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Elevator Pitch: What Hero Do You Want To See On The Silver Screen? Nova!

Published Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:30:25 -0500

Last updated Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:32:33 -0500

By Gary Turner

We had some really great first responses to the Ground Floor article. Several inspiring ideas were thrown out there as well. One by DeathPanda (DP) I really can't wait to sink some keystrokes into. DP also asked, what makes this pitch series different?

I'd say it's YOUR participation. I dig collaborating with people on this sorta stuff. And I think it's pretty cool when our ideas can snap/click together. Please offer up more ideas as we go. A little bit of this, with a piece of that and we'll all see how they become a better whole.

That said, cue up the projector and let this inaugural trailer roll.

Open on an average home in the southwest, only this one has a crater in its backyard. A couple of low level S.H.I.E.L.D. agents discuss the scene. Clearly there is evidence for a struggle, but no odd energy signatures. The wife says her husband is some kinda…wait for it…space ranger. According to their records he's a high school janitor. They log and file the case. We watch as the agents drive off past a sign, "Now leaving Carefree, AZ. Please Drive Safely".

A year later teenage Sam Rider's father has not returned. Sam has grown tired of the looks, teasing, and his mother's faith in his dad. Sam doesn't believe any of it. His father Richard has abandoned their family. He has convinced himself of this.

Only when he comes home to find a gun toting raccoon ransacking his house, some-what being held back by a green-skinned, cloaked woman, does he begin to doubt his whole world. Without being spotted, Sam watches as they leave empty handed.

That same evening, with the help of his two friends Carrie and Robbie they discover well hidden in his father's tool shed a gleaming black helmet. Thus begins the trail leading from a lost legacy.

GREAT FEEDBACK

I was actually surprised by the response showing that Nova had more shout outs than any other. That said, I think AudioPhantom was very correct. I'd go one farther by saying this could be better than Super 8, plus a huge ATM for Marvel/Disney. They've got their own space age Harry Potter epic series in a back pocket that easily connects to Guardians of the Galaxy. Right Hex08?

THE TWEAKS

I opted to alter Sam Alexander to Sam Rider to make the obvious connection with the first generation of the character. Sort of how in Ant-Man Henry Pym will be played by Michael Douglas. It creates a (excuse the pun) richer history.

Rather than having Rocket and Gamora handing Sam the helmet I'd like to see him discovering the truth for himself. His first instinct is naturally not to trust these two whack jobs. Of course later on he/they will find they're all on the same side.

Also rather than wiping out all the Nova Corp I'm of a mind that Rich Rider was a part of an elite black ops team that stumbled upon something, and then was taken out of the equation…something that would deeply interest a certain former Titan descendant.

WHAT'S NEXT?

Hey! That's up to YOU. I'll keep track of what has been responded to thus far. So everyone's vote & ideas from last week still counts towards deciding our next feature. I'm really looking forward to all of these.

So answer in the comments, FB message, or email me not only which from the list below, but also how would you see it coming together.

Doctor Strange
Wonder Woman
Silver Surfer
Black Panther
Batman
Teen Titans
X-Men
Power Man / Iron Fist (new addition)
Green Lantern: John Stewart (new addition)

Gary Turner, creator of d20 comic Technically Magi, spends his days languishing in the middle of the Pacific (to be specific…Hawaii). If not for his day job of television production & animation he'd be off doing something completely frivolous. Rollin' with the RPGers, and making mad sequential plots is how his nights are lost.