10 superheroes who really don't need their own movie
Which characters probably won't ever make it to the big screen?
With the continuing massive success of Marvel's movie universe -- culminating in "The Avengers" -- and "The Dark Knight Rises," Hollywood isn't going to stop making superhero movies anytime soon. But for every hero who's ready for his or her close-up, there are a handful that we just can't see working on the big screen. The HitFix editorial staff narrowed down the list to 10 superheroes who really don't need their own movie.
Who did we miss? Agree? Disagree? Tell us what you think in the comments section.
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Next 228 CommentsMatthew
August 12, 2012 at 12:37AM EST Reply to Commentlol @ all the nearly the entire list being DC characters and most being important members of the Justice League. The list is right though. All of those characters are going to have trouble selling a movie on their own name, but its possible. If Captain America can make $370 million worldwide then Wonder Woman has a chance.
Agreed on Fury, he can't carry a movie on his own but I don't see why Marvel just doesn't do a Shield movie. You can make it an emsemble movie with Widow, Hawkeye and Maria Hill so they don't have to rely on Fury to carry the movie.
August 12, 2012 at 12:57AM ESTDK I'm much more of a DC fan, but this shows exactly why a JLA movie wouldn't (and probably shouldn't) work
August 12, 2012 at 9:42PM ESTlolacombs i want wonder woman
February 25, 2013 at 12:26AM ESTJS They're making a SHIELD tv series, with Whedon at the helm
February 26, 2013 at 7:10PM ESTrmill I read this comment at first and thought Green Lantern was in the list. He's connected to so much stuff that his movie would pretty much cover JLA.
February 28, 2013 at 5:13PM ESTk The only one out of Hawkeye, Maria Hill and Black widow that can carry a movie is Black widow.
May 13, 2013 at 2:30AM ESTWhy add the others?
It makes no financial sense and is creatively redundant.
coolhandjennie
August 12, 2012 at 12:42AM EST Reply to CommentGlad I read the Wonder Woman entry before commenting or else I really would have embarrassed myself by losing my shit in public. Drew's commentary makes sense and I agree: don't make a bullshit, compromised movie, but don't say she doesn't "need" her own movie. She's not an ancillary character; she fucking on par with Batman and Superman. As much as any superhero movie "needs" to be made, she's at the top of the fucking list. And one day, when people can handle her, it will happen.
August 12, 2012 at 12:58AM ESTGuy Smiley Yeah, I was about to curse out Drew myself, something I wouldn't normally do because I respect him and his writing, but he made good points about how they simply shouldn't make a WW movie if Warners is too intimidated by the mythology, etc., to do the character right.
August 12, 2012 at 10:58AM ESTThat's a different thing from saying WW doesn't NEED her own movie though. Insofar as any comic book character needs to have a movie, Wonder Woman certainly does. It's about time we get we get an iconic female superhero headlining her own film.
If anything, I'd think the success of The Hunger Games would make Wonder Woman an easier sell than ever. Just a shame that Warners can't seem to come up with the brains and the talent to make good movies of DC properties not named Batman.**
**We'll see next year if they can finally make the epic Superman film I've waited all my life to see (sorry, Donner/Lester/Singer fans).
CaptainCanada I think calling the character "on par with Batman and Superman" is a billing Diana has never been able to live up to. Nobody is on part with them, and certainly not her, who has struggled to support a single comic, and whose mythos isn't a fraction as well-developed.
August 12, 2012 at 12:28PM ESTMisk Did you just say that Wonder Woman was on par with Batman?
September 25, 2012 at 5:49PM ESTPardon me but LOLOLOLOL
Faye Wonder woman is not on par with batman and superman, she's way above them. The problem that people have is that they haven't read fully into her stories. She's a much more complex character than batman or superman and furthermore she's able to make the hard decisions like, oh say, killing a bad guy that needs to be killed which is something neither batman or superman do. They're too busy walking the line whereas wonder woman will cross it if necessary. She's just so complex that honestly there couldn't just be a standalone movie. There'd need to be at least 3 scripts written up to tell the course of her story. Unfortunately there's apparently not enough brain power up there yet to put something good together
November 5, 2012 at 4:28PM ESTFPS_D0UG regarding WW being considered "on par" with Supes and the Bat, she most certainly is, it's part of why she's one of the characters in DC's "Trinity".
