Marvel live-action television...

[The Geek Vault]

I really want to see a series like X-force with the orphan. or some Academy X like show that dealt with students of Xaviers school for higher learning. Such students as Beak and Omega kid.

 

[cryptic name]

What about a show that rotated each episode through four or five characters? Kind of like how Law and Order rotates between a Police episode and a courtroom one? The show could be Marvel Knights, and you'd have a Moon Knight episode, then a Daredevil one, then a Punisher one... and occasionally, there'd be crossovers between them.

this is actually a really great idea

 

[GhostPoet]

I still say do something like S.H.E.I.L.D. the tv show and you can have any hero you want in as a guest star...even reoccuring heroes.

Marvel Knights would be cool too...either way.

 

[Hypestyle]

ah well... no marvel live tv shows.. CW needs to be talking to Marvel, get something to replace smallville, eventually.. next year's bound to be the last season..

Damage Control might be interesting, that was supposedly a movie project at one point.. it could be turned into a series.. especially since the main characters are not superheroes.. get Dwayne mcduffie involved since he created them..

 

[Microchip]

Mutant X was Marvel, right? That series needed to NOT happen. And I don't think CW really gives long-term high quality shows. Smallville has had good moments, great moments, and a lot of bad moments. In the end, I'd obviously rather have someone like HBO give Marvel a chance at live action, not a network geared towards young teens.

 

[Jordacar]

Mutant X was by and large an X-Men knockoff.

 

[kedrell]

Mutant X was Marvel, right? That series needed to NOT happen. And I don't think CW really gives long-term high quality shows. Smallville has had good moments, great moments, and a lot of bad moments. In the end, I'd obviously rather have someone like HBO give Marvel a chance at live action, not a network geared towards young teens.

That or they should eventually make their own network, maybe partner with WB on it. Like the Sci-Fi channel but exclusively for comic-book based stuff. Yeah, a pipe-dream I know.

 

[Hellion]

I really want to see a series like X-force with the orphan. or some Academy X like show that dealt with students of Xaviers school for higher learning. Such students as Beak and Omega kid.

X-Force/X-Statix could be adapted easily to tv...

Heroes For Hire...not the Luke Cage Iron FIst team...but the team introduced during Civil War...

 

[weezerspider]

Marvel Knights
SHIELD
X-Men
These all could work in my mind. I'm not sure we have good enough TV effects for a Spiderman show without it being way too expensive.

 

[bullets]

i'd go with the rotating marvel knights idea , that would be perfect. maybe throw in some dr strange.

 

[VampElvis]

I like the Knights idea. So much could be shown. It'd be easy to work in Damage Control, or Ghost Rider , Blade, or Morbius for a Halloween episode. So much could be done with this.

 

[Sawyer]

Mutant X was Marvel, right? That series needed to NOT happen. And I don't think CW really gives long-term high quality shows. Smallville has had good moments, great moments, and a lot of bad moments. In the end, I'd obviously rather have someone like HBO give Marvel a chance at live action, not a network geared towards young teens.

Supernatural. Aside from a few meh episodes, that show has been nothing but great quality genre television from season one to now.

 

[Rich Santoro]

this is actually a really great idea

I concur... The anthology idea would be very appealing. The focus could be the street level heros, dealing with thugs and organized crime. It would arc across several themes andplot lines, culminating to a major character cross-over.

Another TV ideas that I think would be great (pretty much already mentioned by others) is a SHIELD series, which could be a send up to an X-File theme... except, it isn't one guy who believes, it is an entire secret quasi-government agency. They could touch on the paranormal, cryptozoology (strange species like Atlanteans, Wendigo, subterrans), exobiology (aliens), endogeography (strange and reclusive locales, like Atlantis, Wundagore Mountian, Wakanda), occult and secret societies...

I am also for an x-series, or a reboot of FF in a TV serial... This would enable them utterly recreate the franchise, and get it going in the right direction (leading to a second wave of proper films, if need be).

Lastly, another anthology concept could be the dark titles... with Dr. Strange as a central figure / narrator, featuring GR, Blade, Werewolf by Night, proper Night Stalkers, etc... There is too many good ideas for a TV series...

 

[NotFadeAway]

I think a Namor series could be interesting if a decent budget can be worked out.

 

[Rich Santoro]

Agreed... Characters like Namor, who could benefit from ongoing character and plot development via a weekly serial, would be good for TV...

 

[NotFadeAway]

Agreed... Characters like Namor, who could benefit from ongoing character and plot development via a weekly serial, would be good for TV...

