For the Genie, if you make it into the 60’s it could be Zero Mostell. Peter Sellers or one of the members of Monty Python, Pailen, Cleese, or Idol, could be another option.
How you sell a JSA centered continuum is acknowledging there have been Batman and Superman movies already. Acknowledge that Batman has been established in the “present” with Keaton/Kilmer/Clooney and certainly acknowledge Christopher Reeves as Superman. This saves you from having to establish...
If I’m going with a JSA start, my first movie is either with Hourman as a detective thriller where other JSA members are discovered chasing the same villains or a full JSA film as the first leg of a chase of the Spear of Destiny. The JSA cycle would end with a 2-part Atomic Age which opens the...
If DC had to use its second tier to start its Cinematic Universe, you would probably see something very much like the Justice League: International with the Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Black Canary, Martian Manhunter, and Green Arrow as your centerpiece. Maybe Aquaman is involved as the character...
One of the most obvious things that might have caused Reagan to lose in 84 is a more visible and prominent onset of the Alzheimer’s that started to noticeably cloud his memory nearer the end of the second term.
Had there been any lingering effects from the assassination attempt, especially heart...
Without the fear of Communism, the political left would possibly see a more viable path forward, but the lack of a unifying external threat to pull the left and right together towards the center, there may have been a much more violent domestic political landscape. The harsh reactions to labor...
I think without Nixon in the mix, it would be a battle between George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller. The polling at the time showed that those two, at least in the early phases and lead up to the '68 campaign, were the leading players on the board. What has to be remembered though is that on the...
With Turner and WTBS getting to be the premier “Superstation”, does this mean one of his prize programs, Georgia Championship Wrestling remain tied to Jim Barnett and slows down the Vince McMahon driven expansion of the WWF in the early 80’s? Also, with WGN remaining with DuMont, is the AWA...
I find that tough to imagine as my father firmly remembers “the CBS/ New York Yankee game of the week” on tv in the 60’s. If the CBS ownership of the Yankees wasn’t challenged, then I wouldn’t be surprised if the Tribune Company owning the Cubs and it being the DuMonte- Chicago Cubs game of the...
Sadly, the easiest way for Ike to be the face of the Republicans is for the assassination attempt on Reagan to succeed. This leaves a more centrist H.W. Bush as President and he may fall back into the more Eisenhoweresque policy stream. The other option is for Iran-Contra to become a Watergate...
Liking this as it puts forward a fairly believable wrestling landscape w/o the overwhelming presence of the Hulkster. Savage and Steamboat getting a good, long feud works as does keeping Andre a face trying to avenge Hogan. The NWA still looks strong, but you haven’t gone in a very different...
If there is no canal, do we see an expansion of the navigable waterways that cut east/west? How far is the Rio Grande/ Rio Bravo del Norte navigable inland? Does river traffic stop at Laredo? Does it make it all the way to El Paso? Do rail heads become that much more important?
The color combination for the Generals might get the team a lawsuit from the Jets ownership. Like them or not, the Red and Silver of the OTL Generals is far enough from either NY team not to generate extra legal expenses.
Biggest thing I would have pushed for Elvis in the 60’s was a return to his “roots”: Country and Gospel. The sound of 60’s Elvis music is very much similar to the polished Nashville sounds coming from the major labels. His appeal to the middle-America audience would be reinforced as well as his...