November 27, 2012 at 7:02PM ESTCaptainCanada The "Trinity" is a marketing concept as much as anything. It's never been reflected in Wonder Woman's actual status as a property -- she's struggled to support one book, can never get adaptations made, etc. Comparing her with Superman and Batman is silly, and just sets the bar unnecessarily high in a way that ends up reflecting badly on her.
November 28, 2012 at 12:34AM ESTJ.Wenger Wonder Woman is a concept that belongs in the 70's with the invisible plane.
December 3, 2012 at 8:49PM ESTaztecace Well she may have problems supporting a book, but then again most comic fans are boy, and men and they even for all their juvenile desires will not read a book based on a woman for long. Wonder Woman's power though it said to be on par with Superman's so take it as you will.
December 6, 2012 at 6:04PM ESTCaptainCanada That's not what we were talking about, so that's neither here nor there. The Sentry is even more powerful than Superman, and yet I don't see his movie in development.
December 6, 2012 at 9:47PM ESTEChaney I am in the process of polishing my WW feature right now...lets hope it appeals to some (probably not all) of the female comic book readers and other woman and little girl who wanted to be her at some point in their lives.
January 3, 2013 at 2:09PM ESTharpo The reason WW is NOT on par with Superman and Batman is exactly the reason you mention at the end. People don't "handle her" (i.e. "like her") as much as Superman and Batman.
February 25, 2013 at 10:13AM ESTladyambar@gmail.com Wow. Sexism, much? It has been demonstrated time and time again that unless the female character is almost naked, involves lots of action and one liners is a HIT!! But is still considered trashy. Giving it a pat on the head and go on your merry way to the kitchen, dear.
March 26, 2013 at 2:05PM ESTNow here comes George Perez's story on how the amazons came to be. Why they're freed but really slaves of their shared past of male abuse. And then WW is born, the story gets complicated and continue...
Time later Greg Rucka takes the baton and slowly start to develop a story that rocked the friendship in the trinity, bold move, but one I personally liked. I remember Batman saying once to Superman when she was wanted for murder; "She's an amazon, a warrior, a queen. She has the mind and strength, that you don't have, to make difficult decisions. Deal with it."
She struggled to support one book because of very bad admin decisions, nothing more. If WW were a male character it would have his movie loooong time ago. Look at the record. How many movies Superman have? All a disaster! With the exception of the 1 and 2 Reeves made. And they keep at it! At least with Nolan they nailed Batman.
DC Executives doesn't have the guts, that's all. Good scripts and directors have come and gone. They ignored them all. To all the little boys that says that Wonder Woman is not on par with Superman And Batman. I have to give them a hug and tell them sweetly that Wonder Woman is on par and more than Batman and Superman. Sorry, that's the reality folks. You can't change the colour of the sun just because you don't like it.
I have been collecting 30+ years and have friends in the industry and really what these executives decide most of the time is downright dumb. BTW, some titles in DC needed the relaunch, but most of them no and simply ruined their timelines.
jj reins my god woman, you hit the nail right on the fucking head. you're my new idol
April 24, 2013 at 1:29AM ESTMojo CoCo
August 12, 2012 at 12:56AM EST Reply to CommentThe only way I can see Superboy working is if Man of Steel is extremely successful and they eventually go down the Doomsday route.
Ending Man Of Steel 2 with Supe's death and the reveal of the Supermen, then continuing into the 3rd movie would be bad ass. The fourth, after we've seen the full limit of Supe's power, would bring in Darkseid.
August 12, 2012 at 1:03AM ESTFirst Class should really be all the "Origins" the X Men franchise needs. They've been given license to explore these stories without over-riding the first trilogy. IMO, the DoFP storyline REALLY needs to pull an Abram's Star Trek and hit the damn reset button. The ending of First Class makes it all too easy. Have Havok be taken captive so we can bring in Scott to help find him, Banshee can either stay or hang out as Moira's bodyguard overseas.
Also, is the Hitfix staff gunning for a Wonder Twins movie? :D
FPS_D0UG a Shazam story that opens with Black Adam's fall, and then his redemption along side Captain Marvel could be awesome.
