Jack Kirby's Fourth World
If Warner Bros. did a movie on Jack Kirby's Fourth World, it could be a success. Even though there's no official word on it, we can still give our opinions on who should play which character.
I nominate Michael Clark Duncan for Darkseid. He was good as the Kingpin in Daredevil, so he should be a good candidate.
I forgot the guy's name who plays Magneto, but he would be a good candidate for Highfather.
Your thoughts please 😄
Re: Jack Kirby's Fourth World
Originally posted by Femi32
If Warner Bros. did a movie on Jack Kirby's Fourth World, it could be a success. Even though there's no official word on it, we can still give our opinions on who should play which character.I nominate Michael Clark Duncan for Darkseid. He was good as the Kingpin in Daredevil, so he should be a good candidate.
I forgot the guy's name who plays Magneto, but he would be a good candidate for Highfather.
Your thoughts please 😄
Already been done 😉 in somes opinion 🙂
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Connection
Frank Langella as Skeletor
Some section of MOTU fandom expresses suspicions as to why, with such a plethora of characters available from the Masters of the Universe toy line, were new characters such as Blade added. The obvious answer is that new characters were created that could be licsenced as new toys, which they were. [citation needed] However, a small number of fans controversially believe that the Masters movie is actually derivative of "Jack Kirby's Fourth World", featuring characters now found in the DC Comics Universe: Orion (He-Man), Kalibak (Beast Man), Kanto (Blade), and Darkseid (Skeletor). Cross-dimensional travel from Eternia to Earth is via a concept identical to the classic Boom Tube. There are many additional parallels to be drawn from the Fourth World source material to the characters in the film than from the He-Man material.
This viewpoint is chiefly in response to to comments made in issue #497 of Comic Shop News by comic book writer/artist John Byrne who said, "The best New Gods movie, IMHO, is ´Masters of the Universe´. I even corresponded with the director, who told me this was his intent, and that he had tried to get [Jack] Kirby to do the production designs, but the studio nixed it."
"Check it out. It requires some bending and an occasional sex change (Metron becomes an ugly dwarf, The Highfather becomes the Sorceress), but it's an amazingly close analog, otherwise. And Frank Langella's Skeletor is a dandy Darkseid!"
However, director Gary Goddard provided a commentary track for the film's DVD release which makes no such claim regarding any intent to produce a covert New Gods adaptation. It should also be noted that in recent years John Byrne has become seen by some as a figure of increasingly compromised credibility, noted for making controversial and unsubstantiated claims resulting in many feuds in the comic industry. He was even involved with a dispute with Wikipedia over his entry. See full article on John Byrne.
Although the comic is easy to get into and actually works for it's genre, i find it a bit too hard to digest a possible movie about the 4th world. But if they did do it, i'm pretty sure they'll modify and tweak it like hell to satisfy the need for realism.
Just the concept of planets evil and good that splitted up is just too much...