CaptainCrawdad
Since: Aug, 2009
Oct 17th 2022 at 6:31:20 PM
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Removed:
- Doctor Strange (2016) / Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
- Capsule Pitch Description: Two movies who have a medical lead character that refuses to harm or kill anyone, and is confronted with moral dilemmas regarding their beliefs. Dr. Strange is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is the second film in Phase 3. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the title character, who goes to a mystic sanctuary after injuring his hands, but finds himself becoming a sorcerer who has to confront the end of the world. Hacksaw Ridge is based off the story of medic Desmond Doss, who refused to carry a rifle into the Pacific theater in World War II, and he saved a lot of wounded soldiers.
- Implementation: The latter is the first directing effort from Mel Gibson after his anti-Semitic rant and his DUI in 2006 derailed his mainstream career. That movie also involves several people who were once part of Marvel and Disney (sort of for one). It stars Andrew Garfield, who played the second incarnation of Sony's take on the Spider-Man film series, but only made it through 2 films before Sony rebooted a third time, this time with Disney/Marvel directly involved. Another is Hugo Weaving, who plays Doss's father; Weaving also played the Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger. The other is producer Bill Mechanic, who was the boss of Walt Disney Home Video during all but the last year of Frank Wells's and Jeffrey Katzenberg's careers there. Plus Mel Gibson was in Pocahontas.
This is a massive stretch.
I’m considering adding two examples, both including the The Super Mario Bros. Movie, by comparing it with either Tetris (2023) since both are video game adaptations that released a week apart but one is faithful adaptation while the other is a spy thriller about the making of the game, the second being Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves since it is also based on a popular game from the 80s and also released a week apart from Mario.