Stories by @michaelcosby

Andy Fickman's Jonny Quest

When brilliant scientist Dr. Benton Quest is kidnapped by the scarred ex‑KGB operative Korchek, his rebellious teenage son Jonny and reluctant bodyguard Race Bannon must track him to a hidden Soviet silo in Cuba. There, Korchek and Quest's former colleague, Jeremiah Surd, are using Quest's own non‑lethal weapon technology to unlock the Brahmastra—an ancient Hindu super‑weapon capable of untold destruction. Racing against time with the help of the mystical street‑kid Hadji and the lethal femme fatale Jade, Jonny and Race must stop Korchek from launching the weapon and destroying the eastern seaboard—while Jonny finally confronts the truth about his mother's murder and his strained relationship with his father.

Roberto Orci's Power Rangers

When five troubled Angel Grove teens—hotheaded Jason, brainy Billy, insecure Zack, rigid Trini, and punk-rock Kim—stumble upon an alien crash site, they're thrust into an ancient war. Recruited by the diminutive, wise Zordon, they become the Power Rangers, inheriting armored suits and giant robotic Zords. Their mission: stop the escaped criminal Rita Repulsa and her monstrous Dominators from retrieving a powerful scepter. But when Rita steals the scepter, drains Zordon's life force, and initiates a planetary core-leech that will destroy Earth, the rookie Rangers must overcome their personal demons, work as a team, and form the legendary Megazord to save their world—and each other—from total annihilation.

Man of Steel: Knight Falls

When the Man of Steel intervenes in a global conflict between the Atlantean King Orin and the Russian military, he draws the ire of the world's leaders and the attention of Metropolis billionaire Lex Luthor, who manipulates global fear to turn humanity against the alien hero. Meanwhile, the Dark Knight of Gotham—still haunted by the loss of his adopted son—sees Superman as a dangerous threat that must be eliminated. As Luthor orchestrates a deadly conspiracy that pits the two heroes against each other, Wonder Woman emerges from the shadows to warn of a greater enemy. But when Luthor unleashes a monstrous weapon of Kryptonian origin, Superman must make the ultimate sacrifice to save the city he swore to protect, proving that even a god can fall—and that hope can rise from the ashes.

Dante's Inferno by Fede Álvarez

A young Florentine poet, Dante Alighieri, returns from the Crusades to find his beloved Beatrice murdered by his treacherous patron, Philipi Argenti, who has stolen her soul to Hell. Armed with the sacred Harrowing Pass—Christ's relic for traveling between realms—Dante descends through the nine circles of the Inferno. Guided by the poet Virgil, he battles demons and lost souls while confronting his own sins. Racing against time to save Beatrice before her mortal body dies, Dante must outwit Argenti, survive the wrath of Lucifer himself, and discover that true redemption requires sacrificing everything for love.

Marcus Nispel's Alice

In this dark reimagining, Alice, institutionalized after allegedly burning her family alive as a child, is transferred to a sinister hospital where Dr. Hatfield plans experimental brain surgery. As Alice's medication is withdrawn, her childhood Wonderland—once a place of joy—returns as a decaying nightmare realm. Haunted by a creepy young version of herself, Alice must navigate this twisted Wonderland, confronting the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and the monstrous Queen of Hearts, all while uncovering the horrifying truth: her aunt is the Queen, who murdered Alice's family and framed her. With the help of a sympathetic doctor, Alice must fight to escape both the asylum and her own fractured mind.

Tony Scott's Gears of War

Sergeant Marcus Fenix finally returns home to a planet at peace—only for the ground to split open after 79 years of war. A subterranean army called the Locust Horde erupts across the world, killing billions. Marcus loses his best friend Dom Santiago’s entire family in the attack, including Dom’s wife Maria. Forced to retreat to the last human stronghold of Jacinto, Marcus must confront his estranged father Adam, a scientist who secretly knows the Locust come from the Hollow—and that he sent Marcus’s mother there to die. When Adam is trapped underground, Marcus disobeys orders to rescue him, leading to a final stand where the Hammer of Dawn rains fire from the sky. Adam dies in Marcus’s arms, having finally said he’s sorry. But as Marcus is marched to prison for his defiance, General Raam watches from the shadows. The war has only begun.