November 27, 2012 at 7:03PM ESTPhay
August 12, 2012 at 1:55AM EST Reply to CommentI dunno, if Captain America and Thor can have success, it's hard to say who can't. Statistically, women and women superheroes always have a harder time, but if they want a JL movie with any chance of success they might need to do a WW movie just as well. Maybe I'm one of the few, but I've always really enjoyed The Savage Hawkman. It might stand a chance with a decent costume design (like the current New 52) and be rated R. Hawkman isn't ment to be a heroic pg13, he's a bloody brawler. Might be fun.
Lola I agree. If they can bring a demi-god to the screen, why not an Amazon? It may be a challenge, but isn't that what they do? After all, the Bermuda Triangle would be a perfect place for her to be hiding out. Wonder Woman deserves to be brought to life.
November 9, 2012 at 12:47PM ESTLinc *cough* catwoman film *cough*
November 12, 2012 at 7:25PM ESTHaving said that, if only Kim Kardashian could actually act. She'd look 100% the part of WW, but man, that would be a terrible movie. Worse that Shaq's "Steel".
RMILL They brought an orphan with a speech impediment to the silver screen. I don't see why an Amazonian Queen/Princess, whatever can't have her own movie. I really think they should have done a Green Lantern movie before anybody else in JLA though. He's the one reconnected in everybody else's comics, so it would make the viewer a bit more knowledgeable.
February 28, 2013 at 5:24PM ESTHeath
August 12, 2012 at 2:00AM EST Reply to Comment1. Mark Millar was the writer of "The Ultimates" storyarc that introduced the Sam Jackson lookalike Nick Fury, not Brian Michael Bendis.
2. Superboy is a clone of Superman and an unknown human in the New 52 reboot, not another alien race.
3. Shazam, the artist formerly known as Captain Marvel, has not has his new origin fully revealed as of yet, so we don't know how well it might work for modern audiences.
magicks I'm pretty sure the human Superboy he was cloned from was Lex Luthor. Or did they change that?
August 30, 2012 at 8:53PM ESTKoko I think they revealed Shazam's origins with DC's JLA Zero Issue
September 3, 2012 at 11:15PM ESTJermain Superboy has been a clone way before the DC new 52 reboot.
September 21, 2012 at 10:22AM ESTShazam's origin's have been revealed in Justice League's 0 issue. Though I wouldn't call him a hero just yet.
briguyx
August 12, 2012 at 3:13AM EST Reply to CommentIf Disney can make movie after movie about misunderstood princesses, WB should be able to make Wonder Woman work...
DessieD Agreed... 100% Agreed
August 12, 2012 at 5:46AM ESTCharlie Only difference is the fan base. Disney works with myth and fairytales that already have varied versions and unknown authors. DC and Marvel, on the other hand, have set storylines which are difficult to deviate from. If they tweak the stories like Disney does theirs, comic fans might riot.
March 15, 2013 at 6:40AM ESTJoeK
August 12, 2012 at 7:47AM EST Reply to CommentThis was good. Power Pack really does seem like an inspired idea for a translation but you are right about the pitfalls. I can't imagine that getting through the Hollywood process and not ending up looking/feeling/marketed like another Spy Kids movie. A shame.
Also - as per Wonder Woman - did the recent DC Animated version utilize elements of the screenplays mentioned? In the early going of that especially it seemed really feature worthy in terms of ideas and characterizations. Another situation where it seems there is gravitational pull toward bad instincts about what to do with a property (Wonder Woman).
arrow
August 12, 2012 at 10:50AM EST Reply to CommentThat list should have been called "WB should stop doing superhero movies altogether". Now that the Batman franchise is over, there is nothing I'd want them to do and it's because of them, not the characters they own.
I don't believe a Justice League movie should be made. The characters aren't as interesting as the Avengers and the team dynamic wouldn't work as well.
I believe an excellent Wonder Woman movie could be made. She's tied up with the Greek mythology, which means you could have the Kraken attack New York or other stuff like that. The possibilities are endless.
The Flash should be on that list though. Super speed just wouldn't work as a power on screen.
Guy Smiley Interesting that you call yourself "Arrow," since that's the name of the new Green Arrow TV series. One would think you'd want to see more DC properties?
August 12, 2012 at 11:10AM ESTAnyhow, I think you're being a bit shortsighted. That's a matter of opinion that the JL isn't as "interesting" as The Avengers. The JL/JLU animated series was a classic, and would be an excellent model (well, just going with the main seven that started the series) for a live action film. Those characters had depth.
