If You Have an Idea for a Moon Knight Movie, Here's Your Chance
Looks like Darkhawk, Longshot, Foolkiller, and all your other favorite C and D-list Marvel superheroes might soon get their very own low-budget films you'll be able to use to try to explain why you liked Sleepwalker comics so much for a brief period in the '90s. CHUD has news that Marvel is working on plans to allow writers and directors take some chances with lesser known characters within budgets largely scaled back from the typical superhero blockbuster, thereby producing either more interesting superhero films or a legion of Roger Corman's Fantastic Fours:
Marvel Studios is currently taking meetings with writers and directors to work on small scale movies based on some of their third tier characters. The movies would cost in the range of 20 to 40 million dollars (very small when we're talking studio films) and would allow them to take risks with less obvious characters and with interesting talent.Filmmakers are being offered their pick of characters whose names are only familiar to comic fans. Properties like Dr. Strange, Ka-Zar, Luke Cage, Dazzler and Power Pack are among the many that are being tossed around right now. And the attitude seems to be that Marvel is open to bringing any of their characters to the screen at the right price point.
Nice to see a company willing to openly say, "Hey, anyone got any ideas? Want to do something? Anything? Just as long as it doesn't cost too much." It's somehow reassuring to know giant corporations are managed the same way I handle a Sunday afternoon.