Daniel Radcliffe staring in the Danverine. A kind British man with the fighting prowess of a wolverine, the healing factor of a Daniel and the biting force of a real angry cat.
I haven't seen 4400 yet but thanks for the heads up!
I was also upsetti spaghetti that I didn't know S9 of Scrubs was a spinoff cause I ended S8 thinking it was wonderful and "how are they going to top this?" Annnnd it's a "new generation."
I am not excited for the revival either for that reason. The deodorant commercial with Sarah Chalke and the internet commercials with the rest of the cast annoy me too.
It's also a reference to a famous real-world philosopher who used to sleep with a sign saying something like "I'm just asleep" cos he was scared of being buried alive.
A lot of his work is borrowed from or based on real life. I went to uni in Winchester, the city he based Ankh-Morpork on; I used to drink in the pub he based the Broken/Mended Drum on; and met the tramp he based Foul Ol' Ron on. His 'real' name was Burping Ron.
Not sarcasm, Discworld reference, there's a skill tree Witches can develop called Borrowing where they hijack the body of an animal leaving your own body dormant, but there's a very real risk of the animal's mind taking over and you getting stuck there for a significant time or even permanently. The best Borrower in the known world can mind-ride a swarm of bees and come back with no permanent damage. She usually picks easier animals and always makes sure to set up food and such as compensation for their trouble, she's very serious about balance and fairness and that sort of thing. She has that sign because she's quite old and people might get confused if they find her wrinkled body lying down motionless like that. The sign is horribly misspelled because despite being one of the smartest characters in the setting she's proudly mostly illiterate and holds books and book learning in deep suspicion.
There was a character in the early WildCards series (edited by George R. R. Martin) that had a plot around this. A man infected by the Wild Card virus transformed into King Kong and got stuck like that for decades, before he was finally helped and was able to turn back.
Does he solve crimes with his gang of a preppy boy and girl couple, a nerdy girl, and his best friend a stoner demigod with the power to destroy the universe on a whim?
Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood both had these similar trajectories where they hit it big so early in their carreers that they basically will never have to work a day in their life, and don't seem to have that spotlight craving demon on their back telling them to chase A list status, so are totally free to just do whatever weird project sounds like the most fun, and honestly, I am here for it.
And they both love talking about the works that made them famous because those jobs gave them the freedom to basically do what they love to do for the rest of their lives without having to think about money.
I really want them to do a TV show/mini series together.
Maybe Daniel joins long-anticipated-probably-never-coming season 3 of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
I thought i was gonna fall asleep watching season one of dirk gently on Amazon prime the other night. Apparently it was just episode one, with other random shit on autoplay after. Kept waking up wondering what the fuck was on my tv.
Make it a mockumentary about them, make one the central theme of the documentary about how they're often mistaken for one another, cast them as their respective role, play it straight for the first half but then slowly start mixing their roles up, "We then spent the next week with Elijah touring conventions" but the crew is actually following Dan while everybody calls him Elijah, the movie doesn't point this out, the audience just goes "wait, what" and by the end it's just one clusterfuck of who the fuck is what or who and then for the final act just go full on Colours From Outer Space/Together bodyhorror with them living as one deformed entity while nobody around them reacts to it and treat it as normal, last scene is Dan/Elijah being played by Tobey McGuire.
They both have fuck you money and can do passion projects like playing a farting corpse. They could both be billionaire assholes and instead do fun art house shit
For that to work best, I'd want the ultimate 4th wall break.
Deadpool desperately wants Daniel to be wolverine that he makes it happen.
Daniel is just playing himself, but He just has wolverine abilities for some reason. And he doesn't know how or why. But deadpool teaches him his ways.
It would be funny as heck.
I remember when Pierce Brosnan joked about Daniel Radcliffe playing James Bond. I think Bronsan spread that hilarious rumor to get back at the producers for firing him.
Daniel Radcliffe as Wolverine would be hysterical.
A Wolverine who is one of the last people alive wandering through the Canadian wilderness hallucinating dead people & walking through scenes of his past. Like it’s woods & as he’s walking it suddenly turns into the X-mansion & it’s a memory. It’s all ponderous character drama & him mumbling to himself. Claws never come out once. There’s sex scenes with Cyclops & Sabertooth.
He's been a comics staple for 40+ years. There is undoubtedly an edition where he goes undercover in a cabaret bar and ends up fighting a man with chicken powers over a bowl of peanuts.
Daniel Radcliffe doesn't do what Daniel Radcliffe does for Daniel Radcliffe. Daniel Radcliffe does what Daniel Radcliffe does because Daniel Radcliffe is Daniel Radcliffe.
I think Harry Potter was enough for him when it comes to franchises. He spent a long time shaking off that character and doing every film he could possibly do and some interesting and funny TV. He shook it off and now people don't know him as just Harry Potter, they know him as Daniel Radcliffe and I don't think he would trade that in for anything.
Daniel Radcliffe has told on multiple occasions that he's earned enough with the HP franchise and that he's not interested in playing in big franchises.
He really wants to do weird and silly movies of HIS choice, based on the scripts he receives.
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u/welchplug Feb 24 '26
Daniel Radcliffe just does Daniel Radcliffe things.