I'd like to see them build it up with solo films first, like Marvel did, but it may not be entirely necessary. The cartoons didn't do that, apart from giving us a bit of Martian Manhunter's backstory, and a big reveal about Hawkgirl later on.
Now that I think about, doing that Martian epic from the pages of JLA, or a version of the "Starcrossed" saga from the animated JL, could make for a couple of great movies.
Bringing Flash to the big screen would be a challenge not only because showing super speed would be tricky, but keeping the costume from looking goofy too. I love the character (the Wally West version) though, so I'd like to see it happen.
arrow My problem with the Justice League is that most of them are goodie two-shoes, as opposed to the Avengers, where only Captain America fits that description. You're right that the animated series was really good but that was a series; it was the perfect format to add depth to the characters. Put them all in one movie and you have a bunch of characters with no discernible flaw and no time to really make them different from one another.
August 12, 2012 at 2:45PM ESTAs for Flash, I actually like his costume and the character is one of the few, with Batman and Plastic Man, to have a clear personality that set him apart from the rest. But super speed? 2 hours watching events happening in slo-mo? And one major villain is a talking gorilla? Nit much to do with that.
P.S.: I hadn't realized about the name; I had it for a while. I should totally sue CW.
ryan They could use the Flash costume from the upcoming game Injustice: Gods Among Us.
August 17, 2012 at 12:43AM ESTKoko If they are going to make a Flash movie they should make Captain Cold the villain
September 3, 2012 at 11:19PM ESTShilo . . . . You're right, Arrow. Most of them ARE "goodie two-shoes" Superman, BATMAN, and WONDER WOMAN??@
September 6, 2012 at 10:30PM ESTWonder Woman killed people. A lot. She would swing her sword around and decapitate people and got away with it until the JL made her stop killing people. And she wasn't happy about that.
And then there's Batman. SUCH a fucking "goody-goody"
Good call there, chief. Too many goody-goodies on the team.
arrow That's 2 examples. I said Batman was different and Wonder Woman was a goodie two-shoes for 90% of her existence.
September 7, 2012 at 9:12AM ESTAlso, I would really appreciate it if you changed your tone. That discussion was last month and everybody was polite before you came in.
Jermain how is Captain America a goody goody? He may stand for Justice and all that but the man fought in WW2 and killed his enemies. With guns, he did in the movie and he even picked up a gun in The Avengers. Let's not forget that he threw one of the soldiers off of the Shield Helicarrier.
September 21, 2012 at 10:37AM EST"Put them all in one movie and you have a bunch of characters with no discernible flaw and no time to really make them different from one another."
If you knew anything about these characters you would know they are just as flawed as any other hero. It wouldn't take long to show how different they are from one another either.
Guy Smiley
August 12, 2012 at 11:20AM EST Reply to CommentLaugh all you want at Aquaman, but the character could indeed work as a feature film. The long-haired, harpoon-handed version mocked in this article was a total badass on the JL/JLU animated series, and the Peter David-written comics that inspired that version of the character were really good too.
More recently, Aquaman was one of the best characters on the recent Batman: The Brave & The Bold animated show, and latest comics version in "The New 52" has garned praise as well (I haven't read them myself).
There's certainly more than one direction WB could go with Aquaman, and I'd like to see a more badass version of the character on the screen, whether on his own or as part of the Justice League. If WB can come up with a good concept (Yeah, I don't trust them either) it would , it would make sense to do it before Marvel gets Namor on the big screen.
Koko Totally agree to this. Aquaman is badass and those jokes about him are so totally untrue.
September 3, 2012 at 11:21PM ESTAlso, The New 52 Aquaman was indeed amazing..Geoff Johns did a good job!... maybe WB should get Johns to write for the Aquaman movie.
PC HELL YES!
September 24, 2012 at 6:15AM ESTThe whole "hahaha, Aquaman sucks, he talks to fishes" schtick was funny the first time Robot Chicken did it, after that it just became real old, real fast. And all the people making the jokes have probably never read an Aquaman comic in their lives.
