Can you think of many? I ask in response to this:
It’s telling that we live in a world where Marvel will dig into the weirdness of its back catalogue before making a movie or a television series about one of its recognizable, established female heroes…
I mean, I’m on record as thinking the Guardians of the Galaxy movie is kind of a weird move for Marvel, but whatever. They seem to have this thing pretty well figured out, all in all. It’ll probably make $500M and set up an Avengers sequel that will gross another billion worldwide.
But let’s say that Marvel did want to get super-PC for diversity’s sake. Which “recognizable, established female heroes” could they really rely on? I mean, there are a ton of female, super-powered heroes and villains in the X-Men flicks, but apparently they don’t count. Ditto for Sue Storm in the Fantastic Four movies, I guess. And, well, Elektra in the, um, Elektra movie. She-Hulk? That’s certainly doable, though, given the character’s pedigree and the fact that her best run came in pseudo-comedy, meta bits under John Byrne, it’s probably better as an action-comedy than an action-adventure type flick. And hey, it’s not like she was a particularly great-selling character or anything and sure, female-led superhero comedies don’t have the best track record, box office-wise,* but okay, there’s one avenue to run down.
So there’s She-Hulk and……
And…
?
Maybe Marvel could try and force a Cloak and Dagger movie on us? Black Cat? Um, Dazzler? That sounds dreadful. Does Marvel own Lady Death now? I imagine that’d be way too sexist, though. Ms. Marvel could work, if you wanted a homeless man’s version of Superman.
You know what I would actually-kinda-sorta-maybe be interested in? A Silver Sable movie. Tell me that wouldn’t be pretty great: A beautiful super-assassin doing some sweet Nazi-hunting. Michael Fassbender could make a guest appearance as First Class‘ Magneto during his Nazi-hunting phase!
*We should note, for the record, that Elektra grossed $24M and My Super Ex-Girlfriend grossed $22.5. Just saying, is all.
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You know you’d pay $10 for a Squirrel Girl movie!
Don’t try to deny it.
I actually thought of Silver Sable before scrolling down to see. What about Spider Woman and the West Coast Avengers?
How dare you scoff at a “Dazzler” pic! It would’ve been…beautiful…
Behold only the latest proof that Pangloss was wrong, the Dazzler movie that could’ve been:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/07/07/dazzler-movie-jim-shooter/
I mean, look: If you write a Dazzler script on acid, it might be interesting. But people still won’t want to see it.
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