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Marvel's Runaways Coming to Theaters? Plus Captain America, Thor News

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What could be better than Marvel developing a Runaways movie? How about getting Brian K. Vaughan to write it?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, you can add the Runaways to the list of projects Marvel has in the incubation stages. Vaughan, who co-created the book with artist Adrian Alphona, will write the screenplay. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will produce.

No word on when the film will appear, but the article mentions Marvel does have a pretty full slate already lined up through 2011.
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I'm iffy on whether this is actually going to happen, hence the question mark in the thread title. Would be a good property to develop for Marvel (since it doesn't have any deep roots in Marvel lore, and it has a young cast), but they seem to want to stick to their bigger guns lately. We'll see, though. Hopefully this will happen.

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Ran into the following after posting the thread, decided it would be a good add in:

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Marvel’s Captain America movie, planned for a May 2011 release, will be a period film, set during World War II.

So says Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, who spoke to online journalists yesterday at Universal Studios about The First Avenger: Captain America and other projects.

That would seem to imply the movie will stay at least relatively true to the character’s comic-book origin, and tie directly into the Super-Soldier Serum references in The Incredible Hulk.

On that note, Feige confirmed speculation about a certain object glimpsed in a laboratory scene from Iron Man: Yes, that’s Captain America’s shield.

He also provided a few more details on Thor, saying that it will take place largely in Asgard, mythical home of the Norse gods: “”The film is not all Asgard, but it will be a big chunk in Asgard, yeah.”

Screenwriter Mark Protosevich (I Am Legend, The Cell) is expected to submit a draft of the script in a couple of weeks.
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Not HUGE Cap/Thor news, but it confirms a few things, and gives you an idea of what might happen. Hopefully Captain America has Bucky (unless they're planning to do more Ultimate Cap).
 
i hope they get whedon to direct it


he is writing it now and is a big fan after all
 
Some thoughts: Runaways would work but you'd need to cast some really fantastic teenage actors to pull it off. Instead, we'll probably get five people in their late '20s.

I was hoping the Cap movie would be in 2009. It looks like they're going to keep his movie in World War II and then have him unfrozen at the beginning of the Avengers movie.

I can't imagine a Thor movie working at all because he's just too weird. He's like a Norse God but not really because Asgard and the Norse Gods are presented more like the cast of a musical like Jesus Christ Superstar or something. It's just too bizarre.
 
I wouldn't be against Whedon directing Runaways, but I haven't been a big fan of his current arc (largely because it's gone from being a monthly comic to being a "whenever" comic. I HATE those).

Zeta said:
Some thoughts: Runaways would work but you'd need to cast some really fantastic teenage actors to pull it off. Instead, we'll probably get five people in their late '20s.
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As long as they work in the roles, I don't care about age (though Molly would HAVE to be played by a kid).

I was hoping the Cap movie would be in 2009. It looks like they're going to keep his movie in World War II and then have him unfrozen at the beginning of the Avengers movie.
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Seems like they're going with an Ultimates-style film (judging by the line-up of confirmed characters, anyway...).

I can't imagine a Thor movie working at all because he's just too weird. He's like a Norse God but not really because Asgard and the Norse Gods are presented more like the cast of a musical like Jesus Christ Superstar or something. It's just too bizarre.
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You have to think along the lines of Lord of the Rings. A big, grandiose adventure with gods instead of hobbits and frost giants instead of orcs. Should be interesting to see how different Thor's costume is, though. As well as Loki's.
 
On a related note, the Ultimate Avengers animated movies kind of flopped for me because the villains were lame (SPACE NAZIS!) and the second half of the first one was devoted to taking down the Incredible Hulk and they managed to make that BORING. Somehow.
 
Ultimate Thor would have been more interesting for the Avengers - but I can see where the downfall would come in making a movie about him prior to that...

Unless the cliffhanger at the end of Thor is "was it all just a psychotic episode?" or something...
 
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Ultimate Thor would have been more interesting for the Avengers - but I can see where the downfall would come in making a movie about him prior to that...

Unless the cliffhanger at the end of Thor is "was it all just a psychotic episode?" or something...
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So he's Ultimate Sentry?
 
The Ultimate Avengers movies were... not good at all, really. Not Ultimates 3-level bad, but pretty boring.

I've recently been considering picking up the Runaways digests, since... well, everyone loves Runaways so much. Hopefully, if there is a movie, it will rock.

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So he's Ultimate Sentry?
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Well, he used to be. Except he was interesting, unlike Sentry. Now he's a dumbed-down caricature of himself like the rest of the Ultimates...
 
Everyone says the Sentry's dull. When Bendis is writing him, yes, I'll agree. But Jenkins' mini-series was great and made me really love the character. If only Bendis wasn't the only one handling the character...
 
The Ultimate Avengers movies would have been a lot better if they hadn't been trying to make it some freaky abortion child of both continuities.

I haven't read Ultimates 3 yet... so God knows how bad it'd have to be to be worse than the UA movies...

Still, that said, they were entertaining enough. Not wholly terrible to watch. But then, I didn't pay money for them. :p (Not that I had much choice, don't think either was actually released here).


Also, the Thor storyline in Ultimates 2 was good for the first half, and... well, ok for the second half - but the entire idea of addressing Thor's background and then just going "ok, yeah, he is actually an Asgardian God" is peaking waaay too soon... The mystery that the first series and the first volume of 2 presented was what made the character a thousand times more interesting than his 616 counterpart.

Still, the design will always be superior... I really hope they go with something like that for the movie rather than the ludicrous looking 616 version...
 
Which 616 version? The classic, or the current? Or that topless number he had for a time?
 
I dunno about the current, mostly 'cos I thought he was still dead in 616 :p. But the "classic" one that's used as a default for him more often than not. I just... can't see that working in a film.
 
The current one's what I've got in my avatar. I think it could work fairly well (gives a nice grandiose feel), though I've never really understood the problem with the first one (maybe I'm just too used to it).
 
I had found a Runaways collection at the library and read it, and I thought the series was awesome. If Vaughn's writing the movie, I'd totally see the movie.
 
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