What Marvel Heroes can work as a Live Action TV series?

[co2]

Dardevil and The Punisher...could be killer cable series.

Yup! DD should have been in this poll.

 

[shadowdog]

I'd love to see a New Mutants show, with all the high school age drama that would ensue, I also like the idea of a New Warriors show, maybe chronicaling their time as reality tv stars.
but more than anything, i'd love a show about a young xavier and magneto, when they were still friends, before the wheelchair, before the x-men, before they knew what the future had in store.
I had started to write a script about it like a million years ago, but you know, fan scripts get no play, nor does anyone pay any real money for them.

 

[Joker's Lackey]

X-Men is way too big for a TV budget

How would it be any bigger than say Heroes? X-men does not have to start with a school full of Students. It could be Prof. X and his first five students learning to control their powers and emotion in a world that fears and hates them. Five main characters with reoccurring villains. It's possible. As FX goes, Heroes and Sanctuary are prime examples that a X-men show can be done. Heroes with it's large cast of power flinging characters to Sanctuary using large CG backgrounds in the vain of 300 and Sin City. X-men the Television Series is possible, and should be a reality. t:

 

[marcvader]

Punisher on HBO

 

[The Geek Vault]

I'd say an Academy X following the students of Prof. X school would work. With Mutant's such as beak and GLob herman and Angel. BEast would be on it with Storm as the heads of the school .

 

[mr. peasant]

Actually, focusing on student life as a mutant could be an interesting take on the X-Men franchise (not to mention cheaper too). By this, I'm talking about giving it an OC-like spin on the characters and showing what it's like to be teenagers with superpowers as opposed to superheroes who happen to be teens. And going this route also has the added advantage of drawing a female audience as well (something Marvel-based shows have yet to accomplish).

 

[Lebeau]

The Daredevil suggestion is a great idea...the budget wouldn't be any larger than any other crime series, it's more grounded in reality and thus I think we'll see a very good show. I agree with the consensus that the heroes that work close to the streets would work best...but they need to be entertaining enough to serialise. Daredevil could do this without doubt, I'm not really confident on many others.

 

[cje_316]

Hmmm...Marvel TV series.....interesting. Well here are my choices.

ROM Spaceknight-Ha Ha!!! I bet nobody was expecting this one. That was one of my all time favorite books and could do particulary well on perhaps the Sci-fi network. With the right promotional backing.

Agent X-(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_X_(Marvel_Comics)) Those that followed the short lived Deadpool comic series would be more familiar with this guy. He would do fairly well on Showtime, maybe NBC.

The Amazing Spider-Girl-This would to well as an Animated TV Series, like the computer generated Spider Man one that was on MTV years ago. Live action could work too perhaps on CBS if marvel would be willing to put up the $$$.

Warlock & The Infinity Watch-Cartoon Network anyone? Just don't see this one working on a Live Action basis.

Dakota North-(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_North) She used to have her own series back in 86, and has been more of a supporting character in the Daredevil comics as well as both the Daredevil & Elektra movies. I think this would work really well on either showtime or even network TV.

Silver Sable-I have always said this would be better as a Big Screen film, rather than TV.

 

[Gatchamanjp]

cje 316, Actually Rom Spaceknight would be cool. It would be too expensive to make a series of though.

Just as expensive would be my preference...Shogun Warriors. 3 piloted Superrobots Raideen, Combattler V, and Danguard Ace protecting earth from EEEEEEvil aliens which would subjegate our planet.

 

[The Major]

I feel those shows are okay in their effects (well Battlestar is damn good so was Firefly, but Blade had awful effects). But you will have to go to second tier as doing Spidey, X-Men, Cap. America, etc. on TV would look bad unless we are willing to go back to the days of a body builder in green paint playing Hulk.

Smallville and Heoes proves super-powers can be decently made on a tv budget. Not movie level but damn close.

While I never mentioned the A listers like Spider-man and X-men it wouldn't be impossible for them to have good tv shows. They'd have to tone down the scale, of course, but it could be done.

Black Widow would be one of the easier to adapt to tv. Alias is basically a template to build from.

The costumed super-heroes would be harder with characters like Moon Knight and Cap, they'd need higher budgets for the outfits but there are talented enough costume designers in tv to at least give it a decent chance.

This all comes down budget and that the right people are hired, just like the movies.

None of them need to be 13-22 episode series, either. Marvel could make 3-6 episode mini-series and made for tv/dvd movies for specific franchises.

This type of thing would help Marvel's lesser franchises getting into the public eye. Audiences are going to remember them and are more likely to watch their movies if they get them if the tv appearances are interesting enough.

Repitition is a must. One version just isn't going to stick beyond people knowing the lead character's visual. Depending on what franchises Marvel considers their highest short term and long term priorities they can always keep lesser properties in the public consciousness with continuous appearances on tv while others do well at the box office.

