Possible upcoming superhero films

Mark Hamill

Found these lists on Wikipedia:
Marvel:
Magneto (expected 2009)
Spider-Man 4(expected 2010)

No release date anounced:

Ant-Man
The Avengers
Black Panther
Captain America
Cloak and Dagger
Deathlok
Doctor Strange
Gargoyle
Iron Fist
Luke Cage
Nick Fury
Silver Surfer
Sub-Mariner
Thor
Venom

Mark Hamill

DC: (middle of the page)
* The Dark Knight (2008)
* Justice League (2009)
* The Spirit (2009)
* Watchmen (2009)

Films with no set release dates

* Astro City (TBA)
* Constantine 2 (TBA)
* Doom Patrol (TBA)
* Green Lantern (TBA)
* The Man of Steel (TBA)
* Metal Men (TBA)
* Preacher (TBA)
* Ronin (TBA)
* Shazam! (TBA)
* Super Max (Green Arrow) (TBA)
* Supergirl (TBA)
* Superman vs. Batman (TBA)
* The Dark Knight sequel (TBA)
* Teen Titans (TBA)
* The Flash (TBA)
* The Losers (TBA)
* We3 (TBA)
* Wonder Woman (TBA)
* Y: The Last Man (TBA)
* Zatanna (TBA)

So, what do people think? what would you be looking forward to, or dreading?

ztoical

Iron man is due out in may
batman is july
Hellboy 2 is out here in august

Oni press's Whiteout is due out at some point in '08 and as is Mark Millar's Wanted.

Top Shelfs The Surrogates is being made into a movie with Bruce Willis but no realease date yet.

Watchman I am really not looking forward to. Its a comic that was a major breakthrough in comics and holds a very high place among both fans and people in the industry and I don't think any film will do it justice.

Wonder Woman I'm also not crazy about, since Joss Whedon left theres little chance of wonder women being a strong female character. Maybe if they got Gail Simon to write it.

Shazam I can see being good, depending on who gets cast as Captain Marvel.

Has preacher actually made it out of pre-production hell?

If I could have any comic made into a film it would Moebius's Incal but only if Jodorowsky was directing - could you imagine how amazing that film would be? Well maybe not amazing but it would be surreal.

L31mr0d

you forgot "Hancock"

Tusky

Based on what has been released over the past few years they are more likely to **** them up.

Liked : Batman Begins, Spiderman I & II
Decent : Superman, Hellboy, Hulk
Crap : Catwoman, Elecktra, Daredevil, X-Men I-III, Fantastic Four, Spiderman III, The Punisher

Karl Hungus

You thought the first 2 X-Men films were crap, Tusky?

Tusky

Karl Hungus wrote: »

You thought the first 2 X-Men films were crap, Tusky?

Yup. As a kid X-Men were my favorite comics so I may have been extra critical but I wasn't a fan at all. Magneto & Xavier were well cast but thats about all I liked. Certainly wasn't a fan of Wolverines perfectly gel'd hair anyway.

I did like the opening to X-Men 2 though. Twas rather excellent.

Shryke

I thought X2 was fantastic, but 3? My God...
Hellboy 2 and Ironman are the two I'm most looking forward to. I think a lot of what is listed won't make it, that's the hope at least. It's getting ridiculous. Who wants to see an Iron Fist film? Talk about a bad idea.
I enjoyed Constantine though, I didn't realize another was planned.

lostexpectation

hancock seems a bit preverted

JohnK

Mark Hamill wrote: »

Spider-Man 4(expected 2010)

Dear god not another one

Mickeroo

Theres a new Hulk movie out this year too, crappy director though, but it's got Ed Norton as Banner so I'm not writing it off yet. Word is Robert Downey Jr and Samuel L Jackson make cameos as Tony Stark and Nick Fury...setting up for a future Avengers movie.

Without big studio interference Preacher could be fantastic,i doubt it'll be getting green lit in the near future though. I also have high hopes for Watchmen, I liked both of Zack Snyders other movies(i dont consider Dawn of the Dead a remake) so we'll see what he can do, Watchmen is a tad more complex than what he's done before though. Great idea making a seperate movie out of the pirate parts though.

madrab

hellboy 2, watchmen an ultimates movie would be good

tread_softly

ah, thor!

he was fab

Venom

ztoical wrote: »

Watchman I am really not looking forward to. Its a comic that was a major breakthrough in comics and holds a very high place among both fans and people in the industry and I don't think any film will do it justice.

I was on the same opinion up untill I saw some set photo's which looked exactly the same as the comic book scenes so there is some hope

Sleepy

The thoughts of a Preacher movie fill me with dread.

Was I the only one who actually enjoyed Daredevil?

CrazyTalk

Sleepy wrote: »

The thoughts of a Preacher movie fill me with dread.

Was I the only one who actually enjoyed Daredevil?