Dead on. Namor is the kind of character who's storylines and background can carry a television show for seasons.

 

[Jordacar]

Alpha Flight

I already started a whole thread about it; most sci-fi shows that air in the US actually film in Canada, why not have a series that takes place there too, with a little Canuck-pride to boot!

 

[kedrell]

An HBO or Showtime made Supreme Power series would kick all kinds of ass. But it'd cost way too much, IMO. It could be "The Soprano's" of superhero TV shows.

 

[Shaolin Kenobi]

I had the idea once for a live action Hulk series on HBO or something like that which was not like the old TV show at all but more of a series that adhere's very closely to the original comics

The only problem that I see with this... is a problem the original television series had. Just how many situations does it call for somebody to become angry enough to transform into the Hulk? UNLESS... it was something that Banner could control and he intentionally became the Hulk in order to handle situations... that could work.

Also... I think a channel deidcated to superhero programming is a splendid idea!! I'm surprised they haven't done it yet.

 

[mr. peasant]

Dead on. Namor is the kind of character who's storylines and background can carry a television show for seasons.

Unfortunately, I don't think it would be that good because Atlantis Is Boring.

 

[Jordacar]

An HBO or Showtime made Supreme Power series would kick all kinds of ass. But it'd cost way too much, IMO. It could be "The Soprano's" of superhero TV shows.

I would love to see that, especially if the story manages to go beyond what JMS got to write while he was on the book. I always had the sense that he was building to something very dark and profound, but his run ended so abruptly that he never got to finish it. I can't imagine the current post-Ultimate Power run is picking up that thread.

 

[Rich Santoro]

Unfortunately, I don't think it would be that good because Atlantis Is Boring.

I submit to you... the Abyss.

I will also say, what the article is missing the point on is... the primary problem with deep sea films is talking... You can't talk underwater. That is the main problem in trying to make an underwater film interesting. Abyss had SCUBA helmets and mini-subs with communicators. The Deep Blue Sea, and good submarine films, have all the dry room scenes...

With this in mind, Namor squaring off against deep sea enemies would suffer because they would go without dialogue. HOWEVER... if he is introduced in a context with other heros (Avengers, SHIELD or FF) then they can wear helmets or ride in mini-subs... while he and other Atlanteans use comic-tech gizmos to talk with them. Plus, there can be ocean surface and dry land scenes / episodes.

It can work...

 

[kedrell]

I submit to you... the Abyss.

I will also say, what the article is missing the point on is... the primary problem with deep sea films is talking... You can't talk underwater. That is the main problem in trying to make an underwater film interesting. Abyss had SCUBA helmets and mini-subs with communicators. The Deep Blue Sea, and good submarine films, have all the dry room scenes...

With this in mind, Namor squaring off against deep sea enemies would suffer because they would go without dialogue. HOWEVER... if he is introduced in a context with other heros (Avengers, SHIELD or FF) then they can wear helmets or ride in mini-subs... while he and other Atlanteans use comic-tech gizmos to talk with them. Plus, there can be ocean surface and dry land scenes / episodes.

It can work...

I submit to YOU, FOTR's dry-for-wet effects. Sam really never was in the water when you see him drowning. It was all done green screen. Obviously there have to be improvements since that was limited to slow motion to make it look real. But there's a route the sfx companies should look into. How to make it look like people are underwater even though they aren't. Probably still too sfx intensive for a tv show at this point but maybe someday.

 

[Rich Santoro]

I submit to YOU, FOTR's dry-for-wet effects. Sam really never was in the water when you see him drowning. It was all done green screen. Obviously there have to be improvements since that was limited to slow motion to make it look real. But there's a route the sfx companies should look into. How to make it look like people are underwater even though they aren't. Probably still too sfx intensive for a tv show at this point but maybe someday.

Yes better FX along those lines would be a valuable asset to producing underwater programming... However, dialogue would still be out of place since we can't talk in water.

That is the meaning of my post. I disagree with the linked article that the ocean depths in "boring" (case in point is "Abyss" as a non-boring underwater film). My arguement is, not being able to talk in underwater scenes, is the problem with deep sea films. Abyss used helmets and mini-subs to give their characters a movie context method to talk underwater... A Marvel Namor movie / TV show would need to deal with that challenge as well.

 

[kedrell]

WE can't talk underwater, but Atlanteans can. Sound does travel underwater. I don't see the problem there, really. I mean it's not like Superman 2 where they're talking in an airless vacuum on the moon.