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6 Fan-Made Characters That Were Embraced by the Real Creators
Do you remember Gary the Gray Power Ranger, the one who drove Titanus? Or what about Dustin the Animorph-Controller, who was both one of the good guys and one of the bad guys? Or Jedi Padawan Tasher Jaken? No? You don’t? Well don’t worry, you shouldn’t remember them. They never existed, not in the real shows, books or movies anyway. They are all my own fan fiction creations. All 100% my own ideas.
Creating my own original characters to fit into existing franchises has always been one of my favorite writing hobbies. I was even naive enough once upon a time to think I had a chance of making them a reality, if only I could speak with the writers or creators.
Now I know better. I was fooling myself.
But seriously, who’s driving this thing?
Yet even though it never worked out for me, the dream isn’t so far-fetched. Sometimes the creators and professionals really do listen to their fans. Sometimes that silly bit of fan fiction can take on a life of its own. Or maybe the fans will embrace a seemingly unimportant background character and adopt him or her like a mascot. It can happen. It has happened. I found six characters from TV, video games and movies that were – for the most part – created and embellished by the fans, only for the real creators to take notice and embrace these fan creations, bringing them into the real canon.
So a Little Movie Called The Avengers Came Out on DVD Today
And guess who bought it! Remember back when buying DVDs was a regular thing? The Avengers is possibly only the second DVD I’ve bought all year, and the first one was an oldie just needed to complete an old collection. We, as a people, just don’t buy DVDs anymore – and yet it’s still OK to buy them as cheap Christmas presents. What’s up with that?
Anyway, in honor of The Avengers, check out this rather hilarious Honest Trailers takedown of the film. Funny stuff.
The Hobbit Will Be the Most Adorable Film This Year
Remember the new Hobbit trailer released on Wednesday, and how it was simply fantastic? Well apparently there were several alternate endings to the trailer, meaning several different trailers hit the Internets. I only saw the one, and shared the one, so clearly we were all missing out. Now it seems some noble soul has made a montage of the different endings, basically resulting in simply clips from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. And these scenes are absolutely adorable! This movie looks better and better!
Bilbo Baggins is Going on an Adventure!
The new trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hit the Internets today, and boy howdy is it great!
Back when I was talking about Lincoln, I clearly forgot that this movie was coming out in December. The first Hobbit film still looks amazing, and this new trailer makes it even more so! I’ve never read the books, so I don’t know what the story is about in advance, but what little tidbits we get here are kind of exciting. And the actor playing Bilbo, Martin Freeman, seems so adorably nerdy.
6 Things I Want To See In the Fantastic Four Reboot
A new, rebooted Fantastic Four movie is coming. Despite the fact that Fox so completely botched the franchise the first two times around, they’re not about to let go of a popular superhero movie license in an era when The Avengers made $1.5 Billion worldwide. That’s in dollars. So Fox will simply try again with a reboot. Because audiences and respect for the property just don’t matter. Movie making is a business, and a Fantastic Four movie has the potential to be good business.
Just like they thought Jessica Alba was going to be good business.
I’ll try to keep the Alba-bashing to a minimum
Now don’t get me wrong, a rebooted Fantastic Four has the potential to be great. I loved both X-Men: First Class and The Amazing Spider-Man, despite first assuming both would be terrible cash grabs. So with an upcoming Fantastic Four reboot, I’m going to try and keep an open mind. Will it be grim and gritty? Will it tie in to the old movies? What will the action figures be like? Well here are 6 things that I hope to see in the new Fantastic Four movie.
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