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

[Union Jack]

union jack would work on the tv,kinda like blade but more humour in it.
i also the the a seires based around heroes for hire with cage and iron fist could be good.

 

[Nirvana]

They should just make films.

 

[IRON_Lad]

Moon Knight needs a series

 

[jaymes_e06]

X-Men is way too big for a TV budget, but a show based on the current X-Factor series, that I could definitely see.

I could get behind that although I think a retooled version of X-men could work like spotlighting a certain character each episode.

 

[wolfboy]

I also think an Academy X would be a far better TV Show than X-Men. There would be less details to complain about and I imagine it would be easier to write stories. If there was an X-Men show, there's just too much risk of changing something that makes fans turn rabid. Besides, it would be harder to cast.

 

[ANTOINE X]

How a bout a little test before the big screen for the avengers. A tv series might be a good idea

 

[The Major]

How a bout a little test before the big screen for the avengers. A tv series might be a good idea

An animated series like Justice League Unlimited would make more sense. They should get Bruce Timm and Paul Dini to be in charge of it.

Avengers in live action will be much harder to pull off then solo tv shows like Cap, Black Widow or Iron Fist.

They'd need an enormous budget just for the heavy hitters like Thor, Iron Man, Vision, Wonder Man, Ultron etc.

 

[YJ1]

One word: DAREDEVIL

Marvel needs those rights back from Fox because Daredevil would be the perfect TV show. CSI meets JAG. Karen Page/Elektra/Black Widow would assure the sex appeal while a complex Matt Murdock is made for serial coverage.

X-Men/Academy X won't cut it because Heroes has already blatantly ripped off that concept and ran with it.

 

[wolfboy]

Academy X is nothing like Heroes other than having super powers. We're not even sure the Heroes are necessarily mutants. The big difference is Academy X would be set in the Xavier school.

 

[The Major]

One word: DAREDEVIL

Marvel needs those rights back from Fox because Daredevil would be the perfect TV show. CSI meets JAG. Karen Page/Elektra/Black Widow would assure the sex appeal while a complex Matt Murdock is made for serial coverage.

That would be great. Isn't Gene Colan a producer on Law & Order? Get him as the showrunner for it.

FX, HBO, Sci-Fi and Showtime would be the best channels to show it.

X-Men/Academy X won't cut it because Heroes has already blatantly ripped off that concept and ran with it.

That makes the X-men/Academy X easier to appeal to the mainstream. Marvel can market it to the Heroes audience.

 

[YJ1]

That would be great. Isn't Gene Colan a producer on Law & Order? Get him as the showrunner for it.

FX, HBO, Sci-Fi and Showtime would be the best channels to show it.

I had no idea that's what Gene Colan was doing now. GREAT idea!

 

[Chris Wallace]

I say none. In my eyes, not one live action TV series involving costumes, secret identities & the whole 9 yards has ever been any good.

 

[Gatchamanjp]

Chris Wallace, I thought Wonder Woman Starring Lynda Carter was a fantastic series in season 1 on ABC when she fought Nazis and when Debra Winger was Wonder Girl. The Incredible Hulk was a terrific show for 5 seasons and while it differed greatly from the comics, it clearly is the inspiration for this years...The Incredible Hulk. The Flash was great fun with the perfectly cast John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen/The Flash as well as the beautiful Amanda Pays as his girlfriend. The Flash also did something that both Hulk and Wonder Woman ignored...supervillains. The Flash fought silver age foes as The Mirror Master, Captain Cold, The Trickster, and Professor Zoom/Reverse Flash. The 40s era cars, jazz riffs on Danny Elfman's classic score is a show that was failed not by it's showrunner, but by it's network.

 

[mr. peasant]

That makes the X-men/Academy X easier to appeal to the mainstream. Marvel can market it to the Heroes audience.

Am I the only one that thinks it'd work better if they marketed the X-Men to the OC audience instead? There's no denying that such a genre is certainly popular (look at the success of Gossip Girl) and other than Peter Parker, I can't really think of any other character capable of fitting with such a genre. In terms of content, there wouldn't actually be that great a need for alteration since stuff such as the Rogue/Gambit angst is bound to draw viewers, especially from the female audience, another demographic Marvel hasn't really capitalized on. Toss in the mutant hate issue (there aren't really many prime time shows that so much as dare reference racism/classism) and accidental/reckless use of mutant powers, you'd have a show chock full of social commentaries and metaphors.

 

[Scooter]

I'd like to see some of the writers from The Wire handle Luke Cage on HBO. Or maybe a Truth: Red, White, and Black miniseries.

 

[The Major]

I say none. In my eyes, not one live action TV series involving costumes, secret identities & the whole 9 yards has ever been any good.

The Marvel series like Night Man and the Generation X tv movie were all cheap attempts without technology to do them justice.

