Category: Pointless Fanboy Speculation

Jim MacQuarrie, Pointless Fanboy Speculation, TV

Useless Stories: Legends of Tomorrow

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Every once in a while, I look through my old files to see if there’s anything I can dust off and use here. This time I dug up what our much-missed friend Greg Hatcher called a “Useless Story”; an idea that can’t be developed or published without permission from the property owners, but something I wrote because I wanted to. For a while, because of friendships and passing acquaintance with people connected to the CW DC shows, I harbored a faint hope I might get a chance to pitch the idea, but the opportunity never arose, and this story sat there on the hard drive for years.

Comics, Jim MacQuarrie, Movies, Pointless Fanboy Speculation, Rummaging & Ruminating

Pointless Fanboy Speculation: Howard the Duck

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After he got his cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy, I thought that eventually Howard the Duck would get another shot at the movies. Hope burns eternal. Which brings us to Pointless Fanboy Speculation, in which I tell you how I would adapt this particular character to the MCU. Here’s the Elevator Pitch: Howard the Duck and Beverly take a “road trip” through weird middle America, which warps into a political satire when Howard is cajoled into running for President. It is, at heart, a Frank Capra movie.

Comics, Jim MacQuarrie, Movies, Pointless Fanboy Speculation

Pointless Fanboy Speculation: MCU Fantastic Four

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One area of perennial speculation in fandom revolves around how (or if or when) Marvel will integrate the characters whose rights were formerly held by other studios into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I don’t have any inside knowledge on the subject, but there are a lot of things we can presume based on Marvel’s previous decisions. So with that in mind, let’s engage in Pointless Fanboy Speculation!