Ummmm. Huh.

[lithera]

Marvel is going to take a tactic from TV writing and gather a group of writers for their movies. Variety says, “... gathering of scribes will help Marvel come up with creative ways to launch its lesser-known properties, such as Black Panther, Cable, Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, Nighthawk and Vision.” Some of these characters would seem to easily hold a movie on their own. (Blade did three, for heaven's sake.) Others I have to blink. Cable? How do you even explain /that/ mess. He's Scott's son with Jean's clone who was sent into the future.... ARG! Head hurtings.

Even more boggling is what Nikki Finke reports: “Before the writers are even allowed to come in and meet, they must sign a non-disclosure agreement and a 70-page, non-negotiable contract. Among other things, the contract gives Marvel ownership over everything the writers create during the one year term of [the] deal, plus a first look and last refusal to any and all projects the writers have previously written or will write for 24 months in the future.” Damn. DAMN. No WAY would I sign that thing. Man. Not even for a potential $100K, which is what is rumored.

There was something else I was going to write about but I cannot remember what it was now, so it will come later, if at all.

Comments

[lithera.livejournal.com]

If you want to do the whole man of mystery thing, you might do it but I can't see that being the way they go. I mean, Scott is freaking in the Woverine Origin's movie. They couldn't keep him out of a Cable movie.

[samy.livejournal.com]

Well, Scott can show up in a Wolverine movie without complicating the background. I suppose he could show up in the Cable movie too as a guest star as long as they didn't get into the background complications.

Personally I'd rather have more issue with Nighthawk. I'm not sure Kyle really has enough of a hook of his own, as a character, to differentiate him from Batman, Shadow et al.

I'd have minor concerns about Vision as a solo character since it has been tried (and succeeded) so very rarely, but the key conflict of the character is really pretty good. The anguish of the android who wants to be human is a great Pinocchio tale, very compelling, I bet it would work well as a movie.