Jul 3, 2010

Re-imagining Classics

This post has been long in the making. We have been thinking of ways to redo some classic stories for a while now and it's time to get them down. So, enjoy our twists, and versions of these popular stories and characters. We tell the reasons why we wanted to rethink them first off, then tell you our ideas. And sorry if you don't know some of the original stories... just look them up if you feel like it.
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And we will probably be adding and changing things as we think of stuff, so check back to this post and see what we've done.
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BLADE
Reason - We actually like the original Blade story but find it a tad on the cliche side. So we thought simple and came up with this idea.
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Story - A vampire slayer, that is also a vampire himself. Aided by his trusty companion, Whistler... who is also a vampire.
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Details...
Blade is of-course black. He is 5' 9" tall.
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HERE is the original music from the first blade movie. So listen to this, and imagine him being a vampire, instead of half vampire, half human.
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THE HALO (Video Game)
Reason - Big fans of the first Halo and the story isn't bad. We just wanted to see what we could make the halo be.
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Story - The future. A massive ring surrounds planet earth like a halo. Nearly transparent, like glass, luminescent. It’s origins, unknown. It’s purpose becomes clear…
Spartan Three knows it’s meaning. He’s seen it before, but on distant worlds. The halo is a beacon. A sign to others. A sign to the enemy.
Earth has been designated. It’s designation, is the battlefield.
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Details…
Spartans are an elite breed of soldiers created and trained by the United States military.There are three-hundred of them as a tribute to King Leonidas‘s three-hundred Spartans. The leader is the previously mentioned “Spartan Three”. He is in his early sixties.
The Spartans are not heavily armored but more-so than the average troop.
The aliens that attack the planet are mostly humanoid in shape, but subtly sinister looking.
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HERE'S the music from the first Halo game to put you in the mood.
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THE WOLFMAN
Reason - Because the new movie was so horrible.
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Story - It’s a cold December night, and a lunar eclipse is taking place. It’s the first one Brad has ever scene. Brad lives alone in the woods. Miles away from anyone else. Just how he likes it… until now. While the event in the sky is very interesting, it seems to have done more than just captured Brad’s attention, it has also drawn something out of the forest surrounding Brad’s home. Something strange, something monstrous. And it wants Brad very badly.
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The wolfman looks mainly human, just quite hairy, and his eyes glow blue-green when they catch the light. His demeanor is mainly calm and silent. But when he smells the scent of a meal (Brad), this changes quickly.
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WELCOME TO CRYSTAL LAKE
Reason - We always found Jason to not be scary at all. He's just a big, retarded, momma's boy zombie. We wanted to make him more convincing and more frightening... and in-turn, more deadly.
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Story - A beautiful cabin is open for rent nestled beside the shimmering waters of Crystal Lake. Far away in the forests of the Rocky Mountains. A perfect getaway. The retired, aging landlord and previous owner of the house isn’t asking for much of whoever would like to stay there for vacation. The landlord says his name is Jason Vorhees, and he also owns a hokey-mask and an eighteen inch Cold Steel Latin machete.
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Jason Vorhees is 64 years of age. 5’11” tall. He is ex-military, and uses those skills to better accomplish the task at hand… which is of-course, murder.
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THE SPIDERMAN
Reason - Come-on... a teenager is poisoned by a spider bite and turns vigilante because of this? That's a little silly wouldn't you say? We wanted to make him more serious, mysterious, and... reclusive. (Pun, I know.)
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Story - A notorious vigilantly is being secretly paid by the NYPD to use his unique skills to hunt down the most notorious New York City criminals that the they can’t catch. What type of skills does he have?… An extraordinary climbing ability, among others.
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He looks just like an average man. He is 5’ 9” tall and seems to be in his early forties. The only strange feature about him is a large tattoo of a black spider clinging to his back by wrapping it’s legs almost around the sides of his body. Whatever the Spiderman is, he likes it.
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MORTAL COMBAT (Video Game)
Reason- Just to make it dirtier. Ed Boon, co-creator of Mortal Kombat, still hasn't fulfilled his promise of making the next game “dark and gritty”. Sure, the recently announced “Mortal Kombat” is gory, but it’s still cartoony. We are ok with this in the long run because the game looks old-school; but still…
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Story - An underground, realm-wide, to-the-death fighting tournament held every year for fighters to try and defeat one of the group’s top fighters called Prodigies. If one is defeated, the victor chooses either to remain a “prodigy” (who also sometimes challenge each other), or challenge Shao Khan, the undefeated creator and champion of Mortal Combat.
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Details...
Character select screen or the menus would have rather dark, edgy techno songs like THIS one (but without lyrics), specifically, the beat that starts at the 1:25 mark.
And THIS song, starting at 2:12.
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HALLOWEEN
Reason- We felt the urge to rethink this story because we didn’t honestly find Michael Myres all that threatening after considering that all he does is attack baby-sitters and preoccupied teenagers (and even has a really difficult time at that). That just about goes for every other horror icon also.
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Story 1 - In the late eighties, a certain town experienced a spree of murders that were committed by a serial killer wearing a mask, titled “The shape”. These killings were committed every Halloween for 3 years in a row, until the murderer suddenly stopped for reasons unknown. Now, as Halloween approaches, that town has a young costumed criminal gang copying the infamous murders, calling themselves “the boogy men“; and when Halloween day arrives a familiar masked man isn’t pleased about them trying to smear his reputation.
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--Here’s another slightly different story we have for Halloween that we like better--
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Story 2 - During a Halloween night, a costumed criminal gang begin a hideous killing spree. As they come up to their fourth targeted house, a member of the gang wearing a blank, white mask enters the building alone to being murdering as the others invade separate homes. The owner of this house unexpectedly overpowers and kills the attacker, and notices other gang-members outside murder a woman in the road. This enrages him, and he removes the dead man’s mask, places it over his own head, and begins his hunt.
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--This second story evokes a sense that he is a hero; yet we don’t know his passed life, and as the movie progresses it would become disturbingly clear that this “hero” is as much, or more so, a savage killer than his opponents. But knowing that he is, in his own brutal way, doing the right thing would create an uneasy, almost contradictory feeling as you watch.--
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Details...
Michael Myres is around 5’ 8’’, in his early 50’s but in-shape, and naturally strong.
He uses an Ontario rat 7 knife.
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Again, some MUSIC for the mood.
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THE GHOSTRIDER
Reason- The movie sucked.
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Story - One night, a few witnesses report having seen a strange flash of light atop a nearby mountain ridge. The next day the urban town sees an odd ghoul-faced figure apparently searching for something, and title him “The Ghost”.
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The Ghost would be near 6 feet in height.
At the end of the week, this thing finds what it’s looking for, a blazing, ravaging escaped demon from Hell and somehow enslaves it inside of him, turning him into a flaming skeletal being. And once he has the demon prisoner inside him, the demon would scream harshly in rage and fear, while the "Ghost" steals a bike, and drives off into the dusk.
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THE IRON MAN
Reason- Why would Tony WANT to encase himself in a weapon?
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Story - Tony Stark, a multimillionaire and military strategist, has developed a new cutting-edge weapon. A heavily armed and armored unmanned humanoid droid that stands on a small platform, aware and activated, outside of his house until programmed to complete a mission.
This machine has also become somewhat of a popular attraction for paying tourist if they wish.
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The Iron Man is 6’ 5’’.
The Iron Man is usually silver, but Tony sometimes coats its metal in solid black, or military camouflage.
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- Joey and Stefan