Monday Morning Poll: Potential Franchise Cross-Overs

I remember when SPIDER-MAN was coming out, there was talk of an X-MEN cameo: Wolverine and Storm would be in the crowd when the Goblin appears. Storm holds Logan back as he appears and, when Spidey made his way onto the scene, she looks at something she's holding and says to Logan, "That's him". And that was it.

Of course, that's a cameo, not a cross-over. Cameos can be cheap (relatively speaking) and fun, and a good way for a studio to generate interest in multiple projects.

Crossovers tend to be more generic; AvP and FvJ work (or, rather, they don't, but I'm not doing a movie critique here) because the characters are generic, per se, and thus it's cheap. You can have anyone working at scale in an Alien or a Predator costume, but there's someone identified with Spider-Man, or Wolverine (or Bourne or Hawke or Bond... wait, scratch that last one). So a true crossover gets pricey without guarantee on return.

And then there's the problem of logistics (stay with me, because I *know* I'm about to talk about super heroes); if Spidey and the X-Men and Fantastic Four and Hulk and Iron Man all exist in the same universe, why didn't they all show up when Magneto was going to toast NYC? Or when the Hulk was rampaging in San Francisco (or wherever it was; I don't remember the movie well). It works better in a spy setting, of course (hey, it's all secret stuff!).

Now, then, for my ultimate cross-over, suggested to me by my 5-year-old daughter, Gwen: Pee-Wee Herman finds out that he has a long-lost uncle so he travels to England to meet him, and it turns out it's Mr. Bean.

Reply

The Bourne Impossibility would be, probably, the coolest movie i've ever seen.

Reply

Buffy vs. Blade of course.

In which Blade must take out the diminuative blonde, now known as Buffy the Vampire/Slayer.

She's been turned and only one man can stop her.

Reply

I know this isn't a film thing, but I would love to see and HBO crossover, where the guy from Big Love is whacked by Paulie on Tony's orders and Vincent from Entourage is doing a film where he's playing the young Tony and E finds Adriana alive and living in witness protection and Turtle is actually a plant put there by Tony and he kills E and then Adriana and Vincent is adopted into the family and then McNulty from the wire comes in to investigate it all and ends up bringing down the entire Jersey and New York crime families. Now that would be a crossover. (Please stop with all the superhero stuff...)

Reply

Im surprised with all the recent Frank Miller craze that "Robocop vs. Terminator" isn't already in production.

Reply

How about Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones?
Or how about the greatest nerd fest ever, Star Wars collides with Star Trek? (the enterprise could stumble into the Star Wars galaxy)
Or Saw meets Batman?
Gone in 60 Secs meets the Fast and Furious ("Gone Fast and Furious).

Reply

Caddy Shack/ Animal House - "DELTA HOUSE REUNION AT BUSHWOOD"

Jaws vs. Free Willy

Mad Max in Waterworld

Indiana Jones meets THE MUMMY

Tarantino-Orgy: Reservoir Fiction with Jackie Brown in a Prequel to Kill Bill playing exclusively at the Grindhouse

Ghostbusters meets Ghost Dad

Reply

Aliens vs Predator vs Terminator would complete the 80's scifi action monster orgy of awesome.

Reply

I always thought THE MUMMY was a kind of Lost Indiana Jones Chronicles kind of thing.

Thinking about it, STARGATE should have been an Indiana Jones movie as well.

Reply

I thought many years ago that Rocky & Rambo could be combined together. Rocky VI/Rambo IV-"Rocky vs. Rambo in SPACE!"

Fighting space aliens and each other in the first invasion/boxing movie of the millenium.

Reply

Schwarzenegger's Commando vs. Stallone's Rambo

Reply