Stories by @michaelcosby

Iron Fist

Daniel Rand was born in New York City, the son of Wendell Rand, who discovered the mystical city of K’un-L’un as a young boy. During his time in K’un L’un, Wendell saved the life of the city’s ruler, Lord Tuan, and was adopted as Tuan’s son.

Wolverine and the X-Men

Jubilee and Logan are both recruited into the X-Men around the same time, Logan deals with his fragmented memories with Xavier's help, and Magneto and the Brotherhood are ready to enact a plan against humanity.

The Punisher on FOX

The Punisher is an hour-long procedural with a Marvel signature, following both Frank Castle and a rising star officer with the New York Police Department, Lynn Michaels, who moonlights as a vigilante herself, seeking justice for those the system has failed.

Steven Spielberg's The Catcher in the Rye

Holden Caulfield, a depressed 17-year-old, lives in an unspecified institution in California after the end of World War II. After his discharge within a month, he intends to go live with his brother D.B., an author and war veteran with whom Holden is angry for becoming a Hollywood screenwriter. Holden recalls the events of a single night during the previous Christmas, beginning at Pencey Preparatory Academy, a boarding school in Pennsylvania.

Tekken: The Motion Picture

The film's story is loosely based on the first game, where Kazuya is the main character and Heihachi is the Head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, and Tekken 2, which features Jun and Lei's investigation of the Zaibatsu's illegal activities, although it also incorporates some elements from Tekken 3.

Samurai Jack: The Movie

The story takes place fifty years after Jack was cast into the future. In despair from the years of fighting Aku and from Aku's destruction of the remaining time portals, Jack—who has not aged as a side effect of the time travel—is haunted by warped visions of himself, of his family, and of an enigmatic, deathly warrior on horseback.

David Fincher's Spider-Man

Norman Osborn has suspended his identity as The Green Goblin despite knowing that Spider-Man is Peter Parker. Also, Harry Osborn, Parker's best friend and Norman's son, became addicted to drugs and was sequestered in the Osborn home for detoxification. Norman's parental grief, combined with financial pressure, triggered a breakdown resulting in Norman Osborn remembering his Goblin identity and again targeting Spider-Man and his loved ones for misery. The Green Goblin abducts Peter's girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, and lures Spider-Man to a tower of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Goblin and Spider-Man clash, and the Goblin hurls Stacy off the bridge. Spider-Man shoots a web strand at her legs and catches her. As he pulls her up, he thinks he has saved her, however he quickly realizes she is dead. Unsure whether her neck was broken by the whiplash from her sudden stop or had been already broken by the Goblin prior to her fall, he blames himself for her death. The Green Goblin escapes, and Spider-Man cries over Stacy's corpse and swears revenge.

Shawn Levy's Uncharted 2

Nathan Drake, now a retired fortune hunter, reunites with his long-lost brother, Samuel, and seeks to save him from a ruthless tyrant by setting off on another adventure that involves finding Captain Henry Avery's fabled pirate treasure.

John Woo's Metroid

Metroid follows the adventures of bounty hunter Samus Aran, who battles the villainous Space Pirates. The pirates threaten the Galactic Federation with their attempts to harness biological weapons such as the parasitic Metroid creatures and the hazardous Phazon material. Samus was raised by the Chozo, an avian race, after her parents were killed by Space Pirates. She serves in the military of the Galactic Federation before departing and beginning work as a bounty hunter. Samus travels to the planet Zebes, defeating the cybernetic lifeform Mother Brain, as well as its guardians, Kraid and Ridley.

Half-Life: The Movie

Gordon Freeman, a scientist, must escape the Black Mesa Research Facility after it is invaded by aliens.

James Bond 007: Blood Stone

In 2010, after stopping a terrorist from destroying a fundraiser, Bond is given a new assignment, a scientist who specializes in biological engineering goes missing, presumed dead as his boat was found capsized in the ocean. The US Echelon system picks up a cell phone call that pertains to his disappearance that he is alive and the call was made in Istanbul. Bond is sent to investigate whether it was the scientist or not.

Quentin Tarantino's Casino Royale

Casino Royale takes place at the end of James Bond's career as Agent 007. The plot has Bond on an assignment to bankrupt terrorist financier Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro; Bond falls in love with Vesper Lynd, a treasury employee assigned to provide the money he needs for the game.

James Bond 007: Nightfire

The film's story involves British secret agent James Bond, as he undertakes a mission to investigate the operations of a noted industrialist, uncovering a plot by them to conquer the world via a major defence satellite created by the United States.

James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire

James Bond must thwart an attempt to replace world leaders with clones.

GoldenEye 007

Set in between Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, MI6 Agents James Bond and Alec Trevelyan are tasked by M with infiltrating a chemical weapons facility in Arkhangelsk, Russia, which is believed to be the source of weapons used by a terrorist cell to target British embassies around the globe.

The Godfather Part IV: The Family Corleone

The film is a prequel and a sequel told in a similar narrative to "Part II". It sees Vito Corleone and Sonny gaining the families' political power and racketeering empire during the 1930s; and with Vincent Corleone in the 1990s, haunted by Mary's death, running the family business through a ten-year destructive war and eventually losing the families' business interests, respect and power, seeing one final scene with Michael Corleone before his death, completing the 100 year story of the Corleone family's rise and fall.

Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

Approximately five years after the events depicted in Return of the Jedi, the Rebel Alliance, now known as the New Republic, has driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy and is attempting to set up a functional government. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting a son. Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited new line of Jedi Knights. Thousands of light years away, Grand Admiral Thrawn, the last and most brilliant of the 12 grand admirals, has taken command of the shattered Imperial Fleet and prepared it to attack the New Republic. Thrawn is searching for a Dark Jedi to join his side and is confident he can restore the Empire.

Spider-Man: The MTV Series

Set shortly after the events of the 2002 film, Peter Parker starts attending Empire State University. Peter and Mary Jane Watson try to establish a relationship without much success. Peter's superhero duties, and later his involvement with Gwen Stacy, interfere with his romance with Mary Jane, while Harry Osborn continuously blames Spider-Man for the death of his father Norman. Peter faces an assortment of other villains including Black Cat, Kraven the Hunter and Electro while trying to maintain a job and his studies, causing Peter to consider giving up being Spider-Man and try to live a normal life.

Shane Black's Death Note

The story follows Light Turner, a teen genius who discovers a mysterious notebook: the "Death Note", which belonged to the Shinigami Ryuk, and grants the user the supernatural ability to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages. The film centers around Light's subsequent attempts to use the Death Note to carry out a worldwide massacre of individuals whom he deems immoral and to create a crime-free society, using the alias of a god-like vigilante named "Kira", and the subsequent efforts of an elite police task force, led by enigmatic detective L, to apprehend him.

The Fall of Max Payne

The Fall of Max Payne is the sequel to Max Payne (2008) and the second film in the Max Payne series. It continues the story of the titular character, a detective for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and former vigilante, as he is reunited with contract killer Mona Sax and must work with her to resolve a conspiracy full of death and betrayal.