[School of Movies 2022]
For years this seminal, game-changing Silver Age comic book has seemed damned-near impossible to adapt into a movie, with all four efforts failing resoundingly at getting major audiences to care about Marvel's First Family. And yet Pixar did it twice with the serial numbers filed off and the clear vision of Brad Bird.
So Sharon and I look back on those movies, two that we've covered in the past just based on their own merits (2005 and 2007) and two others whose productions deserve delving into (1994 and 2015), and we compare them against the comic itself from various periods (Lee & Kirby, Byrne, Simonson, Morrison, Waid, Straczynski, Hickman) and not only speculate on how they could fit into the MCU, but celebrate their characters (along with Doom, Silver Surfer and Galactus) in a way that film has been unable to, at least to date. This episode took a hell of a lot of research and is richly prepared for all of you.
Our shortlist of recommended reading is as follows...
1. FF #48-52 ('The Coming of Galactus', 'This Man, This Monster', The Black Panther debuts)
2. FF #262 ('The Trial of Reed Richards')
3. FF #334-346 ('Into the Time Stream')
4. 1234 (Limited 4-issue series)
5. Vol. 3 #67 - Vol. 1 502 (4-issue 'Unthinkable' arc)
6. #538-543 ('Civil War')
7. #570-572 ('Solve Everything')
The Adventures of Tintin & The BFG
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Catch Me if You Can
10 Possible Futures
Deep Impact vs. Armageddon
Minority Report & War of the Worlds
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Schindler's List (Hook & Jurassic Park Revisited)
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Empire of the Sun
Mary and Max
Labyrinth
Knives Out
Flight of the Navigator
Stardust
Big Fish
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
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