Stories by @smurphys_law

Almost Cast: Doctor Octopus

meant for this to be put out earlier but got sidetracked by other stuff (Suggestions are open)

Almost Cast: Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin

Basically casting modern equivalents of all the actors that were considered for Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin before Willem Dafoe was cast

Bram Stoker's Dracula (2022)

Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.

Nosferatu (2014)

In the 1830s, estate agent Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with Count Orlok, a prospective client. In his absence, Hutter's new bride, Ellen, is left under the care of their friends, Friedrich and Anna Harding. Plagued by horrific visions and an increasing sense of dread, Ellen soon encounters an evil force that's far beyond her control.

Megalopolis (2014)

A conflict between Cesar, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare.

Almost Cast: Thor (2011)

Looking at the actors/actresses that had either audtioned or were being considered (at least in passing with some) for the 2011 Thor movie and seeing who could modern equivalents of said actors/actresses

Blade Runner: 2049 (2007)

Officer K a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.Nice to see her in projects again.

Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Messiah

Paul “Maud'Dib” Atreides rules as Emperor of the Known Universe. For 12 years, his Fremen warriors have waged Jihad across the galaxy, subjugating worlds and spreading the indigenous religion of their desert planet Arrakis, where Paul is worshiped as a messiah.

Rocky (2006)

Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for Rocky in three and a half days, shortly after watching the championship match between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner that took place at Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio, on March 24, 1975. Wepner was TKO'd in the 15th round of the match by Ali, with few expecting him to last as long as he did. Despite the match motivating Stallone to begin work on Rocky, Stallone had passed the script around for years but wasn't able to get it approved until 2005 with stuff like Million Dollar Baby and Cinderella Man doing really well at the box-office had convinced MGM to greenlight the movie with Stallone himself as one of the producers. Plot: Rocky Balboa a small-time boxer from working-class Philadelphia, is arbitrarily chosen to take on the reigning world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed when the undefeated fighter's scheduled opponent is injured. While training with feisty former bantamweight contender Mickey Goldmill, Rocky tentatively begins a relationship with Adrian the wallflower sister of his meat-packer pal Paulie

Superman: Distorted Reflection (2017)

Lex Luthor has successfully created a clone of Superman albeit incredibly distorted and deformed and seems to have the intellect of a 3 year old child, Lex uses this to his advantage manipulating the clone into believing he is the true Superman and that there's another flying around and he's an imposter and his job is to be rid of this Imposter and cement his place as the real Superman, Whilst Clark, Lois, and Jimmy continue to try to expose Lex as a criminal but still seemingly to no avail as Luthor is closer to being President more than ever.

Superman: Heart of Steel (2014)

After Superman has stopped "The Kryptonian Invasion" Superman has become larger and respected amongst the people of Metropolis and beyond and Lex Luthor's campaign to run for President grows in popularity, although behind the scenes Lex had discovered a strange mineral that glows green with radiation after the events of The Kryptonian Invasion and after some experimenting he discovers that exposure the mineral sickens and weakens Kryptonian DNA and labels the mineral as "Kryptonite" around the the same time respected military solider John Corben has returned from a mission and has reconnected with former friend Lois Lane, John doesn't love Superman as much as the rest of the world since he feels he should use his abilities to interfere with war and after an incident involving the criminal dubbed "The Atomic Skull" that left John severely injured, his dislike for Superman only grows and Lex Luthor offers John to take part in an experiment to place his mind into a mechanical body that's powered by a heart made of "Kryptonite" and made of an indestructible metal alloy known as "Metallo" and this will allow him to take vengeance on Superman.

Superman: Revolution (2011)

After escaping The Phantom Zone, General Zod, Faora, Non, and a few other Kryptonians scout out to find the son of Jor-El which they managed to track down being on Earth, meanwhile on Earth Superman continues to thrive in the eyes of the public as criminals start to become more eccentric while Lex Luthor intends on starting a campaign to be President of the United States,as for Clark Kent's personal life he's reconnected with teenage love interest Lana Lang and childhood friend Pete Ross as he returns to Smallville for a holiday, but a now group of aliens from another plant who refer themselves as "Kryptonians" come to earth and the leader of the group that's known as "Zod" outs Superman as one of their own which Superman confirms, as Zod says they've come to make earth their new home but will do their best to coexist amongst the people of the earth, although he plans to eradicate all that have been a thorn in Earth's side even the likes of Lex Luthor who he knows schemes to do only benefit himself and will toss aside anything that doesn't help him get what he wants, Superman doesn't approve of Zod's way of dealing with this matter and after much disagreement Zod decides that Superman is against him and will act out his plans no matter the cost even if that means he has to take out the Last Son of Krypton.

Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2009)

This takes place in a alternative timeline where Superman: Flyby and Superman Returns didn't happen but instead a complete fresh reboot after Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was released and after Superman Lives failed to go anywhere and everything was quiet for 6 years, until in 2006 it was announced that a new Superman movie was being made and was starting from scratch with a brand new reboot and was set to release in 2009 and the wheels were finally in motion to get the Man of Steel back on to the big screen....... Clark Kent is a news reporter for The Daily Planet in the city of Metropolis while secretly using alien abilities to protect Earth and it's people, and for a couple of years "Superman" has become somewhat of an icon amongst the city whilst billionaire philanthropist Lex Luthor isn't exactly all that enthused by it seeing this "Superman" as more of a threat and a fraud, but now something has gone terribly wrong as a janitor at LexCorp named Rudy Jones had been exposed to toxic chemicals that has caused him to take on a more monstrous appearance and has to absorb and feed off of other people's energy for his own survival like some sort of Parasite, seeing this is a massive danger to Metropolis Clark must dawn the suit and cape and stop Rudy from hurting more people than he already has.

