Newsarama had some interesting speculation about this: Daredevil is the highest profile character of this lot (by far), but what about the other three characters Marvel has back in the stable -- The Punisher, Blade, and Ghost Rider? Considering Punisher's long time association with Daredevil*, could we see Frank Castle pop up in some capacity? Blade could work on a street level type of show as well, just fighting some low-rent vampires or other supernatural monsters like we saw for years on BTVS and Angel. Ghost Rider would be a lot harder to do on a TV budget, but I think you could make hay with the 90s style Johnny Blaze -- sporting his hellfire shotgun! Maybe Johnny is exorcised of the demon Zarathos, but has to travel the open road on his Harley to find the person whom Zarathos has now possessed (Dan Ketch, naturally). For what it's worth, I have long thought that Werewolf By Night could work as a TV series as well. Happy, good looking kid living in Malibu with his mom and sister finds out on his 18th birthday that his father is a warlock, and that he's cursed as a werewolf, and has to hit the road to find the grimoire Darkhold which can cure him? Talk about a story engine. *I am not a Garth Ennis fan in any capacity, but he did write my favorite interaction of DD and the Punisher. At the beginning of Welcome Back, Frank, DD and Punisher and tangling on a rooftop, and Frank is taking a beating. "I'm no match for this guy," he thinks. "Never have been." He ends up having to essentially play dirty just so DD won't put him in the hospital, and that really bothers him. Nice scene.
On Thursday, November 7, 2013 5:07:01 PM UTC-5, Shag wrote: > Really interesting approach! I was wondering how they were going to > tackle world-building of characters outside the Avengers. The model of > independent movies leading to the Avengers worked so well, it's a nature > extension to try that with TV series leading to Defenders. > > Shag > > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Info from Marvel: >> http://marvel.com/news/story/21476/disneys_marvel_and_netflix_join_forces_to_develop_historic_four_series_epic_plus_a_mini-series_event >> >> And from Newsarama: >> http://www.newsarama.com/19503-daredevil-iron-fist-luke-cage-defenders-headed-to-tv-in-disney-marvel-netflix-deal.html >> >> >> On Thursday, November 7, 2013 1:20:22 PM UTC-5, Luke Jaconetti wrote: >> >>> While this does sound neat -- a logical extension of the Shorts they >>> have been including on home video releases -- I just want to say that >>> anyone who thinks Daredevil was a bad movie needs to see some actual bad >>> movies. >>> >>> An Iron Fist and Luke Cage mini series! Woo! Been asking for that for >>> years, literally! >>> >>> On Thursday, November 7, 2013 10:46:58 AM UTC-5, cwpreston wrote: >>> >>>> Marvel's giving Daredevil another shot, this time with more Netflix and >>>> (hopefully) less Affleck >>>> http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/07/marvel-netflix/?ncid=rss_truncated >>>> >>>> via feedly.com >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
