12. Megaman
Don'tcha get me wrong, don'tcha get me wrong now. I'm not saying that Megaman couldn't work as a movie, just not as a live action one. An animated movie might be a different kettle of fish, but it's not the kettle on the stove in my minds eye. The biggest problem with Megman being alive action movie is that a lot of animation just does not translate well into non-animated stuff. For the same reason that Beavis and Butthead, South Park and the Simpsons would make awful live action movies, Megaman should be in the cartoon world. There's another reason that a Megaman movie would be a hard thing to pull off. At it's root Megaman is about running through robotic levels of mayhem until it's time for a robo battle of bad ass proportions. Sure, there's a lot of story to be added into the mix, but when it comes to sci-fi adaptations Hollywood likes to add it's own spin to the wax cylinder or vinyl record of what's already there, and that spin is usually the kind of awful scratching that gets a DJ told that he won't be playing that club again because too many people walked out. In other words, which ever studio takes up the reigns of a Megaman movie, will likely want to make something that is neither Mega, nor even all the nifty. Just look at all the great sci-fi novels turned into movies that have little to nothing to do with the written words that got the ball rolling in the first place. Some of those movies like Blade Runner and Total Recall turn out great, while other flicks such as Pay Check and Next turn out awful. By the way, all the movies I just mentioned are based on the works of the same author. Phillip K. Dick has had
a lot of his stuff turned into movies. Of the entire batch, the only one I've heard of that is very accurate to the source material is A Scanner Darkly. How often do you see a sci-fi movie that good? By the time a typical film studio gets done with Megaman, it's entirely possible and even somewhat likely that it could be less recognizable than that movie with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo was to the game Super Mario Brothers.