 

[GL1]

The easiest for TV would be Punisher, and if we need to keep it PG-13, Daredevil could also be done relatively easy, capitolizing on the whole Law Drama genre.

The most success lies in an X-Men TV show that has a chance to show off all of the wide and wonderful world of mutantdom with the kind of teen-angsty soap opera-ish melodrama that made the X-Men #1 and put the House of Ideas ahead of DC, personal identification-wise.

 

[Bubonic]

I wouldn't want a t.v. series for a Marvel hero because they always seem to cheapen things up for t.v.

Yet if it had some serious money invested and was put on HBO I think something like Punisher or Moon Knight might turn out better then anything they bother putting on the bigscreen, so far anyways.

Even then I'd rather have a cartoon of these guys like they did for Spawn.

 

[ANTOINE X]

I would Loooooooooove to see a spider-man tv series before I go to my grave. Actually If Marvel can't have the right for Spider-man movies than her's a good a opportunity to show your own spider-man. there is so many villains that we probably wont see on the big screen so I don't see why not.

 

[ant3ros]

A show called Academy X based on the New X-Men would work great with teenage mutants. It would be like the OC + Heroes. Not that I ever watched the OC.

 

[ANTOINE X]

Man why do you want teenagers in every movies? They are such bad actors +there's always that I love U or I miss U or is there anything U wanted to say to me?...Gessss I don't mind romance but cut the crap with the teenage boy who want to save the princess!. Marvel want to reach a younger crowd and I'm against it!

 

[ant3ros]

movie? The thread says Live Action TV series

 

[ANTOINE X]

or tv

 

[The Major]

Man why do you want teenagers in every movies? They are such bad actors +there's always that I love U or I miss U or is there anything U wanted to say to me?...Gessss I don't mind romance but cut the crap with the teenage boy who want to save the princess!.

Marvel has plenty of franchises for different age groups. Young Avengers, New Warriors and Academy X would work well as a tv show for the teenage crowd.

A tv version of the Ultimate Spider-man comic would market to that demographic, too.

Franchises like MK, Cap, HFH, Punisher, Dr. Strange, Black Widow, Elektra etc would be suited for older audiences.

Marvel want to reach a younger crowd and I'm against it!

It would be bad for Marvel not to appeal to the younger kids. That's a whole generation of potential customers they'd be turning away.

 

[ANTOINE X]

Marvel has plenty of franchises for different age groups. Young Avengers, New Warriors and Academy X would work well as a tv show for the teenage crowd.

A tv version of the Ultimate Spider-man comic would market to that demographic, too.

Franchises like MK, Cap, HFH, Punisher, Dr. Strange, Black Widow, Elektra etc would be suited for older audiences.



It would be bad for Marvel not to appeal to the younger kids. That's a whole generation of potential customers they'd be turning away.

Well Iron man is a good example of what I wan to see its all mature actors but still the younger audience can see it .

 

[The Major]

Well Iron man is a good example of what I wan to see its all mature actors but still the younger audience can see it .

Not every franchise is the same.

They have different demographics.

I agree that IM is a good film that can appeal to younger audiences and older people. Spider-man did that well, too. Not every franchise can do that, though I'm sure it's possible if the right people make it and market it.

 

[Raiden]

I think X-Men will make a good TV show. With its large cast of characters, the audience won't be bored of one superhero, and of course Wolverine will make everyone interesting. With various love triangles and internal conflicts, I think if taken with care, X-Men TV series will succeed.

 

[ANTOINE X]

I don't know how they did all those X-men movies with out having budget problems. But one thing for sure that's gonna be tough to do the same on tv

 

[mr. peasant]

It depends on what angle they go for (not to mention which powers). Less focus on the powers themselves and more on the social issues around mutant-human relations and the exaggerated/metaphoric sense of alienation teens go through would certainly reduce costs as well.

 

[Jordacar]

I've mentioned this before, but I'd love to see an X-Factor Investigations series. More focus on detective work than slam-bang power-slinging action scenes.

 

[Residentpervs]

Blade had SO much potential, but between lousy writing and bad casting (Kirk "Sticky" Jones as Blade??? that was just stupid!), it was doomed from the beginning. Heroes for Hire COULD work, but again, the casting and writing has to be solid and accurate... Iron Fist's power would be relatively easy/cheap to produce. But, I think the Punisher would be the easiest to do well... the hard part would be finding a network willing to do it (SPIKE or FX, maybe), and then getting the necessary gore past the censors, even then. The number one biggest issue with the production of Marvel characters for the small screen is, and always has been, the casting and the utter cheapskate approach that's been taken in the past. Seriously, does anybody besides me remember what they did to Daredevil and Thor? Remember Rex Smith running around in a black body-stocking as Daredevil, or the pathetically campy "viking-esque" Thor they tried to pass off in one of the later Hulk tv movies? If that's the way any producer or network is gonna go about putting a Marvel character on tv, I'd rather they just scrap the project and leave em to the big screen.