Stories by @ringothedrummer

The Year Without a Santa Claus

Based on one of my favorite Rankin/Bass movies. Sidelined by a nasty cold and feeling unneeded, Santa decides not to make his annual Christmas journey. Elves Jingle and Jangle scour the world to find people who still believe, hoping to convince the jolly old elf to make his trip anyway.

Spider-Man 4 (2011)

When a threat by the name of The Vulture appears in New York, Peter must stop him, with the help of a vigilante.

Superman: For Truth and Justice

Kal-El, son of Jor-El and Lara, is sent to Earth after his home planet Krypton leads to a complete incineration. Now taking the name "Clark Kent", he then discovers his true persona when he is guided to become Superman: A hero committed to protect Earth's fate and the harm that threatens it.

Who Goes There?

Taking place immediately after the first film, A U.S. Special Forces team is sent to Antarctica to rescue the two survivors of U.S. Outpost 31, MacReady and Childs. But what they don't know....is that one of them.....is The Thing.

Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (1979)

A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

Spider-Man: Fresh Start (2023)

Peter Parker is now on his own and has just started college. But, when a new criminal emerges, Peter must be the hero he is to stop this threat.

Mortal Kombat II (2023)

Following the events of the first film, Raiden send the surviving Earthrealms Warriors to recruit new members for the next tournament to face Outworld warriors

Death Leaves An Echo

Basically my pitch for Bond 26, not much else to say.

Julius Caesar

Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. Mark Antony drives the conspirators out of Rome and fights them in a battle.

Stan Lee

Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which would later become Marvel Comics' primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries.

A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the errors of his ways.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2014)

With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, Oceanographer Steve Zissou rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.

Superman: The Movie (2018)

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

The Matrix Trilogy (2019 - 2023)

Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to stopping Neo and the entire human rebellion.

Super Mario Bros. (2022)

A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother, Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.

Camelot

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination near the end of his third year in office.

Spider-Man: Revival

12 years ago, Peter Parker had given up being Spider-Man after the death of his wife, Mary Jane Watson. Peter, now in his late 30s, looks his daughter, and works as a chemistry teacher. But, after seeing what the city has become, Peter must become Spider-Man once more. Thus…..some old friends return.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

A sweet boy from a poor family dreams of finding one of five golden tickets hidden inside chocolate bar wrappers which will admit him to the eccentric and reclusive Willy Wonka's magical factory. One after another, tickets are discovered by ghastly children - but will the lad find the last remaining one and have all his dreams come true?

The Mask

Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss comes in to possession of a mysterious mask which transforms him into his inner personality. Soon, the bumbling clerk becomes a psychotic maniac, willing to kill everyone and everything.

HλLF-LIFE

Theoretical physicist Gordon Freeman must fight his way through, and hopefully out of, the Black Mesa Research Facility, New Mexico, after an experiment intended to research improved teleportation technology goes horribly wrong, and tears open a rift in the space/time continuum between our world and an alien borderworld containing forces far beyond the understanding of any human mind.