That Avengers-centric issue of Entertainment Weekly proved to be more newsworthy than one might think. A sidebar in the cover story — titled “What’s next for Marvel?” — saw Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige comment on five potential projects, including Guardians of the Galaxy and Inhumans.
Guardians of the Galaxy has been rumored since August, but this would be the first official confirmation that a film is in development. Says Feige: “There’s an opportunity to do a big space epic, which Thor sort of hints at, in the cosmic side of the [Marvel] Universe.” Of Inhumans, which is a bit of a curveball, not much information is disclosed than “expect an X-Men style ensemble, a la The Avengers.” (Which sounds kind of redundant, but there you go.) Of course, that’s not equivalent to either of these actually for sure getting made, just a statement that they’re at the very least being considered. (And for our list of unlikely comic book properties that somehow made it to the big screen, click here.)
Two obvious ones, Iron Man 3 and Thor 2, with no real updates beyond what’s already been announced (IM3 is slated for May 2012, Patty Jenkins is in talks to direct T2). Ant-Man remains in flux, which Feige saying that Edgar Wright has “developed an excellent draft recently.”
The Avengers is, of course, the next Marvel Studios film to hit theaters, scheduled for May 4, 2012.
October 3rd, 2011 at 2:21 pm
nice to see marvel thinking of giving some movie love to their cosmic characters. and if nothing else they should see if gene simmons would be willing to play black bolt since he is the last to have the movie rights to inhuman’s
October 3rd, 2011 at 3:07 pm
I can definitely see a Guardians Of The Galaxy movie – especially if it is based on the original team’s origin issue. “Astronaut Vance Astrovik awakens 2000 years in the future and discovers that Earth and its colonies have been conquered and enslaved by a lizard-like alien race, the Badoon. He teams up with the genetically altered lone survivors of Earth’s satellite planets in attempt to liberate his planet” It’s Planet of the Apes meets V meets The Seven Samurai.
As for The Inhumans, it has a great concept as well. “A race of super-beings whose existence has been kept hidden from the rest of the world.” Obviously, I can see a situation where the Inhumans have to risk exposure and venture out into the real world to stop a threat to mankind from one of their own (Maximus). This would also work for an Eternals movie as well since they both have a similar concept (both were created by Jack Kirby).
I think they are great choices and either one could definitely be a stand-alone film with no ties to the Avengers (although the Inhumans has obvious ties to the Fantastic Four).
October 3rd, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Inhumans is an interesting choice and I can kinda see where they’re going with that as a movie concept however I think Guardians of The Galaxy is a GREAT choice! If they can capture what Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning did with the recent reboot and not the original 90′s Legion wannabe I think they’ll have a summer blockbuster on their hands.
October 3rd, 2011 at 3:29 pm
GotG would be awesome. New stuff not the old, it was garbage IMHO. It had decent moments, but not enough to warrent a movie, whereas the new series has a great concept, and base.
October 3rd, 2011 at 3:43 pm
Toss in The Living Tribunal, and I will be happy.
October 3rd, 2011 at 5:05 pm
interesting choices.
ill see how it goes.
October 3rd, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Marvel has opened the door to cosmic stories with their presentation of Asguard and its inhabitants as aliens from a very distant galaxy. I would love to see these movies made particularly Inhumans. Marvel may be able to subsitute the X-Men with the Inhumans in their cinematic universe as the misunderstood super-heroes who are hated and fear, causing public tension and distrust with the Avengers. I think that this is fantastic news and I am all for it.
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Abnett and Lanning Guardians!!! YESS PLEASE
October 3rd, 2011 at 6:42 pm
I get the vibe that the Inhumans would be a pseudo stand in for mutants, seeing as how the rights to X-Men seem to belong to Fox eternally. Just conjecturing.
October 3rd, 2011 at 8:01 pm
I can haz Groot?
October 3rd, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I’m sensing a Nightbreed vibe for Inhumans, which could be cool.