Yep

Fysh

ztoical wrote: »

Watchmen I am really not looking forward to. Its a comic that was a major breakthrough in comics and holds a very high place among both fans and people in the industry and I don't think any film will do it justice.

I'm inclined to agree - Snyder is as good a director as any for the project, but it's just fundamentally not suited to a film adaptation. Someone else once commented that it would be better as a six-hour miniseries, which would have a better chance of working, but even so I doubt it will manage to be both good and faithful to the source material. One or the other, yes, but not both.

ztoical wrote: »

Wonder Woman I'm also not crazy about, since Joss Whedon left theres little chance of wonder women being a strong female character. Maybe if they got Gail Simone to write it.

I'm inclined to agree; not being particularly into DC comics anyway, I particularly struggle with two of DC's Top 3. Superman & Wonder Woman are both just dull to me, character-wise. Whedon would have been good, but I think I'd almost prefer to see what Gail Simone would do with the script.

ztoical wrote: »

Has preacher actually made it out of pre-production hell?

As far as I know, no. And that's a good thing, imo - it'll never convert to a film without being completely butchered. I heard James Marsden was being seriously considered as Jessie for a while, which pretty much tells you all you need to know about what was being planned originally. IMDB claims that there's a TV series in development for release in 2008 but won't tell me more without subscribing. Whether this is any more than the rumours of an HBO miniseries that were floating around for the last year or two is anyone's guess. (Well, ok, Garth Ennis probably knows, but I don't think he posts on here...)

madrab wrote: »

hellboy 2, watchmen an ultimates movie would be good

There have been two animated films that were marketed as adaptations of the Ultimates series but were in fact more of a blend between the Ultimates and the mainstream Avengers. (The titles were changed to The Ultimate Avengers, and the storylines removed such elements as

Henry Pym's violent abuse of his wife

).

I get the feeling that a lot of those titles aren't so much actively in development as being considered for development. Marvel are likely to be trying to line up other titles to build on if Iron Man is a success, given that it'll be the first adaptation of a Marvel comic that Marvel have retained control over. I'd like to see an Avengers movie, but I don't think there's really a market for a film about Ant-man unless it was as sarcastically funny as the recent Irredeemable Ant-Man miniseries. Likewise, Zatanna, the Metal Men, Luke Cage, Namor, Cloak and Dagger...they're all a bit too "who the hell are they?" to have a big blockbuster-y superhero flick made about them. Just because the american comics industry has managed to milk stories out of them for 30 or 40 years doesn't mean that a film version will be popular.

That being said, does anyone know what's happening with the Green Lantern tv series that was being talked about last year? (On the subject of tv series : given the success of Smallville, it strikes me that if Marvel really want to start doing films with the likes of Deathlok or Luke Cage in them, they'll need to do some sort of Heroes-style TV series which can introduce people who've never read comics to a basic version of the character...)

Edited to add:

This page may be of interest; I'm particularly interested to see how the Black Hole adaptation goes, having just finished reading it (it was really good, for the record). Button Man could also be very cool, and assuming that it doesn't get the horrific treatment Judge Dredd got, it'll be a refreshing change to see a British comic hero (antihero?) in a big-screen film.

Galvasean

Gonna take a leaf out of Tusky's book and rate what has come so far:

Great : Batman Begins, The Mask, Blade 1+2
Good or decent : Superman 1+2, Hellboy, X-Men 1-3 (yeah I know #3 was all over the place but it was strangely fun), the Punisher (Jane), Batman, Batman Returns
Crap : Catwoman, Elecktra, Superman 3+4, Supergirl, Daredevil, X-Men I-III, Fantastic Four, Spiderman III, Hulk, the Punisher (Dolph), Batman 3+4, Blade 3

Horribly hit and miss.

Fysh

Ah man come on, say what you will about the many crappy aspects of the Dolph Punisher, at least they had the balls to make it an 18, rather than the can't-quite-decide-if-it's-an-action-film-or-a-farcical-comedy approach to the Thomas Jane version. Jesus, the new one felt like three bad scripts that were stuck in a blender, run through about four internet translation engines, then directed by a guy who didn't speak any of the languages the script had been through and thought it was a silent dadaist piece.

(OK, it wasn't quite that awful, but it was definitely in the grouping of comic adaptations that are far easier to enjoy if you've never had any contact with the source material...)

ztoical

Fysh wrote: »

Ah man come on, say what you will about the many crappy aspects of the Dolph Punisher, at least they had the balls to make it an 18, rather than the can't-quite-decide-if-it's-an-action-film-or-a-farcical-comedy approach to the Thomas Jane version. Jesus, the new one felt like three bad scripts that were stuck in a blender, run through about four internet translation engines, then directed by a guy who didn't speak any of the languages the script had been through and thought it was a silent dadaist piece.

