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Scenes We'd Like To See: Alternate Movies, Television & Other Pop Culture Miscellanea

Time Enough said:
David Harewood is interestingly a figure that appeared fairly often in speculation around 2017, he wasn’t entirely confident of his chances but did seem eager to play Doctor Who. I get the sense if things had gone differently he would have gotten the job.
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Offhanded thought on Doctor Who Firsts, since Harewood has come up a few times - it's extremely fancasty, but the Tenth Doctor lines up with pretty much the exact window of time in which it would have been reasonable to try and get Idris Elba.

Doesn't look like there was any speculation about him, but he was at the perfect stage in his career and is one of the few actors I could plausibly see being an-even-bigger-hit-than-Tennant in the role. And from what Elba has said about Gatwa's incarnation, seems like there could have been an interesting tension in him becoming the entire face of the show while simultaneously not wanting to be defined as "the black Doctor" at all.
 
Elba in 2005 may have been the last time you wouldn't have to be the X Doctor because the show had just come back and he'd be stepping in when Eccleston was about to step away for over a decade. He'd be  the Doctor as the show cemented itself as the hot new thing and the classic Doctors are long in the past, where Gatwa (and Whitaker as the first female Doctor) come after a line of actors.
 
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1966-1970: Peter Crushing
1970-1974: Ed Bishop
1974-1978: Ron Moody
1978-1980: Jim Dale
1980-1984: John Hallam
1984-1987: Mary Morris

1993: John Sessions

2000-0000: Jeremy Brett
 
Redo various Cagney classics with different endings -let him shoot Pat O'Brien in Angels With Dirty Faces and Jeffrey Lynn in the Roaring Twenties.Maybe fanfiction like this?
My possible doctors included Patrick Moore, Brian Blessed, Rowan Atkinson,Kevin Kennedy.
 
Allen Drury's Advise and Consent series as a TV miniseries. Grace Metalious' Peyton Places filmed for TV as they were written. TV adaptations done like Von Stroheim's Greed -word for word,deed for deed,action for action.
 




(Basically Hamilton, but it's Wicked.)

From Digicyclopedia, the free encylopedia

Burr: An American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Based on the 1973 historical novel Burr by Gore Vidal, the musical covers the life of American Founding Father Aaron Burr and his involvement in the American Revolution and the political history of the United States.

Principal Cast

Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr. Burr is portrayed here, as a tragic Shakespearean-esque protagonist -- a man of considerable political skill and rampant ambition, whose life is filled with great success yet ends in tragic failure.

Lin Manuel Miranda as Charlie Schuyler / Alexander Hamilton. Charlie Schyuler is an ambitious young man, whose personality is clearly influenced by J. Pierrepont Finch from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, working as an ambivalent law clerk at Burr's law firm while moonlighting as a investigative journalist for opponents of presidential candidate Martin Van Buren. Miranda also portrays Alexander Hamilton who is portrayed, much like the other Founding Fathers in the Musical, as a mortal man -- Hamilton is not only a bastard-born, over-ambitious opportunist who is Burr's frenemy, but is also indirectly responsible for Burr's downfall.

Jonathan Groff as Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson is portrayed a fey and hypocrite of the highest order, who despite it all, earns Burr's teeth-grinding and begruding respect as the greatest politician of his era, he's also shown to be an unvarnished racist and slave owner who has a sexual relationship with one of his underaged female slaves.

Patrick Page as George Washington. Washington is an inept and aloof, yet well meaning military commander patterned after President Dwight Eisenhower. While clearly astute and well-read as a politician, he often chooses to play the austere and apathetic "God of America".

Josh Gad as James Madison. Madison is a sniveling brown-noser, yet is also a complex figure who adheres strictly to the principles of the American Constituion.

( I would add more of the cast, but I've got burnout. lol. sorry. :p )
 


The X-Men - later The Uncanny X-Men - followed a team of 18-year-old mutants whose cover identity was students at an elite prep but, under the watchful eye of Charles Xavier and FBI agent Fred Duncan, worked as a deputised team of federal agents who took down lawbreaking mutants. Their main enemy was Magneto, head of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants criminal organisation that ran on mob lines and would be used as the mafia stand-in for other Marvel Comics throughout the 60s and early 70s. Their other big Silver Age threat was HYDRA, a knock-off of Bond's SPECTRE as the X-Men went more spy-fi; and the Sentinels, a replacement team of robots that decided all mutants were a threat and made explicit the themes of prejudice that had been floated in earlier issues.

Jim Steranko would have a memorable run at the end of the Silver Age, creating a mad pop-art sensibility, making Cyclops a sexy action hero, and pitting them in a huge epic against HYDRA and their founder, ageing war-criminal Von Struker, in which not just the CIA's Nick Fury but Magneto joined the X-Men in battle, the mutant super-criminal unwilling to let Nazis rule. "They're bad for business!"

Declining sales in the 1970s led to new characters joining, including Wolverine - a loose cannon Canadian agent who clashed with Cyclops and went rogue on missions. Chris Claremont started out on some fill-in issues and went on to be the biggest influence after Steranko, boosting the female characters, running with the prejudice issues, and creating new foes like the manipulative establishment Hellfire Club (who had members in the FBI itself and could shut down X-Men missions). He also deepened Magneto by revealing his backstory as a poor kid from the East Side of New York, growing up believing only force and money could protect a minority community, and going from low-level gangster to mutant crimelord when his own people turned on him when they realised he was "a mutie" - crossovers revealing it was Wilson Fisk who screwed him over, not because Fisk himself hated mutants but because he knew others hating them would clear away a rival.

Spinoffs would include X-Factor, where several recurring X-Men supporting characters would form their own non-official team and not let the state dictate how mutants could operate; The New Mutants, who started out as a team of trainees meant to replace the X-Men and then mostly went their own way; and Weapon X, a moody team of special forces and spies that Wolverine used to work with.
 
Suppose Quentin Tarantino takes up adapting another book by a different after Jackie Brown. Maybe the POD is that this film performs better, and that gives him more latitude to adapt a different writer's book whose last cinematic iteration failed critically and commercially: The Bonfire of the Vanities.

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer(s): Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary based on the novel by Tom Wolfe
Producer: Lawrence Bender

Cast:

Sherman McCoy: Tom Cruise
Peter Fallow: Tim Roth
Maria Ruskin: Uma Thurman
Judy McCoy: Bronagh Gallagher
D. A. Weiss: Harvey Keitel
A.D.A. Kramer: Eli Roth
Judge Leonard White: Christopher Walken
Reverend Bacon: Samuel L. Jackson
 
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