So Iron Man 3 and The Avengers are BOTH arriving in May of next year? Sheesh, you’d think the studios would want to spread ‘em out a bit…
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Blank Panther would be my pick for a movie, maybe with Idris Elba playing T’Challa, or an unknown, I think it has a lot of story potential. Really the flick would just need a good villain
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:20 pm
..in some sense Inhumans is a means of Marvel being able to do X-Men in-house without doing X-Men, per se, since Fox owns those movie rights for the forseeable future.. I’d like to see the Paul Jenkins 1998 mini series adapted.. but we’ll see.. the actor playing black bolt will have to settle for being mute for 99% of the film..
..Guardians is much more high concept than x-men, really. It could be Marvel’s.. or Disney’s.. modern Star Wars analog, if handled correctly. From a thematic standpoint, they could use Vance as a human/earth POV character, also Rich Ryder (preferably), but the main action should be off-planet, exploring different worlds, and yeah, galaxies.. My guess is that the Starjammers won’t be showing up in any X-Men movies, so if they aren’t legally bound to that franchise, they can show up in the Galaxy Guardians film, too, same goes for the various other alien groups, Shi’Ar Imperial Guard, Brood, etc.
If they include Rocket Raccoon and Groot, they must be treated in a straightforward manner and not in a cute, cuddly, annoying Jar-Jar Binks way..
October 4th, 2011 at 3:50 pm
Great choices all, yet I’m still looking to see if Marvel Studios will do either a Black Panther or Luke Cage or cable series. Namor the Sub-Mariner even.
October 4th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
That looks promising.
To go slightly off tangent, it would be nice if Disney/Marvel could get Sub-Mariner, Black Panther and Luke Cage back from the studios that have them right now. All those movies have been in development hell for years with the studios having nothing more to show than empty promises. The Panther, in particular, could be sci-fi GOLD if Wakanda is well-rendered AND he could tie into the Avengers. I’m sure Marvel is working on getting those properties back from those deadbeats, and I wish them the best of luck.
October 4th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Why can’t we have a Luke Cage / Iron Fist movie? That one seems like a no-brainer. Make it a retro-1970′s buddy movie with plenty of kung-fu exploitation and blaxploitation themes, tone down the superpower aspect and the costumes, and there you go.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Seriously, why have we not seen a Black Panther movie yet?
Djimon Husain (Not sure of spelling; the guy from Blood Diamond and Amistad) would have been perfect. He’s a little older now, but he could always have a stunt double for when he’s masked.
And I’ve been dying for them to make a Heroes for Hire movie just like Hate Monger described. Something like Starsky & Hutch super heroes. It would definitely bring something fresh to all the super hero movies.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:32 am
I still want to see a Shang-Chi; Master of Kung Fu film!
Martial Arts!
Spy Espionage!
Action!
Weird, nasty Villains!
Damn it Marvel, make amends with the estates of Sax Rhomer so we can see this film!
(or for that matter, Essential TPB’s of MOKF.)
October 5th, 2011 at 11:55 am
Unless Joss Wheedon has been secretly filming IM3 footage along with Avengers, I’d guess that opening date for IM3 is May 2013, not May 2012, which, hard as it is to believe, is only 7 months away.
October 5th, 2011 at 11:55 am
I’d love to see a grindhouse feature of Shang-Chi, but the exploitive vibe in general isn’t the better choice, especially these days.
There was also Ray Park long-time rumoured to play Danny Rand..What are they waiting for, that he got a wheel-chair ? Brubaker and Fraction’ run prooved what kind of modern things could be done with hte character, frankly they just have to cherry-pick..
I’m waiting for Ant-Man, but what I would really dig would be Dr Strange..
GoG is an awesome project, I think the both eras are awesome, I particulary like a pitch another poster throwed focusing onto the originals. Adam Warlock, the Nova Corps, all that stuff would be really complicated to introduce so I think they should really take their time to pace the space corner of the MU.
Inhumans is a very strong project of course and I too feel the X-Vibe in it, they could save the day but seen as a threat or monsters in first. What I don’t want is a voice-over explaining all the background at the beginning. Just let spectators discover..
