Bigdog
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Thank you, Bigdog. That was actually one of the challenges I was presented with when preparing this story. I was confused as to how I was going to formulate a story around the Kiva footage and still make it original. An original plot that went through my head was to just copy the Kiva story, but I wanted to make things more unique. Eventually I settled on a basic concept of the main character being a writer, and it got started from there.
Funny story though. Another idea I had was to just take Kiva's appearance and put it in a whole new setting, taking advantage of the horror theme. I was going to have him spend 40+ episodes fighting legendary creatures and horror film villains. It got scrapped, but I haven't totally tossed it out yet... *hint hint wink wink*
This idea would have seen Dreadfang tackling challenges such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Jersey Devil, as well as fighting characters like Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, all with an all-powerful main villain that was bringing them together. The new Goosebumps books were actually what made me not do this, because I didn't want to be accused of stealing ideas.
Like I said, I haven't totally forgotten it. We may see something involving that plot later, but I'm not sure yet.
The Film killers take it a bit too far ,but my idea of a Kiva adaptation early on would have been having Kiva absorbing four of the monsters he fights against in the first four episodes.
With great adaptations like RPM, most of the "corny" footage that was orginally in the series can be editted out in the sense of the talking dinos in Dino Thunder or given explanations like in RPM.
Check out my Bionicrangers fanfic, you'd like it. It's a reboot of the Power Rangers mixed with the popular Bionicle franchise. It might not be as action packed now, but I have great plans in store for it.
Anyways, if you want inspiration , look at my KAMEN RIDER fanfic:
http://henshinjustice.net/forums/showthread.php?t=30160&highlight=KAMEN+RIDER