+ 1 I've got a real soft spot for auld Dolph - come on he was he-man and I must protest supergirl's poor placing but only because it was the first movie I ever saw in the cinema so its gets nostalgia brownie points. I'm sorry Batman Returns is the best superhero movie [but not the best comic adaption]

The movie adaption of Mobeius's Blueberry should get shoved in the middle for being ok as a movie but slapped for wandering to far from the comic.

would def move spiderman 2 down to join its awful retarded cousin spiderman 3 in the crap pile and you forgot the newest addition to that hollywood superhero hall O shame ... Ghost rider

Mark Hamill

Galvasean wrote: »

Gonna take a leaf out of Tusky's book and rate what has come so far:

Personally:
GREAT: Batman Begins; Constantine; V for Vendetta;

GOOD: Spiderman, Batman, Batman Returns, Hellboy, The Mask, Blade, Punisher, The Shadow, X-Men 1/2

MEH: Hulk, Spiderman 2, Blade 2, Fantasic Four 2, X-Men 3

PAINFUL: Catwoman; Electra; Daredevil; Spiderman 3, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, Batman 3/4, Blade 3,

Apparently there was a Man Thing (ie Swamp Thing) film year before last, anyone catch it, I used to love the cartoon..
Also, Sam Raimi has also gotten the rights to do another "The Shadow" film

ztoical

Mark Hamill wrote: »

Personally:
GREAT: Batman Begins; Constantine; V for Vendetta;

WHAT? WHY? No bad film, very very bad, made even worse if you've read the comic.

Doctor DooM

ztoical wrote: »

WHAT? WHY? No bad film, very very bad, made even worse if you've read the comic.

I thought it was alright if you didn't think of it as anything to do with Hellblazer.

keefg

Hey!!!

Where the hell is the release date for Radioactive Man?

Mark Hamill

ztoical wrote: »

WHAT? WHY? No bad film, very very bad, made even worse if you've read the comic.

I don't read comics, so I can enjoy a comic adapted film even if its totally different from the original story. I do admit though, that I can miss out on much better storylines because of studios dumbing down stories.. Still I thought Constantine was a good film and I'm looking forward to the sequel.

constitutionus

word is theyre making a punisher 2. havent a clue what its about but wouldnt mind seeing jayne again. not his fault it was crap, that was down to the script. and there was lovely bits in it (the direct lift of morrisons blowtorch torture scene)

looking at half the list id' be inclined to think they'll be crap but then again who amongst us thought the original blade would be any good?

theres not a bad animated dr strange movie out there as well though the iron man ones kinda crap. they shouldve burried that with the live action film coming out (which looks yummy)

Fysh

Mark Hamill wrote: »

I don't read comics, so I can enjoy a comic adapted film even if its totally different from the original story. I do admit though, that I can miss out on much better storylines because of studios dumbing down stories.. Still I thought Constantine was a good film and I'm looking forward to the sequel.

It's almost definitely a better film if you're not aware of the original, because it manages to mangle almost everything about the original that they bothered to include. So John Constantine goes from being a blond, ballsy Liverpudlian whose adopted home is London and whose main business is magic - to being a stunned-looking dark-haired Californian with the mighty power of sending himself to hell so long as his feet are in a bucket of water. Chas, his best mate and usual sidekick (not to mention main source of transport), goes from being the one guy alive who can see through his lies and reminds him of how to be a normal person, to being a teenage numpty with a cab. (Chas and Constantine originally met as teenagers, when Chas roadie'd for John's punk band). A storyline in which John shows what he's made of -

glassing the devil in the face with a pint of holy water in order to save a friend's soul, and subsequently having to outwit the devil in order to avoid being consigned to hell for his various sins

- becomes the tale of a man with daddy issues towards god whose apparent focal point for the scriptwriter, judging by how the film went, was the scene in which he gives the devil the finger.

It's not that I mind a film adaptation altering the original material - hell, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a fantastic series of comics that I adore, and yet I defended the awful film adaptation for the fact that they changed the storyline to something better suited to a film but still in line with the comics.

My problem is that these adaptations go into development because the source material is seen as viable material for a film; but during the process of development almost every worthwhile aspect of the source material is either stripped out or gutted to such a basic level that the final film, whatever its standalone merits, really should not share a name with the source material because the resemblances are limited to a few names and a very high-level conceptual basis.

Were there a way of cutting a deal with Satan to undo the badness that was the Constantine movie, rest assured there would be goat's blood, skulls, and candles made of black wax adorning my living room at this very moment. Sadly, fantasy films have lied to me, thus I continue to exist in the same universe as that terrible terrible film.

ztoical

did anyone mention Solomon Kane being made into a movie yet? I'm too lazy to look back and check.

Helix

ztoical wrote: »

did anyone mention Solomon Kane being made into a movie yet? I'm too lazy to look back and check.

sorry for the bump, but saw this today and cant for the life of me decide if it was rubbish, or decent

theres definitely something inherently terrible about it, but i cant get my head straight as to whether the movie was good

extremely weird that, coz im generally an opinionated bugger