What Marvel Characters Will Get A Post-Avengers Movie Push?

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What Marvel Characters Will Get A Post-<i>Avengers</i> Movie Push?  

Wondering what Marvel heroes might be getting their own movies after The Avengers? Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has been naming names, and it’s not just Runaways and Ant-Man

Talking to MTV’s Splash Page blog, Fiege dropped some hints about who might be getting their own big screen debuts in the future:

I think what Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction have done with ‘Iron Fist’ lately is exciting. I think ‘Black Panther’ and Wakanda has some amazing potential to be a feature film. ‘Doctor Strange,’ as you’ve mentioned. There are some obscure titles, too, like ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’ I think they’ve been revamped recently in a fun way in the book… I think S.H.I.E.L.D. could be it’s own franchise. I think, frankly, ‘The Avengers’ is going to be told from that point of view more so than any of the other films at that point, so we’re going to get an inside look [at how S.H.I.E.L.D.] operates.

What’s interesting with these choices is seeing Marvel spread their genre wings a little; each of the above plays outside of the superhero genre to some extent, and if Matthew Vaughn’s concerns about the superhero genre being on its last legs for awhile turn out to be valid, it’s a sensible move if the studio wants to stay an asset to Disney.

With that in mind, what Marvel characters do you think could best be stretched outside the superhero genre to survive in a brave new cinematic world for a post-superhero Marvel? As ever, suggestions in the comments, and remember: We all know that Howard The Duck won’t work if Craig Ferguson isn’t playing the lead role.

  • Aaronandrewbrowne

    Strikeforce: Morituri would be sweet… w/out the testicle chin aliens tho… (please!!!)

  • AAB

    Wow… thats really nice and all. -So, which heroes do you think should be silver screen'd?

  • AAB

    Johnny Depp will be Doctor Strange.

  • AAB

    Daredevil and Punisher:

    Enough half-stepp'n on the cats please. Sink the teeth into the jugular on these already….

    Wachowski brothers on Daredevil – Matrix flipn off fire escape slinging the billy club swinging into somersaulting onto Hells Kitchen roof tops …

    Scorsese – Punisher = Mean Streets = Taxi Driver

  • AAB

    Uh-oh Tffan, looks like your getting labeled a racist. What is your color? Do you have a registered driver's license? Do you wear a watch or use your cell phone?

    What super-hero should be silver screen'd in your world… 'The Black Power' I hear he's an up and coming Marvel character-based asset Feige feature… should be in the Avengers Academy and all… 'Anti-PCman' now he's D-listed, if that. Get with the program Tffan.

    Im Stirring it UP!

  • AAB

    More han 2 words: Peope's need to know who all the zombies are to appreciate and got off on the xombification of 'em and all… Give it ten years -if Marvel does not screw up their franchises like others had w/FF, Daredevil, Electra, Punisher, Spider-man3, Ghost Rider -just OK/if not lame films Do not a fad-busting franchise Make, then YEAH: Pixar and any other bad-ass media comany is gonna drool over these gems. People dont know who they are in an 'appreciating it as a gem' (yet), …collectively linked as a MARVEL brand even. So yeah, man Marvel Zombies will be an after thought at that point … The world as we know it will change drastically in ten years. Online Communication devices / Quality of Entertainment access…

  • AAB

    Thats a good one. Ka-Zar. Maybe have FF be all aobut visiting it so as to link it with a major Marvel character… get the brand association in on it? Or not… ?

  • Count Beardfist

    original Human Torch.

  • Wdouglasmorgan

    Remake Howard the Duck. It would do very well. Power Pack. DP 7. Dazzler. Longshot. Micronauts. Moon Knight. ROM. Groo. Submariner. Werewolf by Night. Morbius. Speedball. Ka-Zar. All are themed. All would find their niches. DC…do Captain Carrot and his amazing Zoo Crew as a computerized 3-D!!!

  • Dmgallagher

    I don't think Marvel Studios owns either Punisher or Daredevil; those properties are likely still owned by whichever studios made their most recent films (Sony? Fox?). Same for Elektra.

    And Terry Crews IS the Old Spice guy.

