MARVEL'S EXCITING SMALL MOVIE PLANS

[Dr. Strange]

Where does Marvel go after getting bigger than any other superhero movie when they release The Avengers? They rein it in and get smaller.

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.

http://chud.com/articles/articles/23473/1/EXCLUSIVE-MARVEL039S-EXCITING-SMALL-MOVIE-PLANS/Page1.html

Someone needs to add Michael Morbius to that list. That character could clean up big time, provided they don't make him sparkly and have him played by Robert Pattinson.

[Broken_Hero]

1. Hell, I'd pay big money to see a Juggernaut movie

hell even a Nightcrawler one would get my $$$

[Orrex]

2. Intriguing, but I'm worried that they'll totally suck

So far, their films about "second string" heroes have pretty much uniformly sucked:

Daredevil (which I liked, though it's deeply flawed)
Elektra,
Ghost Rider,
Punisher,
Blade (I know that the Blade films are popular-ish, but they're not really "good" films)

Also, although I enjoyed the Fantastic Four films, they're likewise deeply flawed.

Marvel has gotten lucky with Spiderman, Iron Man, and The Hulk. Huge budgets are no guarantee of quality film-making, but I'm not confident that they'll do any better with shoestrings, either...