Marvel's Runaways - Hulu Orders Drama Based on Marvel Comics

[Dark Raven]

Chase looks like a university student ready to leave home and live by himself or in a dorm with other students, but instead he runs away from home to live on the streets.

Why not just go to university instead? If they all did that, they could just rename the series Freshmen or Freshers.

 

[Panacea]

Its a tricky thing. The traitor is such a big part of the initial comic arc that you can't really remove it or change it without radically revamping the whole thing. At the same time, you can't realistically keep it a secret, because every reader knows about the traitor, and Runaways is not exactly an obscure comic.

So, it all comes down to good execution, and drama that doesn't depend on a surprise twist, but on characterization. That way, instead of ( lack of ) shock at the ( not ) surprise twist, you can milk dread for a foreseen betrayal the whole time.

The overwhelming majority of the viewers will have never read the comics.

 

[metaphysician]

The overwhelming majority of the viewers will have never read the comics.

Yeah, but they will read newspapers and magazines and internet articles. And the people writing *those* will, undoubtedly, research the source material. At that point, "Alex is the traitor" is right up there with "It was his sled" in terms of obvious immediate discoveries. You literally can't talk about whats being done without talking about the twist.

 

[Dr. Evil]

If this a part of the MCU, then the events that take place during the show needs to fit in with the timeline of the rest of the MCU.

 

[eddy]

2 things immediately come to mind. 1)Its too bad there wont be a Captain America cameo at the end of this. 2)I dont see this show having the budget for the God creatures at the end.

 

[pixen]

Chase is the oldest though out of them all in the comics. Didn't he fail a grade or is he just a year ahead of some of them and a couple years ahead of others.

2 things immediately come to mind. 1)Its too bad there wont be a Captain America cameo at the end of this. 2)I dont see this show having the budget for the God creatures at the end.

If you saw the teaser they showed at the upfront, it looked like there was some odd looking thing/beast in a bed. Maybe that was one of those Gibborim creatures?

If this a part of the MCU, then the events that take place during the show needs to fit in with the timeline of the rest of the MCU.

Not really? I mean, they could find a place to fit it but it could exist on it's own while still being in the MCU.

 

[Panacea]

2 things immediately come to mind. 1)Its too bad there wont be a Captain America cameo at the end of this. 2)I dont see this show having the budget for the God creatures at the end.

I dunno, from the footage we saw it looked surprisingly cinematic to me.

 

[metaphysician]

I don't see timeline issues really being a big deal. The whole point of the Pride is that they were keeping a low profile, and the whole point of the Runaways is that they don't trust authority and avoid it as best they can. I mean, setting it after Dr Strange would probably help, but other than that, its no biggy.

 

[chamber-music]

The rest of the MCU probably won't have much of a impact on Runaways. I'm sure there may be the obligatory references and name drops to other events and characters in the MCU but that will probably be it.

 

[DrCosmic]

I'm pretty sure they were trying to recreate this cover which Old Lace is also not on.

Standing corrected here!

 

[Slick]

I really think that this could be this generations Buffy. Anybody else think so?

 

[DrCosmic]

I think one thing that keeps new genre shows from being "The New _____" is that there weren't a lot of high quality alternatives to Buffy. Even for this show, we've got a host of fantasy and sci-fi shows starring young people coping with growing up and handling business.

 

[2kt09]

It would be a coincidence if it wasn't apparently the latest trend.
The only one I was aware of that's remotely similar is Nowhere Boys.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

Hide your kids, hide your wife: Julian "Hammy Businessman Von Doom" McMahon is back:

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/879791-julian-mcmahon-joins-marvels-runaways-cast

 

[Panacea]

Isn't it about time this had it's own folder? It's premières in November.