Spacetree Aquaman has potential, but frankly glamrock hookhand Aquaman is kind of dated. You don't need to make Aquaman "dark", you need to put him in an two-fisted, pulpy adventure movie. The Brave and The Bold Aquaman is the most entertaining version of Aquaman I've seen: he's like a seagoing Indiana Jones. Have him both dealing with his responsibilities as king and as a swashbuckling defender of the seas.
November 19, 2012 at 6:30PM ESTGuy Smiley
August 12, 2012 at 11:26AM EST Reply to CommentOdd that Ant-Man didn't make this list. I've really enjoyed the Marvel Studios output for the most part (Iron Man 2 was a drag), but is the world really clamoring for an Ant-Man movie?
It might've made for a fun animated collaboration with Pixar, but I just don't see that one working in live action. I'm not so sure about Guardians of the Galaxy either. Personally, I'd rather see a good Runaways movie, with Tony Stark and Steve Rogers and the like, making cameos.
DarkOmen Clearly you haven't seen the Ant man test reel
September 24, 2012 at 4:55PM ESTLee How about an elderly Garrett Morris reprising his role as Ant-Man from the classic late '70s SNL "Super Heroes Party" skit? "I don't see what's so funny. Is there something wrong with being Ant-Man?" he whines, as the other super heroes make fun of him.
October 10, 2012 at 4:14PM ESTLos Bostonian
August 12, 2012 at 2:11PM EST Reply to CommentThis list
Los Bostonian
August 12, 2012 at 2:21PM EST Reply to CommentThis list is mostly silly. There is totally room for Wonder Woman, Aquaman and a low budget Martian Manhunter in a world where Captain America, Thor and a giant green rage monster get their own films. The key is that DC needs to find the right people to adapt them and keep Greg Berlanti away from every story meeting. Thor quite easily paved the way for Wonder Woman and Aquaman. I wouldn't call the Aquaman plotline on Entourage a running joke either as someone familiar with the show. They attach James Cameron, have the movie outgross Spiderman in its opening weekend and all the poster art was actually well done. In fact at the time Entourage made Aquaman such a pop culture icon that the CW(or WB I can't remember when the switch happened) made a pretty decent pilot.
islandgirl Now you hit the nail on the head. I think they just want to see reaction to possible new super hero movies. This list is totally ridiculous. Look at how many people are interested just in the thought of making one of those movies. Personally, very happy to see so much chagrin over WW on the list. All they need is the right people, director, script & screenwriter .. annnnd ACTION!!!
February 12, 2013 at 9:08PM ESTME24601
August 12, 2012 at 5:04PM EST Reply to CommentI would watch the shit out of a Wonder Woman, Aquaman, or Captain Marvel film, if they were handled properly.
Dawna So! AGREED!
November 9, 2012 at 12:46PM ESTAlex I'm sure thats a lot of shit to watch out of the movie...
May 16, 2013 at 4:35PM ESTMichael Ballard
August 12, 2012 at 5:55PM EST Reply to CommentAngelina Jolie in salt worked...Gina Carano in Haywire worked, not to mention Kate Beckinsale in Underworld and Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil...Why?? Because they were very strong,very smart and the actors who played them made them believable. Wonder Woman would work if Warner Brothers thinks a little less "superhero" and a little more "action hero". With the right director,a smart screenplay, and a strong female lead (like Gina Carano???) It could "Kick Ass". Michaelmpls@yahoo.com
Brady
August 29, 2012 at 4:10PM EST Reply to CommentThey should have put Justice League on here as well because I don't think Warner Bros. has their collective head in the right place, much like what was said about Wonder Woman. With the Marvel Studios films, they put people who were truly passionate about the source material and were willing to let the concept build slowly over time so that audiences could accept a world filled with superheroes.
If anything, I think DC would need buildup films even more than Marvel did, because as iconic as DC's characters are (probably even more so than Marvel), the universe as a whole is far more wide-reaching and outlandish. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there is the Tesseract, which came from Asgard (Thor), gave off gamma radiation (Hulk), had the same kind of power Tony Stark used to live (Iron Man), and was first discovered in WWII (Captain America). Also, there's the Super Soldier Serum, which they used as both the cause of Captain America's origin and part of the Hulk's (radiation mixed with the serum). How are they going to tie together a man from Krypton, an woman created by Greek gods, a space cop, a man bathed in chemicals and struck by lightning (surely they'll change that), and a guy who dresses up like a bat in a single film? I really think for films, there needs to be more connective tissue for audiences to accept the concept and, right now, I just don't see it.
