Stories by @nathanbates

The Fly

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

David Cronenberg’s Frankenstein (1987)

What if a Frankenstein was Cronenberg?

Spider-Man

🕷️💁‍♂️

Network (1996)

This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (1990)

Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.

The Odyssey (2006)

What if it was made 20 years ago… as long as it took Odysseus to return to Ithaca.

The Tourist

Set in contemporary Manhattan, the story follows Grace Ripley, a beautiful executive who counts herself among a secret group of exiled aliens, some morphed to human form to live among us, while others remain in their original guises, waiting to die on the backward planet Earth.

The Phoenician Scheme (1975)

Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.

Almost Cast: Martin Scorsese

cinema

Almost Cast: Apocalypse Now

the horror… the horror… of being almost cast…

Tootsie

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.

Thunderbolts* (2000)

What, we some kinda...

The Two Jakes

Private detective Jake Gittes has a new client. Jake Berman believes his wife is cheating on him and wants Gittes and his associates to catch her in the act. Everything appears to be going according to plan until Berman shoots the man dead. It should be an open-and-shut case but now Gittes is drawn into a complex web that involves far more than infidelity.

1977 Oscars

mad as hell

True Grit (1990)

A stubborn teenager enlists the help of a tough U.S. Marshal to track down her father's murderer.

Prometheus

the trick is not minding that it hurts

Kingdom of Heaven

A heavily fictionalised portrayal of the events leading to the Third Crusade, focusing mainly on Balian of Ibelin who fights to defend the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from the Ayyubid Sultan Saladin.

2009 Oscars

the dark knight

2025 Oscars (2025/2005)

brutal

Nosferatu (2024)

The night demon has supped of your good wife’s blood.