Many a fine superhero flick has come out as of late. By many, I don't mean "Elektra". Or "Catwoman". Or "Daredevil"
Not that these didn't have the potential to be wonderful. All the stories can be poetic, and there have been writers that have created landscapes of the mind within the comics field. Which is saying something, since half of a comic is visual.
I think "Elektra" was digging, though. Was the "Daredevil" movie popular enough, profitable enough, to warrant a spin-off? How well did the "Elektra" comic do?
Answers: "No" and "not very"
But, if we really start digging, we can find a comic character to fill every market niche imaginable (having easily half a century to draw from). I thought I'd toss out some ideas, both Marvel and DC:
Ragman: I've never figured this guy out. I think he was a bum. His super power seemed to be the ability to not notice he'd been hit, and to control his rags. He could be played by Richard Gere. Or Ron Perlman. Or the ubiquitous Jeff Kober.
The Heckler: Him and Slapstick should do a cross-continuity flick with the impossible man and madcap as villains. Much hilarity would ensue. Just look at the names.
The Inhumans: I dunno. A spin-off of the "Fantastic Four" movie(s) that haven't received enough bashing.
Bucky: A guy with a gun. And a "Captain America" spin-off (bad movies of the world - unite!).
Doctor Strange: Sure, he's had a shot at the big screen, but I think it could be done better, and we could use roto-scoping and psychedelics for much more productive purposes, such as resurrecting Ralph Bakshi. If he's dead.
And the world hasn't had enough mispronunciations of Dormammumoomoo. Or whatever.
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Damn Hollywood! (Bryan Singer and Sam Raimi aside)
Actually, I'm pretty happy to not be in the loop on this kind of stuff anymore. It was always very traumatic to listen to the actors and directors get hyped about a project involving X comic book only to have it fizzle, die, or stink on toast. Spider-man was always my favorite for this kind of thing. Rumors dated back to 1979 on when it was going to be released. It was like an urban legend: "The movie that could not be!" (which would be a great subtitle to a cthulu/FF movie - directed by Roger Corman, dangit!)
I'd also like to see the Silver Surfer do something, but that might require enough background for 2 movies before you got to the meat of it.
There are dozens of really good comic book characters, ones that, if you explore their origins (culturally... I give a damn about radioactivity or genetic mutations. Those are excuses to get the eyecandy (not that I'm complaining about that)) could seriously rock.
I'm really thinking about the FF/Cthulu stuff. Pulp magazines helped give rise to comics, and a solid treatment of the two together is long overdue ("The Shadow" doesn't count).
I'll stop ranting now, because I could've made a blog post about this all on its own.
The last Doctor Strange movie sucked. Badly. But they are restarting Batman, so there is hope.
There is always hope.
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