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's Batman Beyond

In a near-future Gotham overrun by the militarized “Knights” of corrupt mayoral candidate Hugo Strange, disillusioned Knight Terry McGinnis loses his wife and son when they uncover evidence of Strange’s crimes. Rescued by a reclusive, aging Bruce Wayne, Terry dons a new Batsuit and, with Wayne’s reluctant training, targets Strange’s vast criminal empire. Racing against Strange’s rise to absolute power, Terry must embrace the Batman’s legacy—not for revenge, but to give Gotham a fighting chance.

Gore Verbinski's Bioshock

After fleeing his predetermined life, a young man named Jack survives a plane crash only to discover an underwater utopia called Rapture, now a decaying nightmare. Guided by a mysterious Irishman named Atlas, Jack is hunted by mutated addicts called Splicers. He injects a powerful substance called ADAM to survive, unlocking hidden combat skills he never knew he possessed. As he fights to escape, Jack uncovers a devastating truth: his entire identity is a fabricated lie implanted by Atlas. His real father is Rapture’s tyrannical founder, Andrew Ryan, and the trigger phrase “would you kindly” forces him to obey any command, forcing Jack to commit patricide before confronting his puppet master in a final, monstrous battle for freedom.

Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods

In 1957, Indiana Jones is accused of treason, stripped of his professorship, and tailed by the FBI. When his former love Marion Ravenwood reappears with a mysterious crystal skull, Indy is pulled into one last adventure: a race to the Lost City of the Gods in the Peruvian jungle. Chased by Russian spies led by his old friend Yuri, a suave Hungarian archeologist with a dark secret, and a scarred assassin called The Thin Man, Indy must decipher ancient Nazca geoglyphs, survive giant ants and mutated creatures, and reach the alien temple before the skull's power falls into the wrong hands. The journey forces him to confront his past, his regrets, and the true meaning of fortune and glory – leading to a wedding that fans have waited decades to see.

Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars

In 1949, a weary Indiana Jones wants only to retire and marry linguist Elaine McGregor. But when his fiancée is kidnapped from the altar by her mysterious ex-husband, Indy discovers Elaine secretly works for Army intelligence on a crashed alien spacecraft in the New Mexico desert. A desperate race against time unfolds as Russian spies led by the charming Vadim Cheslav and a traitorous scientist steal the crashed craft’s power source—an ancient stone cylinder covered in indecipherable glyphs. With the cylinder counting down toward catastrophe, Indy, Elaine, and an enemy-turned-ally pursue the Russians across the atomic-age southwest. From a harrowing ride on a rocket sled to a desperate last stand atop a sacred mountain, Indy must return the device before it triggers an apocalypse—while trying to salvage his wedding day.

Indiana Jones and the Monkey King

In 1937, a burned-out Indiana Jones is reluctantly drawn from academic life when zoologist Dr. Clare Clarke discovers Tyki, an impossibly ancient pygmy who speaks a lost Chinese dialect and wears a peach stone from the fabled Garden of Immortal Peaches. Believing Tyki hails from the legendary Lost City of Sun Wu Kung—the Stone Monkey King who conquered death itself—Indy assembles a ragtag team including his superstitious guide Scraggy and his obsessive student Betsy. Racing against sadistic Nazis led by the mechanical-armed Gutterbugh and a band of treacherous pirates under the bear-like Kezure, Indy navigates the deadly Zambesi River, hidden waterfalls, and booby-trapped jungles to find the golden city. There, the benevolent Monkey King rises from his skeletal tomb to resurrect the dead, and Indy must choose between claiming immortality or preserving the city’s sacred magic.

Jim Cameron's Spider-Man

Awkward Queens teen Peter Parker gains spider-like powers after a lab accident. As the masked vigilante Spider-Man, he battles his own rage and guilt after his beloved Uncle Ben is killed by a carjacker Peter could have stopped. Donning a red-and-blue costume, he faces the electrified billionaire Carlton Strand and his sandy enforcer Boyd, who tempt Peter toward darkness. With help from his loving Aunt May and his girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, Peter rejects Strand’s amoral vision, defeats him atop the World Trade Center, and learns that with great power must also come great responsibility.

The Wachowskis' Batman: Year One

After witnessing his parents’ murder as a child, a dynamic and isolated Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham City following years of worldwide training. Wearing a makeshift hockey mask, a near-fatal fight with a pimp forces him to question his crusade—until a bat crashes through his window, inspiring his dark new identity. As Batman battles corrupt cops, the Roman’s mob, and a cunning Catwoman, Captain Jim Gordon fights to clean the GCPD from within. After Gordon’s daughter is kidnapped, the unlikely allies corner Falcone. The year ends with a madman’s evil grin on a speedboat, hinting at a far greater menace to come.

