has New Line/Marvel officially....

[GammaMike]

given up on the Deathlock the Destroyer movie? I remeber them raving about a script with a devoted family man turned killing machine and a "top flight actor close to being on board. I always suspected it was Terrence Howard, but that seems unlikely now.

 

[Bubonic]

Wow, I never realized it had gotten that far into planning.
I loved Deathlok, did the script ever find its way on the net?

 

[Hypestyle]

heh.. they might as well sever ties and bring it under the marvel studios projects..

 

[Bubonic]

http://internapse.com/marvel/upcoming/deathlok/news.php?year=all

Just a positive script review...
http://internapse.com/marvel/news.php?id=897

Meh.
Given that I'm not all that upset this has gone nowhere.
I personally liked the 90's version of Deathlok lots, but I don't get what they are doing from the script review.

Plus I cannot see MODOK working well at all in live action.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Best chance for Deathlok happening is New Line. If it goes back to Marvel, let's just say I doubt it will be a high priority

 

[BMM]

Who knows what will happen now that Warner Bros. has purchased New Line.

 

[Bubonic]

Best chance for Deathlok happening is New Line. If it goes back to Marvel, let's just say I doubt it will be a high priority

True, from what they said they only plan on releasing two films per year.

They got Hulk and Iron Man coming out this year.
They'll have Ant-Man and Thor, Captain America, the Avengers...
And after that they'll be making the sequels to these... So unless plans are changed, or they don't go with trilogies for every one, it's still going to be minimum a decade spent on these 6 franchises .

After all that there is no guarantee they'd be that drawn to Deathlok, when they still got characters like Black Panther, Namor, and others that have gone untouched.

Not to mention the possibility of them reacquiring the properties of the likes of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. If that's the case I can see them taking the forefront.

I have every Deathlok comic, of the second volume anyways, and I'd like to see the Micheal Collins version used... I'd have to assume he is the most well known version, despite the short 34 issue run.

Murdered after discovering a secret weapons project, pacifist and cybernetics expert Micheal Collins found himself resurrected inside his worse nightmare - - An unstoppable cyborg killing machine.
Taking control of his new body, Collins defied his would-be masters, and escaped into a world that holds no place for him.
Now, cursed with the power to back up his convictions, he seeks justice for others and peace for himself.
Stan Lee presents;
Deathlok


From what the script review implies, it seems like he can switch on the power whenever he wants, concealing the fact that he is partly cyborg.

I think this works against the most basic essence of this tragic character, because part of what worked for him was that desperation caused by constantly being a freak, not being able to make love to his wife, not even being able to eat normal food.
He did the family life as best he could, but everywhere he went people were terrified and disgusted just looking at him.
His mind was that of basically a normal guy, but he is forced into this life, yet manages to benefit society as much as he can.

This would actually work better in an established Marvel Universe that Marvel Studios is creating.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Who knows what will happen now that Warner Bros. has purchased New Line.

Hasn't New Line been a Time Warner company for years? I could swear that New Line says A Time Warner Company under the New Line logo in my older New Line movies.

 

[Philly Phanboy]

Given that they were seriously considering Busta Rymes as the star, I'm crossing my fingers this stays in development hell.

 

[BMM]

Hasn't New Line been a Time Warner company for years? I could swear that New Line says A Time Warner Company under the New Line logo in my older New Line movies.

Sorry, purchased was the wrong word. New Line Cinema remained its own entity. Now, Warner Bros. has merged with New Line. Heads of the studio, Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, have resigned, and, as of yesterday, 450 of New Line’s 600 employees will be let go. New Line no longer greenlights its own films, nor does it market and distribute those films. Moreover, Warner Bros. has reduced the number of New Line films by half, which means New Line will now only release 6 or 7 films per year… With all these shake-ups, who knows what happens to a film like Deathlock?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newline29feb29,1,2406444.story?track=rss

http://biz.yahoo.com/paidcontent/080414/1_322160_id.html?.v=1

 

[Bubonic]

Not to say that Busta Rhymes hasn't had roles with gravitas, yet as an actor he is OK, and has, as far as I know been consistently typecasted as a gansta, and never parted ways with the dreads.

I like the Micheal Collins more because there isn't all the unnecessary time travelling of the Luther Manning rendition.

Collins is like a 40 something mild mannered company man, which I definitely can't picture Busta incarnating very well.

The Collins version was the most prolific of the three, and imo the most interesting... And I hate how the reviewer writes off the character as far game to drastic change because he personally doesn't know anything about him.

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Granted the character didn't survive long in Marvel history, but that really doesn't translate to it being a fail at the box office.

Despite being poor movies of characters that aren't well known, Ghost Rider and Daredevil both made over 100$ million dollars, and Ghost Rider being the worst of the two movies, and the least know of the two made more.

So if they crafted a good movie, with a solid cast, and a good script, Deathlok could be very popular.
Kids like cyborgs, kids love Marvel.

 

[chiefchirpa]

Deathlok is not Marvel's priority. If New Line can support on its own, go for it but a character completely non-existent currently in the comics isn't Marvel priority. OTOH, Ghost Rider and Daredevil both have their own comics. If Ghost Rider is B-Lister, Deathlok is D-Lister.

 

[Bubonic]

I get your point, but how many comics does Ghost Rider sell each week? 50 thousand?
Probably less for all I know, and that certainly isn't what Hollywood looks at, they try to figure out if they can make something profitable out of it.
Many of the people I know that saw the Ghost Rider movie had no clue he was a comic character prior to the movie.
So if executed right, Deathlok could theoritically outsell both DD and GR at the box office regardless of having an ongoing title.
Anyone have any of the Deathlok comics, I'm the only fan I know!

 

[Spider-Fan]

Sorry, purchased was the wrong word. New Line Cinema remained its own entity. Now, Warner Bros. has merged with New Line. Heads of the studio, Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, have resigned, and, as of yesterday, 450 of New Line’s 600 employees will be let go. New Line no longer greenlights its own films, nor does it market and distribute those films. Moreover, Warner Bros. has reduced the number of New Line films by half, which means New Line will now only release 6 or 7 films per year… With all these shake-ups, who knows what happens to a film like Deathlock?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-newline29feb29,1,2406444.story?track=rss

http://biz.yahoo.com/paidcontent/080414/1_322160_id.html?.v=1

Ahh, gotcha. That makes sense.