.

Distinct Voices

Cataloging the many truly distinct, well known voices of the world as a resource

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (2024) Directed by Baz Luhrmann

In the style of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet film from 1996, a film retelling of Hamlet using Shakespeare's original text set in modern times. Original roles in the play listed, but things like "servant" and "courtier" are outdated terms that do not properly reflect the modern setting of the film.