Fox plans to bring the franchises to the small screen.
What kind of deal do you think Marvel would make with the deal to get those rights back?
X-Men/FF on TV
Then I don't understand your comment. Are you weighing in negatively? Most people seem to think of Heroes in a negative light. I have never seen a single episode of the series.
If they do it correctly, it could be good. The problem is that Fox hasn't done the FF well at all, and indications are the next movie's going to suck. Plus, they have made some decent X-Men films, but they don't "get" the X-Men.
Even without the barriers of them not really understanding the property, history says bet against them. Outside of the DC properties on the CW, live action superheroes haven't done well on the small screen.
-Alphas
-Heroes
-The Cape
-Blade
-Flash
-Greatest American Hero
-SHIELD (a slam dunk missed so badly, it might get cancelled)
-Hulk (end of the day, this show sucked)
-The Tick
-Mantis
And there are tons more examples.
I think DC/WB gets it right because they are making Dawson's Creek except the people who live there happen to be superheroes, and they're marketing it to that audience. Throw that dreck at a prime time adult audience, and it'd fail.
How do you make a TV show about superheroes without breaking the bank on special effects? That's why Marvel was smart with their Netflix series coming up. They're all street level heroes. None of them fly. None of them shoot lasers beams or anything.
If they do it correctly, it could be good. The problem is that Fox hasn't done the FF well at all, and indications are the next movie's going to suck. Plus, they have made some decent X-Men films, but they don't "get" the X-Men.
Even without the barriers of them not really understanding the property, history says bet against them. Outside of the DC properties on the CW, live action superheroes haven't done well on the small screen.
-Alphas
-Heroes
-The Cape
-Blade
-Flash
-Greatest American Hero
-SHIELD (a slam dunk missed so badly, it might get cancelled)
-Hulk (end of the day, this show sucked)
-The Tick
-Mantis
And there are tons more examples.
I think DC/WB gets it right because they are making Dawson's Creek except the people who live there happen to be superheroes, and they're marketing it to that audience. Throw that dreck at a prime time adult audience, and it'd fail.
How do you make a TV show about superheroes without breaking the bank on special effects? That's why Marvel was smart with their Netflix series coming up. They're all street level heroes. None of them fly. None of them shoot lasers beams or anything.
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