The Shadow
August 30, 2012 at 6:11PM EST Reply to CommentI have to agree with them all. thought while wonderwoman was great on TV (The first one) wouldn't do so well on the silver screen.
there there is Nick Fury and like the kingpin they screwed up by making both black. how stupid can they be. they are both iconic and means something to everyone some where.
you don't just fuck up two characters just because you wanted to do something different or might have been forced into it.
they need to change Nick back to being white and the kingpin as well.
and then disregard the first two like they was a bad dream.
Shilo . . . . Wow, racist much?
September 6, 2012 at 10:32PM ESTJohn L. Why does he have to be a racist? When I found our about S.L. Jackson as Nick Jury at the end of Iron Man I was all WTF??? I have been out of collecting comics loop since 1994, and then went to the internet to see what the director was thinking, only to find out about The Ultimates universe and was all 'hey that's cool' then bought the Ultimate Avengers DVD's to get up to speed. As for the Kingpin issue, I gotta totally agree. Seeing as how there is no real reason to make the change to the character (not to mention the film was a travesty on many levels) as there was never a precedent set with the comics just makes me say WTF. Besides I could also counter argue that it stereotypes blacks as criminals.
September 19, 2012 at 2:28AM ESTJohn L. *Fury lol!
September 19, 2012 at 2:29AM ESTPatrick
August 31, 2012 at 6:56PM EST Reply to CommentNot having an independent movie for Wonder Woman is one of the great sins of Warner Brothers Studios that should have received much more of a backlash than it has. Women centered movies such as the lien movies, Underworld series, Resident Evil and Lara Croft have done well and do not have nearly the following that Wonder Woman has garnered. Even Catwoman, has had a feature made about her. As far as using the world that Wonder Woman inhabits as an excuse to deny her a movie, I agree that the details of her story need to be overhauled and grounded in a real world without magic and gods. But that does not need to change who she is nor compromise the essence of her abilities. It can be done, as I have read several retellings of her story by unnoticed fan fiction writers that could easily be transferred to film that respect her origin but transfers it to a real world setting with some bordering on the brilliant. What is interesting is that Catwoman’s origin story has been recreated so many times, I am not even sure which is the correct (official) one and that has not hurt her reputation or popularity and she is perhaps the second most popular female character in the DC universe just behind Wonder Woman. It is an ongoing shame that WB does not develop this character and give her the proper respect due her. Saying that her story is too difficult to translate to film is a copout as numerous stories have updated the origins and nature of a character’s powers which if part of a well-made movie can recreate the canon.
ddksksks Catwoman and Wonder Woman are both great characters I can't believe they haven't done anything else with them.
September 4, 2012 at 8:31PM ESTthe mythology for WW isn't any more ridiculous than Thor's either. A giant alien planet/universe for old Norse gods?
Patrick But I would say that they need to make her origin more palatable. Most superheroes have an explanation for their origin. It helps their story that in a lot of cases they chose to accept their abilities and responsibilities to become superheroes. it is not that clear cut with Wonder Woman. I agree that the Thor mythology continues to be hard to believe but they made an attempt at making it more realistic than it used to be.
September 4, 2012 at 11:08PM ESTemperorbailey They didn't de-god the Thor movie, and it worked.
January 11, 2013 at 5:50AM EST"Troy" took all the gods out of the Iliad, and it didn't.
ma1achai The only way they *kinda* got away with making Catwoman into her own movie is that they were riding the tide of the Batman movies. There was the tie-in there that made it possible. I think that they will make the WW movie, but only after she proves popular in a JLA movie first.
February 1, 2013 at 11:25AM ESTCaleb
August 31, 2012 at 8:45PM EST Reply to CommentDid they just say The Dark Knight Rises was Marvel?
Tovah
September 2, 2012 at 9:23AM EST Reply to CommentYou forgot The Flash.
Tovah
September 2, 2012 at 9:25AM EST Reply to CommentYou forgot The Flash
Koko
September 3, 2012 at 11:23PM EST Reply to CommentJust please don't make a Squirrel Girl or D-Man movie and I'm fine.
jsdjnsj squirrel girl would be hilarious
September 4, 2012 at 8:29PM ESTconsidering she's deadpool's greatest rival and apparently the strongest marvel char...
