They never happened in our universe. But in realm of infinite possibility, maybe they did happen on an alternate Earth.

THE RULES: Choose your superhero property, director, cast, writer, whatever. Any decade, any cast and crew. Make it interesting. The only restriction is that you have to make the cast era-appropriate. If you have Orson Welles directing Shailene Woodley as Spawn's "Angela", you might deserve to have an eggplant shoved up your butt. Unless you're into that sort of thing...

Anyway here's my dream project: Robert Altman's 1973 adaptation of Fantastic Four, starring Michael Murphy as Mr. Fantastic, Sally Kellerman as Invisible Woman, Bud Cort as The Human Torch, Elliot Gould as The Thing, and Henry Gibson as Doctor Doom.

Coming up next: Lars von Trier's 'Dogme 95' take on Rob Liefeld's Youngblood.

Warren Beatty's 1976 adaptation of Archie Comics
Written and Directed by Warren Beatty

Cast
Archie Andrews - Warren Beatty
Betty Cooper - Goldie Hawn
Veronica Lodge - Diane Keaton
Jughead Jones - Dustin Hoffman
Reggie Mantle - Jack Nicholson
Moose Mason - Nick Nolte
Mr Weatherbee - Charles Durning

Chuck Norris as Iron Fist and Mr. T as Luke Cage in a 1980s Heroes for Hire movie.

Mine has long been a Power Man/Iron Fist movie filmed in 1978!

Jim Brown - Luke Cage
Jan-Michael Vincent - Danny Rand
Pam Grier - Misty Knight
Rosalind Chao - Colleen Wing
William Smith - Warhawk
Bolo Yeung - the Steel Serpent
Sammo Hung - Lei Kung the Thunderer
Fight choreography by Sammo Hung
Written and directed by Larry Cohen
Shot on location in NYC

Tomb of Dracula (1973)
Dracula - Ivan Rassimov
Rachel Van Helsing - Luan Peters
Frank Drake - Ray Lovelock
Hannibal King - Gordon Mitchell
Blade - James Iglehart
Lilith - Rosalba Neri
Deacon Frost - Tomas Milian
Music by Ennio Morricone
FX by Carlo Rambaldi
Written by Luciano Vincenzoni
Directed by Mario Bava
Shot in Spain and Italy

I demand THE HIGHEST OF FIVES!!!

*dap*

I could've easily gone with Fred or Jim Kelly for a particular role, but I'd love to see SAVAGE as Blade!

Savage's son, James Monroe Iglehart, is now starring on Broadway as the genie in "Aladdin."

Alejandro Jodorowsky's Adam Warlock.

With Jodorowsky in the title role. He must have his mustache. And Orson Welles as Thanos.

For this to work, it would have to be filmed around the time of SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, when Beatty was still young enough to pass as a teen and leave Hawn and Keaton out of it entirely, and put in Sandra Dee as Betty and either Natalie Wood or Joan Collins as Veronica, Bob Denver as Jughead, James Darren as Reggie, Norm Grabowski as Moose, and John McGiver as Mr. Weatherbee. (Actually Jack Nicholson in 1961 would have made a good Jughead.)

Yeah, I suppose by the Seventies, nobody would buy 30 year olds as teens, even in a heightened reality.



Though now that you mention it, young Natalie Wood would have been an amazing Veronica. I met her once as a child -- just weeks after seeing West Side Story for the first time as luck would have it. She was a very nice lady.

How could I forget Brian DePalma's 1979 exemplary superhero thriller X-Men:

Professor Xavier - Paul Williams
Cyclops - John Travolta
Jean Gray - Amy Irving
Iceman - William Katt
Wolverine - Dennis Franz
Rogue - Sissy Spacek
Nightcrawler - William Finley

Magneto - Michael Caine
Sabretooth - John Lithgow
Emma Frost - Nancy Allen

And every comic book nerd in 1979 would be laughing at the trailer and avoiding it entirely, preferring to go see the Hong Kong superhero movie, INFRA-MAN, which opened in the U.S. that summer. De Palma's film would, of course, go on to be a cult classic and get rediscovered by a new generation of comic book nerds ten-to-15 years later.

I'd go with Albert Finney as 1979 Professor X. We know that if the money were right, he wouldn't mind shaving his head.

We all know Paul Williams really needs to play Arnim Zola in the late 70s Marvel Universe films.

See I kind of like the image of Williams as Professor X, head unshaven, that long blonde Muppet hair, with a Swan-like intensity. Plus think of the MOR soundtrack of awesome tunes he'd provide!

And Dennis Franz as Wolverine is much closer to the original vision of the character than Hugh Jackman is Not quite as sexy though...

In 1979, Gene Hackman would have played Professor X. He had just played the bald Lex Luthor and a studio would have almost assuredly cast him.

Charles Bronsan as The Wolverine!
With Telly Savalas as Prof-X
John Cassavetes as Magneto
And Jill Ireland as Jean Gray

Wonder Woman (1970) D: Mario Bava

Wonder Woman/Diana Prince- Linda Harrison
Steve Rogers- Andrew Prine
Doctor Psycho- Billy Barty
Queen Hippolyta- Claire Bloom
General Blankenship- Rod Steiger
A. Hitler- Frank Sutton

John Wayne In Captain America Vs. Vietnam. With Ben Johnson as the Falcon.

Fred MacMurray is Captain Marvel and Barbara Stanwyck is Shazam crazy for him! A Super Romantic comedy that only Ernst Lubitsch could pen.

From the guys that brought you Debbie Does Dallas comes Giant Size Man-Thing! See what lurks in the swamp on a hot Summer night. Special cameo by Stan Lee.

1950's Batman Returns


Bruce Wayne/Batman-John Ireland

Penguin-Bernard Gorcey (Probably would've been too old for the 50's, but he'd still make a good Oswald)

Selina Kyle-Geraldine Brooks

Max Shreck-Skelton Knaggs (This guy deserves more love)

Alex Ross draws Captain Marvel like Fred MacMurray.

Orson Welles' Batman.

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Millar

Hackman is a bigger name and better acting talent, no question, but I wanted to go with someone a little more offbeat (and had previously appeared in a De Palma movie). X-Men was such a non-property in 1979 (outside of comics) that the studio wouldn't have cared. Hackman was only bald for about 3 seconds in the Superman films, and probably wouldn't have played another comic book villain anyhow.

Lee Marvin - Nick Fury
Michael J. Fox - Peter Parker
Jan-Michael Vincent-Johnny Storm
Errol Flynn-Tony Stark
Anthony Quinn-Ben Grimm
Yul Brynner-Professor X
Peter Fonda-Johnny Blaze
Ann-Margaret-Mary Jane Watson
Leonard Nimoy-Sub-Mariner
Christopher Lee-The Mandarin
Diana Rigg-Black Widow
Honor Blackman-Sue Storm
Donald Pleasance-Baron von Strucker
Tor Johnson-The Hulk
George C. Scott-General Ross
Mildred Natwick-Aunt May