Marvel Moving Forward on THE INHUMANS Movie; Screenplay by Joe Robert Cole
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darkhunger
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Have co-leads in Black Bolt and Medusa. Hire Vin (half-black) to be Black Bolt. There's your minority & female led movie folks.
I think you mean Gorgon, not Goliath. Goliath is typically associated as an alternative name for Ant-Man/Hank Pym.
BlackNMild2k1
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I don't know these characters at all, but would Ali Larter be good for Crystal?
She was looking damn good in whatever show I just last seen her in, and when I IMDB'd a few seconds ago, I just noticed that her characters name for the show she is on right now is also named Crystal.
SillyEskimo
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Your list is missing Avengers 2. I understand how easy it is to forget though, since virtually no one watched the first one.
BlackNMild2k1
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Avengers 2 is end of Phase 2, so I didn't forget it.... silly eskimo.
They'll probably want to go younger for Crystal. 20-something bombshell.
Escape Goat
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The original article is wrong, Perlman's script was significantly different all around. James Gunn rewrote pretty much the entire thing.
Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe they can. Whether or not Fox is entitled to some payday because of that I am less sure of. Either way, there is no way they will do that. J10 was pretty blunt about it, but he is right; it would be stupid. Why build Latveria up when it can only exist on TV? The idea of these shows is to build up the MCU, so it wouldn't make sense if they couldn't be used in the movies.
To put it in perspective, Marvel won't make another X-Men cartoon seemingly because they don't have the film rights. So why would they reference a character featured in a movie they really did not want made?
Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe they can. Whether or not Fox is entitled to some payday because of that I am less sure of. Either way, there is no way they will do that. J10 was pretty blunt about it, but he is right; it would be stupid. Why build Latveria up when it can only exist on TV? The idea of these shows is to build up the MCU, so it wouldn't make sense if they couldn't be used in the movies.
To put it in perspective, Marvel won't make another X-Men cartoon seemingly because they don't have the film rights. So why would they reference a character featured in a movie they really did not want made?
darkhunger
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As stated before, Marvel may have live action TV rights to X-Men and F4 but Fox has veto rights. This is the basis of that "Mutant X" debacle more than a decade ago. So not happening.
The Silver
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Maximus has enough charimsa to make up for everyone
Funky Papa
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Marvel can't mention anything Fox or Sony owns if what they're doing is live-action. There was one X-Men knock-off show Marvel did way back that Fox took off the air.
Wreck-It Ralph
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Damn, that would be a sexy lineup.
bengraven
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Please God to have an adaptation of Paul Jenkins/Jae Lee's underrated fucking genius miniseries.
BattleMonkey
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Men never liked them. Don't really see how they would be received by general audience, frankly don't find any of the characters fun or charming. The inhumans always felt like plot elements for other marvel properties.
Be careful, you may be setting yourself up for crow later on.
Maximus is awesome.
Medusa....has awesome hair.
Everyone else is sort of meh.
Black Bolt is cool but comes off as a
:rolls eyes: silent protagonist most of the time.I am Bark?
Squirrel!
The biggest road block IMO is, where's the audience's in? Black Bolt is the lead but also doesn't talk, and unless this is an origin story for how he becomes king, there's not much of an arc there to watch either.
Though it just occurred to me they could kill two birds with one stone and actually make Carol Danvers the lead, linking her to the Inhumans as both being Kree experiments. Maybe have her powers come from the Terrigen mists.
Ah right. I knew it was G-something.
Black-Wind
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Behhh! Would prefer they just make Medusa the main character. Leaders aren't always the main character, BB can lead and not say jack where as Medusa is our "hero".
No need to drag Carol into this ...
So I looked into this since the TV rights have always been a mystery to me. Turns out that Marvel owns the full live action rights to X-Men for sure, and that probably extends to the Fantastic Four too. Cartoon rights are probably more muddied, but I think it is a joint thing.
Unrelated, but still interesting, Sony relinquished all TV rights to Marvel as part of a deal, including live action. So Marvel can technically make a live-action Spider-Man TV show and have it be perfectly legal. There is probably no way they would do this though, as they would either piss off Sony (and they are currently on pretty good terms) and/or keep the Spider-Man films relevant. That could keep the brand going strong and ensure Sony keeps the rights.
The Silver
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where in the world would Carol fit in with the inhumans? Their whole thing is the politics and struggles of the royal family, she would have no place there.
and yeah they have Medusa right there, she's the "voice" of Black Bolt
GuitarAtomik
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Seriously, anyone interested in knowing more about them should read this. It was my first legit intro to the characters and now the Inhumans are one of my favorite corners of Marvel.
BattleMonkey
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Oh no some creeper is going to scan through ancient posts to point out people who had differing opinions! What will I do?!
And Medusa and much of the main cast are dicks who are distanced from humanity. I can imagine them changing it all around just to make Maximus some popular actor and give him the spotlight as the main draw, but that's a pretty big departure from what an Inhuman movie should be. With Guardians you had humor and likable cast of characters to make up for them not being well known super heroes. Inhumans don't have a likable or fun cast.
You'll eat crow. He just said that.
Zeus Molecules
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No.
I could see them using shield to build it up, and I guess Maximus would be the villain. But they really don't have any good stories outside of the FF lore except for some crystal focused stories and war of Kings.
Like marvel tried to force inhumans on the MCU and it failed and while marvel deserves the benefit of the doubt, I can't think of a interesting inhuman story to make into a film. They don't even have interesting characters like the GoTG to prop a film up.
BattleMonkey
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He goes to the dentist every year and doesn't use whitening strips.
Interesting. Even though they're the not-X-Men, comics fans seem to like them.
If you believe that, would you like to buy my coastal Colorado resort?
Right, there's no real charismatic lead there to follow, unless someone/something is drastically re-written. Which is kinda why I had that Ms. Marvel idea, using her as an in for the Inhumans while using the Inhumans to help fill out her backstory and present some kind of stakes for Carol.
BronsonLee
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I would not.
That being said, name other properties they would use for a film, because they've got a lot of blank spots open right now. I think it's 2 or 3?
whatsinaname
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Seems like they were setting up a Nova movie with Guardians of the Galaxy.I would not.
That being said, name other properties they would use for a film, because they've got a lot of blank spots open right now. I think it's 2 or 3?
To be honest I really think they're better off keeping Danvers human and on Earth with the rest of the Avengers. Muddling her up with the rest of the Inhumans just sounds like a bad idea.
I forget how their story, but aren't the Inhumans also based on Earth though?
Earth's moon.
BlackNMild2k1
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Does this give Coulson the opportunity to rebuild SHIELD with new operation in space?
aka SWORD?
bengraven
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People think I'm nuts, all of whom have never even read it, but I put that Inhumans miniseries as the third in my trilogy of the best superhero comics - Watchmen, DKR, and Inhumans. Each tell a story in a way comics didn't before it.
If they're still basing the cosmic MCU off Abnett & Lanning's stuff though the Inhumans will probably be floating round the galaxy in Attilan getting into all kinds of shit with the Kree/Skrulls/Shi'ar.
The Elite
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Yeah, I was thinking that as well.
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