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See What You Have Wrought, Cowboys & Aliens? Sonnenfeld Developing Dominion: Dinosaurs Versus Aliens

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (12)

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Welcome to the next Hollywood trend, my friends. You can blame Jon Favreau. I have the sneaking suspicion that, after numerous smaller, ninjacentric films like Zombie Vs. Ninja and Ninja Vs. Alien, Favreau’s Cowboys and Aliens is going to cause the whole “versus” concept to blow wide open and storm the multiplex now.

In this case, Barry Sonnenfield, who refuses to let the Men In Black franchise die, is developing a graphic novel with comic book writer Grant Morrison (All Star Superman, Final Crisis, The Invisibles) with plans on adapting it into a film as well. That project? Dominion: Dinosaurs Versus Aliens. Yeah. Here’s the pitch:

The graphic novel will chronicle a secret prehistoric world war battle. When an alien invasion attacks Earth in the age of the dinosaurs, the planet’s only hope is the giants that roam the planet with, it turns out, a lot more intelligence than previously realized.

Yowza. I have no idea if they’re planning on having any actual humans in the film, or even if it’s going to be live action — I kind of pray that it’s not. But the idea is pretty goofy, but I have to say that Morrison brings some sense of credibility. Morrison’s a pretty wild writer with some ideas that have ranged from phenomenal and subversive, to ridiculous and silly, but he’s got undeniable talent. Sonnenfeld, on the other hand, also directed Wild Wild West. That’s kind of hard to forgive (though he also directed the pilot episode of the live-action version of “The Tick,” which I’ve always adored). So that’s a mixed bag.

Anyway, who knows what’ll come in the wake of this. What’s next? Strippers Vs. Werewolves?

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Oh. Shit. Never mind.

(source: Deadline, Bloody Disgusting. Header image via Mick Collins)










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Comments

This is easy!
Neanderthals vs Gnomes
Draculas vs Mummies
Spies vs Pies
Old Timey Oil Tycoons vs Suicide Girls
Pharmacists vs Phoenicians
Wu Tang vs Jay and Silent Bob
Abbot and Costello vs Samurais
Michael Bay's Optimus Prime vs Skittimus Maximus

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at May 11, 2011 11:02 AM

I love me some Grant Morrison, but let's hope this makes more sense than Final Crisis.

For get this "versus" nonsense, they should just make a damn Dinosaucers movie. Or, Dino Riders. Both. They should make both.

@Optimus: Old Timey Oil Tycoons vs. Suicide Girls would be pretty amazing.

Posted by: RobP at May 11, 2011 11:10 AM

Nazi Zombies vs Al-Qaedasteins!

Posted by: MurderBot at May 11, 2011 11:15 AM

Invading Cats vs. Insurgent Mice (based on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJi-Oa5cSo&feature=related)

And Strippers vs. Werewolves will delight the furry crowd. Fanservice, ahoy!

Posted by: The Wanderer at May 11, 2011 11:19 AM

i would pay to see abbott and costello versus samurais. really. i would.

this sounds awful. however, a good writer can make anything work. ay, there's the rub: a good writer.

Posted by: splinter at May 11, 2011 11:39 AM

Wait, is Strippers vs Werewolves a thing? Cause I would watch that.
Hooooly shit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1702009/ it IS a thing!!

Posted by: JenVegas at May 11, 2011 11:40 AM

I always end up referring back to screen-tests of Blade, back when La Magra was not in human form. People lost interest because they like seeing battles between things that are relatable. Cowboys look like us. Dinosaurs do not. The only way this will succeed at any level is if somehow the dinosaurs are more anthropomorphic than the aliens, and even then it's gonna take a wildly impressive writer & director combo to pull it off.

Posted by: ahamos at May 11, 2011 11:40 AM

Conan vs The 1986 Dallas Cowboys
The Silver Surfer vs Shrek
El Chupacabra vs Willie Nelson

If Optimus's Old Timey Oil Tycoons vs Suicide Girls isn't made, I don't want to live in this world anymore.

Posted by: Paultera at May 11, 2011 1:16 PM

With a goofy concept it sounds like it would have to be a kids movie. I just can't see a dinosaurs versus aliens movie being made for adults. If that is the case...I can forgive a lot in a silly kids movie, provided it's not insulting mine and my child's intelligence with stupid non-sequiter reference jokes.

Posted by: stardust at May 11, 2011 1:24 PM

Sounds like a film realization of M.M. Kaplan's "One Prehistoric Night" (Wonder Stories, November 1934).
Since no one knows who M.M. Kaplan was, no need to pay royalties.

Posted by: Pat C. at May 11, 2011 6:43 PM

@ahmos

As much as I find grant morrison a self absorbed douche bag (Serioulsy he claims to me a chaos magician for fucks sake) He's a crazy tallented writer.

After he started writing for Animal Man for example, wich was basicaly a generic super hero comic, started to push it to preaching his own ideas (veganisim and shit) then ended the story with animal man meeting Grant Morrison (Not a character based on him, the actual writer of his own book) can calling him out for being a dick head for forcing his own views on a pre-existing character and ended his run with this weird debate between him and his character over what the relationship between a character and a writer really was.

It was... weird, yet written in a way that it was still wholey beleivable and didn't come off as silly or wanky wich I rekon is a pretty big acheivment.

Posted by: Ben at May 13, 2011 8:52 AM

I am way late on this but...

Astronauts versus Cavemen!

Posted by: abijah at May 13, 2011 12:07 PM