....out of this comic book. Who would you cast?

omg that big furry one!

I've never heard of them!
It looks like Captain Planet in the corner though.

I want a movie of Battle of the Planets

The responses so far are dreadful.

Maybe orgers need some background on the characters.

SHAMAN: obviously a Native American (I'm not sure from what tribe), Michael Twoyoungmen's powers are mystical coming mostly from the pouch he wears on his belt. He's also an excellent surgeon.

SASQUATCH: Blond scientist Walter Langkowski was experimenting with gamma rays trying to replicate the process that created the Hulk. He instead summoned one of the ancient Great Beasts of earth, Tanaraq and controls his super strong form.

SNOWBIRD: Narya is rumored to be a descendant of the great Eskimo gods of the north and can assume the shape of any native Canadian animal. In her civilian guise, she is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

VINDICATOR (now Guardian): James Hudson works for Canada's secret 'Department H' and wears a thin suit of armor that allows him to fire electromagnetic beams and gives him limited control over the earth's gravitational pull including supersonic flight.

NORTHSTAR AND AURORA: French-Canadian twins Jean-Paul and Jeanne-Marie Baubier can move and fly at super speed and generate blinding light when they touch hands. Jean-Paul is a gay (not that there's anything wrong with that) champion skier and Jeanne-Marie has a multiple personality disorder, allowing Aurora to be very outgoing while Jeanne-Marie is a conservative school teacher.

Now get to casting!

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Imago as Sasquatch - he'll be so convincing as a beast created by gamma rays ...

sextonseven said:

what the fuck kind of back stories are those?! If this was a movie I'd laugh my ass off

One4All4Ever said:

Is he hairy enough?

FruitToAttractBears said:

This is all 27 years ago. Comics weren't so sophisticated back then.

sextonseven said:

yep

I read somewhere he has hair halfway up the shaft

One4All4Ever said:

That's unnatural. He'd make a great Sasquatch.

sextonseven said:

Isn't Northstar dead?

One4All4Ever said:

I read somewhere (probably here on the org)
that as far as being a Big Foot,
sometimes big feet just mean big feet.

Illustrator said:

I have a copy of Alpha Flight #1.

So I would really love it if they made it into a movie, as it would increase the value of the old comic books!

Unfortunately, I never relly got into them, so I don't know much about the character. I do remember PUCK though!



I would cast Jack Black (after some steroid cycles) to play the role.

lilgish said:

That was only for one issue. The following month he was resurrected by mystical ninjas, The Hand to be used as their agent of evil until he was captured and rehabilitated by S.H.I.E.L.D. and the X-Men.

ACTUALLY...I have a perfect casting for Aurora & Northstar;



Angelina Jolie and her brother James

FruitToAttractBears said:

That's Colossus from the X-Men. He's not on the team.

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They'd love the outfits too.

sextonseven said:

27 years ago...cheeses of nazareth.

i just unearthed my original alpha flight #1 recently. i can remember buying the damn thing as a kid. TIME IS WEIRD

PurpleJedi said:

jolie would make a perfect aurora. as for northstar, dude who plays sylar on "heroes" might be good?

Anxiety said:

Spock as Northstar? I see Northstar as more pixie-ish.

Oh god, I just realized I said the gay guy looks pixie-ish. How stereotypical.

lol i would love to see if they took it to the part where they practically all died

SHAMAN: Billy-Bob Thorton.
I know he's not Native-American,
but being that his background is that of a hillbilly,
he probably thinks he is.

SASQUATCH: David Hasselhoff.
Night Rider. Baywatch. Nick Fury. Sponge-Bob Square-Pants cameo. Much ballyhooed-over-the-phone-intervention-by-his-daughter-whilst-eating-a-chesseburger-video.
Yeti.
Nuff said.


NORTHSTAR Robert Downey Jr. Nuff said.

SNOWBIRD:Paris Hilton. In the comic-book, Anne Mckenzie is a goddess who is a member of the Canadian Mounted Police.
As many times as Paris got off (before they finally decided to incarcerated her ass) for her driving violations, I wouldn't be surprised if it was because she was a goddess who had mounted the police.

GUARDIAN That one guy who sang that one song "I Wear My Sunglasses At Night".
He was Canadian, y'know.

AURORA Robert Downet Jr. Nuff Said.

sextonseven said:

He is supposed to be 1/2 fairy, no?

Lammastide said:

He is? I don't know the characters' complete histories.

sextonseven said:

Yeah, I think at one point it turned out he was part fairy or something. Not sure if they stuck with that, though.