Jonny Prophet has sent me a list of his Top 10 'Unlikely to
be Made' Marvel Movies. I added my italicized thoughts to each one.
1. Joe Fix-It & Patch (it's like a mob movie with
Hulk and Wolverine) (Probably not, unless
Fox decides they no longer like money)
2. Squirrel-Girl (I
would say, given the success of Guardians of the Galaxy, it is possible. I
guess we will have to see how Deadpool does to get a feel for how oddball
superhero movies can do. Though her origin would have to change as she's
supposed to be a mutant.)
3. The Invaders (Need
Namor for Invaders to work. Personally I would save it for when Disney
inevitably reboots the Marvel movie-verse.)
4. Starfox (its like Entourage in space!) (Yeah,
doubtful. And who would be his entourage? Please tell me Pip the Troll is part
of his entourage!)
5. The Midnight Sons (Actually, I think this one is very likely to happen. Marvel owns Dr.
Strange, Ghost Rider and Blade so all the necessary parts are there. Plus, it's
a mini-Avengers type of film.)
6. Giant Size Man-Thing (Don't we all want a Giant Size Man-Thing?)
7. Eternals (It's
possible, but they are way too obscure. Seriously, I am having trouble naming
any beyond Thanos, Starfox and Mentor!)
8. Doc Samson (You
just want to see Phil Dunphy with green hair and super powers. So do I. We can
maybe get in in an Agents of S.M.A.S.H. movie... as dumb as that sounds.)
9. Dazzler (set in the 1970's or in the Mojoverse) (I doubt it, since we just had our
"70's" X-men movie. Though in the released photo of Jean Grey and
Jubilee, notice that Jubilee is wearing a "Light Brigade" shirt!
Interesting... I would persoanlly like a Chris Claremont themed X-men movie,
true to the line-ups and story telling. I would love a Mojoverse movie too!)
10. Squadron Supreme (it would be like a darker
Justice League movie) (Could actually
happen, but they would have to follow the MAX version for both a good story and
to try to distance itself from being a straight JL rip-off. although, by the
looks of things, Zack Snyder is already making a "darker" Justice
League movie. *cringe*)
As for me, my Top 8 unlikely Marvel Movies would look
something like this:
1. Runaways - I've heard rumors that this could
happen, even some casting rumors. However, my hopes are for a story faithful to
Brian K. Vaughn's amazing run with no stupidity. That's probably the most
unlikely part.
2. New Warriors - I'm talking the original six
members of Marvel Boy (Justice), Speedball, Firestar, Namorita, Nova and ghetto
Batman... er, I mean Night Thrasher. Could Marvel make this movie? I think so. They
might have to change Namorita's name. The real probalem is that if they wanted
to make a superhero team about a younger team, wouldn't they just make the currently
more well known Young Avengers? Hell, it has the name Avengers in it... that's
practically a done deal right there. Oh well. Young Avengers was good too...
though much of the team's backstory would have to be changed (Hulkling has no
Skrull genetics... Wiccan and Speed are made by Scarlet Witch as love children
of her and Vision... a relationship that hasn't even happened yet... huh. Hey,
whatever gets us closer to having Kang on film, right?)
3. Annihilation - More of a storyline than a super
hero storyline, it involved virtually every inch of Marvel's space universe
when a massive army from the Negative Zone (owned by Fox) led by Annihilus
(also Fox) lays waste Xandar, home of the Novas, to various space empires like
the Skrulls (again, Fox) before being stopped by the likes of Nova, Star-Lord,
Silver Surfer (Fox), Super-Skrull (Fox) and Galactus (hey, what do you know?
Owned by Fox). So unless they plan to do a half-assed version of the story,
which would make me cry, I don't think they'll bother.
4. Exiles - Could it happen? Yes, through Fox. Should
it happen? Absolutely not. Let's keep time out of our mutants, please. Unless
the rest of the Marvel Universe can take part, it will make no sense and suck.
5. Agents of Atlas - It's an obscure team of people
you've never heard of that originally operated in the 1950's... and it would
rule! The team has all kinds of sci-fi influenced characters like M-11, an
unstoppable robot, Gorilla Man, a gorilla man... duh, a young man from Venus
and even an Atlantean woman. They would fight the forces of The Yellow Claw. It
would never happen, but damn I would love it!
6. Avengers: 1950's - Sort of like Agents of Atlas,
it was a non-cannon team of super beings brought together by Nick Fury (the
white one from World War II) that included monster-hunter Ulysses Bloodstone,
Kraven the Hunter, Silver Sable (the father of the woman from the Spider-man
books) and most interestingly... Sabretooth! While Agents of Atlas could
happen, this one can't unless they remove Sabretooth from the line-up... and at
that point, why bother?
7. Brute Force - Animals with cybernetic attachments
that can talk and fight crime against those that harm animals... COME ON! Hell,
give us a Big Hero 6 style movie of them. I would watch!
8. Nextwave - Warren Ellis' deranged take on the
super hero team would be awesome on film. Unfortunately, Marvel doesn't have
rights to Tabitha Smith (she is a mutant so she is owned by Fox) but you could
make a new character to fill her absence. Marvel owns the others... The Captain,
Aaron Stack the Machine Man, Monica Rambeau, Elsa Bloodstone. I want to see
them fight the forces of H.A.T.E. dammit! The movie would be on par with
Guardians of the Galaxy as far as humor.
That's all I have for now... I might add more later. Until next time, Stay Strange!
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