Question Study Material

I'm trying to come up with a list of movies to have a venom-esk manifestation learn from. It's a little Borg like in it's thinking: You will adapt, and thus it learns like Imp did with her aura.

The film Species comes to mind. As dose the obvious Predator and Aliens franchises. Also The films It and The Blob might be good.

The only thing that comes to mind for a symbiote that can manifest istelf as a living supersuit or armor is Witchblade, or possibly, Mask.

Special effects budgets for a live-action feature film or TV series would be enormous.

I'm not agenst cartooons. Gargoyles is on my list just for the Dingo/Matrix eppisode.

The Parasyte anime, maybe?

I don't know if time frame matters. The manga has been around for decades, but the anime is from 2015-ish.

I would say from The recent Doctor Who Christmas special. Pretty much anything that can hijack someone's motor control and central nervous system, really.

The body snatchers?

Gen2 Year 2 is the setting.
-jots down suggestions under Young Justice, various Spidermen shows, and to look up shows with X23 in them-
Hmm in universe movie ... Lady Lightning was the ones with the Dermal sim right?

Re-reading part of Grant Morrison's "Invisibles", there are some instances of using "Magic Mirror", or "liquid metal soul-stuff" for armor or offensive capabilities, but it's also useful for healing and other things.

There are also some scenes with liquid armor and other things. I'm not 100% sure I'd want to see a faithful adaptation of this comic book brought to the screen.

I don't think you can do a faithful adaptation of The Invisibles -- or pretty much any of the more mindfuck-type works by Morrison, such as Doom Patrol. Without allowing time for public to absorb stuff, it would come out as just nonsensical rambling. Hell, the comics themselves barely clear the threshold to rise above nonsensical ramblings, and the reader has more than a day per page, on average, to digest the content. Compress several issues into a couple hours of live action? You don't get a movie, you get nonsense.

Well, that has been done in the past... but not for a summer blockbuster type film, AFAIK.

At least, not deliberately, like the films of Luis Buñuel, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, etc.. Those generally aren't pitched to mainstream audiences the way a superhero film usually would be (unless your talking something like Hancock or My Super Ex-Girlfriend).

The closest I can think of to that for film meant to be a big-spectacle blockbuster was the original The Matrix, and even that wasn't nearly as mind-fuck-y as Grant Morrison's stuff. There are probably a few other examples of blockbusters which would have seemed 'weird and far out' to mainstream audiences (2001: A Space Odyssey comes to mind, though the idea of a 'summer blockbuster' wasn't as entrenched yet then), but not to the degree we're talking.

It's been done unintentionally a number of times, but that generally leads to a flop.

2001 was a *flop* Lea. In the theaters it was big time bomb. While the first significant SF movie Made, with what we'd call first rate effects, it tanked severely. It's cult classic status, OTOH...

It's *one* reason George Lucas had to sign over pretty much everything (American Graffiti was very successful) *but* New Hope to even get it made, much less released (Now, we all know, that Spielberg was wrong that it'd make a nice 50... but... back then? SF was considered *bomb* material.)