beyond its value as a film, the extent to which we leave it to your discretion, it must be acknowledged renfield A beautiful and potentially winning idea was born, not just for work, but for a Hollywood in general that was increasingly engaging in its own recycling system. You take a secondary but cultured character and elevate him into a hero; It is freed from its context and a new story is told in which what is traditionally seen as the sidekick becomes the center of attention. Of course, in the case of renfield That may mean ditching Nicolas Cage’s Dracula and relegating him to the background in favor of Nicolas Hoult, but that’s another issue.
The point is: if renfield Should this work, why not try again with one, two, ten more characters of that type? Famous, well-loved by fans (provided the classic novels have fans), ready to take the leap and be the hero of his own movie. We’ve rounded up ten, our recommendation of Hollywood’s take on the many projects in the upcoming Side Characterverse. If Hollywood reads and is interested, feel free to contact us: we still have many other ideas.
Fritz/Igor (frankenstein,
The most logical choice after a film about Renfield is to make a film about Igor, or Fritz, in short, Doctor Frankenstein’s (usually hunchbacked) assistant who accompanies him on his nightly adventures in cemeteries and when surgeons If it restores life, it is in their favor. a dead body. Would the Doctor have succeeded without the help of his trusted assistant? That’s what this feel-good comedy starring Jonah Hill, and an extraordinary Clint Eastwood as Frankenstein, is asking.
Gandalf (Lord of the Rings,
There are two possibilities here. or his origin story, young gandalf, including the scene where he is doing a slow somersault in a meadow because he just found out where the One Ring is. or alternatively a movie alla printed, an hour and forty of uninterrupted action that shows us the fight between him and the Balrog, from dives into the abyss to blasts in very high mountains. We vote for the latter.
Grimaud, Bazin and Moscaton (the three Musketeers,
It is a well intellectual and somewhat postmodern operation. Because the three musketeers themselves are, in a certain way, not the actual characters of Dumas’ novel: he is the fourth, baby mouse D’Artagnan. However, it would be too easy to tell his story: instead we insist on a comedy in the genre i run away from the city In which three servants of three gunmen send their masters to hell and go to the Loire countryside to drink wine and hit on local girls.
cat and foxpinocchio,
It’s all very simple: Bradley Cooper and Anya Taylor-Joy are the cat and the fox in the heist film, which tells the story of the time the couple tried and failed to rob the central bank of the town of Achiappasittruli, finding themselves without Being paid money and forced to scramble This is for an idiot talking to a wooden puppet.
Inigo Montoya (Fabulous Story,
Inigo Montoya has been waiting for the right time for revenge for twenty years, which coincidentally happens to be when we are following the story of Westley and Button-Down. This time we are not asking for an alternate version of an already known story, but for a real original story: tell us about these twenty years and no one will get hurt.
Ishmael (moby dick,
Imagine it: after months and months in the service of a whale-obsessed man, Ishmael decides he can’t take it anymore, he gives up at the first available opportunity and heads inland. Here he discovered the mountain: Ishmael of the Wilderness It is an intimate and silent film set amidst snowy peaks, where leopards do not enter.
Margarita (Sippy,
if you’ve never read Sippy Do it right away by Mario Lodi. If you’ve already read it then you know that this is one of the saddest and most heartbreaking novels ever written. Marghero’s character is particularly tragic: she is motionless, because she is a plant, and so spends her days contemplating the world, waiting impotently for the day the farmer will come with the scythe and she will be left with nothing. Will die about it. The film about him would be the first stop motion film in Lars von Trier’s career.
pass-partout (Around the World in 80 Days,
Full credit goes to Phillies Fogg (and to the lady too, in the end), but it is poor Passepartout who pulls off the most absurd stunts during those eighty days – the usual story of brains and hands, of which the latter is the one that usually all strikes. In the film, Passpartout (Timothée Chalamet) abandons his mentor (Kenneth Branagh) when the two are in Japan, and runs away to Yokohama to join a dojo and become a martial arts expert. With the power of his flying kicks, he will defeat the fearsome local warlords and fall in love with the young and beautiful Sakura, the mayor’s daughter.
advice (Indiana Jones,
Sallah is one of the greatest adventurers of the modern age, yet Indiana Jones uses him like Uber, calling him only when he is in the area and needs something and otherwise forgetting that he is is also present. Maybe we need a TV series more than a movie, The Adventures Of SallahWhich tells us what amazing things our hero did when Indiana wasn’t looking.
Watson (Sherlock Holmes,
You could argue that Watson is already the true protagonist of the Sherlock Holmes stories, as he is the one who tells them to us and therefore it is his perspective from which we see them. True, but we’re convinced the poor doctor deserves to say once in a lifetime, “Sherlock, you’ve said rot (redacted)” and go off to a tropical island somewhere to drink mojitos and soak up the sun. OK, it wouldn’t make a great movie, but imagine how happy Watson must be.