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Trade News | March 30, 2009 | Comments (20)

This is likely not going to be relevant for at least a couple of years, but Variety is reporting that Marvel Studios is hiring writers. Slowly shifting away from their current focus on the Avengers franchise (Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America), and since Brett Ratner (die) effectively murdered the X-Men franchise and then took a steaming shit on its corpse, they are moving to begin planning for the next round of films. These will deal with some of their lesser known, second-tier characters.

Some of those in the works include Black Panther (*cough*DjimonHounsou*cough*), The Iron Fist (who does not actually have a fist made of iron), Doctor Strange (who could be a really good franchise, if done right), Cable and Vision (why he won’t be in the Avengers franchise is beyond me).

Interesting stuff. Personally, I’d still like to see The Silver Surfer, but not, you know, fucking stupid. The biggest missed opportunities for grown-up themed, non-fantastical characters have already been ruined — Affleck made sure to ruin Daredevil, and I don’t think they can find another way to fuck up the Punisher. He’s now been raped in three distinctly different but equally horrendous ways.

Fortunately, I don’t get too upset about these franchises that I adored as a kid and still read to this day.

Motherfuckers.

Personally, I think they should just do a Marvel Zombies movie. I might die of joy.
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Comments

How does zombie Wolverine make any sense?

Posted by: cockroach at March 30, 2009 5:05 PM

Iron Fist is actually a really good choice for a movie franchise - since the relaunch a couple of years ago under Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker (and later Duane Swarycinzki), it's turned a boring C-lister into what's easily Marvel's most fertile idea factory in years, creating a historic line of Iron Fists and combining the new backstory with approximately six billion flavours of high fantasy martial-arts awesomeness - sort of a mix between Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Big Trouble In Little China. And if that doesn't wet your whistle, there is something the fuck wrong with you.

And I have some thoughts on Doc Strange, but they're going to wait a couple of days...

Posted by: mightygodking at March 30, 2009 5:07 PM

I love The Black Panther. I have a bunch of old stuff from his Jungle Action days and the like. He was a very cool character. Over the last 15 or so years, I have just sort of keep tabs on the Marvel Universe, but I noticed he's playing a bigger role now, which is cool, and apparently is/was married to Storm.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at March 30, 2009 5:17 PM

Marvel Zombies movie? I just made a mess in my pants.

Posted by: flyingdonut at March 30, 2009 5:17 PM

Oh yeah. Isn't there a Black Panther prime time animated series coming out quite soon on BET?

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at March 30, 2009 5:18 PM

um, if black panther is made, there's no reason he couldn't be tied-in to the avengers. imo, the wakanda storylines are freakin tight.

Posted by: gp at March 30, 2009 5:20 PM

mini-diversion: who would be your pick to play Dr. Strange?

Johnny Depp? Christian Bale?

*discuss*

Posted by: mswas at March 30, 2009 5:25 PM

I won't take the bait......I won't take the bait.......I won't take the bait......I wo

Blue Beetle's DC, asshole!

Posted by: Jay at March 30, 2009 5:30 PM

"who would be your pick to play Dr. Strange?"

Christopher Walken, and it would have NOTHING to do with the Marvel character.

Posted by: annoyingmouse at March 30, 2009 5:30 PM

The Iron Fist? I never heard of him, what are his powers? He can put two in the pink and one in the stink at the speed of light?

Posted by: Pookie at March 30, 2009 5:32 PM

Oh and Viggo Mortensen for Stephen Strange.

Posted by: Jay at March 30, 2009 5:41 PM

Well hello stranger, I've not spoken to you in some time Jay. How is everything going my friend? I hope all is well for you. What do you think of all this comic book news, kinda exciting huh?

Posted by: Pookie at March 30, 2009 5:54 PM

No Luke Cage? Power Man and Iron Fist?

Posted by: MrCresosote at March 30, 2009 6:17 PM

Strange? How about Terrance Howard?

I don't know who would play Luke Cage. Will Smith has the physique and the star power, but lacks the menace. Steve Harris has the physique and the menace, but who the fuck is Steve Harris? Snipes is too old and incarcerated. Dwayne Johnson has the body, the charm and the menace and the star power, but he's never carried a movie. And he's not black. Maybe Ving Rahmes, but, like Michael Clark Duncan, he's a bit old and neither is an A-lister.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 30, 2009 8:23 PM

They'd need someone who can pull off "Sweet Christmas" with no irony. Which is to say No One Alive.
I really liked Marvel Zombies. It was a fun time. And it had a Zombie Howard the Duck. Frankly, that gets my ass in the seats.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at March 30, 2009 9:28 PM

Iron Fist?

Luke Cage must be in that movie. I love their BFF-ness.

Also, Marvel, for god's sake, hire some decent writers this time. Maybe some of those people who got tired of trying to keep up with your shitty, shitty retro-90's continuity and abandoned ship on the comics. Woo them back with the promise of actually giving a shit about their contributions.


Posted by: twig at March 30, 2009 10:37 PM

I've got about a hundred graphic novels (ooh snap with the pretentiousness, they're not fucking comic books heathens), but only a couple of them are super hero ones, so I don't get terribly worked up over the desecration of most of these.

Constantine pissed me off to no end. Oh hey we've got this awesome character who's British, blonde and looks like Sting, let's get Keanu, change it to an American guy, and then write our own contrived story instead of even cribbing off of the hundreds of published stories. And we won't call it Hellblazer, because that sort of sounds like Hellraiser and people are stupid. What the fuck did you pay for the rights for? The name of the character? You could have just claimed it was based on the emperor of the Roman Empire, since his life bears as much resemblance to that film as the comics did.

If a studio touches Sandman, I swear on the soul of Domingo Montoya, I will build an atomic weapon in my motherfucking garage.

Posted by: Steven Lloyd Wilson at March 31, 2009 1:32 AM

Alright, alright, I'll give ya the benefit of the doubt that you're not being serious.

(they're allll comics)

Posted by: Jay at March 31, 2009 6:58 AM

I'm waiting for the Forbush Man movie.

One of my favourite comics as a kid.

Posted by: Lame at March 31, 2009 10:35 AM

I'm all for a Cable movie as long as they don't have Famke Janssen back as Jean Grey. Ugh.

Posted by: Melissa at March 31, 2009 12:56 PM