Was Marvel involved with M.A.N.T.I.S? That show was great.

GX wasn't bad in a guilty pleasure type of movie but in the right hands and proper budget it could have worked far better.

We have the technology to do super-heroes in live action well on tv, shows like Buffy, Smallville, Sci-Fi's Invisible Man, Doctor Who and Heroes have paved the way for many Marvel properties to do well on tv.

This all comes down to hiring the hiring right people and having the appropriate budget. Every film and live action tv show needs this to work.

There are many talented people in tv who could do these concepts justice. Marvel would just need to find them. Mutant Enemy might be a good place to start.

 

[The Major]

Am I the only one that thinks it'd work better if they marketed the X-Men to the OC audience instead? There's no denying that such a genre is certainly popular (look at the success of Gossip Girl) and other than Peter Parker, I can't really think of any other character capable of fitting with such a genre. In terms of content, there wouldn't actually be that great a need for alteration since stuff such as the Rogue/Gambit angst is bound to draw viewers, especially from the female audience, another demographic Marvel hasn't really capitalized on. Toss in the mutant hate issue (there aren't really many prime time shows that so much as dare reference racism/classism) and accidental/reckless use of mutant powers, you'd have a show chock full of social commentaries and metaphors.

That's a good idea.

Marketing to girls is definitely a good demographic Marvel should try to tap into.

Edit: They could do a Miss Marvel show for that audience, too. Great character. They'd need really, really good costume designers to make her current costume work on a tv budget though. They could base it on Claremont's original comic series only updated into the present day. It writes itself.

Hopefully one day they get around to making a big budget solo film for Carol.

 

[GL1]

Am I the only one that thinks it'd work better if they marketed the X-Men to the OC audience instead? There's no denying that such a genre is certainly popular (look at the success of Gossip Girl) and other than Peter Parker, I can't really think of any other character capable of fitting with such a genre. In terms of content, there wouldn't actually be that great a need for alteration since stuff such as the Rogue/Gambit angst is bound to draw viewers, especially from the female audience, another demographic Marvel hasn't really capitalized on. Toss in the mutant hate issue (there aren't really many prime time shows that so much as dare reference racism/classism) and accidental/reckless use of mutant powers, you'd have a show chock full of social commentaries and metaphors.

You are not only one... imho, this is the way to go.

I say none. In my eyes, not one live action TV series involving costumes, secret identities & the whole 9 yards has ever been any good.

No one's arguing that, but I'm not sure that means that it can't be done, only that it hasn't yet. We've had shows about people with powers that have been immensely popular. Take away the Costumes and codenames from X-Men and... well...

 

[cerealkiller182]

Marvel Knights the tv series

One part action drama, one part courtroom drama.

Matt Murdock is a lawyer who only defends the innocent. By night he is Daredevil, that is until he gets hurt. His legs or back or something. He can still act as a lawyer but for his superhero missions he hires Heroes for Hire:

Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Collen Wing, and Misty Knight.

I think there is plenty of room for cameos as well:
- Moon KNight when they need a more aggressive hero
- Ronin can get sent undercover when the Hand try to infiltrate America
- Nick Fury can hire the crew out for help
- Dr. Strange can be brought in when there are supernatural threats
- Murdock could even defend the Punisher or something along those lines

 

[WeaponXProject]

I think a young X-Men drama would do well but we kinda saw that with X3. Alot of understanding yourself as an adulescent, accepting who you are....blah..blah...that could work for a teenage audience.


The others i am unsure of bc I didn't like the Blade series at all.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

I think a young X-Men drama would do well but we kinda saw that with X3. Alot of understanding yourself as an adulescent, accepting who you are....blah..blah...that could work for a teenage audience.

oooo man! i dont know about that.Did you see that "Generation X" movie pilot.they did a couple of years back with Banshee and Emma Sams as the White Queen.They were the headmasters of Xavier's school. It was really really bad. Maybe it could work now , but whoa baby! that flick was bad

 

[WeaponXProject]

oooo man! i dont know about that.Did you see that "Generation X" movie pilot.they did a couple of years back with Banshee and Emma Sams as the White Queen.They were the headmasters of Xavier's school. It was really really bad. Maybe it could work now , but whoa baby! that flick was bad

I never saw that. I was thinking of like a young Bobby, Kitty, Remy, Rogue and others could be a cool drama bc they are bigger names and now people know who they are. Though I didn't like the teen drama in the X movies, I do see a decent teen drama in the mix there.

It's funny people said the OC, because my older brother has been talking about an X-Men students show for 8 years now.

The others don't seem plausible unless it was a Punisher show on HBO or Showtime or something but even that would disappoint.

 

[cryptic name]

The Punisher and Daredevil would be good candidates for live action series

 

[StarkTheProdigy]

Marvel Knights

 

[Sawyer]

If Heroes can work on a TV budget, so can X-Men.

Do it.