Koko
September 3, 2012 at 11:25PM EST Reply to CommentAs long as no one makes a D-Man movie, I'm fine
Nate
September 4, 2012 at 7:33PM EST Reply to CommentBullshit! X-Men needs a fucking reboot with a higher budget. Each one of the X-Men movies cost less then $80 million and it showed. It takes at less $200 million. To make a decent comic book base film.
Dave Oh man, the studios just love audiences like you. I hope one day you will see how inane that comment you made was.
October 4, 2012 at 2:50PM ESTdsknksn
September 4, 2012 at 8:28PM EST Reply to CommentYeah but the thing is, how did Thor or Captain America or even Iron Man seem like a good idea at first? And it's been the right writers, producers and workers that have made The Avengers work. I think all these characters (ESPECIALLY WONDERWOMAN) could be well-marketed, great movies but you need the right team. The Avengers has been a wild success but not because of how they picked and choose but because of the incredible producing behind these projects. It's a giant endeavor. Any film idea can be a wild stretch until the right crew comes along, "The Wizard of Oz" for instance. That could have been a giant disaster but instead it's a classic.
fred You're right, it just takes the right people with imaginations and good ideas. You get a good director, a good writer and assemble a good cast and magic can happen.
October 2, 2012 at 6:18AM ESTMovieGuy
September 8, 2012 at 10:05PM EST Reply to CommentI would like to see Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Hawkman.
SizzlerKistler
September 8, 2012 at 11:17PM EST Reply to CommentBrian Michael Bendis didn't write Ultimates, Mark Millar did. And the Ultimate Nick Fury as an African-American character made his first appearance in Ultimate X-Men, not The Ultimates. Also, part of the problem WB had with Joss Whedon's script was that he didn't want to use the costume or any villains from the comics, so in that case it wasn't Warner Bros. being uncomfortable with her comics history.
jamill
September 9, 2012 at 1:44AM EST Reply to CommentIt was Mark Millar who wrote the Ultimates and Based Nick Furry after Sam Jackson.
Harry Henderson I would totally watch a Nick "Furry" movie, especially if he recruited Squirrel-Girl, Tigra and Rocket-Raccoon.
March 6, 2013 at 5:06PM ESTLshay
September 11, 2012 at 1:11AM EST Reply to Commenti think that they need to remake ghostbusters, now that would be great especially in 3D
Dave Oh please stop talking about 3D... You and people like you are the reason films are as juvenile as they are. Superhero movies just need to be treated with respect (like Batman was eventually) but some of the comments on here just reflect what the studios know already - just put out reboot after reboot and the kids will come flocking. TASM is a case in point - not one really good SPider-Man movie has been made yet.
October 4, 2012 at 2:48PM ESTbyron
September 12, 2012 at 1:38AM EST Reply to CommentThis article assumes that the movie makers would somehow be beholden to the most current comic book versions of these characters, The films will be for the wider movie-going audience so it won't matter what's going on in the most recent continuity (which could change completely at the next reboot anyway).
I do, however, agree with all of these choices except 2.
Wonder Woman is still viable and has a built-in recognition factor and could be a success if handled properly,
I also think Captain Marvel (in his classic form) could be a great standalone movie outside of any Justice League continuity.
His powers are too similar to Superman's to make sense as a member of a film version of the Justice League but the iconic "Shazam"/lightning bolt concept would probably still strike a chord even with those people who didn't know where it came from.
The magical element almost requires that he inhabit his own separate movie universe. I know it ain't gonna happen but it would be cool to have a totally unconnected movie thread for DC's magical characters--Captain Marvel, Dr.Fate, etc,
emperorbailey Dr. Strange.
January 11, 2013 at 5:53AM ESTJkross
September 15, 2012 at 11:59AM EST Reply to CommentThe first sentence in this article proved the authors ignorance & worthlessness of the article. Stating that "Marvel's universe has been successful - culminating in the "Avengers" & the "Dark Knight Rises." Batman is DC comics, not Marvel, you imbeciles!
Muga the celestial figures bless you from the nexus of the universe
September 25, 2012 at 11:33PM ESTvoguer99 They were saying that the Marvel Universe was separate from "The Dark Knight Rises". You were reading it wrong.
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