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Which Marvel Characters Should Get a TV Show?

 
 
Reply Mon 28 Jun, 2010 04:52 pm
While the world waits in quiet terror to see if 2011′s Captain America and Thor will be good/bad/worse than Punisher: War Zone, Marvel is launching a surprise attack on the small screen. Today, Marvel Entertainment created a new Television division, to be headed by Jeph Loeb, an iconic comic book writer with a lengthy TV resume. (That resume includes Lost and Heroes, so this could go either way.) There’s more information at Marvel’s website. This thing is still in the early stages, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start writing up a wish list: What Marvel characters need get their own TV show?

My sense is that Loeb will be sifting through Marvel’s huge catalogue of second-string heroes. For one thing, the franchise players are probably worth more as movie fodder. More to the point, Marvel sold off rights to most of their best-known characters long ago (Sony owns Spider-Man, while 20th Century Fox has X-Men locked down). That’s not a bad thing, though. If you ask me, a TV series is perfect for some of the less-powerful characters in Marvel lore, who don’t require epic special effects.

What do you think, PopWatchers? What unknown-but-wonderful Marvel characters would you like to see in TV form? Should Iron Fist get the Smallville treatment?
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jun, 2010 05:01 pm
@edgarblythe,
I think the X-Men would make a great series on television if its done dark and bleak.

Or perhaps Nightcrawler.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jun, 2010 05:08 pm
@tsarstepan,
20th Fox bought the X-Men rights. They are out.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Mon 28 Jun, 2010 05:15 pm
Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD, it's basically 24 with an eye patch
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Nickfuryshield.jpg

Iron Fist might be cool
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Immortalironfist.jpg/395px-Immortalironfist.jpg

Vision
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Vision-_Marvel.jpg

Hawkeye
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/H-5.jpg
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JGoldman10
 
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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2011 12:47 pm
@edgarblythe,
None, sir, I am a DC person.
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 13 Dec, 2018 10:47 am
@edgarblythe,
Were we ever so naïve to not predict the Renaissance of superhero tv series which we live in today? It's a good problem to have (though we need Disney to let Netflix keep a few Marvel series for their awesome sauscesome productions).
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Real Music
 
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Reply Thu 13 Dec, 2018 11:58 am
The Silver Surfer

http://desenelecopilariei.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/silver-surfer2.jpg
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 13 Dec, 2018 12:20 pm
@Real Music,
Real Music wrote:

The Silver Surfer

http://desenelecopilariei.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/silver-surfer2.jpg

I wonder if that would be too CGI heavy for a nonanimated series and that it'd likely have to have a pretty modest budget that it would likely could only receive?

I like your ambitious thinking on this choice though (though I'm not too personally familiar with the character outside those two failures of the Marvel movies he was featured in this past decade).
Real Music
 
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Reply Thu 13 Dec, 2018 12:35 pm
@tsarstepan,
I suggested the Silver Surfer because that was one of my favorite Marvel characters back when I was reading comic books back in the 1970s and 1980s.
You are probably right that the budget would be too high for a television series. This is just wishful thinking on my part. I still would love to see it. I wish they would make a Silver Surfer movie one day that features the Silver Surfer and Galactus in some far away galaxies and planets. The CGI and special effects would be amazing.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 13 Dec, 2018 01:17 pm
@Real Music,
The Fantastic Four film that brought in the Silver Surfer was a priority for me. Then, to me, the film was a dismal thing that I eventually lost interest watching. They have a great character they barely know how to use.
Real Music
 
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Reply Thu 13 Dec, 2018 01:36 pm
@edgarblythe,
I totally agree. They could have done so much more with the Silver Surfer character. I was most disappointed in how we never really got to see Galactus. If they had put more money into the movie to really see Galactus, I could only imagine how amazing that would have looked on the big screen.
MyFloridaGreen
 
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Reply Thu 13 Dec, 2018 08:33 pm
@Real Music,
game of throne.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Fri 14 Dec, 2018 09:03 am
@MyFloridaGreen,
MyFloridaGreen wrote:

game of throne.

WE truly have a long way to go before brainless AI/internet bots learn to actually read the sentence.

It would be insanely embarrassing if you YourFloridaPukeGreeness was a real person who was too stupid and sincerely meant that as your answer (too much to unpack for such a short reply of yours).
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 16 Dec, 2018 08:03 am
Howard the Duck, but it must be nothing like the shitty film.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/02/HowardTheDuck-1.jpg/250px-HowardTheDuck-1.jpg
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 16 Dec, 2018 08:16 am
@izzythepush,
I used to collect Howard the Duck comics.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 16 Dec, 2018 08:36 am
@edgarblythe,
Me too. I really liked the character.
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