Wow.

[lithera]

From Variety:

"Paramount has inked a lucrative, exclusive distribution deal with Marvel for films based on the comicbook publisher's remaining characters. ... Among the first of its superheroes headed for the silver screen: Captain America and Nick Fury, an American version of James Bond."

Wow. How did /Paramount/ pull that off?

"Marvel has never produced a movie on its own until now. To fund its slate Marvel arranged a seven-year $525 million revolving credit facility with Merrill Lynch Commercial Finance Corp., secured against the movie rights to 10 comic-book characters, including Captain America. Paramount isn't putting up any production money; it will receive a fee for marketing and distributing an initial 10 movies, the first of which is expected to hit theaters in two years. To ensure the maximum possible audience, none of the movies will be R-rated."

Interesting.... Interesting.

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[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I mean, ok, I do admit that the Ultimate Nick Fury has completely overtaken the original in my little mind. Like, whenever he shows up in the original books I'm like, "Uh, why's he white?" But even with the incredible radness of the Ultimate Fury aside, *James Bond*? o.O

However, I hope they do a movie and cast Samuel L. Jackson and make him as ass-kicking as he oughta be. :)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

That would be pretty sweet. Still... James Bond isn't ... well...

Yeah. It's just bad.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Yeah. :)