  • Unexpected

    “but outside of comic fandom, Thor does not have a big audience”
    Except for, you know, anyone who's ever been interested in Norse mythology. I'd say that Thor has a wider potential audience outside of comic fandom than the vast majority of characters.

  • Unexpected

    Silver Surfer, like the Fantastic Four, cannot be a Marvel Studios property because the film rights belong to another studio.

  • comic relief

    @Aaronandrewbrowne,

    I‘m glad you think what I said was nice. But following my post I think Marvel should really stick with characters that have not been filmed yet and pair them with excellent directors. Marvel’s list of emergency reboots is too long and encourages lack luster director’s like Vaughn to make these ridiculous statements. I’m a little bit more envious of DC's marketing hesitance in that respect. They accept that they are in the comic book business and they have produce and protect characters. They really protect their iconic characters and don’t release their properties to inferior hands for the sake of excess publicity.

    The benefit of this strategy is few of their properties have been poorly presented, exploited, or exhausted (at least in comparison to Marvel’s stable).

    If you use Blade as an example, the silver screen sometimes makes comics losers into big screen winners. That character still doesn’t have a book and I have always thought of Ironman as a 3rd string character. Director Jon Favreau proved and demonstrated differently.

    Luke Cage, Doctor Strange, Ms. Marvel, Black Panther, Deadpool, Sub-mariner would all be fine. Now all they need to do if figure out when Nora Ephron, Kathryn Bigelow, John singleton, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Soderbergh, Danny Boyle, Spike Lee or Steven Speilburgh are free or are willing to do super hero movies. The answer is the director, there is no problem with the genre.

  • comic relief

    @Aaronandrewbrowne,

    Thanks again. LOL

  • comic relief

    @Aaronandrewbrowne,
    Boy, I wish I mentioned the Wachowski brothers in my previous reply to you.

  • comic relief

    @Dmgallagher

    Sorry, but Isaiah Mustafa is the Old Spice Guy.

  • Dmgallagher

    He is one of them. Terry Crews does the Old Spice commercials that end with him yelling “Puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-power!” to the Old Spice theme music. Here he is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl5uyn5K7k

  • comic relief

    @Dmgallagher,

    Sorry. Now that you have showed and reminded me, I know I have seen those commercials. I never paid attention long enough to figure out whose product Crews was selling. Thanks for the link.

    I like the actor in some things (for instance “Everyone Hates Chris”) but usually ignore his more manic comedic work. I guess everyone can see why some fans would like to see him lend his brawn to a “Luke Cage” movie.

  • AAB

    They are going to call him the Sterling Surfer tho… maybe… not. The Sterling Surfer!!!! 7.5% of Cosmic Copper!!!!!

    OK -then how about … will probably be Iron Fist… (sigh) It should be a totally new re-vamp of Machine-man. That Ghost in the Shell type o virtual reality bit. Could work for Deathlok as well.

    Moon Knight would be soo nice.

    All in all Im gun'n for Black Panther. Thats a gold mine right there. He's in Africa -its bad ass just there alone.

  • AAB

    Afro Samurai animation crew w/the Riz again creating a Luke Cage or Iron First or Cloak and Dagger -they can combine Soul/Rap/Hip-hop/Mixing with the anime of Afro…. That would be soo sweetl Afro Samurai is kick-ass. Why not siphon that beauty into a Marvel asset? Black Panther like this?

  • Stereo99_99

    I think a film could be made of the first part of Annhilation, just the part in Alaska.

    That would be great.

  • Lex Combs

    Wasn't Ray Park supposed to play Iron Fist?

  • Alex

    The problem with Avengers nowadays is you have to base the adaptions on old stories, becuase I doubt anyone will really see stuff like Secret Invasion or whatever the Sentry was supposed to be in a positive light when looking back. Everything in the 'New' Avengers was extremely forced in my opinion.

    The old Marvel have a lasting vibe that I think that stuff took a big chunk out of. I was reading Avengers #3 and realized that these characters are pretty much interchangable and Iron Man and Spider-man are not the same characters from a couple years ago.

    Thanks, Bendis.