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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/05/09

    In reply to Max Barry's Weird Cyborg Publishing Experiment Could Be A Movie
    This seems like a huge lost opportunity.

    Surely the best way to deliver the 'Machine Man' experience to the audience would be in the form of 43 one minute, 'blipverts/pages', delivered online and on broadcast TV, over 43 consecutive days.

    That would add up to exactly one 'TV hour'.
    For the one-off, TV 'event', reprise.

    Then the theatrical, DVD and online release of the whole 120 minute film the next day.

    For $6.95.

    Just like the book. [io9.com]

    But why would a film studio use an innovative and hugely profitable new business model? #maxbarry
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Max Barry's Weird Cyborg Publishing Experiment Could Be A Movie
    I love Max Barry's books. His style of writing, the way the books read, they just beg to have movies made out of them. #maxbarry
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Max Barry's Weird Cyborg Publishing Experiment Could Be A Movie
    Max Barry can do no wrong.

    MAKE JENNIFER GOVERNMENT MOVIE!!!!! #maxbarry
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/05/09

    In reply to Max Barry's Weird Cyborg Publishing Experiment Could Be A Movie
    How do these guys get contract before they even finish a book ?
    Stephen Soderbergh I have a big hate for you as you hate the Internet we give a little hate back to you.
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    Image of Im_your_Huckleberry Im_your_Huckleberry
    11/05/09

    In reply to Max Barry's Weird Cyborg Publishing Experiment Could Be A Movie

    Do we really need another one of "those" movies, uh. #maxbarry
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    06/15/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    Not sure I'd want to see any of thexe folks on the big screen.


    Now Jamie Madrox, that's a character I'd like to see done right on film.

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    Image of thewriteguy thewriteguy
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    I would like to see Power Pack and Clock & Dagger.
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    Image of thewriteguy thewriteguy
    06/14/09

    @thewriteguy:


    Cloak, not Clock, argh, typo.

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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    06/15/09

    @thewriteguy:


    Typo aside, Power Pack is a great idea for a summer blockbuster. Kids would love seeing someone like themselves with superpowers.


    Cloak and Dagger, though...it's a little too dark. And it feels dated to me.

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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    No X-Statix? Are you kidding me?
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    Image of kelz kelz
    06/14/09

    @DennyCrane: If we were still in the 90's, maybe.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    06/14/09

    @kelz: It can absolutely still work as a concept in 2009.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    Where is the Galactus rom/com?
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    Image of DoktorH DoktorH
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    what, no love for Nextwave? that has action-comedy written all over it. semi-dysfunctional superheroes-with-issues rebel against the Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort that employs them and actually start saving people and stuff! it has Machine Man for the trippy scifi bits, getting drunk. It has The Captain for the Captain Marvel style action bits, Elsa Bloodstone for the fantasy, Forbush Man for the comedy, and the secret agenda of H.A.T.E for the thriller elements (with MODOK!)
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    Image of WizarDru WizarDru
    06/15/09

    @DoktorH: NextWave is comedy for comic-book fans. If you're NOT a comic-book fan, it's really too self-referential and in-jokey to be amusing.


    Seriously, stuff like Irving Forbush or a bunch of two-page splash panels (with no story) are only funny to comics fans (and wouldn't translate at all to the movies). Likewise, half the characters would need explanation; a movie audience isn't going to know who Bloodstone is (hell, most comic readers didn't know) and isn't going to be happy with finding out one of the members is his daughter...and won't be happy with the two lines of exposition about it in the comic that passes for her back-story.


    Nextwave would make a TERRIBLE movie.

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    06/15/09

    @WizarDru: False. The elements that you describe are no different than those in Mystery Men--inside jokes for comic book fans, characters with obscure origins--and that was a great movie.


    It just couldn't rely on those elements.

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    Image of mikuras mikuras
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    No female superheroes except teenybopper Hellcat (gag) and minor roles in a few teams? She-Hulk, Spiderwoman, Ms. Marvel, Black Widow? Um... Dazzler?
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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    06/14/09

    @mikuras:


    Alas, after ELEKTRA, Marvel might think twice about going that route . . .

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    Image of Cicada Cicada
    06/14/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: I don't think the problem with Elektra was that the lead was female.
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    Also in the trippy sci-fi/fantasy mode, howzabout Shade, the Changing Man (the Milligan era)?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/14/09

    @Starwatcher: That was a DC title, right?
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    06/14/09

    In reply to 20 Marvel Heroes Who Deserve A Shot At The Movie Big Time
    I have, in fact, already written a humorous Iron Fist script.


    It is full of Kung Fu and good times.


    (It does NOT feature SHARK EYES, though I'm seriously considering that for the rewrites.)

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    06/14/09

    In reply to Marvel's Potential Comedy Franchises
    I have, in fact, already written a humorous Iron Fist script.


    It is full of Kung Fu and good times.

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