by Renaud Bédard
HUMAN TORCH THE MOVIES
by Renaud Bédard



Right up front in the beginning of any Human Torch related movies, just after whatever title of any possible interpretations, if anyone has any respect for anything, those words should always appear, based on Carl Burgos, and the name of the original creator that started it all should be honored, always

Walking among the crowd there seem to be a very ordinary man by the name of Jim Hammond, but when danger stroke and a hero was needed, he would change into the extraordinary Human Torch, at first bursting into flame when exposed to the air. A perfect replica of a human being in appearance, Jim really was an enhanced artificial human being created in a laboratory by the brilliant mind of the scientist Professor Phineas Horton. The original Human Torch had a great origin story that would certainly make an excellent dark & edgy movie, as this great character was the first ever to be published in Marvel Comics, issue number one from1939, right on page one, and right on the front cover. Such great legend that is the original Human Torch certainly deserves to be in his very own movies and even more in his very own regular comics book series; and who knows by building on the true original golden age icon, we might actually discover that the original Human Torch could be more human than it was first thought. Adding to the great legend, with the love of a father who might have lost his own child in a fire, Professor Horton could have made his creation with something of  his son inside of him, if only a few childhood memories; and at first Jim might not even know his true nature

- SUB-MARINER VS ORIGINAL HUMAN TORCH -

In this movie could appear two of the greatest golden age Marvel icons, Jim Hammond the original Human Torch and Namor The Sub-Mariner, with the classic confrontation between the forces of water and fire, and maybe someday the Human Torch or Sub-Mariner could return the favor each in their own films with different angles and perspectives from the opposite points of views, where on the Human Torch side Namor would be the bad guy and on the Sub-Mariner side Human Torch would be the enemy. Namor would be hero to some and baddie to others for defending his world from the chemical and sonar pollution of surface men, versus Human Torch, hero to some and baddie to others for defending his city and country against attacks as well, kind of like the situation in today's world as a parallel to wars and environmental problems; Namor the Sub-Mariner from a cross with a very long lifespan race adapted to the ocean, and the original Human Torch, machine on the surface created and at first feared by surface men for his power, but deep down more human that most human beings

- PROJECT REBIRTH -

Decades into the future, a grand-daughter of good old scientist Professor Horton, she would inherit what is left of his properties, and eventually walk into some secret hidden laboratory only to find plans and prototypes of the original Human Torch; and with her own scientific knowledge, she would attempt to bring back to life the artificial soul of Jim Hammond by upgrading and completing one of those Human Torch prototypes, and set into motion a plan for him and the work of her grand father to live on forever, with a way for Jim to backup his own memories on a regular base into some outside memory bank. Eventually the original Human Torch could even find the remains of his old artificial self, and incorporate his old memories, including his whole World War Two chapter with his new ones

- GIFT OF HUMANITY -

And maybe in the end, for his acts of heroisms saving countless innocent lives, and after self-sacrificing his very own existence, God himself with the face of our hero's creator Carl Burgos would come down and intervene by giving the true legend the gift of humanity and return him back to Earth as his bravest and brightest flame

And if for some reason people want him back the way he originally was, then to save the life of his fiancée, after some tragic event that would send her to intensive care between life and death, the original Human Torch would seek and find God himself and ask to save her life in exchange of his; and in an act of mercy God would save her, but he would return the true hero's the way he originally was in the very beginning as the artificial life form that was created in a laboratory

PS: Please release in hardcover books, Marvel Masterworks Marvel (Mystery) Comics New Improve Definitive Edition Volume 1 with a few bonus pages on the old Timely Comics days

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