October 5th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
@Androo: Personally I’d go with Chiwetel Ejiofor (Serenity, 2012) but yeah Djimon Hounsou would be a good choice for T’Challa too; he actually plays him (as a voice actor) in the Black Panther “motion” comic that Reggie Hudlin produced recently.
Incidentally, I stand corrected; apparently Black Panther has already reverted back to Marvel, in which case Marvel themselves are the deadbeats! :p Maybe they’re holding out for Will Smith…
October 6th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
“the actor playing black bolt will have to settle for being mute for 99% of the film..”
yeah, but that 1% is going to be one of the most memorable things ever put to film.
I’d go with a small whisper that would shatter a mountain at the start. Then a full on roar like War of Kings that does something major.
By the way I hate how in FF#7 (I think??) they show his return, and some dumb f#ck is petitioning him and being a dick about it. He full on shouts at the guy IN HIS THRONE ROOM. The guy gets disintegrated but the only other damage is a small hole in the wall. No way. The tiniest of whispers should do that. A shout should decimate Attilla.
November 1st, 2011 at 1:29 pm
The only 3 Marvel movies I would kill to see:
1. New Warriors
2. Thunderbolts
3. Alpha Flight
November 1st, 2011 at 6:16 pm
I’m OK with an Inhumans movie, but I think MARVEL should move on bringing Prince Namor to the big screen, before doing the Inhumans.
So far, we have seen a plethora of movies/adventures told on Earth (in city landscapes) and being that DC has already “tapped” into the [once] untapped space scene (with Green Lantern, of course), then that means that MARVEL should conquer the underwater scene and tell the story of Submariner, before DC beats them to the water-race, by bringing Aquaman to the big screen first.
Personally, I think MARVEL or whomever owns The Micronauts should move Heaven and Earth to bring THAT story to the big screen. Now…THAT is a 4-movie franchise just waiting to be told and what a “cash-cow” that franchise would be. Oh my Lord, I can hardly contain my excitement when I think of seeing the menacing Baron Karza on the screen, his dreaded Body Banks and the enslaved Acroyears serving him under the traitorous Shitan. Wow…seeing Arcturus Rann return from suspended animation, (along with his trusted Biotron), after having dreams of the Enigmatic Force, the Time Travelers and his destiny to face Karza. With the help of the rebellion; Marionette, Microtron, Bug and of course, Force Commander and his steed, Oberon! DAMN!!! Someone please make this movie already!
The first movie could be just like the 1st issue of the original series; they all come together, fight their way out of Karza’s arena/games, which they can only escape from by hyper-driving to Earth, which takes us to the 2nd movie; The Micronauts 2: Escape To EARTH. As told in the comic, after BUG gets captured and pieces of shattered battleships are taken to the scientist Prometheus, movie 3 would be to befriend the human kid (forgot his name) rescue BUG and by the end of the movie, the Micronauts return to Inner Space only to learn that Karza has captured Prince Argon (Force Commander) and crushed the resistance. Movie 4 will be of Arcturus coming to terms that he IS the one and must face Karza for the movie’s (and franchise’s) finale.
Man!!!
Someone give me the opportunity (Money, choice of actors and everything else to make such a movie) and I’d direct this film for FREE, just to see this awesome story told on the big screen.
MARVEL…do either The Micronauts or a live action Johnny Qwest, (with Justin Beber as Johnny Qwest). (Nothing but record ticket sales). Ka-Ching!
November 1st, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Oh…the other suggestion
Instead of concentrating on bringing Black Panther to the big screen first…I think MARVEL should bring The Falcon to the cinema first…and now that Captain America (and SOON) The Avengers will both have been released, telling a story of the Falcon would be perfect, and less controversial. Instead of changing white characters (into African American characters), just bring Black heroes to the screen. Luke Cage and Iron Fist would be a fun and successful movie (I think) as long as it had a decent plot. Movie goers might not be ready for Cloak and Dagger just yet, but The Falcon would be very doable and less-controversial, as far as “forcing” African American characters, by replacing white characters with Black actors. Even though I thought Elba was awesome as Heimdall, as a long time THOR fan…I was slightly disappointed in the inaccurate portrayal.
For the record…I am African American (for inquiring minds).
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