Missy Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Variety reports that Sam Keith's Four Women has been optioned, and, surprisingly, he will write AND direct the film. For those of you unfamilure with Four Women, it was a DC comic about four female friends who are stranded when their car breaks down in the desert and are then terrorized by two men. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragernok2002 Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Yet another comic optioned for film oh great Is just me or it is getting out of hand. I saw on some site the amount of marvel characters that are been turned into film Its a joke. I don't know anything about this one so I will reserve judgement, but it is getting out of hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted October 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 What you have to understand is that once one movie does well (in this case Spider-Man) then all the characters are quickly snatched up. It's the same for authors. If one of their books is made into a successful feature film, every one of their stories and books are then optioned. Whether they're made or not is another story, but studios want to secure the property just in case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragernok2002 Posted October 7, 2004 Report Share Posted October 7, 2004 I can understand big name characters like the F4, Ironman ,Thor etc, but man-thing,sub-mariner, black widow I don't know. These aren't big names, I suppose you can argue sub-mariner given his afilliation with the F4 and the avengers, but the others. Whats next powerpack the movie? This is a list of characters optioned for movies from marveldirectory.com Ant-Man Black Panther Black Widow Blade Trinity Blade 4 Captain America Daredevil II Deathlok Dr. Strange Elektra Fantastic Four Ghost Rider Hulk II Iron Fist Iron Man Longshot Luke Cage Man-Thing Morbius: the Living Vampire Namor: Power Pack Prime The Punisher 2 She-Hulk Silver Surfer Spider-Man 3 Venom X-Men 3 Looks whats on the list, powerpack After punisher who didn't do well in the boxoffice, what hope is there for movies like ant-man, ironfist or luke gage. A couple of interesting points are that Artisan Entertainment own several of the rights and that Venom isn't owned by Columbia Pictures but by New Line. Whos Prime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chops Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Whos Prime? Prime was a character from the early 90's who was a pre-teen boy that would turn into an overly muscular superhero. I believe Marvel did a "big" versus storyline between him and the Hulk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragernok2002 Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Was he in the Ultraverse comics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted October 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Was he in the Ultraverse comics? Yeah. Marvel bought that company, and did nothing with it. Oh, and not all of these will be made into movies. For example, Man-Things looks to be a made-for-TV production and The Avengers/Ultimates will be a straight-to-DVD cartoon. Fantastic Four, while being made into a movie, will also be a cartoon. So don't fret. I wonder if companies that licensed several characters will team them up as a poor man's Avengers or X-Men. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragernok2002 Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 That would be a big concern, considering some of them are former avengers. A live action avengers movie would have been good, so I was a bit dissappointed when I heard about about the cartoon series of it. The Venom thing is worrying as well. Hopefully something can be arranged so Columbia Pictures can use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted October 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 The Venom thing is worrying as well. Hopefully something can be arranged so Columbia Pictures can use it. Why Columbia? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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