David S. Goyer's Green Arrow: Escape from Super Max

After being framed for murder, billionaire vigilante Oliver Queen—the Green Arrow—is sentenced to the inescapable Supermax Penitentiary for metahumans. Stripped of his wealth, costume, and identity, he must survive a brutal prison population that wants him dead while being hunted by the ruthless warden, Amanda Waller. With the help of unexpected allies—including a broken Pied Piper, a resentful Icicle, and a shape-shifter named Gemini—Queen orchestrates a daring escape to clear his name and expose the real killer: his own best friend. But to succeed, he must sacrifice his old self and become something far more dangerous.

Michael Dougherty's The Man of Steel

After a near-fatal encounter with kryptonite, Superman learns he fathered a son, Jason, with Lois Lane—now engaged to Richard White. A crystalline Kryptonian woman, Kem-L, arrives claiming to be the last survivor of his homeworld, but her true goal is to rebuild Krypton by terraforming Earth and purging humanity. As Kem-L unleashes catastrophic meteor showers and black kryptonite smoke across the globe, Superman must fight his equal while Lex Luthor manipulates the U.S. government into embracing his anti-Superman agenda. The Man of Steel ultimately sacrifices himself by dragging Kem-L into the Sun, saving humanity and securing a future for his son.

J.J. Abrams' Superman: Flyby

After Krypton falls to a civil war, the infant Kal-El is rocketed to Earth, where the Kents raise him as Clark. Now a young man working at the Daily Planet, Clark uncovers his Kryptonian heritage and a living suit that unlocks his powers. When his murderous cousin Ty-Zor arrives with an elite squad to destroy Superman, Clark must embrace his destiny. Meanwhile, paranoid CIA operative Lex Luthor secretly plots to eliminate the alien “threat,” leading to a final battle that forces Superman to sacrifice everything — and return from the dead to save the world.

Andrew Davis' Batman: DarKnight

After years of retirement, a haunted Bruce Wayne is forced back into the cowl when a new wave of terror grips Gotham. Brilliant zoologist Kirk Langstrom has transformed himself into the monstrous Man‑Bat, while disgraced professor Jonathan Crane unleashes a fear toxin as the sadistic Scarecrow. With Robin trapped in Arkham and the city drowning in panic, Batman must confront his own deepest fears to stop two madmen—before he loses his sanity, his partner, and his soul.

Sam Raimi's Batman III

When the Riddler—a spurned WayneTech genius who has invented a device that steals human intelligence—teams up with the scarred, schizoid Harvey “Two-Face” Dent to drain Gotham City’s collective mind, Batman must confront his deepest childhood fears. With the help of a grief-stricken young circus acrobat, Dick Grayson, who becomes his partner Robin, Bruce Wayne races to stop the villains before the entire city is lobotomized. A dark, surreal nightmare of split identities and technological terror.

Rupert Wyatt's Gambit

When a heist gone wrong exposes young mutants Remy Lebeau and Belladonna Boudreaux as superpowered outlaws, their rival New Orleans crime families erupt into a bloody decade-long war. Remy’s surrogate father is murdered, and he is cast out, becoming a reckless international thief. Years later, the enigmatic geneticist Nathaniel Essex offers Remy forty million dollars to steal back a mysterious trunk from Belladonna’s mother—a job that forces Remy to reunite with his estranged crew, reconcile with Bella, and infiltrate the legendary Thieves Ball. But the trunk contains a terrifying secret that ties Remy’s own dark origins to Essex’s sinister mutant-breeding compound, forcing Remy to choose between revenge, redemption, and the family he lost.

Chris Columbus' Daredevil: The Man Without Fear

After a radioactive accident blinds young Matt Murdock, his remaining senses sharpen to superhuman levels. He trains his body and mind, becoming a lawyer by day to fight injustice. When his father, boxer Jack Murdock, is murdered for refusing to throw a fight, Matt dons a red costume and becomes Daredevil, the "Man Without Fear." As he wages war on crime lord Wilson Fisk, he falls for Elektra Natchios — a Greek heiress and martial artist with a dark past tied to Fisk's assassin, Bullseye. Torn between justice and vengeance, Daredevil must defeat the Kingpin and save Elektra's soul before Hell's Kitchen burns.