Movie makers realized quite early that building up successful franchises ensures them more money than just making one successful movie.
But lately many have also realized the
importance of building not only franchises but also universes. The real fun
starts when seemingly unrelated universes merge into one (Manoj N Shyamalan’s Unbreakable trilogy), or initially seemingly unrelated police-verse of Singam, Simba and Suryavanshi. Or even two individual movies converging into one with
continuity (Godzilla Monster-verse). And of course, Marvel and DC have used this
concept really well to keep building curiosity for their upcoming movies.
As a movie fan, I have come up with my own set of universes
that converges into one. Bear with me as I build the background for the plot,
but I assure it will be a fun ride.
Plot:
As always, there is an eminent terrorist threat to the
world which the Americas spies have uncovered. Like always, there is not even a single threat which the Americans cannot foresee (Except the Covid19 one of course!). The US government cannot get involved as the threats are spread across various
geographies and governments. But the US government knows the answer to this. They just have
to find some people who can take down these nuisance elements single-handedly. So
they activate the global undercover agency Unit 19 (which is not known to anyone until
this happens) to assemble a team of rogues.
The catch for the plot here is that all team members need to be from the current movie universes and current timelines,
so as to fit well into this plot timeline.
The Boss:
M (from James Bond series)
M who has moved on from MI6 to Unit 19, is now given the task to assemble the best aides possible to conduct this operation. Code named con-verse (converged movie universe), this operation operation starts with recruiting the best of best into this team. In the past, M has recruited some of the best spies around including James Bond. So he is the best for this task.
M sets sail to look out for someone good who can lead this
team. He lands up in Arizona, to recruit the leader of the team, Barney Ross.
The Team Leader:
Barney Ross (Expendable series)
Barney has a reputation of leading his team successfully,
even in dire situations. Who better than him to lead this team. However, his
current team is unavailable for the mission so he has to recruit a new team in varied
profiles. Experienced team leader is the well begun and half done here.
The Team
1. Frank Martin (Transporter Franchise)
According to his franchises' timeline, Frank is currently
living in the French Mediterranean coastline. He is a former Special Forces
officer with some amazing driving skills. He fits into the QR well as well as
is well versed about the geography of Europe.
2. Rama (The raid series)
Considering the expanse of the terror outfit and its special
growth in the Asian countries, M knows his requirement would be to recruit quite a
few from here. Who better to start with than Rama from the raid series? Rama is currently
living a calm life in Indonesia post his stint as an undercover agent in local
mafia group and eventually busting them.
3. Hai Phuong (Furie fame)
After rescuing her daughter from the kidnappers’ gang, who
use children as illegal child organ donors, Hai Phuong is a national hero now. She has settled down in Ho Chi Minh City, and lives a simple life with her family.
Though she is still as dangerous as she has always been. A natural addition to
the team.
4. Karanveer Singh Dogra (Commando series)
After his successful mission against
Buraq and the terrorists, he is back to India. Being from the Special Forces
background as well as well versed in urban operations, he is the right
candidate from the Indian sub-continent. His guerrilla warfare skills are also worth a mention here.
5. Jason Bourne (Jason Bourne series)
Jason Bourne is still to come to terms with his life post
the fallout of CIAs Black Ops, however with the Unit 19 director in place
expects answers to come in for a lot of unanswered questions. However all these
answers would require him to first participate in this operation with the team.
This offer is too good to say no for Bourne.
6. Yuri Boyka (Undisputed series)
Probably one of the best fighters in the world currently,
Boyka is serving time the Russian prison. He was arrested in Drovny after
his match with Koshmar who was assumed to be unbeatable. Boyka symbolizes the
line “it’s the size of the fight in the dog that matters”. Also coming from the
Russian prisons, now he knows a thing or two better about Russia than the rest
of his team. M negotiated well with the Russian authorities to get him released
for this mission.
7. Bryan Mills (Taken series)
Last but not the least, its Bryan Mills. Bryan Mills is the most experienced in the team, only next to Barney mabey. Also,
being a retired CIA field agent and ex Special Forces, he has seen and
experienced terrorism and mafia in across the globe. He is settled in the US in his current timeline.
And Finally,
After introduction of the team members, and after an hour
and an half of out and out action, the team eliminates the terrorist outfit
completely. And thus operation Con-verse is declared a successful one. All threats are eliminated, except a small group of anti-heroes who are thereafter sent to
jail to serve their term. The survival of this group of villains is essential for the next part in this series!
Also, all is well that ends well.
The team:
Also, all is well that ends well.
The team:
(Disclaimer: I have left quite a few worthy members from this
ensemble. This is mainly because else it this team would have looked crowded. Some
of the worthy mentions would be Dominic Toretto from the fast and the furious
series and John Wick from John Wick series. Who would you have added
to this team, considering their availability in the movie universe in the
currently timelines? Use the comments section to mention your nominations)
