3. A Darker Interpretation Would Rock
The recent Batman trilogy, the Superman reboot and Iron Man 3 all took darker turns than previous instalments of their titular character's movies and ended up being tremendous box office successes, so a darker - and therefore truer to the comic book - interpretation of The Mask could end up being fantastic. In the comics, when Stanley Ipkiss first gets his hands on the mask, after exploring his new abilities, he goes on a rampage, taking revenge on personal grudges and violently killing people. There were no initial niceties. The fun and the humour came later, but an Ipkiss-as-the-Mask origin story true to the source material would have a much more sinister tone and could make for a great cinematic piece.