April 28th, 2005 -- Written by John Campea
Perhaps you thought that the superhero genre was looking towards a close and that Hollywood would move onto something else? Wrong. News from Variety through Comic Book Movie is that it’s the exact opposite, prepare for an onslaught of heroes.
Paramount has signed a lucrative and exclusive deal with Marvel for films based on Marvel’s remaining characters…
…Marvel has already put together a half-billion-dollars to create a slate of films with production budgets as high as $180 milion, using their remaining 5,000 comic book characters…
Two of the first classic comic book characters that will hit the big screen are Captain America and Nick Fury…
…The first film is expected to be released in two years and for the largest possible audience none of the films will have a rating above PG-13.
Well Nick Fury might be quite cool, but they’re all going to be PG-13 and under? Well, there will be some good entertainment out of some of these, but nothing too dark. The superhero franchise is definitely not dead, I wonder how many of those 5,000 characters we’re going to see on screen! What characters would you like to see making it?
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You mean there are still some comic books that HAVEN’T been made into movies yet?????????
Well to start Cable, Domino, Exiles, Apacalpse, X-Force, Darkman was cool, I’ll list more later after im ragged on!
Nick Fury is definitely going to be played by Samuel L. Jackson - the new Ultimates comic has his character quite clearly looking like Jackson, which is especially noticeable as it means a change in skin colour. It also has Patrick Stewart as the model for Xavier, etc, so I’m very inclined to believe that Marvel has the signature on the dotted line for that one. I think it’s a great casting - it’s got to be better than that horrific (but funny) version with David Hasslehoff…
if they want to hit every marvel character then they should do the Onlsaught saga which took the entire marvel universe (good and bad) at the same time to take him out, just a thought
I’d like to see the 3rd film, or maybe the fourth, in the X series turn out to actually be an X-Factor film. Big names are probably the best to go with, like the Avengers, or Alpha Flight as far as teams go, the New Mutants would be good to see too, I enjoyed the x-generation made for t.v. film but it could’ve been much better. Cloak & Dagger, Power Pack … and to name just a few others She-Hulk, Spider-Woman …
WOOO……….ALPHA FLIGHT……….CANADA KICKS ASS……..SASQUATCH ASS KICKING……YEAH!!!
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO WANTS TO SEE A MARVEL VS DC. THE ORIGINAL VERSUS.