Mighty Marvel TV Series

[Killgore]

With Blade debuting tonight, I am hoping that this could become a catalyst to bringing more Marvel properties to the small screen.

Spider-man could easily be Marvel's answer to Smallville, albeit much better quality. Think of all of the storylines and villains they could tackle in a weekly one-hour format that could never make the transition onto the big screen. I'd love to see a live action Rhino, Vulture, Scorpion and hell why not Shocker.

X-Men has a dense roster that could never be fully explored in a 200 million dollar sequel. I'm dieing to see a cinematic version of Days of Future Past, the Mutant Massacre, and hey, toss some Apocalypse in there for good measure. I'd like to see more in-depth examinations of the characters. Maybe actually give poor Scott some screen time.

Captain America could be a blitzkrieg of a show. 24 with a shield. And speaking of S.H.I.E.L.D...

Avengers Assemble! Daredevil. Hell yeah! Punisher. 'Nuff said.

Start slow on some crappy cable network like Spike and eventually create an entire lineup of Marvel properties. For the cost of a single X-sequel or Spider-Man movie you could program an entire channel. Then you could have huge May sweeps mini-series events like Civil War. Damn, I wish that I had Ted Turner's power.

 

[darkdaz]

Knowing marvel they will try it. Anything to make money. Not for anything that is in running to become a Movie though. Maybe lesser known heroes and stuff something like Squadren supreme Hyperion rocks as Superman without american saturday morning cartoon morals.

 

[bored]

Some bigger properties as tv shows would be great, though ones like X-Men and the Avengers probably wouldn't be possible, which is sad, because in the right hands, an X-Men live action would be fantastic.

 

[Killgore]

Some bigger properties as tv shows would be great, though ones like X-Men and the Avengers probably wouldn't be possible, which is sad, because in the right hands, an X-Men live action would be fantastic.

Sure it's possible. Instead of focusing of costly effects they could focus on character and story.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I doubt Blade is going to be very good, but I'll find out tonight for sure.

I would love nothing more than to see a SHIELD show, though. If any Marvel property were tailor-made to succeed in the climate of today's TV, it's SHIELD. Alias' end and 24's relatively short airing schedule have left a huge spy show void that SHIELD could fit nicely. Just get someone other than Hasselhoff as Nick Fury, make Dum Dum Dugan and Sharon Carter major fixtures, and throw in the occasional cameo from other Marvel characters and the show would rule.

 

[Mrh7448]

Heroes for Hire with Power Man and Iron Fist could be done as a weekly series.

Going for a younger audience, Power Pack with them as teens or tweens.

Punisher could make a great series but With the movies I doubt they would do it.

 

[GLfan]

Going for a younger audience, Power Pack with them as teens or tweens.

A good one for Young audiences would be The Young Avengers, teen titans, or Kid Flash.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Except that Teen Titans and Kid Flash aren't Marvel properties.

 

[3dman27]

fans of martial arts tv shows could get into sons of the tiger and speaking of tigers victoria pratt as TIGRA

 

[Killgore]

Punisher could make a great series but With the movies I doubt they would do it.

Why not? They're doing Blade and DC is doing Smallville and Superman movies.

 

[Killgore]

Power Pack would be pretty sweet. As would Heroes For Hire.

What would be amazing is if they would share continuity with other Marvel TV series.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

They managed to do it in the '90s cartoons. The X-Men and Iron Man guest-starred on Spider-Man, Captain America guest-starred in X-Men, the Hulk and Iron Man guest-starred in each other's shows, and the Fantastic Four guest-starred in the Hulk. I don't know how that would work now, with all of the different production companies involved, though.

 

[Killgore]

They managed to do it in the '90s cartoons. The X-Men and Iron Man guest-starred on Spider-Man, Captain America guest-starred in X-Men, the Hulk and Iron Man guest-starred in each other's shows, and the Fantastic Four guest-starred in the Hulk. I don't know how that would work now, with all of the different production companies involved, though.

I thought that the rights have reverted back to Marvel as the production company?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I thought that all future Marvel productions would come through the Marvel Entertainment or Marvel Studios or whatever the new production arm is. I thought Spider-Man would stay with Sony, X-Men would stay with Fox, etc.

 

[Kaboom]

iron fist would be awesome!

so would a Nick Furt, Agent of Shield.

 

[Killgore]

Who would you cast in a small screen adaptation of Marvel properties?

 

[bored]

In an X-Men live action, though I doubt it would happen, I'd keep most of the film actors (though it'd be its own continuity), though replace Halle Berry and maybe Hugh Jackman with lesser known actors. I don't exactly know who.

 

[Killgore]

You'd have to recast to keep the budget low. I say let's go with younger actors and actresses and make the TV version of X-Men more like the Ultimate version.

 

[Killgore]

Michael Rosenbaum would make a spectacular Professor Xavier. Or the other TV baldie, Terry O'Quinn.

 

[GoldGoblin]

It would be cool if they did a Hulk show like they did before where Bruce Banner hitchhikes town to town where he helps people as the Hulk.

 

[Philly Phanboy]

My Marvel TV series wishlist would include:

- a Micronauts TV series done in CGI, (think along the lines of the StarshipTroopers series). Marvel would probably need to work out an agreement to share the property rights though because they aren't original characters

- either Cloak & Dagger or Runaways as a live action series done as sort of a cross between Mutant X and Buffy.

- Hulk, Heroes for Hire and Moonknight as cartoon series

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wouldn't like to see any of the more recent comics like Runaways or Young Avengers on TV just yet. There's not enough material to pull from, and the Young Avengers in particular are still changing and becoming a team in the first place.

A great TV series for me would be a Damage Control sitcom. It'd be relatively cheap because it'd focus on the normal mooks of Damage Control, Inc. but it'd still leave a lot of room for cameos and cool situations. That'd be great. Dwayne McDuffie's been in the TV world for a while now doing Justice League, too, so just pull him back to write and produce it and it'd be solid gold.

 

[Philly Phanboy]

Adding to my wishlist, the Great Lakes Avengers as a cartoon series would be fun to see too.

 

[Philly Phanboy]

Found this fan made gif in the movie forum...

 

[GL1]

Somone noted Runaways doesn't have enough history to do much as a series, not enough material. If they were to translate each issue into an episode, then that would be good, I could see that... but few writers want to translate, most of them want to try to be creative... also, I dislike the casting for Chast and Gert strongly from that gif. Too much VM.

While SHIELD sound interesting, the show I would guaranteed tune in for would be one about the young X-Men as Xavier first starts his school. It'd be new stuff, not Ultimate, movie-based, straight from comics or Evolution, so there'd be surprises, but I'd really like to see that time period in live action, and I think a movie would do a great job towards making that happen.