Mortal Kombat: The Series Season 1

Sonya Blade is a member of the U.S Special Forces which have been after the criminal organization known as The Black Dragon, Sonya has a personal vendetta against The Black Dragon's leader Kano for murdering her own brother who was also part of The Special Forces in cold blood in a previous mission, she swore vengeance on Kano but ever since that mission it seemed that he and the rest of The Black Dragon had went off the radar however The U.S Military have seemed to have found a lead on where they are and have sent out their team to track them down, once again Sonya and close friend Major Jackson "Jax" Briggs are assigned to the mission with Sonya hoping to kill Kano and avenge the death her late brother and partner.

Jon M. Chu's Masters Of The Universe (2013)

After Warner Bros gave up the rights to make a MOTU movie, Sony and Columbia Pictures stepped up to acquire the rights and start from scratch with a new script with Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch producing the film under their production company Escape Artist Productions, the writing duo of Mike Finch and Alex Litvak pitched a treatment to Mattel and Sony which won them over and they were hired to write the script, but not too long after Sony hired Richard Wenk to rewrite it and Jon M. Chu was hired to direct, fresh off of G.I. Joe: Retaliation Chu was offered to read the script which although skeptical initially he ended up loving the script and accepted the offer and the movie was scheduled to release on March 29th 2013, however almost a year after he joined on Chu's initial enthusiasm for the project faded away and left the project and moved on the other things, however what if Jon M. Chu stood on the project and the movie went ahead? this is who i feel could've been casted in the roles

Justin Mark's Grayskull: The Masters Of The Universe (2009)

After John Woo's attempt at a MOTU movie didn't come to fruition 20th Century Fox let the rights go back to Mattel, a writer at Silver Pictures named Kristian Harloff heard word that a script for a MOTU movie was in turnaround, being a lifelong fan of the I.P he wanted to give the script a read and after reading it he didn't like the current script and decided to make a treatment and try and get it picked up, with help of Mark E Reilly they pitched the idea to Legendary Pictures who was working with Warner Bros at the time Harloff had a meeting with Neal at Legendary and approved of the treatment and told Harloff that he'll see what he can do but a few weeks later Neal told him that the Studio passed on it because they were making a reboot of Conan the Barbarian and the movies felt too similar to each other so they decided to pass on MOTU and it was cut off like that, however Neal had kept treatment and sought to make it into a full script behind Harloff's back and hired Justin Marks to rewrite it and was now moving ahead at Warner Bros it was envisioned as an ambitious Lord of the Rings type of film, however they struggled to find a director but eventually John Stevenson was chosen to direct the film but however things stalled as a new writer was hired to rewrite the film and WB and Mattel were clashing over how the movie should be, and after awhile things fell apart, however what if this came to fruition? This is who i feel could've been casted in the roles.

God Of War: The Series

A spartan warrior by the name of Kratos in the midst of a losing battle pleads for a deal with the Greek God of War Ares to be rid of his enemies and in return he will become Ares's servant which the Greek god agrees to and kills all of Kratos's enemies in the battle, Ares trains Kratos to become "The Perfect Warrior" and over the next 10 years Kratos becomes efficient at viciously and effortlessly killing his enemies while blindly serving Ares doing everything that Ares tells him to do, but that all changes when Ares manipulates Kratos into murdering his own Wife and Daughterr Kratos now realizing what he has done and what Ares has made him into he now swears vengeance against Ares for making him kill his family, with the aid of the Goddess of War Athena and the other Gods of Olympus Kratos now embarks on a personal mission to slay the God of War.

John Woo's Masters Of The Universe (2005)

Back in 2004 it was announced that 20th Century Fox would make a Masters Of The Universe reboot with John Woo attached to direct but it ultimately didn't get made but if it did here's who i think would've been casted. (I'm making a series of casting all the unmade MOTU movies and this is where it would start)

Bram Stoker's Dracula

This would be my attempt at a Dracula adaptation, i would try to keep it as faithful to the novel as the series medium allows and only making changes if absolute necessary or if it positively benefits the story in either a way that doesn't affect anything or actually improves on certain areas. (Also this was my project for Halloween which i'm late too since i've been busy/lazy but better late than ever)

Mortal Kombat: Season 1

Actor/Martial Arts enthusiast Johnny Cage strives to be the next big thing in Hollywood although Hollywood doesn't seem to see anything in him and has been regarded as a "show-off" and isn't taken seriously, Johnny wants prove himself to both Hollywood and the rest of the world that he's a legitimate fighter and a megastar, Johnny may potentially get his opportunity when he gets invited to a fighting tournament that is claimed to have some of best fighters in the world participating in it and the name of the tournament is....Mortal Kombat.